Video games are for everyone. My Dad is 47 and he still plays video games - he introduced me to Final Fantasy. He loves video games.
Even if people say to you 'You're to old for video games' who are they to judge? Do what you want. No reason for you not to.
Man, you guys all claiming that your parents play games are making me me miss my childhood. I remember when my mom, dad, and grandma were addicted to Tetris and Dr. Mario. Sure, just about everyone has played Tetris, but there were other games my parents played too.
For this ancient PC (this was before Windows, people) both my mom and dad played this old D&D game. My dad played an old game in it called "Rockford" (I still wish I had it because it was awesome). In fact, my dad even played and BEAT Mega Man 2! Damn it, I wish my parents still played games now!
I will be too old to play games when I am too old to breath.
I dont care what fuitless, selfdoubting tool tells me until then. I will not succumb to the sterotypes of a dreamless and lifelss world. What else am I gonna do when I am old? Sides my regular work, and house work, and raising kids, grand kids. Games are a great form of entertainment. Ugh...
heh, yeha... when your dead - your too old for games... although I betchya heaven has a sweet arcade
Bipper
I don't think there's a too old. Too young, perhaps. But not too old. Well, obviously once it starts giving you heart attacks you should quit.
But once you get more commitments in life, obviously it makes sense to play games less frequently than ye used to.
I'm not well educated about the hardcore aspect of things though, so I wont touch on that part.
Oh my Mum used to play quite a few games when I was little. Tetris, Sonic, Puyo Puyo, Bust-a-move and Tekken to name a few. But she really doesn't have time for stuff like that any more.
I guess thats one of the problems. Adults that play games are seen as people with too much time on their hands.
Word/s.
My mom use to game with the Atari and to a lesser extent NES until she went back to work and lost all of her free time between that and keeping the house in order.
I am 23 and I game. As my good friends Sephex said, culture has not yet accepted gaming as a for everyone thing. If people had then hot coffee would not have been such a big deal. People largely still view games as for kids. That is why so many dumb ass parents buy games like GTA for their 5 year old kid. 'Its a game and there for it should be acceptable for him to play' is the mentality of it all.
This mentality will not die until we take control as older people are already set in their ways for the most part.
Videogames potentially have no age. I'm 25, I've been playing for 18 years, and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon.
And I think it would be cool if my parents played videogames, so why bother? ^__^
Thanks for the input! Made my day a lot brighter! My wife is the same age as me(38) and mastered Animal Crossing. Nothing like hearing someone say that they ae going to turn on the gamecube because they need to pull weeds! Any Animal Crossing player knows what I'm talking about
There's no age limit on football, or crookery, or knitting, or yachting, or mountain climbing, or writing, or acting, or driving, or atheltics. So why gaming? Booya!
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My Nana finished the entire Playstation 1 Crash Bandicoot and Tomb Raider series
LET THE HAMMER FALL
don't listen to what they say. do what is ur passion. so, what if they don't like it - it makes you happy. it's either live with happiness, or not, jus b/c ur relatives don't think you should be doing this or that.
Id on't plan on quitting anytime soon. I can picture my generation at retirement homes, gathering around an ancient console and play multiplayer games.
This reminds me of this experience I had a couple years ago, when I was still attending Victor Valley College. I was at a breakfast diner just down the street from the school getting some bacon and pancakes before a big test. When I'm alone at a diner, I tend to focus in on other people's conversations, in this case an older couple behind me, who were probably getting close to 60 years old. To my surprise, their conversation was about Dance Dance Revolution play pads for your home, which apparently they used as a fun way to stay in shape. It was definately one of the most interesting experiences I ever had in my old city.
There's nothing wrong with playing video games at any age. Sure it's a problem if it's getting in the way of your normal life, but that can be said about any leisurely activity.
Bah, I will play videogames until the very day I day. And I'll probably bring a PS14 with me in the grave.
old poeple like oyu make up most of hte revenue of the gaming industry.Originally Posted by fantasyjunkie
You'll be surprised of how many adults*cough*middleage*cough* play video games.
My dad likes all the Civilization games
he also likes Call To Power series,and Rise Of Nations.
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