Why I loved playing Duke Nukem 3D with my dad.
My dad was the kind of man who would let me be in the room with him while he watched TV if I didn’t breathe too heavily. If I asked a question, he’d ignore me. If I giggled, he’d tell me to shut up. It wasn’t what I called bonding time, but he was the reason I fell in love with videogames at a young age.
It was the first FPS he brought home. Moving through a 3D space like that for the first time was entrancing for us both. I memorised how he pressed the keys, the way he moved around the map. Every secret door. Every ammo location. Every enemy spawn. I even memorised every time he would switch weapons, whether it was to conserve ammo or take out a wild pack of pig cops.
"How’d you get there?" he asked. I turned, smiled, then restarted from the beginning of Toxic Dump to show him how to get to the secret exit. Now he was silently watching me play. For the first time he was seeing how fast I could go through each level, and all the secret places I discovered without the help of a guidebook or him.
I shook my head, then my dad showed me how to get into the demo level, which was basically multiple cages filled with enemies. He directed me to the end, to a cage packed with Battlelords, and told me to open it. They all rushed out towards me, screeching and firing their chainguns. My dad and I both shouted and laughed at the screen as I frantically tried to take out one before the rest left me in a bloody heap.
For many years after that my dad would stop and watch me play a videogame if he happened to pass through the family room. He didn’t always ask me questions about the game, but he cared enough to stop what he was doing to see what I was playing.Sign up to get the best content of the week, and great gaming deals, as picked by the editors.
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