60+ Year old gamers?

[Baldbloke]

Aside from Pong that is .

The recurring thread here asking what 30+ year old gamers are playing is a decent question.

What about 60+ players though?

I'm two weeks short of my 63d year on this planet. I really don't play often but I do get the urge from time to time. No innuendo intended

I play Iracing and Call of Duty. Both fairly badly it has to be said. I stick to Rookie level on Iracing and dumb down the COD game to easy-peasy.

What games are you playing, you old farts?

Fancy revealing your age and the PC/video/console games you like to indulge in?

 

[Baldbloke]

Thank you for sharing that Spartax.

In 1976/77, when I was 16, I built a TV Tennis game from components using the circuit diagram from ETI magazine. (Electronics Today International if I remember correctly).. Even etched my own pcb. If I'm not mistaken that was the very start of video games. (Correct me if I'm wrong). Cost me just as much as it would have done to buy it ready made and working from a shop. It took me at least 3 months to undo and rectify my shoddy soldering back then to get the bloody thing working

Nowadays I only play on my PC. Toying with the idea of getting a console. Only slightly though. PC gaming can be buggy and troublesome. But I kinda enjoy that self flagellation

Absolute Salute to you Sir. I tried Elite And Dangererous for 20 minutes. It's a heck of a complicated button pressing process to start with. Steep learning curve. I gave up at that. I'm sure it is am engrossing game and wish I'd persevered.

 

[Baldbloke]

61 next month. Play mainly racing and flight sim. @Baldbloke, I remember ETI. Religious reading for me as a teenager. Quick Google has thrown up this https://worldradiohistory.com/ETI_Magazine.htm

Spent hours and hours reading ETI. Didn't fully understand the circuit diagrams and explanations of circuits back then. I do now. Fat lot of good that understanding is to me nowadays with billions of transistors on a single chip and sub miniature surface components on multi-layered pcbs.

Oh. them was the days when you could slap together an electronic gizmo with flashing lights using a soldering iron and impress your friends no end.

I'd like to get into flight sims but I'm not sure about the learning curve. It is something I'd have to tackle and be patient with I suspect. Besides I've already got one full racing sim kit in my front lounge. Don't have the room for a flight sim kit. Unless, of course, I could chuck out all my furniture and just have both sets of sim gear in the lounge. (Hmmm. Thinks..... How can I break this to the missus?)