Son finds Dad's "Ghost" in video game.

[ramenth]

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This tale of a young gamer losing his father and encountering an in-game ghost of his father’s best recorded races in RalliSport Challenge is quite the tearjerker.

According to Yahoo Autos, a YouTube comment (username 00WARTHERAPY00), on ‘Can Video Games Be A Spiritual Experience?’ by PBS Game/Show (provided below), revealed a very touching story about loss.

The comment explained how the person would play the original Xbox system with his father over 12 years ago. Even though the person was only 4-years-old at the time, he still fondly remembers playing Xbox games with his father until the unthinkable happened just two years later. While losing a parent at such a young age is world-shattering to a child, the person found something extraordinary upon returning to his Xbox more than a decade later.
The comment reads as follows:

Well, when i was 4, my dad bought a trusty XBox. you know, the first, ruggedy, blocky one from 2001. we had tons and tons and tons of fun playing all kinds of games together – until he died, when i was just 6.

i couldnt touch that console for 10 years.

but once i did, i noticed something.

we used to play a racing game, Rally Sports Challenge. actually pretty awesome for the time it came.

and once i started meddling around… i found a GHOST.

literaly.

you know, when a time race happens, that the fastest lap so far gets recorded as a ghost driver? yep, you guessed it – his ghost still rolls around the track today.
and so i played and played, and played, untill i was almost able to beat the ghost. until one day i got ahead of it, i surpassed it, and…

i stopped right in front of the finish line, just to ensure i wouldnt delete it.

Bliss.

Racing against the saved ghost of your father’s best times in a racing game over a decade after he passed away is something that is awe-inspiring. Every single one of his in-game actions were recorded on these races. Who would have thought that a sleeper hit, such as RalliSport Challenge, would turn out to have entire saved races of the boy’s deceased father?

While nothing will ever make up for the loss of a loved one, being able to relive these precious memories in such a manner is something unique to the gaming format that you can’t even get with video recordings or photos. It reminds us that, no matter how hard the world comes crashing down, we should always drive forward while never forgetting those who were along for the ride.

The article is a little melodramatic, but still interesting in my opinion.

 

[sliffner]

I think it's kinda cool, I lost my dad when I was 20(he was 49). For almost two yrs I paid his cellphone bill, and occasionally on particularly hard days I would call his phone just to hear his voice mail. May sound weird to some but it helped.

 

[66340SEDAN]

I think it's kinda cool, I lost my dad when I was 20(he was 49). For almost two yrs I paid his cellphone bill, and occasionally on particularly hard days I would call his phone just to hear his voice mail. May sound weird to some but it helped.

Not weird at all, I know people who have saved voicemail msgs on their phones from people who are no longer here....it's strange hearin the voice but does help. Sorry about your dad, bet you miss him.

Neat story Robert, thanks for sharing

 

[Freezerman]

That's cool. I have a saved voicemail from my Dad singing happy birthday to me from before he died two years ago. So I can't say that is weird either.

 

[67 Power Wagon]

Guys this is hard. I hear all that has lost someone. I lost my Dad in March, this year. And sadly, NEVER got to see him since my surgery last year, the same surgery, he needed. But right now to hear his voice would rip me apart....

See, I haven't told a lie, or well be completely honest, I lost my Mother over 3 years ago this past April. To the same thing that killed my Dad, they both had heart attacks, and here I am, under gone open heart surgery for a quadruple bypass...To hear Dads voice again would be a bit to withstand. Mom, tho, I'm not "over" if a child ever is the loss of a parent, BUT circumstances with my Dad, took a loto years from Him and I.....Long story....The only Ghost I have left, is his car and the love of cars and the items he seen I got.....

My shop is haunted by my Father, not in a bad way, watching over my family, I'd say, ever feel a presence and no ones around but you know someone, or something is a round? My Dad, had this way he'd "brush" your shoulder, not in a mean or deceptive way but to get your attention, no one else in the family could do it, both me and my Wife have felt it in my shop.....And if the feeling is right, and I'm reading it for what it is, he would have never hurt any one in my family while alive so I know he won't in a pass life.

Those of you that have a loss as such, remember, their not gone! Their just on a higher plane of reality, and someday we'll see and be with them! They're in that wind you feel in the summer, or that glint of light you see cross the water from rain, or that drop of cold rain that goes down your back, or something that specifically catches your attention, it might not seem much now, but one day, you'll notice that loss you had within something, they're there, with us.....

For those of us that have a loss parent, all we can say is R.I.P....

 

[ramenth]

Guys this is hard. I hear all that has lost someone. I lost my Dad in March, this year. And sadly, NEVER got to see him since my surgery last year, the same surgery, he needed. But right now to hear his voice would rip me apart....

That's one of the reasons I ended Sarah's cell account and never charged her phone again. I knew it would rip my heart out.

One of these days I'll be able to hear her voice again. I have a digital voice recorder she used to transpose notes. It's almost three hours of her just talking about the kids she worked with and the clinical stuff she needed to make sure got on paperwork, but still....

Right now, I'm blessed to be able "hear" her voice. I can still hear her laugh. I dread the day I can't remember those things.