I've gotten my father to play point & click adventures such as The longest journey or Broken sword, and he really likes it, but my mother's a lost cause.

They do not.

My dad plays games more than I do!

He puts in 50-60 hours a week for work, and 40+ hours a week playing games.

He used to play Atari games, then moved to RPGs on NES, some RPGs on SNES.

Fast forward, he moved to PC games. Was hooked on Everquest 2 for years, and now plays Dungeons and Dragons Online for hours every night. :)

I often play adventure games in parallel with my dad, and we exchange solutions when we're stuck. He's very new to computer games, so I tend to progress faster, but then I wait for him to catch up.

I also recently bought a pinball game on GOG, for him (told him there was one on sale, and he asked me to get it). He likes pinballs.

The rest is just android puzzle games.

Yep, pretty much all she plays is JRPGs, Dragon Age/Mass Effect(and likely anything not MMO-related to come out of Bioware in the future), and Harvest Moon games.

One way to shut people up about games being for kids is showing them the source code for a few of them. Challenge them to program even some simple games like tic-tac-toe, pong, or a text adventure game.

My mom used to play Duck Hunt and Pac Man some long ago, but it never really went anywhere past that.

Nope, they went to the great beyond twelve years ago. They did buy me an Odyssey 2 set a long time ago, though. :-)

My parents think that video games are evil and cause people to kill.

They constantly asked me if I was planning on killing anyone because they thought the games were training my or some shit like that.

So no. They don't play video games. Luckily they let me and didn't really care about ratings.

My dad is currently playing through Portal 2 on the PS3 after just finishing Portal 1 on the PC.

He's a PC gamer.. so it is quite amusing to watch him fight with the console controls :P

My father is a bigger gamer than me, he has been waiting for farcry 3 to come out for ages, and attempts to complete fps's without loosing any health (annoyingly he can do this).

He also is a massive motor head (in rl and gaming) and races the f1 tracks the day before the race so he can enjoy it on TV more.

He really got me and my siblings into gaming and computers,

My mother on the other hand still can't get hoppy across the road... (Dragon 64 version of frogger)

My dad is currently playing Guild Wars 2.

My mom tolerated them, but was never too keen on them herself. My dad, on the other hand, loved games. If it wasn't for him my brother and I wouldn't have had a C64, Amiga 600, Pentium 60, etc... He was always big on strategy and management games. That's how I got introduced to games like Civilization, Railroad Tycoon, The Patrician, Settlers, Heroes of Might & Magic, Transport Tycoon, and a bunch more.

I'm not sure what he's playing these days if anything. I haven't been in touch with him for almost fifteen years now. Sadly, gaming was pretty much the only good thing we shared, and even that was cause of some arguments at times. *sigh*

That might work if you try to shut people up about games being programmed by kids, but I doubt it would have an effect on their opinion of grown ups playing them. You could just as well challenge them to make a good children's movie, which I'm sure is a very difficult project and a worthy occupation for adults, but those who watch it will still think it's for children, regardless of all the professional work that has gone into it. ;)

My parents both had a little bit of fun on the C64 when I was younger, but I think that was about it. Apparently my mother has just bought a Wii...I dread to think...