Older gamers ?

Sparhawke

jeffphoenix wrote: »

I'm mid 40's and still play, mostly on PC though. Steam is a godsend, and stops me having to visit all those terrible computer game shops on the high street.

I am 36 next month and I hate Steam or Origin. They are nice concepts but all I see them for are the poorly veiled advertising boards that they are; constantly getting games shoved in your face.

Meks1980 wrote: »

I am 33 soon.. does that mean I am an older gamer! Is it bad that I remember when games came on cassette tapes and in order to cheat on your favorite game you have to spend about an hour writing line after line of code from C64 Magazine..... Oh the good old days.

There is a website called Gamerdads which I have found which is a community aimed at the older gamer if anyone is interested.

I know what you mean, it wasn't just about up, up, left right, left right, X then O then X

You really had to work for your extra lives, and woe betide anyone who happens to get their code wrong, though there were some unexpected side effects to this if you were like me and actually went looking for them lol

Dave101t

You mean 'screaming little kids' on COD, which is an 18 rated game! Should be arrested.....
I'm 30 and have played since age of 7-8. Not online tho, who'd of thought online could be so boring? Skyrim for me!

Sparhawke

It depends who you play with Dave I suppose, back in my Runescape days I used to play a lot with the more mature members of the community, player moderators and my forum buddies. Now what you get is a load of kids who may actually be quite mature (one of the kids I played with was 14 and he is a smart one, admin for my old forum) but most of the time I cannot be bothered taking a chance and finding out.

I will play with others, but cannot be bothered with drama.

AlecEiffel

I'm 35, which according to an article in Wired is actually the average age of a male gamer.

Gordon_Hose

37 and still as sh*t at gaming as I've ever been!

Mercenary

*hand held up*

50+ and playing FPS games with a passion :cool:

mils

Well maybe we could get our own little community go - MSE community
If anyone is interested my gamerstag on xbox - babybearbro
and on ps3 Milly84LUFC
Where we all come together and talk about saving money ........sorry stereotyping now

Datolite

Mils, come over to the Amazon Forums and introduce yourself:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/forum/video%20games/ref=cm_cd_tfp_ef_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=FxJDNP8ZT4910I&cdThread=Tx3DZXFH3Q9Y5NE

We are all of different ages and backgrounds, playing Fifa, BF3, COD, GTA V and Diablo 3 and more.

Carl31

im 33 and play regularly, not online though

I think anyone that was a child, or close to a child in the 80s when computer games took off is likely to continue playing them, like watching films etc...

I think some adults consider computer games for kids, but thats mainly due to the fact they were for kids when they first emerged 30 odd years ago, its just now that generation have carried on with them

TerryMI5

I am only 21 and feel like I am too old for games!