to old to play videogames ?

Snow-Munki · 15 Mar 2006 at 10:41

Hi,

Just wondering, do you feel too old to play videogames, am planning to get a 360 sometime ( hopefully soon

) but do you think people can grow out of it ?

I mean my parents don't play video games at all, and even 15 years ago they were never really interested in my Gameboy or Master System

So can you picture when you are say in your 30's you're still be playing on the next best PS5 or whatever it is then.

CocoPops · 15 Mar 2006 at 10:42

I'm 26 (27 in may) and although I play games a lot less, I still use my 360 a few evenings a week.

I don't play PC games anymore, just 360.

vanandjuanunited · 15 Mar 2006 at 10:42

Well I'm in my mid 30's and still love playing computer games. Dont see any sign of the attraction waning just yet. Duration has decreased but thats due to kids rather than losing interest.

0gami · 15 Mar 2006 at 10:49

My dad is almost 70 years old, and he is currently playing through quake 2 for the 4th time, he's just finished MOH:AA and CoD1 (His PC isn't amazing)

He also keeps asking me questions about my 360 - I'm sure he is tempted.

Myself - I'm 28 in September and I can't ever see myself not playing games

cyKey · 15 Mar 2006 at 10:50

0gami said:
Myself - I'm 28 in September and I can't ever see myself not playing games

Me too

Sep27th I'll be 28 and I'll either get games or camera equipment

Wyrdo · 15 Mar 2006 at 10:52

I'm 32 this year...

Chaos · 15 Mar 2006 at 10:53

I think people aged 25 - 30 are video games biggest buyers if im not mistaken.
Think we live in a different generation from our parents, cant see me stopping anytime soon

Priest · 15 Mar 2006 at 10:58

I’m 35 and still play games, albeit badly

, normally a couple of hours a day if I can.

JimmyEatWorms · 15 Mar 2006 at 11:02

All the gamers I know are 28+ (some in their 40's). It's no longer a kids or geeks passtime. It is now as mainstream as tv and movies.

Oh and I'm 31 this year.

saint_jw · 15 Mar 2006 at 11:02

I'm 32 in a couple of weeks and I play WoW with the missus a lot. I regularly play PES5 on Live with my stepdad who's 50-something.

I don't see why I should "grow out" of something I really enjoy.

Datamonkey · 15 Mar 2006 at 11:09

28 here an play games nearly every evening unless im going out,

good way to un-wind.

Your never to old to play games, only time your too old is when your pushing up the daisy's

Its a form of entertainment, an i know my lass would rather I spend some time playing games than down the pub getting wasted.

Muttley59 · 15 Mar 2006 at 11:10

late 40s

still playin .. first puta was bbc model b

White Fang · 15 Mar 2006 at 11:11

Datamonkey said:
Its a form of entertainment, an i know my lass would rather I spend some time playing games than down the pub getting wasted.

Good point.

Yas786 · 15 Mar 2006 at 11:14

Im 33 and play on my xbox360 quite a bit, compared to my pc which is no longer working as i cant be arsed to put it back together....but i enjoy *** xbox360 altho games are not cheap but its one of those things that does exactly what it says on the box. Screw getting upgrades every few months for your pc just so that you can play the latest and greatest games etc.
At least with the 360, it will set u back £280 for the premium system and u wont have to upgrade anything to play the next gen games.

Only downside that i can see is that one day or another it will be superseded by something bigger and better i would imagine.

But i do love my 360, gives me plenty of hrs of enjoyment and thats what matters i think

bramski · 15 Mar 2006 at 11:22

Video games were seen as a kids entertainment system back in the days of the atari and nintendo, but it has now evolved into an adult entertainment system and the kids who were playing Atari and nes are now in their late 20's early 30's and have grown alongside the videogames industry.

Do you ever think you will be too old to watch a movie or a TV program? no, why? because it's just another media format for entertainment and education which is what the PC/Console industry is.

1ofaKind · 15 Mar 2006 at 11:22

I'm 35 and play games every day still. I still get the excitement factor when you get a new title.

My Dad is in his 60's now and kicks my ass at DOA 4 on 360 and likes to play the old classics on my chipped Xbox (Wizball, Space Invaders).

I got an Atari 2600 of ebay last year and we both loved loading the old space invaders up - looked a bit odd on my projector

Remember your never too old its just your reactions are

ScoobyDoo · 15 Mar 2006 at 11:23

Never too old. Im 35 and play them everyday.

mark_t50 · 15 Mar 2006 at 11:35

I'm 33 and still love gaming, go a PC, 360, PS2, Gamecude and a DS. My dad is 54 and is a wizard on his Xbox, he's completed more games than me including Halo 1&2 and all the splinter cell games.

I think your never to old for gaming. I think it just depends if you were brought up with computer and consoles or if you take an intereset in them. I fully expect to be looking forward to a PS5 or Xbox 720 when I'm 70 years old

McManicMan · 15 Mar 2006 at 11:45

37 at end of this month, still play games everyday (i have a forgiving wife and she watches to many soaps on TV). The kids love it (in their early teens) as they had a cool dad who they can challenge and play the latest games. Pc gaming has dwindled over the years but console gaming has increased since 360 has been out.

Don't see me not playing games for along time to come.

Ultra_Extreme · 15 Mar 2006 at 11:49

Our parents (as in the parents of those aged 15 thru 20 thru 29-30) did not grow up with the sort of complex and lavish videogames that we have today. Videogames were toys that most of them bought for their earliest children, and where they themselves had a play they were presented with quick, mildly confusing and short lived experience that seemed juvinile and pointless.

Now the games have become complex to the extent that they are dismissed off-hand as 'childrens toys' in the same way that many dismiss car mechanical repair as difficult and not a home job or computing as 'too techie wotsit'. My point being that older people no longer like to apply themselves to new efforts, prefferring to dismiss them offhand than really try. The eponymous phrase 'theyre just for kids' resounds and they slap on the blinkers when you run condemned through the hi-def and simply ignore it.

I myself, together with many others on here, have grown up in the golden age of videogaming, ive seen D+D & The Hobbit become ESIV: Oblivion and final fantasy, ive aimlessly clicked blue flashy walls in doom and solved logical physics based puzzles in Half Life 2. Ive seen Lotus challenge's wonderful 2d skid animations become Project Gotham Racing 3's sumptuously photorealistic cityscapes. I've sat in taking turns on Flashback and writing down pass-codes, now i play Fighnt night 3 with a guy called Sverge who lives in
Illinois.

Videogaming has moved on since the 60's and 70's, big surprise, for most of us its been a part of our lives for most of that life, for the younger amongst us it always has. Videogaming for me will be there for as long as i can hold a joypad in my long-withered arthritic hands, i will heartily promote it to future generations, even when my competetivness has long since waned. Videogaming is now here to stay, as the last generations from before gaming slowly fade away like the final scene of some well earned ending credits, most of us have barely pressed 'start'.