My dad played Castle Shikigami 2 for the first time.

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:33 am

So today my dad and I decided to spend some time in his camping trailer playing some games. First we played some older arcade games from various compilation games. We were bored for the most part. Then I turned to him with possessed eyes and told him we were going to play a real video game. I popped in CS2 and we started to play. His first question "OK how do I block?". I told him that he couldn't block and he just sat there with a puzzled look. Basically I just told him not to let a shot hit the middle of his flying player. I played the card throwing wench and he chose Koh. At first he lost many lives because his eyes couldn't get used to processing everything onscreen but he found the groove later. I look over and saw that he was really enjoying this game it was holding his attention better than columns and outrun. My dad always said he wasn't a gamer and I'm not either. They are idiots with oval glasses that suck cappuccino and wear brown knit hats. He managed to get to the end of the second level and became better at dodging that I would have expected. Pretty decent for a 53 year old man that never touches anything besides poker on his computer. This goes to show how engaging shmups are with their simple yet deep gameplay. I threw one of the most difficult shmups I have at him and I'm damn proud of his effort.

ahnslaught · Post by **ahnslaught** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:55 am

Pixel_Outlaw wrote:They are idiots with oval glasses that suck cappuccino and wear brown knit hats.

I'm not sure why this is supposed to represent a gamer, but I was laughing at this image in my head either way.

Anyway, that's cool...I haven't played a game with my dad in like 20 years, when he would play Hang-On and Outrun with me on the SMS.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:06 am

I believe alot of people would give shmups a chance given the exposure to them.

My friend Roy came round last week or so and I put mushimesama in the ps2. He didn't quite beat level 1 on a single credit but I could tell he appreciated the immediate challenge.

He liked Crazy taxi as well. But that game is funny so it appeals to alot of people outside of gaming.

shinsage · Post by **shinsage** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:18 am

cool pops.

Circa2113 · Post by **Circa2113** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:49 am

Me and my dad used to play sky shark on the NES for hours at a time. He was a raiden fan as well, but always got too pissed at it to play long.

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:03 am

My dad was a hardcore Recca player. =/

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:25 am

I saw my dad play centipede once when I was little, but it was just to show me how to do it. I've tried to get him to play DDR, but I just can't seem to convince him...

doctorx0079 · Post by **doctorx0079** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:28 am

Long ago my dad my sister and I used to play Dr. Mario for hours, for the "championship of the Tri-State League including the Lesser Antilles". Now my dad only plays MegaTouch games and my sister plays Wii Sports. I play mostly shmups, old arcade games and some GBA and DS games.

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:45 am

I can only think of two occasions when my dad ever played a video game. He played Duck Hunt once when I had it out like ... 19 years ago? because he really like shooting in real life, and thought "why not?" He got to like level 136 on his first go before finally losing, then never touched a game until...

Christmas a year or two after the release of the N64. I got one, as well as Mario Kart. I don't know what it was... I think the graphics? Intrigued him, and he gave that a shot. He went for one race and didn't really get into it =P I should try to get him to play Tetris one of these days. Or maybe even perhaps a shooter, though for some reason I don't see him getting into a shooter at all.

icepick · Post by **icepick** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:50 am

That's really cool, PO.

I think that it's good for a lot of reasons.

My dad told me last year that he saw or heard some news article on how playing video games can help keep one's mental acuity and reflexes sharp, For as long as I can remember, he's always said that he doesn't really like video games (although he gave me an old system with Pong and variations on it, and would play that with me)... and then, out of the blue, he tells me this and asks for advice.

So, although I think back to how when I first got my DC, he didn't want to play even Soul Calibur (he's a martial arts movie fan), it's interesting because I asked him what kinds of games he was thinking of... and he said, "you know what I like... things like 'Asteroids'" and I was like whoa. Me too.

On short notice, I set him up with my sister's GameCube (long story) and Chaos Field as a birthday present. He actually thought that I bought the game for myself, and I was like hey! Kinda like the "how do you block" question, before I even set everything up, my dad was like "what do each of these buttons do?" and I was like, "it depends on the game."

When I go there later this year, we'll try some other stuff. I've tried to get him to play DDR too, but it's hard to get anyone to play DDR if they haven't tried it before. (Even I didn't think that I wanted to play it at first.)

Anyway, I've been meaning to go through the games discussed in this forum to figure out which ones he might like. I'd say that he'd probably like games like Under Defeat, but at the same time, he might find the patterns in, say, Cave games to be "interesting" from a scientific perspective.

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My dad played Castle Shikigami 2 for the first time.

My dad played Castle Shikigami 2 for the first time.

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