Did you have any hard time in your childhood dealing with your parents because you liked video games Zig Forums? I wanna read your stories. Here is one of my worst personal experience
>Be me, a 9 years old living in Ciudad del este-Paraguay in 1999. Ciudad del este it's maybe the biggest city that sells any kind of electronics in South america. Also the prices are filthy ass cheap (Sometimes being even cheaper than buying from the us/japan). It's also a duty free city >Living with my parents(Middle-high class) , both hardcore evangelical christians (They were in a filial of the Cash Luna's church. The "Father" was an complete asshole >The pokemon boom started. Almost all my friends had a Gameboy Color and I obv wanted one too. >Asked my parents if the could gift me a gameboy color with a copy of pokemon yellow. They told me that the videogames where a invention of satan and that I should never touch one. >0 fucks given. I wanted my fucking gameboy color and I would get it. >Started saving my money. My father gave me like 100.000gs(Around 10us$) monthly for doing chores and helping him with some things and the gameboy was 1.000.000gs back then with the pokemon yellow cartridge >10months pass by and ended saving a little more. Ended buying the gameboy plus pokemon yellow, kirby's dreamland and two counterfit copys of link's awakening and metroid. Bought my gameboy color. Literally the happiest day of my life >3 weeks passes by. My parents start asking why I don't get out of my bedroom to watch tv with them anymore. >One morning I go to school and I forgot to bring my gameboy with me (I had it always with me. Played with my friends, exchanged pokemons) >Go home after school. My parents tell me that they want to talk to me. >Went to the living room. Saw my gameboy and my games on the table.. Next to fucking hammer Cont
>Start crying.. My parents thinked that I was possesed by a demon and that they have to take me to the church asap. They tell me that this is all fault of the pokemon demons >My father proceds to smash to bits my gameboy and games while my mothers holds me and prays asking the demon to go away After that I went to the church with them. The father prayed to me and then went home. >Picked all the gameboy bits from the trash can.. Tried all night to glue it down to see if it still can works. It didn't obv. >Go back to the shop where I buyed it with all the bits and the warranty. Told them the story and asked them if I could run the warranty. With the saddest face of the world the owner of the shop told me he couldn't do it. Literally started crying and couldn't stop for 2 hours straight.
After some time my parents opened them eyes and got out of that church and religion (The father was involved in money laundring and drugs posession). In 2001 my father gifted in my birthday me a used gameboy color with pokemon yellow and also as a "Special surprise" a launch ps2. Told me with tears in the eyes he was so sorry to did that to something that I buyed with my determination and hardwork. I forgived my parents that after that but god damn I hated the so much for almost 1 year thanks to that. I literally didn't talk to them for almost 5 months and the next 6 months all I told them was "Good morning" "Yes" "No" "Thanks" "Goodnight"
Dominic Cox
I won't read it because tl;dr and also if I wanted to read shitty stories about awful parents and people, I would just go to front page Reddit. Fuck off.
Nathaniel Martinez
Yeah I got banned from video games from the age of 13 to 18 because my grades were shit in school
Aiden Campbell
At least they saw the wrong they did and apologized to you. That’s more than most parents are capable of.
Jack Morris
I had a similar experience but I wasn't banned from vidya completely. When I wasn't in school it was A-OK to play games so I got to play during summers. I also had brief stints where my grades were good so I got my shit back for a little bit until thry tanked again. It wasn't until about junior year of high school when I could regularly play games when I wanted. I picked up my grades because I started taking classes online which really helped with how I learned and I haven't looked back. I started collecting too so my parents would have a hard time taking my stuff. Before it was just a Wii a GameCube and a couple DS systems. Now I have every nearly every mainstream home console between 1983 and now.
Liam Jones
>Visit family in the US for the holidays. losts of family here and there. >Check on gamestop web page for Lunar 2 if its in the city. Turns out there is and its in X address. >Tell whoever I could if I could get a ride. >Its a video game and everyone just chuckles and tell me they will on another day.
As a side note bunch of mexicans not giving a fuck about this but oh dear lord if the fucking beer runs out they would take turns and buy a whole trunk full it. This was almost every day and if i knew how to move around by self i would have done it my self. I fucking hate my family.
Jackson Perez
Not nearly as bad as OP but I could never play video games without being shamed by my father for it. He'd say I wasting my life playing them and that I should be out earning money/studying etc. Still to this day at 35 years of age, I can't enjoy playing vidyas without feeling that same sense of sadness/shame. So now I watch others play vidya as some weird vicarious method of enjoyment.
William Harris
Well, I got in trouble once for playing Army Men: Sarge's War because my Dad has PTSD from the Vietnam War and beat the shit out of me once he saw gameplay. I didn't play Gamecube for like a year after that, but only cause I found out where the games were hiding and stole it back and played it anyways. After that, my parents didn't give two shits.
James Green
probably, i got beaten so hard as a kid i have repressed and in some cases lost due to brain damage most of my childhood memories
Wyatt Rogers
>look up lunar 2 >trannime Yeah, I'd take the beer
Jonathan Baker
Are you me?
Juan Price
My parents randomly took my games away every couple of years for awhile because I spent most of my time on them. There was literally nothing else to do for me where I lived.
Jaxson Rogers
Damn OP unironically thanks for sharing, glad to see a happy-ish resolution. How is your relationship with them now? My story is not quite as bad, all my friends had GBCs but my Dad wouldn't let me get one because he thought I would waste all my time on it never doing anything else. I got so mad I punched him in the dick and eventually just turned into an absolute shit of a child. 6 months before my 10th birthday my parents said if I had zero fuckups between then and my bday, I could have a Game Boy. I was an angel for those 6 months, by that time the GBA had just come out, I got one for my bday and it was one of the happiest days of my life. We were also moving across the country at the time so it helped ease the pain of losing all my friends a bit. Probably the only other time I've been that happy was the Gamecube launch.
My mom was super Christian too and believed the anti-Pokemon nonsense. At the time I wanted to get Leaf Green (with my own money) but she wouldn't let me. I ended up getting Super Monkey Ball 2 which is one of my all time favorite games, so I wasn't too upset. Also not long after that I got a gift card and ordered Fire Red online secretly. My mom would take away my games a lot too.
Anthony Bennett
After that pretty good. The church was fucking them up. After that dad and me even played video games together (We bought a steering wheel and we loved to play gran turismo) we did the same Until 2015 maybe, then I moved out of my house to live with my GF (He still plays the ps3 I let there sometimes. He loves racing games)
Brody Harris
Upvoted, kind sir!
Josiah Sanders
My father was a former gambling addict who blamed games for everything he lost. That extended on any games I've tried playing. I had to live with him until I was 23 because third world and no money. I hate humans.
Yes, many: >1995 >Dad is playing Donkey Kong Country on gameboy >Leaves game unattended >4 year old me beats 5 levels >Dad breaks gameboy and snes and grounds me
>Be 1999 >Dad gets Metal Gear Solid >I think its a cool game >I create my own save file and beat the game in a few days >Dad is still in Hangar, cant get past Raven in a tank >Dad loads my save >Sees the game has been beaten >Breaks playstation and bans video games from the house
>2004 >Mom buys PS2 for me for christmas >Dad breaks it and says games are unchristian >Makes me and my mom go to church >Join youth group >Get to play vidya all day every sunday
My dad was a stickler for batteries. I remember once I took them out of the remote to play. Dad was angry as fuck. I couldn't admit to doing it for fear of being smacked (he belted my brother regularly) . Instead he just throws the fucking thing down a flight of stairs. I was absolutely terrified of the thought that could have been me. For reference, he once pushed my poodle down the same stairs for urinating indoors. Poor thing was unconscious for a few seconds before slowly waking back up and drunk-walking the last 3 steps (after hitting the wall it just stood there lying on the floor).
I was mortified of my dad for years.
Henry James
Your dad sounds like a fucking psycho
Ethan Bennett
What's wrong with your dad?
Brody Rivera
>mortified horrified retard faggot he should of beat you more
Jace Hall
How can people act this way? Fucking retards.
Wyatt Morgan
Was a happy ending user, actually kinda happy for you
My parents would blame everything on video games. >PC is acting slow Video gaaaaaames! >Got into a fight at school Video gaaaaaames! >Forgot homework at school Video gaaaaaames! >Kicked a football unto the top of a roof Video gaaaaaames!
Etc etc. It is very funny these days when I confront them about how retarded they used to be, especially since they kept having the same problems with their PCs even after I moved out
Kayden Robinson
How were you getting batteries for the Gameboy to keep it secret?
Isaac Young
My parents have quite a bit of disdain for video games, but don't bother me when I'm playing them. One of the times my father brought up how much time I was wasting playing games I just told him how much time he wasted watching TV out in his workshop, which is pretty much every waking hour he's not at work. Also, most of the time I'm at my computer, I'm not actually playing video games but rather reading ebooks or fiddling with programming stuff, so it's not really like I even spend as much time playing as I used to. Still worried spending all this time in solitude is doing a number on my social skills though, I'm essentially a hermit that spends all of his time reading, playing, or tinkering with things alone. It's been a really long time since I've just went out into the world to meet other people, but without an already established social group, it's hard to do so.
Leo Cruz
user YOUR VIDEO GAMES PUT VIRUSES ON THE COMPUTER
Juan Miller
Yes exactly this! I got this so many times
Landon Myers
I'm really happy your parents apologized, good story OP.
William Howard
tl;dr i dont read blogs that start with >be me those are made by tourists
Dylan Brown
nice post i really appreciate your input thanks
Owen Morris
I frequently had my consoles unplugged and taken away because i was “obsessing” over them. what the fuck i was doing fine socially and my grades were okay-ish.
Jayden Nelson
>Hear this line growing up several times >Become IT guy during my last two years of high school >Have the only computer in our household because my parents didn't want to clean off space for me to set up the old one for them >They still get mad when I won't let them use mine to browse the internet >Keep telling them every time I do, they click on ads and wind up getting tons of spyware on it >Mother is always throwing a fit since I have the PC password locked, even went as far as to take it away for a week >Tell her it's better for her to run off with the physical case and give it back later since it would still take me less time than attempting to recover all my files because she got another virus that locked everything down
When smart phones became a thing, I bought my parents one each just so they could never complain I wasn't letting them use the internet again. Was a godsend since I no longer had to keep denying them access to my computer over and over again.
William Cooper
oh fuck off you miserable cunt. why bother entering the thread then? you dont have to be here and you dont have to post. fuck off, and the next time you consider suicide, actually go ahead and do it. annoying fucking cunt i hope your life never improves.
here’s a tl;dr for you: GENUINELY HOPE YOU DIE SOON.
Samuel Peterson
Your dad is a fucking drooling idiot
Levi Wood
fuck niggers
Jeremiah Gomez
Yes, and honestly looking back, I should have listened to them. I'd be fitter, have more friends, have better social skills, have better attention skills. Video games, while fun, have been pretty bad for me until I got in my mid 20s and developed some maturity and self control. I'm "succesful" RN, but I really could have been so much more...
