Everyone I know turned 30 and immediately turned to dust from their advanced age. So sad. Also, really messy.
Their poor grandchildren
Nearly 60 and a grandma.
Grandma is over 60 and I recently had to upgrade her to a 4060 instead of my old 480 just to play Guild Wars 2 lol.
You are good grandchild, and I hope she knows it!
I’ve got unplayed games older than you!
30s are rookie numbers. I’m 52 and still game regularly. I started out playing pong clones in about 1975 hooked up to my tv. I played a lot of zx spectrum games in the 80s, failed my degree in the early 90s because I spent far far far too long playing civ1 on my Amiga. Etc etc.
Fellow Amiga civ veteran, eh?
I blew most of my youth, and a chunk of my degree, on football manager too.
I regret nothing.
Need to get on over to !amiga@sopuli.xyz
Remember when Lemmings finally made it to PC and all us people who had Amigas were like, “I know, right?”
I know an 84 year old man that has played WoW since vanilla.
Im 60 and been gaming since Wolfenstein 3D.
I am pushing 40 now and I doubt I’ll ever stop gaming. I introduced my mom to Ragnarok online 2 decades ago. She introduced her dad to the game and they played together. My grandpa played that game until the day he died and he loved it. My mom still plays it too with the same group of people. This idea that gaming is a young person’s thing… is so weird. My mom is in her late 50ies and she and my dad started with playing Pong. Both my parents and my brother and I grew up with computers, consoles and games. We all love it. That’s not something age will suddenly change. In about 20 years those same people will be typing posts like these themselves. ;)
41 here. PC master race gamer 4 lyf.
I’m 46 and a PC gamer, but I don’t give a shit what platform anyone plays on. This “PC master race” stuff is infantile bullshit and needs to disappear.
Technically, the members of the subreddit claim the name is ironic, but you’d be hard-pressed to tell by the way they often act.
It ceases being ironic when you lean into it.
I know that some people take it ridiculously seriously, but for me, it’s just a preference.
I have a Wii that I don’t use anymore and a PS4 that I only use for playing Rock Band rarely, so it’s not like I’m a real purist or otherwise extremist about it 🤷
Same on both counts! Awkward fist bump? 🤜
Bold of you to assume I’m capable of a fistbump that isn’t awkward. Emoticon goes here, I can’t be arsed figuring out how.
30s? My steam account is about to turn 20! My first computer was a C64 and my first console was an Atari 2600… I remember the video game crash… hell, I still have my copy of ET!
There’s a bunch of young whippersnappers in here. I’m around your age.
You little shits today know nothing about gaming.
This is a Star Wars game:
It even had audio from the movie.
C64 crew represent!
We had the disk drive and it put out so much heat that I’d leave my food on top of it to keep it warm.
Heck yeah!
I still remember ruining our first copy of Impossible Mission by accidentally overwriting it! God was I in deep shit…
Ooh, look at Mr Showoff with his games in colour!
You get a sweet badge when it turns 20.
Yall GOTTA stop pretending 30 is old
ive only been an adult on my own for like 5 years, relax
As I said in another thread, I’m 37, I’m not old, I’m lower middle age. I make noise sitting down but I don’t make noise putting my feet up yet.
I’ll be 37 soon, I was doing well untill my motorcycle accident. Even in full gear a lot of stuff broke that shit aged me fast. That being said my best friend is 22 and I can still beat his ass at most games.
I turned 37 recently, and fortunately both of my motorcycle accidents were relatively minor lowsides at ~20mph so I think most of me is 37 and my right knee is 41 years old.
Some lady on a phone basically ran me off the road and fled the scene. 4 ribs broken, fractured scapula, and a partial lung collapse along with soft tissue damage all on the right side. Oh and my left thumb broke and needed surgery. Kept the helmet though, did it’s job admirably.
Oof, every piece of that is a deep level of suck. I’m sorry that happened to you. Except for the helmet keeping your brains in, that’s a good thing.
Damn! Ease off on the aging there, gramps. I’m 50 and I can still touch my toes without groaning! The only “old person noises” I make are exclusively of the “get off my lawn you whippersnapper” type. ;-P
(And I’ve been gaming since Pong)
meh i don’t have s future worth staying young for. my main goal is to die relatively quickly instead of rotting alive for years like my grandparents did.
my first video game was Freddy’s Rescue Roundup on MS-DOS. It was a bit like Lode Runner.
I’m 38 and I’m extremely anxious about what to expect from adulthood in two years.
posting this on lemmy of all places is hilarious, i have a hunch that half of the userbase is 40+
Look, it’s a cheaper hobby than drinking, or outfitting my vehicle. I don’t have the time to retreat to a fishing hole and there’s no hunting nearby.
Yes I play video game, geez.
Turning 50 this year. Still balling. Love a drink when I play. The combo remains cheaper than going to dinner
People act like video games are some niche hobby, while it’s a bigger industry than movies and music combined. And it’s not even close.
Yeah it was bonkers learning that video games are no longer niche and are now cool
They’re definitely not niche, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
The artist: https://www.instagram.com/psychosuzanne
Even most people in the 50-64 years range play videogames: https://www.techopedia.com/video-game-statistics
Lol people can be so weird.
I have 70 year old family/coworkers who are like “hey 70 isn’t old!”
And then there’s Lemmy “hey 18 year olds, what’s it like to be minutes from death?”
I think I find more people in the 28-45 age range that are gamers, than I do people younger that consider themselves such.
indeed, gaming is becoming more of an “older” people hobby mostly because kids nowadays get bombarded with micro transactions and pay to win mechanics that don’t really engage them as a target audience.
Once I attended a reto game convention and meet a kid who was like 14 or 15 who was really into retro games, mostly because those games didn’t nag them with live services and bullshit as such. It really shifted my perspective about modern AAA gaming.
PS: by retro he meant the PS2 era
48 year old here. Now I feel old.
My mom recently retired from tanking in wow. She was 74.
Did she switch to DEEPS?
Nah, she got out completely during cataract surgery and never got back in.
So we lost our tank to cataracts.
It’s ok, our Gen X nursing home LAN party is going to be awesome!