Parents against you playing video games

[SG854]

Anyone had parents that was against your video game hobbies?

 

[SylverReZ]

No.

 

[Chary]

My mom owned a Sega Genesis and was a huge Sonic fan before I was born. However, she was dead set on games that didn't have cutesy mascots being super evil and would corrupt my mind. I was banned from a LOT of franchises as a kid. I BARELY got away with begging her to let me play Pokemon. And it was half only because the clerk at GameStop promised my mom that playing Pokemon Silver wouldn't brainwash me.

Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Zelda, Resident Evil, GTA, Harvest Moon, Pikmin, Final Fantasy, and The Sims; all banned. It wasn't until I got an R4 that let me load up any game I wanted that I got to escape that kind of overbearing helicopter parenting preventing me from trying a lot of fun franchises.

 

[SG854]

It wasn't until I got an R4 that let me load up any game I wanted that I got to escape that kind of overbearing helicopter parenting preventing me from trying a lot of fun franchises.

Basically rebelled without your mother knowing

 

[Chary]

Basically rebelled without your mother knowing

There was a point where I played Assassin's Creed 2, and I couldn't alt tab away fast enough and got caught. My mom asked what game I was playing, and I said it was an Italian horse racing sim. Got away with it, too.

She did also catch me not too long ago, with a copy of Bloodborne, and snapped the thing in half. I was like, 20 years old, for reference lol.

 

[DarkCoffe64]

My dad's the kind to consider ALL videogames as children's thing. Sometimes he be like "Why are you still fucking playing games and wasting your time with them".

 

[SG854]

There was a point where I played Assassin's Creed 2, and I couldn't alt tab away fast enough and got caught. My mom asked what game I was playing, and I said it was an Italian horse racing sim. Got away with it, too.

She did also catch me not too long ago, with a copy of Bloodborne, and snapped the thing in half. I was like, 20 years old, for reference lol.

The internet I'm sure exposed you to lots of things your mother tried to hide from you, which will have your mother in shock.

Stopped you from playing certain games and you went the "illegal" route just so you can play what your mother tried to stop. Created a monster

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My dad's the kind to consider ALL videogames as children's thing. Sometimes he be like "Why are you still fucking playing games and wasting your time with them".

Now games are more acceptable for young people. Lots of Parents were really against them back then and didn't get it. Before it was a childrens, loser, virgin hobby, and ewww for beign around these nerds.

But now everyone plays, all the younger generations play & their parents grew up with it. Its more acceptable. You had to struggle for the future generations.

 

[SMNFXCN]

i swear my parents wanted to blame every part of being a teenager, and when i got in trouble in school on video games. i never really played violent games until much later. not because they stopped me, but mainly because i lacked interest or found violent games to be boring, and hating the popular thing. i was that kid, around 12-16 known for playing nintendo games.

abuse and being picked on at school really did many things to my mental health but yknow, it's all the video games.
"new thing i don't understand is bad". being gaslit and provoked by family also didn't help.
i also don't see it being the case with other harmless hobbies.

what bothered me the most was when my parents got me a console or a handheld and then one day it was gone, because they had sold it. without telling me before they did so.

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forgot to add, but thinking about it. they wanted to blame me for certain things but still ended up buying me games. funny how that works. pick a side

 

[CoolMe]

My mom didn't give a shit about what i was playing (either when i was kid playing with PS1, or in my teenage years with the PS2), but from time to time she says that i should focus on my studies and or/ do my homework before playing etc. specially on (non-holiday) school days..
My father on the other hand, when i was younger, he only allowed us (me & my older brother) to play with it (PS1) in the holidays (and sometimes weekends). When we got older, he allowed us to play with it (PS2) all the time- despite him not wanting- and that mostly cause my brother was getting older and he was more persistent than me.
He used to tell us not to play games that make you kill people, with weapons or otherwise.. but he wasn't that serious about it, and what he cared about the most is as long as it's not affecting our grades, we can play whatever we want..

My dad's the kind to consider ALL videogames as children's thing. Sometimes he be like "Why are you still fucking playing games and wasting your time with them".

My father said the same thing to me once, when i was playing Crash Twinsanity..

 

[Taleweaver]

They thought i played too much, but didn't actively prevented me playing. Or cared, for that matter. Friends and me played the heck out of all sorts of games. Violent and otherwise.
We didn't have a console aside a shared snes and a beaten Gameboy, though. I was a pc player from before 3d graphic cards were the norm (voodoo2!! )

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My mom owned a Sega Genesis and was a huge Sonic fan before I was born. However, she was dead set on games that didn't have cutesy mascots being super evil and would corrupt my mind. I was banned from a LOT of franchises as a kid. I BARELY got away with begging her to let me play Pokemon. And it was half only because the clerk at GameStop promised my mom that playing Pokemon Silver wouldn't brainwash me.

Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Zelda, Resident Evil, GTA, Harvest Moon, Pikmin, Final Fantasy, and The Sims; all banned. It wasn't until I got an R4 that let me load up any game I wanted that I got to escape that kind of overbearing helicopter parenting preventing me from trying a lot of fun franchises.

I can get some franchises, but harvest moon? Pikmin? The freaking sims???

 

[Deleted member 571007]

I was banned from all forms of gaming for about a year and a half because my parents thought I was wasting my time, it being unhealthy, etc. And I mean I do get the unhealthy part, gaming was (and still is) a coping mechanism of mine and serves as a form of escapism, but if my parents wanted to "help" then they could have gone about it in a way like teaching restraint of it over restrictions, and, oh I dunno, actually trying to help the root of the trauma that caused me to need a coping mechanism in the first place?

Instead they decided to gaslight me, insult me for it, call me an addicted lazy piece of shit, took literally every form of entertainment (including BOOKS I might add) and just left me with absolutely NOTHING but School and Chores. For reference, that is an absolute hell for an ADHD person.

The funny thing I find about it is that they told me I should socialize more, which I mean makes sense right? Well they also never allowed me outside, I was put into home-school and was forbidden from using any sort of messaging or social media, and IRL Friends? Nope, that's not allowed either. Tf are those double standards?

I presently have video games again, but my god that 1 1/2 year(s) was horrible.

 

[SylverReZ]

I was banned from all forms of gaming for about a year and a half because my parents thought I was wasting my time, it being unhealthy, etc. And I mean I do get the unhealthy part, gaming was (and still is) a coping mechanism of mine and serves as a form of escapism, but if my parents wanted to "help" then they could have gone about it in a way like teaching restraint of it over restrictions, and, oh I dunno, actually trying to help the root of the trauma that caused me to need a coping mechanism in the first place?

Instead they decided to gaslight me, insult me for it, call me an addicted lazy piece of shit, took literally every form of entertainment (including BOOKS I might add) and just left me with absolutely NOTHING but School and Chores. For reference, that is an absolute hell for an ADHD person.

The funny thing I find about it is that they told me I should socialize more, which I mean makes sense right? Well they also never allowed me outside, I was put into home-school and was forbidden from using any sort of messaging or social media, and IRL Friends? Nope, that's not allowed either. Tf are those double standards?

I presently have video games again, but my god that 1 1/2 year(s) was horrible.

I feel for you.

 

[Deleted member 571007]

I feel for you.

Thank you.

A lot of that post still hasn't changed, but hey, at least I can use socials now and I regained games so it's not all bad.

 

[DBlaze]

It was my grandparents that fueled me video games, so i don't think my parents had much to say about it

 

[SylverReZ]

My parents were totally happy about it, my dad is what got me into video games. I remember playing "Crash Bash" on his PS1 that he got from Xmas '97.

 

[AncientBoi]

Kinna late for me to answer this. For my Parents have all passed on.

I believe they would have been unfavorable upon it, but would have given way, if I was Out of their hair.

 

[subcon959]

My dad bought me a BBC Micro computer when I was 8 and encouraged me to learn as much about it as possible. What I learned was I could borrow game tapes from friends and copy them onto blanks..

 

[AncientBoi]

My dad bought me a BBC Micro computer when I was 8 and encouraged me to learn as much about it as possible. What I learned was I could borrow game tapes from friends and copy them onto blanks..

well.. It was a start.

 

[subcon959]

well.. It was a start.

The start of my long voyage on the high seas..

 

[SylverReZ]

My dad bought me a BBC Micro computer when I was 8 and encouraged me to learn as much about it as possible. What I learned was I could borrow game tapes from friends and copy them onto blanks..

The same is done on many home computers back in the day.

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Many of us in the UK still used home computers when the NES and Atari systems were around.