That said, playing Dizzy (Magic Land) on the spectrum was a great bonding experience between me and my Dad – but we'd both play, so were both invested in the other getting that little bit further or finding out something new. I remember once going to bed, and my dad yelling down "I've defeated the evil wizard Zacks!" and I raced upstairs to see, but he was lying :/ It was the days before walkthroughs (you had to call a phone-in line) and my mother called the help-line and wrote everything down to solve the game, then hid it and told us she'd get it out if we got really stuck and couldn't progress. Then she lost it and the phone-in line was disconnected =(

My ex-boyfriend's sister seemed to really enjoy watching us play Baldur's Gate and Final Fantasy Games…though certainly with the former less interested in playing it herself. She did play through and enjoy Final Fantasy X when she got older, but as far as I know that was the extent of her interest.