Father And Son Arcade Shots

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I tell you what, I never knew how much I could really love something til I had kids. Now that my son is almost 3 (holy shit) he has become my best Arcade buddy. This kid recognizes when a new game moves in and is usually the first person to try it out. He comes down to the arcade pretty much daily and just loves to have me turn on certain games for him to play. His favorites are Robotron and Primal Rage, though he has been known to have me fire up Satan's Hollow and Galaxian (The Lucky Charms Game) for him from time to time. Anyhoo, my mom took some shots of us down in the arcade last year and just sent them to me today. I had no idea she had these and was pretty stoked when I saw them and thought I'd share. Anybody else have pics of you and your kids together in the arcade? Post them!

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That's awesome. My boy (currently 4) gets lots of use out of the arcade and it's always a blast. My last birthday I took off and we spent the entire day together gaming (He even played Rock band!) and it was an amazing thing. Personally part of my reason for collecting to begin with is him. Some of my fondest memories growing up were around an arcade and they simply don't exist anymore, so I'm trying to create / share these memories with him so he too will have that experience.

Really cool seeing the family gaming pics. Keep them coming. :)


"The Family that Games together stays together"
---S.



I tell you what, I never knew how much I could really love something til I had kids. Now that my son is almost 3 (holy shit) he has become my best Arcade buddy. This kid recognizes when a new game moves in and is usually the first person to try it out. He comes down to the arcade pretty much daily and just loves to have me turn on certain games for him to play. His favorites are Robotron and Primal Rage, though he has been known to have me fire up Satan's Hollow and Galaxian (The Lucky Charms Game) for him from time to time. Anyhoo, my mom took some shots of us down in the arcade last year and just sent them to me today. I had no idea she had these and was pretty stoked when I saw them and thought I'd share. Anybody else have pics of you and your kids together in the arcade? Post them!
 
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That is great to see. I have three daughters (yeah, wish me luck) and they all love the games. Even the 2 year old! Here is one I just took yesterday of the younger two playing the new additions. Granted it's not father and son or even father and daughter but it's what I got.
 

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Photo of KLOV member charger and his son Chris, that I took for my upcoming book. (both are heavy collectors).


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That's awesome.

I only have Donkey Kong Junior (with DK board) right now so I don't have any pics yet of my kids in an arcade. However, that is my son in my avatar "playing" Donkey Kong. He's still not 3 yet, so we have some work to do to get him up to gamer speed.
 
My kid is a big fan. I've got my games in the garage and it gets too cold in the winter to fire 'em up so he can't wait for the spring. His favorite is playing co-op stuff like beat-em-ups on the Neo Geo.

Whenever we go out to eat he always wants to know "Will there be GAMES there?"
 
No pics but last weekend we had 8 kids here plus my son playing games in the Barcade. No high scores were set but they sure did have fun!

It was the talk of the class at school on Monday.
 
I've got plenty of pics of my kids and their friends in the game room, but none of me with them. I think it mainly has to do with wifey doing her best to not set foot near the games. Therefore, I'm always the one taking pics.
 
Nice pics Phet. I'm going thru the same thing you are; my boy is 2 1/2; my daughter is 6 and she plays as well. Last night we had some gametime, my boy went right for Centipede, and my daughter to Sea Wolf.

I posted these pics recently, but I'll show them again. My son and I playing Sprint 2. Just look at his face!

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My 4 year old son told me he wanted to work on arcade machines with me this weekend. So I'll have a little helper. I dont have many now but he loves what I have.
 
Nice pics Phet. I'm going thru the same thing you are; my boy is 2 1/2; my daughter is 6 and she plays as well. Last night we had some gametime, my boy went right for Centipede, and my daughter to Sea Wolf.

I posted these pics recently, but I'll show them again. My son and I playing Sprint 2. Just look at his face!

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Awesome shots John! Your son's face is priceless.
 
I don't have any pictures either but I thought I'd comment that playing games with your kids is the best. One of the biggest reasons I wanted a Timber was so I'd have a kid friendly co op game to play with my kids and it has delivered 100%. I also make sure that at least once a month or so we go to Chuck E Cheese or Wunderland for an afternoon. I think the games at those places suck but it's not about me and the kids have a great time. If they ever get this arcade in Salem up and running, you can be sure that my son and I will be one of their biggest customers.
 
Usually it's me taking the pics but here's a few from his last Birthday party.
 

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Here's me and my youngest soon after picking up my Donkey Kong. He hasn't quite mastered the game yet! ;) My 6 year old got past level one a couple months ago. He was pretty excited.

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Forgot I had this one! It's a fave of mine. Me and the kid playing an EDOT at the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, NY.

Also seeing the air hockey pics reminded me that he LOVES air hockey. I promised him when we build our game room that we'll have one.

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