Adult Gamers and Their Ulterior Motives for Gaming

twistedcaboose writes "The Philly Inquirer is running a nice little article about why parents game with their children. Seems that adult gamers are still on the rise." From the article: "In a national survey released in January, 35 percent of 501 parents living with children age 2 to 17 said they played computer or video games, according to the Entertainment Software Association. Of those, 80 percent also played with their children. On average, these fathers and mothers - yes, almost half were women - spent 9.1 hours a month gaming with the children."

Comments

Gaming with my son

[Bob McCown]

My son, 12, and I often play PS2, or multiplayer PC games together. Crash Team Racing, or Gauntlet on the PS2, and assorted games like Age of Sail II, etc, on the PC. We have fun, and that's what counts.

I play 2 games with my 5-year old

[ylikone]

"Planeshift" on the computer and "Heroscape" on the table top.

He loves them both and so do I.

http://planeshift.it/

http://heroscapehq.com/

The "ulterior motive"

[rsilvergun]

is playing video games instead of the usual 'Family fun' with the wife and kids. i.e. "Sure Honey, lets spend the evening together as a family... Power Leveling in WoW!". Plus it's a great way to talk the missus into letting you drop 8 grand on high end computers for the entire house or 4 grand on a home theatre + game console.