I was working on my computer and had been hearing the sounds of a JRPG floating out of my daughter's room for awhile. Eventually the music turned to "boss battle music".

A bit later I heard her proclaim rather loudly (but not to me), "Yeah... I'm boned..."

I about died laughing, as gamers we all know and have shared those moments of getting our asses handed to us by a boss (or some other game challenge) we weren't ready for. It's a sort of connection between us all, it felt good having that connection with her.

Also not gaming related, but we have a ritual on Saturday mornings:

"I'm making coffee, do you want some?" I shout across the house.

"I'm underage!" she shouts back.

Homo sapiens are weird animals.


Your turn!

Nice to hear such stories. :) I have no kids thus nothing to share, though. :)

That's great! :)
How old is she?

When I was a kid, I used to get so frustrated at the games at times that my mother wondered why she got me those things in the first place.

It was a valuable lesson on how to fail with grace and generally be more patient.

Otherwise, like the posted above me, I have no kids so not much to contribute here...

Oh, the kid brother of one of my friends was playing games on consoles at the tender age of 3 or 4.

Basically, he was playing games before he could even speak properly.

Always wondered how that would influence his development, but I guess that he would never recall being in awe of the medium the way I was when I played my first video game ever on the Nintendo at the age of 6-7.

Aw, your story made me smile :)
I don't have anything to share, unfortunately. Post more stories, people!

Dont have kids yet but i remember when i was little and when my mother went to work at night, my dad let me and my brother watch him play Duke nukem 3d and alien trilogy!
Man those were brutal and scary games back in the day haha! He had them somewhere deep in the closet so mom didn't know anything. We were all *Shh* to mommy when she came back though she wonderer why is the psx on and why's there shit in my pants :3

Nearly 11.

I don't have kids, but once I was trying to make a 1 year old laugh, and was having very little luck with it. Then I picked up a big exercise ball, and started explaining all serious like "This here is your Companion Ball. If you ever get dragged into a freaky science experiment, he's the only one who's got your back, and it's not uncommon to grow feelings towards him..." and the kid started laughing a lot. Yeah, I think she's going to grow up right. :p

I'm embarrassed to say that my kids are somewhat better at games than me. They have gotten off of levels and defeated bosses that I would have the hardest time with. I'm proud of my lil' mini gamers.

One funny moment is: They went to their dad's for their visit. They were playing Halo or CoD, can't remember which. My oldest son tells me that he killed his dad and proceeded to tea bag him and told him "look dad, I'm tea baggin' you!". Yeah.. their dad wasn't too happy bout that. I told him I would talk to them, but took all I had not to laugh in his face. After he left, all I could do was high five 'em and die laughing after they told me that story.

That is one awesome daughter. But isn't she a bit young for JRPGs?

You should get her hooked on Zelda!

Edit: I just noticed that I shouldn't compare all JRPGs with Xenogears....

This one was Blue Dragon, it's about as tame as you can get.

cute story :)

I'm one of the kids who started playing around the age of 3. I was in awe of everything game related. You should have seen me when i first saw Doom, jaw dropped, despite playing for almost 10 years then. Sadly, as far as development goes, there's nothing to write home about.

I think it depends on the type of game.

When I was a kid, my mother played some of my games and she couldn't touch me on platformers, but she was holding her own (sometimes, she's take the lead and get to the next level before me) when playing Populous which is a strategy game.

Yeah, first person perspective was jaw dropping for a while.

I miss the sense of awe and wonder that overtook me when I saw my first one.

I have two kids of 2 and a half year, and they love cars. Not the film (not specially, they love Lightning McQueen as every other child) but any car. So I obliged (ejem) and bought NFS: The Run (just for them, I swear). That was when they had a little less than 2 years.

Well, one day their mother was trying to have them memorize their name and surname with very little success, so she said to me: Ok dear, they have the memory of a fish. Nothing to do here.
So I asked to the air: ¿Which is the car daddy uses to run?
And both shouted: LAMBORGHINI!!
And the second car daddy uses?
PORSCHE!!

She looked to me saying "I hate you" with her eyes, and walked out the room. I still laugh when I remember her face.