The kind of parents every 2000s gamer kid wished to have

Are we only counting computer games? Because I think parents taking time to playing board games with their kids are the coolest.

Honestly, GTA is much better for children than Roblox. Much less pedos around.

Back in the day, I let my younger brother and cousins play GTA Vice City in my room. They never played the story but would enter cheats and compete to see who could get the most stars and survive the longest. They were 5-7 years old haha. In retrospect, not a good move on my end but I was only about 15.

I played Watch Dogs 2 with my brother.

Just gonna point this out, GTA is one of the most accessible games for kids learning to play a game. Shooters are very difficult to grasp aiming with one thumb, moving with another, and shooting. Games where you have to follow instructions or solve puzzles are impossible till a kid gets the hang of games.

GTA? X button gets in and out of any car you want. Driving couldn’t be easier and is so much fun. Get out of the car and run around till you get bored, then just hop in another car.

And when you die? No reading, or lengthy instructions you need to follow. No, just spawn outside a hospital right next to another car.

I always felt like somebody needed to create a GTA clone just for kids. Everything about it should stay the exact same, just cartoonify the violence and get rid of the sex and drugs and stuff.

my sisters boyfriend would buy them for me when i was little. it was up until SanAndreas that my mom thought it was just a weird taxi game

Stayed at a Jehova's witnesses' house for a few months and they said I couldn't play final fantasy X in their house because it was too violent

When I was about 10, my grandma took me to the game store at the mall to buy the original GTA for PC.

The guy working there looked at me and looked at her and figured out what was going on. So, he asked her if she was sure she wanted to buy this game for me because it was very violent, had a lot of crime, and was meant for adults. My grandma spoke English well enough but would sometimes get flustered, so she looked at me and I closed my eyes and gave her a slow nod of approval. She looked back at him and said, "Yes."

She took me back to that store every release date for each GTA after that until I was old enough to buy them myself. Love her.

I'm from a previous generation so for me it was my parents buying me Leisure Suit Larry 7 for Christmas.

Hehe, I remember my daughter around that age loved to watch me play bioshock. She called it "the hand game". Hope watching me harvest all those little sisters didn't affect her in any way.... I also used to set her up on top of my base with a sniper rifle and a mountain of ammo and let her takes care of blood moon hordes in 7 days to die.

GTA 3 came out when I was in 3rd grade and I remember my dad renting it from Blockbuster. My mom was not thrilled.
I personally remember thinking, "This is like Driver, but better." I think we eventually bought it a year or two later, but my mom wouldn't let me play, so I to do it when she wasn't around.

It's cyberpunk for me and my kid. It's a family favorite game for some reason.

My kids started on left 4 dead 2 at 4 he taught himself to read so he could get the mods he wanted

My father didn't cared and my mother would tell me not to bully the kids in bully, but never forced me to stop playing thoses games, and most parents at that time where like that, at least in my social circle

If by cool you mean bad parent lol