But mum! You're supposed to press A..

[Rosehip]

This only happened to me a few minutes ago, but I caught my mum trying to play my Pokemon Platinum on an emulator on her phone, unfortunlately DS emulators are hella hard to run so I decided to open a GBA emulator with Emerald. She sadly had eyes that could barely read, so I told her not to continue as it would be hard. Anyway, this raised a question that I now want to ask to the rest of this forum:

Have you had any parents or carers who have ever played/attempted to play a Pokemon game? If so, I'd love to hear how it went! If not, have you ever considered letting them have a try?

 

[Atwilko]

my dad played abit in the game boy era but my mom never played it (she also thinks its childish -,-)

 

[Oryx]

I don't think she's ever had an interest. She played games before I was born/before I was old enough to remember, but she's not much of a gamer anymore.

 

[Guardian]

No but I like the idea, I'll see if they could play it xD

 

[evander14]

I just got my 35 year old uncle to start playing and he is really into it. He's playing a GBA emulator on his tablet. I told him to try Emerald and he bought a tablet controller so he didnt have to hold the tablet and use the touchy controls on the touch screen.

 

[Hiatus]

My dad would used to watch the anime with me every once in a while when I was kid, but never played the games, sadly. I did try getting him into it, but he just never got around. :( My aunt does play, though, but she's relatively new to them; she's gotten into Pokémon around generation four, when she bought herself a DS.

 

[Altairis]

My parents are the type that would automatically dismiss anything that is not "meant" for their age group (bs, obviously, since Pokemon is meant for everyone ;)) so my parents have not touched a Pokemon game ever.

 

[Pepperton]

Actually, the first time I played a Pokemon game on an emulator, it was a like a joint save file with my dad. I remember it quite vividly, because I never would've used a Magneton in Emerald, haha. It was a lot of fun to share something I enjoyed so much with my dad, even if he only did it to monitor what I was doing on his computer, haha. I think he secretly enjoyed it too :]