Related Links | GamerSpeak:Does Your Mom Support Your Gaming Habit?We recently asked the Xbox.com forum community to tell us about their mothers. How does she feel about gaming? Does she support the habit? Here's what some of them had to say: My parents supported it when I was younger. I got every new console for either Christmas or my birthday. Games were bought through chores. I guess she kind of supported it once I got older as well. Even at 30 years old, she kept driving up to Best Buy to check on me during my 18 hour wait in the cold for the Xbox 360™, bringing me things like food, blankets, letting me sit in the car to warm up, etc. I kept telling her not to because that's when she started to get sick again. She wouldn't listen though. Damn I miss my mom. I lost my mom to breast cancer on April 2nd. R.I.P. Mom. My mom supports my gaming very much, buys me a game every once in a while and [I] never got restricted, she'd rather me be in the house playing games then out doing drugs or something. She does get worried when she reads articles in the media surrounding gaming, it never seems to be positive. People being addicted to WoW doesn't help when I am playing GOW in the night, trying to explain it's not WoW. My mom never really restricted me from playing, time-wise anyway, unless I'd been playing for hours on end, then she might kick me outside. My mom waited in line overnight for my Xbox 360 and PS3. Enough said. Mom was always supportive of my gaming. She bought the family several consoles starting with the Atari 2600 (I hope I'm not dating myself). What she did not like was me and the sibs dropping as much money as we did in the arcade. Good thing for after school jobs! My Mom buys me games for Christmas and my birthday but that's about it. When I was younger she would restrict me to 1 or 2 hours a day and would not even let me play T games till I was about 14. Now she is pretty cool about it and lets me play whatever I want and I don't technically have a limit because I don't go crazy and play 7 hours a day. She never bought me any of my games. She didn't even pay for the consoles. There were of course certain games she wouldn't like me playing. Nor did she let me spend more than a couple hours a week on the systems. But now I'm 25 and can do as I want. Not really … she yells whenever I want a game and she yells even more when I play for 3 hours plus. I remember when my mom bought me and my brother the Sega Master System. I didn't get to play it for the first 2 hours because her and my aunt would not stop playing Safari Hunt. When I was younger, my mom put limitations on what kinds of games I could play and what times I could play games in general. Typically I could only play on weekends, and games such as Grand Theft Auto or Resident Evil were off limits. As I matured, and she realized how I wasn't the kind of person who could be influenced by pixels, she let me start playing whenever I wanted and play whatever I wanted. Not only has she supported my gaming, but she's raised me right. I'm a good kid, and I have my mom and her discipline to thank for that. She's done everything and anything possible to help me out to get the most out of my games, and in a couple of days, she's even going to buy me a brand new 26-inch HDTV for my birthday so that I can finally hop into the HD Gaming Era. She's been strict, but fair with me and my video games. Homework first, then gaming, and that's the way it's gonna stay even after I don't need to listen to her. She's always been cool about it. She has paid for a lot of my stuff and doesn't see a big problem with my gaming addiction. Hooray for my mom! She loves when I game, 'cause that means she gets to go on my computer. I occasionally had to do chores and/or keep up my grades to get a game, and thought it was a fair trade. My mom always supported my gaming as much as she could. As a kid we never really had much money to go around but I remember she got me a Super Nintendo and games as often as she could afford. It was a very nice gesture, and I do whatever I can to repay her for all the things she did for me as a kid. Actually, my mom both supported AND joined me in my gaming habit, but as every mother, she hates it when I play for over 6 hours +. My Mom kinda got me into gaming at first, she bought a used C-64 from a friend and that's what REALLY got me into gaming. After that she got hold of an Atari 2600 … ever since then I think she regretted getting me into gaming since I was hooked from then when I was 6, until now [I'm] 26. —KaYotiX When I was little my mom supported my gaming habit. She didn't really care how much I played until Final Fantasy 3 came out. Then my chores were being neglected and she started to hide it on me. I would come home from school and the game would be missing. I would only get it after my chores were done. She got me the NES, and most systems until I got married 8 years ago. It was a reward thing. I always had to earn it, through grades, chores, etc. It was always a privilege, never a right. Now, every Christmas, there is at least 1 game that I want, and mom is usually the one who gets it for me. God bless you, Mom. Other than B-day and Christmas—she would rarely buy me a game. She got me AD&D and B-17 Bomber on the Intellivision when I had mono in junior high—that was nice—except I was so tired I could barely get out of bed. Other than that it was cutting the grass and allowance that got my games. They did limit me to 2 hours a day unless it was a rainy Saturday. We're both planning on getting the Xbox 360™ Elite this weekend. She never says anything about me gaming or staying up late because of my awesome grades in school! She lets me reserve all the new games at my local Game Stop. She lets me have LAN parties at my house. She also got me my white Zune which I use every day. Another thing that she never complains about is the Microsoft points that I get. When my friends come over they all agree that she is the coolest mom. |
