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30’s?? That’s rookie numbers, I’m nearing my 50’s.
Same. And I still game. Who the fuck quits when they pwnd everyone and still have tea bags to spare?
The tea bags are a bit saggier, but they’re still good!
It just means you don’t have to squat as far.
Right on time too my knees are shot
Maybe it’s been an evolutionary trait all along!
At 45 my knees are hanging in there (even with the cycling and skiing). It’s my ankles that are becoming an occasional problem oddly.
You youngsters can eat my shorts, I’ll be gunning for you (in game f course). Excuse me, I need to yell at those damn kids to GET OFF MY LAWN
Godspeed you magnificent bastard
Nearing? I’m already there and I’m the young 'un in my group of gaming buddies. The eldest is in his 60s and we’re all playing most evenings.
Everyone I know turned 30 and immediately turned to dust from their advanced age. So sad. Also, really messy.
Their poor grandchildren
Was this from the Night of the Comet movie?
Not the OP but it is, I’d know it anywhere.
It totally is! Such a great movie!
Listen here you little shit.
61 in about 3 weeks. I’m older than Pong, and I game every day.
I’m 50 and pong was my first video game. I had to play it on amateur with the bigger paddles because the small ones were insanely small.
Alright, we have enough to run a tournament. Who’s streaming!
I’m also 50 this year, and Pong was my first game as well!
So funny to think that it took an entire console to play one black and white game with primitive graphics and like 4 options… and now we have 3D rendered racing sims we can run on our phones!
Dude, that was my first game too! I kind of wish I still had it (and a screen it would play on).
I was 9 or 10 3 first time I saw a Pong arcade machine in a hotel in San Diego.
This was me (figuratively)
Gaming has been serious since
Then I wrote my first game
Now I seek my fortune in glory and plunder
I love this so much!
55 here, and I got to play lunar lander on my dad’s lab PDP-8 even before my grandparents got Pong.
Currently working my way through Fallout London.
My dad is a couple of years older than you and he’s the one who introduced me to gaming on his Atari back in the 80s. We play Battle for Wesnoth semi-regularly together.
There was a space of about a decade where we didn’t and honestly I regret that. We don’t live close to each other but it’s how we stay in touch.
Honestly, that and grilling (and eventually motorcycles, but I was already on my way out of rural nowhere when that happened) are the only things we bonded over. I have always had hobbies that kept me at arms length from “normal” people and my dad is the guy you’d think of if you thought of a regular dude born in the 60s. I’m still pretty weird (and happy about it), but it’s nice that I can be close to him through gaming.
My oldest and (he’s 31 today) have copies of this on our office walls https://kagi.com/proxy/2434767_orig.png?c=Ux_Oi49zwrz_XQu8syTDi7pdjUAc4KO_wcuIYxcLBYVVdaF_ts2tNMrrB1335mt_48KAUH2poQelymJ7a7PDGRjG4y4c-aoE0yr1F9vp67s7qwBYQtyX4UprxCe0g5r5
My best gaming time ever is when my sons and I make up a 4-man fire team in any game.
That is so cool! Tell your son I said happy birthday from another gamer son!
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!
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.
PC master race is about knowing it’s the best gaming platform, not about owning one. “it’s not about the hardware on your rig, it’s the software in your heart.”
You’re being ironic, aren’t you? I can’t tell. At any rate, the best gaming platform is the one that plays the games you want, the way you want to play them, at the price you can afford. For me, that’s the PC, although many pcgamingmasterracers would look down their noses at my setup because it can’t do 60fps in all games at all times. But I’ve learned enough about how personal preferences work to actively avoid associations with elitist crap like ‘pc ganing master race’.
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 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 [email protected]
The 512KB or the 1MB version of Civ 1?
Remember when Lemmings finally made it to PC and all us people who had Amigas were like, “I know, right?”
Even most people in the 50-64 years range play videogames: https://www.techopedia.com/video-game-statistics
- Passed a Linux exam by installing Doom and getting it running with audio.
LOL, the formatting is making you say that you’re one.
that might be a bug with your client. mine says they’re 54.
Different markdown renderers are different. Most tend to renumber like that.
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
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.
I remember playing the original Lemmings and SimCity without a mouse.
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…
You get a sweet badge when it turns 20.
Ooh, look at Mr Showoff with his games in colour!
The fuck with this question. My youngest is barely 31. I guess I’m dust and fading memories. I will watch my anime and horror movies and shout at the clouds with an onion tied to my belt, fuck you very much
An onion? At what time was that the style?
The ancient 80s
Is that back when you could get 5 bees for a quarter?
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!
50+. Play every chance I get. Don’t know why it would be surprising, other than Lemmy being an echo chamber of tech-minded younger people who forget my generation started out gaming with Atari and the like.
It really feels like everyone is 8-12 in here sometimes…
My literal grandparents play video games. They were in their 70s. In fact, they were the ones who taught ME how to play, and my mother (who is not a gamer) remembers them always having the latest console when they were growing up.
