Poll of the Day > Best gaming achievement of a family member?

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The best I can think of is my grandmother routinely beating Zombies Ate My Neighbors back in the day.

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I have a cousin who was a top RuneScape player at some point. He's probably got loads of other achievements because he's never had a job and spends all his waking hours playing games, but we haven't talked that much since I was a teenager so I don't know what he's playing these days.

my uncle did all the motion cap work for Sneak King

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my uncle beat donkey Kong country before

I shit you not, my little sister was the first person to discover the Grumble Volcano lap-skip in Mario Kart Wii. She held the world record because of it until people used her ghost to replicate and master it (she'd stumbled into it and was only able to replicate it fairly clumsily with very poor time, the record didn't stand very long). Problem is that I have no proof save for MAYBE data preserved on my Wii, and my Wii can't read discs anymore, so I can't even check and see if it retains any real proof. *sigh*
I think she also had a MKWii Rainbow Road world record? but I don't remember clearly; I'll have to ask her about it again. She played the fuck out of that game, and while my second sister and I together were basically unbeatable at DD (locally, not that that's a huge achievement lol), my youngest sister was easily the best of us at MKWii.

What else? One of my older sisters is an NES Tetris wiz. She doesn't like any other version and she'll only play it with a proper NES controller. She can hit the "cap" on the game with some warming up, though she's probably out of practice nowadays. She's very good at racing games, too.

My oldest sister isn't really interested in mastery I don't think? but I remember her being very good at platformers. Haven't seen her game in years though; she lives about 300 miles away.

My parents used to keep graph paper so they could chart out maps in video games. I think we still have their maps in a manilla envelope, though I'm not sure where it is? They both like SRPGs, with my mom favoring Total Annihilation/Dungeon Keeper and my father favoring Warcraft2/Starcraft1, but they have pretty broad tastes. My mom also really like Destroy All Humans! 1-2, Dragon Quest, Legacy of the Wizard, etc... my father liked games like Dungeon Master (modern equivalent would be Legend of Grimrock).

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My brother is supposedly top 40 in something or other in WoW. Granted, he tends to inflate everything so I can never be sure how legit any of his claims are.


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My uncle is Mario.

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Gaawa_chan posted...

I shit you not, my little sister was the first person to discover the Grumble Volcano lap-skip in Mario Kart Wii. She held the world record because of it until people used her ghost to replicate and master it (she'd stumbled into it and was only able to replicate it fairly clumsily with very poor time, the record didn't stand very long). Problem is that I have no proof save for MAYBE data preserved on my Wii, and my Wii can't read discs anymore, so I can't even check and see if it retains any real proof. *sigh*
I think she also had a MKWii Rainbow Road world record? but I don't remember clearly; I'll have to ask her about it again. She played the fuck out of that game, and while my second sister and I together were basically unbeatable at DD (locally, not that that's a huge achievement lol), my youngest sister was easily the best of us at MKWii.

What else? One of my older sisters is an NES Tetris wiz. She doesn't like any other version and she'll only play it with a proper NES controller. She can hit the "cap" on the game with some warming up, though she's probably out of practice nowadays. She's very good at racing games, too.

My oldest sister isn't really interested in mastery I don't think? but I remember her being very good at platformers. Haven't seen her game in years though; she lives about 300 miles away.

My parents used to keep graph paper so they could chart out maps in video games. I think we still have their maps in a manilla envelope, though I'm not sure where it is? They both like SRPGs, with my mom favoring Total Annihilation/Dungeon Keeper and my father favoring Warcraft2/Starcraft1, but they have pretty broad tastes. My mom also really like Destroy All Humans! 1-2, Dragon Quest, Legacy of the Wizard, etc... my father liked games like Dungeon Master (modern equivalent would be Legend of Grimrock).

Edit: *facepalm* I can't believe I forgot to mention this. My father's second brother actually modified their NES when they first got it, rigging it up to a small screen and a battery pack to make a portable NES. I always forget to ask what happened to it; I would have loved to have seen that.

that's one hell of a gamer family lol

i'm the only gamer in mine

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Wanded posted...

that's one hell of a gamer family lol

i'm the only gamer in mine

Yeah, I've been told it's atypical. My mother's father used to play table-top war games, and my parents and their friends played a lot of D&D. They purchased an NES in... I think it was 1991, though they'd played video games before that, so my sisters and I all grew up playing video games. My youngest sister and I are the only ones REALLY into video games, though all of us like them a lot, and to go full-circle, my youngest sister is also currently our Dungeon Master for a campaign that my mother, nephew, and I are participating in.

I was delighted when it turned out my step-mom likes video games a lot, too. My mother's late boyfriend never really cared for them. My cousins game as well to varying degrees. I actually have a fairly extensive family though we're pretty spread out so we often don't interact much.

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my late father was pretty good at Chess back in the day, I guess

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Gaawa_chan posted...

Yeah, I've been told it's atypical. My mother's father used to play table-top war games, and my parents and their friends played a lot of D&D. They purchased an NES in... I think it was 1991, though they'd played video games before that, so my sisters and I all grew up playing video games. My youngest sister and I are the only ones REALLY into video games, though all of us like them a lot, and to go full-circle, my youngest sister is also currently our Dungeon Master for a campaign that my mother, nephew, and I are participating in.

I was delighted when it turned out my step-mom likes video games a lot, too. My mother's late boyfriend never really cared for them. My cousins game as well to varying degrees. I actually have a fairly extensive family though we're pretty spread out so we often don't interact much.

meanwhile i never played actual co op lol
and i have a family of 8

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I legit don't think my family has any gaming achievements whatsoever. My sister with great effort could beat some of the ninja gaiden black missions on normal. I think I might have gotten her to beat some low rank monsters in MHtri.

I've gotten a couple of decent achievements over the years but nothing that special.

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My grandmother was insanely good at Wheel of Fortune. She'd get most puzzles with just one or two letters, and sometimes with zero.

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My grandmother: "All Quiet on the Western Front."
Me: "Oh, come ON!"

Everyone said she should try out for the show, but she said that playing at home was totally different than playing for real with all the pressure.

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captpackrat posted...

My grandmother was insanely good at Wheel of Fortune. She'd get most puzzles with just one or two letters, and sometimes with zero.

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My grandmother: "All Quiet on the Western Front."
Me: "Oh, come ON!"

Good grief. Is she that well versed in various sayings and phrases? I played Wheel of Fortune on the NES as a kid and can only guess words but never entire phrases.

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captpackrat posted...

My grandmother was insanely good at Wheel of Fortune. She'd get most puzzles with just one or two letters, and sometimes with zero.

_ _ _ - _ _ _ _ _ - _ _ - _ _ _ - _ _ S _ _ _ _ - _ _ _ _ _

My grandmother: "All Quiet on the Western Front."
Me: "Oh, come ON!"

Everyone said she should try out for the show, but she said that playing at home was totally different than playing for real with all the pressure.

Goddamn. My mom's pretty good at WoF, but nothing like that. Wow.

Wanded posted...

meanwhile i never played actual co op lol
and i have a family of 8

That's a shame. Local co-op is a lot of fun.

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My cousin was the best Jedi Outcast player on a server. It was instagiv or whatever

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