How many moms here play video games??

HotCanary
Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:06:08 +0000

I think you can count me, or at least as 1/2. When my son was little, he played Pokemon on gameboy. Once I dropped him off at school, and picked it up to play, and nearly wasted the entire morning on it. He got home wondering how his characters had gained so much power,ha ha. I used to love the old-school pc games made by Sierra (King’s Quest,Laura Bow,etc) because they were of the puzzle-solving type. Then the kids got a PS2, and the whole family (actually the whole neighborhood)had fun with Crash Bandicoot and several other titles. And I used to kick butt on Tekken. But when games started using mostly 3-D formats, I got left behind. I got dizzy playing them. The kids loved Kingdom Hearts, but even though I thought the story was amusing, the game play seemed kind of stupid:lots of frenetic fighting.

Now that they are older, they don’t play so much. Mostly during holiday weekends, for nostalgia. We don’t have a Wii, and nobody wants one. I used to buy classic titles for PS2 for Christmas gifts, but I think last year was the end of that. But i have to say that I do love many video games. So many have been clever and absorbing, with amazing graphics and often great humor. My son’s friends did think I was unusual, because their moms didn’t get into video games at all. I kinda liked that.