I Watched Summer Game Fest With My Mum And She Thought It Sucked
The show opens with Street Fighter 6. My sister asks, “What year did this game come out?” and I have to explain that it isn’t actually even out yet. My mum laughs. Street Fighter was released in a cabinet when she was a kid.
I’m back for the week visiting home. Summer Game Fest is on, and I decide to watch it on the big telly. My mum is sitting where she usually sits in the living room so she ends up watching most of the show with me. I think she wants to understand what it is I do for a living just a little better—it’s a real shame the first games Geoff shows off are all dark, grey, bleak, spooky-looking sci-fi shooters with generic characters, a few robots, and of course, the compulsory Call of Duty Modern Warfare boat mission. My mum turns to me and says, “Why do they all look the same?”, and she’s got a very good point.
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My mum has a few favourite games. Minecraft, Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing. Minecraft is played by everyone in my family barring my dad, and during the lockdown, we had eight-player servers where my mates joined in as well. It was a highlight hearing my friend tell my 11-year-old brother to “fuck off” before apologising profusely to his mum, who was also in the lobby. Stardew Valley’s co-op mode was another big hit in the household. Even for all its peaceful music and mellow harvesting, it’s my mum’s role to act as an arbiter of peace between my arguing siblings. Something to do with my sister calling my little brother a lazy miner. Animal Crossing is Animal Crossing. My mum and sister easily have over 2,000 hours in New Horizons. It kept them sane during the lockdown—just about.
But her favourite
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