July 8, Russia celebrates Family Day. In honor of this holiday, Cybersport.ru editors remembered the games that their parents love. It turned out that our moms and dads were once avid gamers too: set records for killing space flies in Galaxian, learned to drive in Colin McRae Rally, and even studied physics using Half-Life 2!
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Galaxian and Cossacks
Dmitry Craft Murr
I got Dendy quite early, and even in elementary school I seem to have replayed all the games that I could get from friends or trade in the market. Father, in my memory, was always cut only in Galaxian. He liked to shoot flies so much that he could sit at this game for hours. I never understood what exactly this banal “shooter” caught on when it was possible to play the much cooler Battletoads & Double Dragon or Mortal Kombat.
Due to the Galaxian, disputes arose in our family more than once, and even scandals came. Often, before going on a visit, father would quickly pack up and then launch the Galaxian, “while mom puts on makeup and does her hair.” As a result, parents were often late, but not because of their mother – just father time after time set records for the extermination of flies in Galaxian. Sometimes Mom even hid the Dendy power supply when it infuriated her! By the way, I could not beat the best result of my father, no matter how I tried.
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Fifteen years ago, I only skeptically shook my head, listening to my father’s explanations, and now I can name many more real-life examples of how video games can help in education or, for example, medicine. There is even a story about how I got credit due to Empire: Total War.
That is why now my grandmother is playing Candy Crush. Video games are a great way to cognitive stimulation, and therefore a means of preventing diseases of the nervous system. Scientifically proven fact!
Fallout
Alexey lope Borisov
As a child, I was lucky: my parents were progressive, the computer in the family appeared relatively early. And if mom hardly tried to play anything other than “Kerchiefs“ and “Tapeworm“then the stepfather was very advanced. It was thanks to him that I met the first Diablo and MechWarrior series. But he spent even more time in the original Fallout.
I didn’t understand a damn thing in the game then, it seemed to me too complicated – I preferred to shoot eccentric opponents in MDK (no, it’s not connected with the public in VKontakte). But the stepfather was very passionate: he would, because there is so much variation! Over time, he moved away from games and only occasionally ran different flight simulators (he is a paraglider by profession), so I had to go through all subsequent Fallout.
Fallout
Heroes of Might and Magic IV
Daniil Smacked Praise
The older generation, for the most part, is extremely skeptical of video games, and only in some cases do fathers teach children to Doom or at least launch S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and World of Tanks. My situation is somewhat different – my father flatly refuses to try even hunting and fishing simulators, and my mother seems to have completely hung the mouse on a nail, but I still remember her exploits in virtual battles.
My passion for games began, like many, with Dendy – one that was almost NES or Famicom, but not quite. I mastered most of the games on my own and therefore rarely reached the end credits, but at some point my mother became interested in the “prefix”, and things went much better. Together we went through the original Contra, and with the purchase of the Sega Mega Drive finished off the Contra: Hard Corps and Golden Ax III.
Now I am almost sure that in my five years I was an extremely useless second player and most of the levels my mother went through herself. I remember very well how I begged her to go through all the new games over and over again at the local cartridge store and simply watched what was happening on the screen from the sofa. A few years later I had to fight for a place in front of the computer.
Heroes of Might and Magic IV
Mother was carried away by Heroes of Might and Magic IV. What was in the previous games of the series, neither she nor I was interested. I am ashamed to admit, but she passed this game faster than me: as you know, while you play with friends in the PlayStation, mom closes the campaigns in Heroes. She was unable to complete only the final storyline of the pirates, because the key character did not want to appear on the map because of a bug.
I don’t remember exactly how I got the disc with the fifth “Heroes”, but on that day not only I was happy, but also my mother. True, this time her interest in the game quickly faded away – she complained that “it was better before”, and she had less time for such entertainment. But she still passed the main campaign and the addition of Hammers of Fate with dwarves, but she flatly refused to fight for demons, orcs, and others in the Tribes of the East.
As far as I remember, this was the last game that my mother passed. Now her interests in gaming are limited exclusively to “three in a row” puzzles and other simple mobile titles. And it seemed that a good teammate would have come out of it in Dota 2, or at least a friend to perform daily tasks in Hearthstone.
Yetisports: Pingu Throw
Anastasia Allestron Bismuth
My mother was addicted to games, studying an electronic textbook on traffic rules – according to her version, it was for this purpose that the first personal PC was purchased. It was zero, by then she had been driving alone for about five years – the law allowed a novice to drive a car if there was an experienced driver nearby. In general, reading the rules was boring, but “Scarf “and “Solitaire ”turned out to be very exciting games, allowing“ reboot ”during a busy day the owner of the bar in a bowling club. She managed to pump the ability to use a PC only at work, where she spent about 99% of her time – the business did not give the right to rest. There was also little time for games, so serious titles bypassed her.
I then went to fifth grade, I rarely saw my mother at home, but often hung out in the back rooms of the bar, including her office. The most memorable game that I spied on my mother’s desktop is Yetisports: Pingu Throw. There are suspicions that, being a rather impulsive, but kind lady, she beat penguins instead of her subordinates.
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