You talk about our mothers all year; it’s about time that we shared with you stories about our moms and video games for this Mother’s Day.
While not everyone’s mom is so understanding about spending hours in front of the TV playing with something they hardly understand, we still love you for letting us sneak in a few games when we are sick and spending countless hours looking for that one game that we just needed to play.
For this Mother’s Day, we here at G4TV want to say thank you to all the mothers out there across the land who let us drag them into gaming. Here are our stories about our mothers and videogames.
Jonathan Goorvich’s Mother – The Best Around
On a weeknight in 1985, my family was the second we knew to own the original Nintendo Entertainment System. We spent way too long hooking up the single coaxial cable, fired up the console, and excitedly gathered around the TV for a life changing experience. After killing Mario off several times in an attempt to make it past the very first Koopa Troopa, my mom insisted that it was her turn. On her very first life of her very first game, she made it all the way to the first castle. Unheard of!
And so, on a day that should have lived in personal gaming infamy, I ultimately stayed up WAY past my bedtime watching my mom play Super Mario Bros. all night. Until this day, I'm pretty sure she's still better than me at the game.
Donell Tucker’s Mother – Fighting for Nintendo
My first try at playing games was with my musician husband and his friends in the band. We would play on the Atari system and combined the playing with food and social interaction.
One Christmas people were pushing and shoving in Toys R Us trying to buy the very popular Nintendo 64. I didn't think I had a chance of buying one for my kids when one of the employees gave me one of their own tickets to purchase it. I was "giddy" with happiness, knowing how exciting Christmas morning was going to be at our house. Years later I remember spending hours calling Target stores to see when their new shipments were arriving for the Nintendo Wii. I was lucky to purchase one in time for Donell's birthday. Yeah!
Leah Jackson’s Mother – Bonding Over A Wizard
Even though I only could get through the first Harry Potter book and didn't really like the movies, I love the Lego Harry Potter game. Why? Cause it's easy and it's a game I can actually play!
I've raged-played many games that Leah had to help me through because I can't fly, jump, or swim in any video game. For some reason, however, the Lego games suit me to a tee. They are funny and easy to navigate and when you die you pretty much just pick up where you left off so you don't have to complete an entire level to get back where you were.
I really like Fishdom: Harvest Splash by Playrix. It's a matching game where you have to clear the board by matching the different symbols - like Bejeweled only better. It's fun and fast paced, no jumping or flying, just matching stuff. You can also buy fish and decorate your aquarium, but I never bother with that stuff. I play so much I’m on level 1100 or something ridiculous. Fun, easy and very little pressure!
Frank Meyer’s Mother – Hard Lessons
I begged my mom for a Colecovision when they came out and we're all the rage in the '80s. I already had Atari, but I was obsessed with Zaxxon and Colecovision offered the only home version of the ahead-of-it's-time 3D space flight game. But the tipping point was the release of Smurf: Rescue. I was REALLY into the Smurfs at the time (hey, I was a little kid!) and felt a deep desire to frolic in the land of tiny blue people and Gargamel's castle, and Colecovision offered the only opportunity to delve into this world.
I begged my mom for the coveted console until she relented, making me promise it wouldn't suffer the same fate as my other passing fads, such as being a stuntman, writing for Mad Magazine, tee-ball and bathing. The day we scored it at Toys R Us and I set it up, I played the Smurf game over and over until I came to the realization that it sucked. Big time. Even Zaxxon and the sub-par Adventure rip-off Venture couldn't save Colecovision from its inevitable downfall.
Stephen Johnson’s Mother – Letters From The Front Line
Dear Steve,
I am so happy you asked me to tell you about playing video games for Mother's Day.
As you know I love to play video games.
My favorite one right now is called, Tri Peaks Solitare. It is on Facebook. The good part is you earn tokens for good games. I now have 513,5165 tokens! Isn't that great?
The odd thing is I have absolutely NO idea what to do with them. I hope you get money. Please ask if you would like to know about any of the other games I play.
Love,
Mom
Rob Manuel’s Mother – Those Crazy Birds
Over the Christmas holiday, I showed my mom how to download games on her new iPad and completely regret this maneuver. Ever since then, my mom now asks me about, what she can only remember to call them, Crazy Birds.
It took a day or so to teach her how it all works. For a couple of hours, the birds kept flying in the wrong direction since my mom kept pointing to where she wanted the birds to go rather than pulling the slingshot back.
Since then, she’s gotten better now that she started playing Crazy Space Birds. Actually, she’s a little addicted. Most of our phone conversations go as follow:
Mom: I can’t get the third star. I know what I need to be doing, but I can’t do it.
Me: You can just go on and come back to it later.
Mom: I hit something and I was in space. And there were pigs all around me and I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do.
Me: What are you even playing?
Even when she had no clue what I was talking about, my mom always tried to be supportive of my gaming. Love you, mom.
Source : http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/723696/our-two-loves-stories-about-our-mothers-and-video-games/
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