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HOW OLD IS TOO OLD TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES? - by Mr Biffo

9/1/2019

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I'm old. But also, I'm middle-aged. And also, according to my eightysomething parents, I'm a young man. It's all relative, and in the eye of the beholder, and all that.

I turn 48 this year. There are days when that figure alarms me; I was 21 when Digitiser launched 26 years ago. It feels like a long time ago, but also yesterday. Yet in another 26 years I'm going to turn 74. If I think about that too much, then I feel a sense of time running out.

I think I got my mid-life crises out of the way a long time back, but part of the fear of getting old is that I've only relatively recently gotten my life where I want it, and I want to ensure I'm going to be able to enjoy it as long as possible. 

Yeah, I know I should exercise more - though the demands of life and work seem to leave little time or energy for that. But there are also things happening with my body which no amount of exercise can hold back; it takes me about an hour every day until my joints ease up, I've got arthritic toes, my eyesight has gone - almost overnight - from being shortsighted to longsighted.

On the rare occasions I booze it up it takes three days to recover. I like being in bed most nights by half-eight. My guts aren't what they were...

And I know this is only the start of a gradual downward slide. If you take the physical stuff out of the equation, though, I've never been in ruder health, never felt more "me". And part of being me is liking video games.

The sad reality is, however, that because of my age, there are those who feel I shouldn't like video games...
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AGE IS ONLY A NUMBER
I've seen a few things recently regarding ageism towards gamers. Certainly, it sometimes feels that the marketing for games isn't skewed towards my generation, and that we're not entirely welcome. 

Often I roll my eyes at its attempts to be edgy and dangerous, and that's because - thanks to years of experience - I can see through it. I don't fall for it. Mostly, I know what I like, and no amount of hard rock music on a YouTube ad is going to convince me otherwise. 

There's a reason why younger people are generally the ones targeted by games publishers; they've often got a larger disposable income and the time to make playing games their main focus. I admit I don't play games as frequently as I used to, but that doesn't make them any less a part of who I am, and what I enjoy.

The irony is, here I am a proud older person who plays video games, when part of the reason I stopped working for Teletext all those years ago is that I felt too old to be writing about games. I'd go to game launches - which themselves were becoming less enjoyable, because I'd rather have been at home - and I'd frequently be the oldest journalist there. I felt self-conscious, like it was an undignified job for a 32 year-old man. 

But games are just a part of what I am and what I like, and mostly always have been.

Often I get the sense that younger gamers - the ones who you might find trolling online, that whole "git gud" nonsense - have nothing else going on in their lives. It's the entirety of their culture, and I recently read an article which suggested that we instinctively dehumanise those who aren't part of our community. Certainly, that would explain a lot of online conflict and abuse. 

But also, that seems pretty pathetic and desperate to me to if you're going to lash out at those who have a more rounded life, just because they don't spend 18 hours of every day on PUBG. 

Who's the real loser there?

THE SCENE THAT CELEBRATES ITSELF
Of course, what we didn't have back in 2003, when I left Digi, was the healthy retro gaming scene that we do now.

Mine is the first generation to really embrace retro gaming. Which, I suppose, means that Mr Biffo can have a presence and a purpose again (even if there is a little voice niggling at the back of my brain asking whether I'll at some point once again feel too old and undignified to continue). 

Nonetheless, even in the retro scene I'm at the upper end of the age bracket; I was aware of being the oldest person on the set of Digitiser The Show; Octav1us - who, absurdly, has herself been hit with ageist claims that she's too old to be doing what she's doing - is only a couple of years older than my eldest daughter.

I, and none of my other hosts, were pretending to be younger than we were, yet there were still some of the usual online grumblers claiming that we were trying too hard to be down with the kids.

Trust me, I have no desire to be down with any kids, because - as mentioned - it'd take me the best part of a week to get over it. 
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STAY UNDER 50
Ageism is a recognised problem in the games industry. A 2016 survey showed that only 3.5% of games industry employees were over the age of 50.

Where do they all go once they reach 50? I don't believe they suddenly lose interest in games, and make a career left-turn. Often, when a games company is having to let people go, it's the older ones who are laid off first.

There are financial reasons for that, of course; older workers are generally more expensive, and it's more beneficial to the bottom line to hire employee younger, cheaper, people. They might generally also be more able to work longer hours, due to a lack of responsibilities at home. 

In a 2014 survey, ageism was cited as the most common form of discrimination in the industry after (no surprises here) sexism. And this is despite the decades of potential experience an older worker can bring to a project; assumptions that grey hair makes you look tired, that age-worn confidence in your abilities can make you appear arrogant... it's basic prejudice, which is defined as a preconceived notion.

Speaking for myself, I know I'm better at what I do than I've ever been, and way more productive than I ever was. And I do a job where I don't need to be climbing up trees or operating heavy machinery.

Sadly, it's not just older industry professionals who are made to feel past-it. I recently found a Reddit thread on the issue of gamer ages, and there were 35 year-olds calling themselves "old", and a Destructoid article where the writer discussed the struggles of being an "older gamer".

He was 33. What does that make me?
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PAST IT?
If you've played games your entire life - as most of you reading this will have done - I don't believe you reach a point where you suddenly lose all interest in them. Your tastes might change, you might have to adapt to fit gaming around new responsibilities, but does anybody just go off them?

Playing games isn't something which have to end with aching joints and middle-age spread; it can continue indefinitely. And as the kids grow up and leave home, you're going to have to more time to play them.

For me, being "too old" to play games is all in the mind. It's listening to the prejudice and not to what you want to do. Something like 20% of gamers are over 50, and that's a lot of potential business for games companies. We are in uncharted territory - this first generation to really grow up playing games - and I feel a certain responsibility to prove that, just as with music and books and movies, gaming doesn't have to ever stop. 

The Who are still touring, on and off. Paul McCartney released a new album last year at the age of 76. 72 year-old Cher is putting out two this year. James Cameron is still making movies at 64, and 71 year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger is starring in a new Terminator this summer. Do you think any of the audiences for those things are worrying they're too old to be watching a new Terminator movie, or buying tickets to The Who?

Why are games different? Why should anybody be considered too old to be a gamer, or a YouTuber, or a programmer? 
42 Comments
Paul
9/1/2019 10:34:10 am

I hit 52 last weekend. The move from 49 to 50 was the scary moment for me. I started thinking what my parents were up to at that age, and it scared me a bit.

I play games. Still. I don't feel too old to play them, though I guess my reaction times are slower than they were when I was at school (but, then, computers were slower ... I dunno). I like it. Games are part of our generation's culture, and I'm not going to stop for a good long time yet.

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Pauly
9/1/2019 11:54:02 am

Well said sir.

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Nocturne
9/1/2019 10:45:54 am

Too old to play games makes as much sense as being too old to watch films or read books. None.

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Ben
9/1/2019 10:59:36 am

I'm 42, with kids and all that guff, l've played games since the eighties. I can't deny the 'old man gamer' pangs you describe, I feel like a haggard, mortified child whenever anyone sees me through my lounge window, dualshock in hand, bashing away with a disconcerting, gurning intensity.
Gaming as an 'older' person can also be socially difficult; it's a little alienating as part of the 'statesman generation' of gamers trying to find common ground with other old dudes in the school playground when you'd sooner discuss Marios nipples than football/kids/Trumpxit...Thank heck for netflix, the great leveler.
As I get older, I certainly have phases when I feel that gaming is a frivolous waste of time and that I should be expending my energies more productively or engaging in more worthy, meaningful cultural pursuits...I can drift in and out of the hobby these days, especially when thirty odd years of gaming leaves you with a certain weary ennui. Having said that, games are still exciting to me, I still feel the anticipation (fevered hype) and magic I did as a kid and ultimately, as you say, it is part of who I am and I don't think I will ever shake off the need to switch off, get lost and escape, which games cater for like no other medium really.

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RG
9/1/2019 11:54:20 am

I'm nearly 42 but somehow I'm still a young gamer in my head. I'm obviously wrong, but don't tell my head that. In my head younger gamers with all their Fortnights, Overwatches and lootboxes are strange kids doing their thing. I guess my head is guilty of reverse ageism?

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Nikki link
9/1/2019 11:03:45 am

The correct age for a gamer just so happens to be the exact age of the person leaving a comment telling someone they're the wrong age.

I just can't get into this whole fortnite overwatch lark though. I think with age comes a sense of empathy and wanting to all get along and have fun that is missing from those communities where it's all about waving digital willies in each other's faces.

Screw that. We'll play Super Mario Land instead.

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Liam
6/2/2019 03:00:56 pm

May I suggest never to go near Rust then... and if you don't know what I mean just search for some lets plays on YouTube. People are vile to each other on that game.

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alb
9/1/2019 11:14:06 am

I'm 58, well nearer 59. I still play all the time. I do find that games that require sharp reflexes- multi player shooters mainly - I just ain't as good as I used to be.

But I still listen to new music, watch new films. What's the difference?

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PixelGuff link
9/1/2019 11:45:41 am

I'm 43 and my back hurts. I've been playing Pokémon Let's Go recently because running around catching weird animals is fun and my age doesn't factor into that.

If anything, my interest in games has grown as I've got older. I definitely enjoy a wider variety of games now than I did in my 20s/30s.

I still can't be arseholed with MMORPGs though.

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Grembot
9/1/2019 12:09:59 pm

Oh great, I’m younger than anybody who has commented so far, now I feel too young to be “up with the oldies” if that’s the opposite of “down with the kids”.

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Albarst
9/1/2019 12:34:38 pm

I started playing games when i was 10, my dad rushed out and got me a brand spanking new spectrum 48k for that Christmas and we All sat around the tv in awe as I programmed 10: print hello 20: goto 10, can't remember how it was actually programmed (It's been a while), but I'm now 50 and have at least 5 games consoles, my newest being the nintendo switch, Its my hobby, it always will be and I love it.

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DD
9/1/2019 12:52:54 pm

I’ve been a gamer all my life. I invested a lot of time over the years into playing games. I have lost months of my life playing World of Warcraft in the past.

I’m 34 now, with a wife, 10 month old daughter and a house. Early 2018 was the beginning of the end for me playing computer games. Not because I don’t want to or grew out of them, I simply don’t have time.

My wife wanted to buy me a Switch for Christmas so I can play Zelda and Xenoblade 2. I simply told her there’s no point as it’s just going to sit there unused.

It’s absolutely killing me not being able to play, I will never grow out of it, perhaps life will free me some time in the future.

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MENTALIST
9/1/2019 01:36:42 pm

Don't worry, your free time returns a bit when the kids get a bit older. And, of course, eventually they'll be old enough to play themselves, and you can play along with them.

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Bumpkin
9/1/2019 06:03:31 pm

Get the switch, I've got kids, including a new baby and I am finally getting to play games again thanks to switch . Its designed for us, you can hold baby and play, and you can put it in sleep mode when shit hits the fan, and get straight back into the game instantly when ready.

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Meatballs-me-branch-me-do
11/1/2019 05:45:56 pm

Bloody hell. I’m 40 this year with a daughter due in the spring... I am hoping the rumoured Switch v2.0 comes along as everything I play on PC is not nearly as easy to jump in and out of.

I already find myself playing less as it is, and my gaming den is about to become a nursery.

Gildea
10/1/2019 09:20:17 pm

I second the “get the switch” comment.

Father of one with number two arriving in 6 weeks.

The resume function of the switch makes it quicker to pick up exactly where you left off faster than an iPhone game. It is almost like it was designed for parents.

(Also makes gaming on a commute or lunch time if you have either a decent option)

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Biscuit King
9/1/2019 01:03:33 pm

I am 43 and have a soon to be 3 yo son so my gaming time is severely reduced, though working from means I can get a quick game in during my lunch. Currently play a lot of World of Warships and there seems to be a good mix of all ages there.
You can tell the younglings by the sheer intensity of their anger and insults should someone not play the exact way they wanted. The older players will simply say "it's just a game, chill."

I will not stop playing games, but certain types of game I will play less and less or never (Fortnight)

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OpieJaye
9/1/2019 01:08:43 pm

I don't know if it's wisdom gained over experience or just early onset senility but I've gotten to a point where I don't care about such things anymore. If anyone thinks me playing games in my early 40s is "wrong"... well, like, whatevs man.

I wonder if the games industry just hasn't grown up with its consumer base. Us lot in our 40s and up are pretty much the first generation who had video games and it was obviously aimed at us when we were kids. It feels like it's been 'stuck' in the 'youth' mindset ever since, despite the fact that those who grew up with video games are getting older and are still present.

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Simon
9/1/2019 01:17:56 pm

I agree, I'll never be too old to play games, I'm 36 now and I know some of friends think I'm actually too old to play games, which I think is crazy. I have young kids now and I'm at the stage where I'm starting to teach them about games and I hope we'll all continue to play games together for a long time to come.

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Tony Carvery
9/1/2019 01:23:10 pm

34 here and still have gaming as one of my few hobbies. My issues with being a 34 year old 'gamer' are thus: a) I have a three year old daughter, and finding the time to make incremental progress in Assassin's Creed Odyssey after she goes to bed is hard, especially when my wife has no interest in games and there's the guilt of 'shouldn't I be doing housework' or 'shouldn't I be doing something WORTHWHILE'... and b) many of the people I work with think I'm a geek (no arguments there) and can't understand that I'd spend my time and money on gaming, yet to them it is reasonable and normal to spend thousands of pounds on football season tickets and merchandise and talk for hours about the intricacies of Man City's transfer strategy.
As a new years resolution I am reading more at bedtime, which I have enjoyed, but it is the nagging feeling that this is what an adult should be doing is the reason why I have decided to do it. What I really want to be doing is trying to get Kassandra to sleep her way around Greece. Nowt childish about that, right?

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Jonathan Downes link
9/1/2019 01:26:58 pm

You are just a young whippersnapper Biffs. I hit sixty this year...

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Floop
9/1/2019 02:57:52 pm

Not sure about the whole reaction times bit, I'm 42 now and better at competetive FPS type games than i've ever been.
The awkward part for me is when somebody adds you as a friend on xbox live and you find out they are 12 or thereabouts

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DEAN
9/1/2019 04:31:51 pm

Lovely article - very interested to read your thoughts on the subject of Goldenage Gamers!

I'm not ashamed of being a 40-something gamer BUT I'm not proud of it either.

I see it as rather a lot lot wanking - you're sat alone (possibly online!) with your fidgety paws in your lap whilst staring pervertedly at a screen.

And I know plenty of females enjoy video games but they're not the stereotype. Are they? No they are not!

No, the stereotype is of a guy with all the social skills of a person who was a boring sod before the lobotomy - a sad lonely wanker or some such.

At our age, one might expect to be sailing a fine yacht, driving an exotic sportscar, scaling a mountain or any other thing cool/exciting/expensive/exclusive... teeing off somewhere fancy!

I dunno.

But as an adult, PRETENDING to be doing something awesome is a bit.... well, shit didn't work out, yeah? Don't have the gumption or success... whatever, Trevor, it's a sad tale and nobody wants to hear about that.

The stigma is real - heck, it's palpable - I just got off the phone with my 52 year old brother and asked him about it - "Well, funnily enough I was laughing with my business partner about being sat at home waiting to play Spider-man!"

It's a joke and I guess that even an old shagger enjoys a bout of onanism as much as the next tosser but... nothing to brag about!

Also this - women's sex toys are nothing to be ashamed of - almost the opposite - proud to own a twisting purple dolphin thingy. But any proud male owners of a Fleshlight?

It's the same!

There's an expectation for men to be heroic and all virile in actual life - only little boys play army / with their sausage.

Gaming is not sexy in any way shape or form.... picture George Clooney advertising Omega watches - is he on a Riva motorboat pulling away from Bellagio or is he playing Fortnight?

Another one - a nice big bottle of Creed aftershave sat on a shelf next to some SNES games boxes.

Okay, just one more - Batman chilling out playing World of Warcraft with his bat mates.

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Johnc
9/1/2019 05:12:00 pm

I'm 42 tomorrow. My choice to stop working in the games industry was mostly one driven by the realisation that people are generally underpaid and overworked basically because you have the privilege of working on something that is also your hobby. That and the recurring trend of success leading to a buy out and then redundancy or failure leading to investment withdrawal and then redundancy.

But I will play games until they cease to be a source of enjoyment for me.

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Paul W
10/1/2019 08:48:59 am

Happy birthday, Johnc! You're a man now, put that game controller down! ;)

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Craig Graham
9/1/2019 05:36:33 pm

Meh, I too turn 48 this year and I play games nearly everyday and manage to keep a job, wife and 9 year old happy

My mates dad is 74 and plays destiny every day, though most of his online pals are teenagers and he tells them he owns an Italian restaurant

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Scott Hasler
9/1/2019 06:38:30 pm

My dad got his ZX Spectrum 48k at the age of 27. I was 7. We have pretty much been playing computer games ever since. He is 62 now and loves Elite Dangerous, Arma 3 and action RPGs like Dishonored. Just like me. But I'm 42. 'Single player' rules.

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MD Cribuffs
9/1/2019 08:04:36 pm

“Because games are kids toys!”
“And we are all babies and should grown up”
“And do football supporting or film criticism instead”
“Which are grown-up pursuits”

Sigh....

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Dr. Budd Buttocks, MD
9/1/2019 09:02:58 pm

I'm not far off 40. I still like games, but I don't necessarily enjoying playing them that often. Most of the time I just like to see what's going on, check out reviews, watch a youtube documentary about some old game I've never played and probably never will, but sounds interesting. etc. I seem to be spending more and more of my time just passively watching. Participating just seems to demand more energy and commitment than I have to offer a lot of the time.

I do think if there were less of these distractions and diversions at my fingertips, I probably would still be playing a lot more.

I'm sure there are tons of middle aged and above gamers out there, they're probably just keeping themselves to themselves. If they're anything like me they have absolutely no desire to subject themselves to any kind of interaction with teenagers.

My dad was playing games on our Master System and Amiga well into his 50s. He tended to stick to old favourites and wasn't that interested in new releases. Nowadays he just seems to play Tetris and some ancient Bejeweled style game. My mum also rediscovered games when she got an ipad.

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Penyrolewen
9/1/2019 09:19:37 pm

Hmmm. I’m not sure about this one. I’m another ‘original’ gamer - 48, grew up with the arcade classics, Spectrum etc. I still play, I still tell people I play and I’m not ashamed of telling people - why should I be, it’s something I’ve always done and never felt I should stop. I do play less than I used to, partly because of time, partly because I just don’t get as excited anymore. I feel most games just retread ground I’ve already travelled but with prettier pictures.

Now, I still read, listen to music etc. but not, generally the same stuff I was into when I was younger. There is a breadth in those media that allows tastes to broaden and develop. That’s less apparent with games I think. Yes, games are bigger, deeper and more incredible in all ways than we could have dreamed of in the 1980s. But still, CoD is just Commando done bigger, FIFA is Matchday as we dreamed it, Mario is Manic Miner, The Witcher (or something) is The Lords of Midnight - you get my point.

Some of the magic has gone for me, but not (about exactly the same games) for my 9-year-old son. He hasn’t walked these paths and the sparkle is still there for him. And it doesn’t need the fancy graphics either. He’s mad about Let’s Go Picachu right now and that’s not much better looking than a SNES game, by design.

So that’s some of it, for me. For some other people I know, they just became ‘grown up’ and started doing ‘grown up’ stuff instead. Some of them in their teens. Their loss but we have all always known, even when we were kids, that some adults were proper ‘grown ups’ and some were much more child like in their manner irrespective of their age. And that doesn’t mean being like that guy in the film “nativity” either.

As we’re all here on this site, I know which type we all are. And I think we all know which type is generally held up (in films, books etc.) as preferable. And we all know which we prefer. So, Game On, I say, whatever that is for you.

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Entity link
9/1/2019 09:24:32 pm

Replace "age" with "level"... job done. Level 40 at the moment and still loving it.

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Paul W
9/1/2019 10:19:14 pm

I'm 45, and I think about growing old more than is healthy but I don't ever feel bad about gaming or telling people I'm into it. I couldn't give a shiny shit if someone thinks I'm too old to be doing it. That said, I don't do a lot of online gaming or engage with social media very often so I suppose if I was getting more exposure to the trolls I'd be less blasé about it.

"Why can't we all just get along" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPMmC0UAnj0)

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James Walker link
9/1/2019 11:59:07 pm

I invented Retro Gaming in 1995 and it was a roaring success!!

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Euphemia link
10/1/2019 12:42:21 am

Turned 41 this week. Juggling life and responsibilities and not being able to physically stay awake until 3am every night just means being more selective in what to play. But I can't say I enjoy games any less than 30 years ago, considering that games nowadays are beyond what I'd have thought possible when I first started on my Spectrum 128k. Which is the Spectrum us posh kids had.

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B3tan_Tyronne
10/1/2019 08:11:28 am

I reached the age of 46 this week and truth be told I could not care less what people think of me being a gamer as I love it now as much as I did way back in the late 70`s when my Grandfather got a pong type setup from Tandy.
They will need to yank the keyboard and mouse out of my cold , dead hands whenever the reaper comes calling as being a gamer is so integral to who I am.
Just do not get me started on stuff like Twitch and E-sports - why the hell would I want to watch someone else play a game. I hated waiting whilst being player 2 and i`ll be buggered if I`ll waste my time watching someone play a game when I can do my bloody self.
/rant over,

I`ll keep taking the free twitch games that come with my prime account however, I am not a total prat.

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theholty
10/1/2019 09:04:23 am

I'm 35 and my Dad is 62. We've been playing games together since he got an Atari 2600 when I was three.

Unfortunately these days as life and a career gets in the way for me he's left me behind a bit!

I've got a massive "PILE" of games up my "BACK LOG" to get "THROUGH" where as he's finished pretty much every major new release going on his PS4, 3DS and Switch.

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Taucher1979
10/1/2019 09:31:27 am

I am 39 and it has never occurred to me that one day I might be 'too old' for video games. I think when video games became huge in the 80s, kids were really interested in them and parents (baby boomer generation) didn't 'get' them - they'd not had them when they were young and they were seen as toys for kids.

As this first generation of video game playing kids gets older, so will the average age of gamers. When we get to a time (probably when I am an old man) that ALL generations have grown up with video games, then it will be seen for exactly what it is - a medium like books or films.

And nobody is too old for a book or a film.

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FatDave
10/1/2019 01:22:41 pm

No such thing as too old, I play for elite dangerous and there are players on that on their 70s.

There was even one uncomfortable post with the wife of one guy announcing to the Facebook group via her husband's account that he wouldn't be playing anymore as he had passed away.

If you like doing something then you like doing it and shouldn't let snobby people looking down their noses at you make you feel bad or uncomfortable about it.

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Paul Priest
10/1/2019 09:36:14 pm

I'll be 39 years young this year, but my sentiments mirror yours. To be honest, i spend a lot longer ogling games than I do playing them. My Steam library numbers a couple of thousand (with most of the guff hidden). I can't stand (or won't commit to) mmorgs, but most other games are fair game. What little PC gaming I do tends to be short, sharp doses of shmups, retro/emulators, hard-as-nails platformers or roguelikes. My arcade cabinet rarely gets a look in.

More time is spent coaching the family on the switch (or occasionally playing. Smash bros.sits unopened) . Let's Go has ensnared my other half when feeding the babies. 3 kids, 2 decent-sized dogs, and an aging Cockatiel contribute to a full family life.

I probably spend more time doing things I can whilst doing chores - youtube videos like Digi, toy reviews (action figures, boardgames) .
I also find solace in contributing funds to purchasing old arcade pcbs for emulation 'dumping' purposes where once I would have contributed development time.

I definitely went through a burnout, a couple of years went by where I couldn't really look at a computer after work. I also fear being conspicuous on the train - my PSP (Lumines!) or DS (Elite Beat Agents) used to draw looks in the early 00's, whereas a Switch is less conspicuous now.

I think it's fairly obvious that games are still a big part of my life, but the way they manifest is less direct. I feared for the futire of games when smartphones took off in a big way (and fb games before that), but the current gen of games consoles, and pc distribution has me less worried about ubiquity (quantity and quality are another matter). I almost feel compelled to keep buying games though - be it out of completionism, or guilt for having pirated a few Amiga games as young kid. Really it's hoping not to miss the next big leap in immersion, story-telling, or novel experiences.

Post-pub ramble over.

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Dangleberries
10/1/2019 11:05:27 pm

I am 357 of your earth years old and because I have “arthuritors” i play games with my distended phrenulum

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wuntyphyve
11/1/2019 12:43:42 pm

I'm 37, married, with an 8 yo son. I went through a spell of not playing games in my 20s and fell back in love with it not long after my son was born. I can still remember struggling through Dark Souls with him lying asleep on my chest. Now he has his own consoles, is into Fortnite and all that malarky (now THAT is something I'll never get, and I'm fine with that), and I'm still sitting there playing Dark Souls.

I'll never stop, and he has a growing passion for gaming now that we can share (be it split screen SW Battlefront on my PS4, or split screen MK8 on his switch - not to mention us both laughing a bit too much at what we can make goats do in Goat Simulator). I'll never stop playing games just as much as I'll never stop badly playing bass in a metal band and laughing at purile humour. Screw this "too old for" lark. If you enjoy doing something. Keep doing it. Who gives a toss what others think.

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Paul andrew
9/12/2020 03:06:48 am

I got into video games about 4 years ago when i was 44. I've completed cod and halo and rage. Now 48 i still enjoy them and have started to get a good collection of old game consoles and games and figurines. Currently 1600 games on disc or cartridge and 100 plus consoles and i love it all. I was fortunate enough to have inherited some money and that provides a income which pays the bills. I don't have kids or gf and i not really get along with family so this activity does take my mind of that stuff and in the end we all should remember that playing games or whatever doesn't really matter and it's nobody's business what we do. So enjoy what you do and have fun with it for as long as possible cause one day it will end.

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