Happy mother’s day! Is your mom a gamer?
It’s mother’s day in the US today. I got curious earlier this week, as I was looking for Mother’s day gifts only. I imagined how easy it would become for me to chase mother’s day presents if my mom was a gamer (hint: she’s not. neither is my wife. doh!).
I started looking on google and other search engines for “gifts for a gaming mother”… and honestly I didn’t find much. The only reference to “mother’s day gaming” I found ended up being a Wikipedia page about a game called “mother“, which, guess what, has absolutely nothing to do with Mother’s day.
With all the debate about how the gaming industry is sexist, immature, and needs to grow up as a whole, I can tell you that, if there are gamer mothers out there, the retailing industry is not thinking much about them either.
Gamer moms, you’re going to get your spa gift card, your flowers, your kitchenaid mixer, but don’t expect Amazon or others to help you get the latest Wolfeinstein Old blood, or a cool preorder of Starwars battlefront.
Are there video games that could be a cool present for Mother’s day? Since she’s not a gamer, things like Journey or Heavy Rain are what I’d think to show mine, as a cool introduction to video games (And I intend to have my wife go through those as well, but she’ll have to be done with The Last Of Us before that). Any other suggestions?
Happy mother’s day everyone. Are you a gamer mom? Or, is your mom a gamer? If you’re a mom, what presents are you getting this year for Mother’s day? What did you get your mom this year?
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banan
I think not much girl want to play games… they only play games like candy crush saga 😀
You know nothing, dbzgts.
I play with my best female friend on a regular basis.
Borderlands2, The Secret World, and she beats my *** in every streetfighter ever.
Also my mom played through Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 1 and 2, Zelda Ocarina of Time and Super Mario 64.
My mother is a hardcore Free Cell and Mahjongg gamer.
No she is not, she hates video games, she always tell me to get a job and a life, she thinks videogames are just kid’s stuff, and also told me that if I won’t get a job soon she will throw me on the sidewalk while I’m sleeping and will donate all my “games junk” to the church.
Lol.
She is right about getting a job. You cannot game your life away if you are doing it on your mom’s money.
My mom is a gamer but she mostly plays arcade games, she plays the mame disc i made for her on her xbox
My aunt used to play animal crossing And I think lots of females are more into Nintendo handhelds. My sister started playing Majoras Mask but all in all most mothers thunk it’s a waste of time Lol.
My mom is definitely NOT a gamer. That includes ALL games including video games. My wife doesn’t game either . I have tons of games myself but I’m in no way a hardcore gamer. I haven’t turned on my ps4 in 3 months or longer. I just like to have lots of games so when I can play I have a lot to choose from. My wife was only into just dance games but that fell off quickly. I want my daughter to play games though, just not in a life controlling way.
My mom cant make mario run! She cant hold down a or b while pressing forward. I’m talking about the original nes game and nes controller from the 80s. I guess hand eye coordination is a skill that has to be learned. We gamers take such things for granted.
I made my Mom some man cakes.
Ingredients: 1 red velvet box cake mix
1 cup of self-rising flour
some chocolate chips
2-4 cups water
Step1: Preheat griddle to 325 degrees Fahrenheit
2: Mix cake mix+ self-rising flour+ water in a bowl with a whisk
3: pour good sized man cakes on the griddle
4: put some chocolate chips in them! (optional)
5: once there are quite a few bubbles showing up, flip over and wait 1-1 1/2 minutes
6: flip back over to side with chocolate chips and wait 30 seconds to 1 minute
7: serve and enjoy with your Mom!
p.s. It doesn’t really matter if they’re a little raw because there aren’t any dairy products.
the only game my mother (and father) play is tetris, and they are not good :S
My Mom used to play Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES with me when I was younger. Now that my Dad is gone it’s just my sister and I with my wonderful Mom who used to play good NES games. One time she got mad at me when I beat Bowser with Flower Power and you can’t kill yourself as I beat him before he made the holes in the floor. She wanted to beat him this time. What fun we had. So yes my Mom was a gamer Mom.
i play with my mom when i was a kid , she unable to play good . she was mass . she is not good in computer and mobile staff.
she usally after finishing game ask me what happend right know .
if you need a good gift for your mom , just save a good news about yourself and givet that news to here with a simple gift .
that work to me , she will be happy and proud to me becous that news
My mom’s the kind of mom who would watch her 5yo daughter – who on a fine, snowy Christmas Eve only a few days past had been gifted the latest uber-expensive piece of gaming technology, the Game Boy, by said mother – with hawk-eyes to jump at the opportunity to grab the Game Boy from her kid’s hands and play.
She’s the kind too mom who’d jump at the chance to play Croc, FF, Dino Crisis or your all-time favourite purple dragon whenever possible.
Close to 30 years and several PS2 lasers later (oddly enough, the PS1 has survived it all), she’s gone through pretty much every major – and too many minor – RPGs that made it to Europe.
What better mother’s day gift to give her than a game?
my mom isn’t a “gamer” but she loves handhelds and NES games, when I installed eCFW on my Vita she made me give it to her because of Mario and Circus xD! So I told her give me a week to install more games and isntead i bought another vita for her, get eCFW and a lot of music.
My mum is a gamer mainly puzzle games tetris and she still uses her gameboy sp nearly everyday
After skimming through the comments, my mom seems even more like a badass than she already did.
GRAW 1 & 2, Zelda OoT, SuperMario 64.
I only had to help her with the final fight in OoT.
Also she rages when she loses 😀