Gamer Dad Hats

Gamer Dad is a search term in its own right, and the buyer behind it is easy to picture: a 30-to-55-year-old who never put the controller down, and whose kids and partner shop for him at Father's Day, birthdays and Christmas. ESA figures reported by GamesBeat put roughly 75 percent of American parents as video game players, with a typical gamer parent around 37, and an AOL roundup of dad memes cites 82 percent of them playing together with their kids. The joke is the negotiation between fatherhood and the controller. This collection collects that negotiation. Badges name the identity: GAMER DAD and PLAYER ONE. The sentence designs carry the details a dad forum thread would recognize: gaming only after the kids are asleep, the one or two hours a night people describe, the toddler handed an unplugged controller so he can feel like Player 2, and the online match that has no pause button. DAD BY DAY, GAMER BY NIGHT is already a familiar phrase on dad gift pages and Etsy, and it earns a second colorway here. This is the broad gamer-parent identity, not one game or launch date. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Choose one for the controller-in-hand dad in your house, or wear it yourself after bedtime.