Redditor Kerogen posted this video of a friend’s 84-year-old grandfather playing Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Halo 4 for the first time with help from his grandson. The grandfather’s excitement for gaming is infectious. This is almost unbearably sweet.
The grandson is also taking requests about which game to introduce him to next. So far two of the most popular suggestions are Dead Space and Mario Kart‘s Rainbow Road, because of course those would be popular suggestions.
There were surprisingly few requests for WWII themed games. Probably because he already won that.
(Thanks to Gorilla Mask for the assist.)
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My grandpa used to play Sega Master System with me, mostly golf, baseball and Ghostbusters.
Ghostbusters on Sega Master System was the best.
Grandpa: “This game is…making me…flash-back to…D-Day! I’m on the beach! The Nazis are shooting! My god, Private Ryan is hit! He’s down! Medic! Medic! You dirty Nazis! I’ll kill ya! I’ll kill ya all!” *stabs grandson in the eye with a butcher knife, clutches his chest, keels over*
I too was waiting for him to have a flashback to Iwo Jima, and start throwing out racial epitaphs and losing all grips with reality, choking his grandson out calling him a “slant eyed yellow bastard”
In an alternate universe somewhere
My grandpa liked games enough that he bought a Magnavox Odyssey 2 system for himself and we would share games.
With the noises he makes, if he started stroking out it would probably take them a minute to notice something was different.
it sounds like you’ve both gotta poop made me lol
This sounded really clever until you do the math. If he’s 84, he was born in 1929 or 1930. Which means he was 15 or 16 when WWII ended. I wouldn’t normally take the time to nit-pick, but since my grandfather was a Bronze Star recipient for valor at the Battle of the Bulge, I do get a little nit-picky, since the 4th Armored Division played a big part in actually winning WWII.