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MainVillan11@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Where are the old (30s) granpa gamers?

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Where are the old (30s) granpa gamers?

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MainVillan11@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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    30’s?? That’s rookie numbers, I’m nearing my 50’s.

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      Same. And I still game. Who the fuck quits when they pwnd everyone and still have tea bags to spare?

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        The tea bags are a bit saggier, but they’re still good!

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          It just means you don’t have to squat as far.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      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

    • yokonzo@lemmy.world
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      Godspeed you magnificent bastard

    • Brewchin@lemmy.world
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      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.

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    Listen here you little shit.

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    Everyone I know turned 30 and immediately turned to dust from their advanced age. So sad. Also, really messy.

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      Their poor grandchildren

    • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.world
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      • quilan@lemmy.world
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        Was this from the Night of the Comet movie?

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    61 in about 3 weeks. I’m older than Pong, and I game every day.

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      Dude, that was my first game too! I kind of wish I still had it (and a screen it would play on).

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        I was 9 or 10 3 first time I saw a Pong arcade machine in a hotel in San Diego.

        • AA5B@lemmy.world
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          This was me (figuratively)

          • https://theweek.com/news/technology/958675/pong-at-50-the-video-game-that-changed-the-world

          Gaming has been serious since

          • https://retrovgames.com/atari2600consolebundle1/

          Then I wrote my first game

          • https://images.app.goo.gl/wNEajrctRbFkJpi18

          Now I seek my fortune in glory and plunder

          • https://seaofthieves.fandom.com/wiki/Sea_of_Thieves
          • rhacer@lemmy.world
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            I love this so much!

    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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      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.

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        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.

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          That is so cool! Tell your son I said happy birthday from another gamer son!

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    Nearly 60 and a grandma.

    • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.world
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      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.

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        You are good grandchild, and I hope she knows it!

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    I know an 84 year old man that has played WoW since vanilla.

    Im 60 and been gaming since Wolfenstein 3D.

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      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. ;)

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    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!

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      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.

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        I remember playing the original Lemmings and SimCity without a mouse.

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      You get a sweet badge when it turns 20.

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    The artist: https://www.instagram.com/psychosuzanne

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    56 here , started with pong , atari 2600 and still play PC games daily.

    • DelightfullyDivisive@lemmy.world
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      57 and same.

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    Man we sure are suckers for this Facebook level interaction bait.

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    I think I find more people in the 28-45 age range that are gamers, than I do people younger that consider themselves such.

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      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

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    1. Passed a Linux exam by installing Doom and getting it running with audio.
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      LOL, the formatting is making you say that you’re one.

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        that might be a bug with your client. mine says they’re 54.

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          Different markdown renderers are different. Most tend to renumber like that.

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    48 year old here. Now I feel old.

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    Late 40s here… Gaming since 1986 on Amiga

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      Hello fellow late 40s, are you me? What’s your favourite genre or game now and what was your favourite on Amiga?

      These days: Factory games (Satisfactory) and Total War Amiga: XCom, Syndicate, Civ

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        i played on PC but my dad’s friends had an amiga so i played on it sometimes when i was about 5… I found PP Hammer a lot of fun and Altered Beast simply looked incredible.

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        Favourite Amiga games: Secret of Monkey Island 1&2, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Rick Dangerous 1&2, Pirates!, Flashback, Lemmings, Eye of the Beholder…just off the top of my head

        Favourite now: The Witness, Braid, Portal, Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Fez, Talos Principle, BoTW, The Last Door…etc.

        • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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          Have you made it around to Disco Elysium yet?

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            It’s on my list, and it’s a bit higher up now because of your comment…thanks for the recommendation(?).

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              Yes, definitely recommended. It’s the modern iteration/spiritual successor to the great point-and-click adventure games you mentioned (among others). Had young me known Disco Elysium was in my future when I was playing Police Quest 2, I would have peed myself.

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          Awesome, love all those 90s games. My wife and I are deep into Obra Dinn right now and Papers Please is one of our faves too.

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            Obra Dinn is such a unique experience, a shame (though unavoidable) that there is zero replay value though. My jaw literally dropped a few times during that game.

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              I don’t always think replay value is essential as long as the experience is golden. We’re only half way through Obra Dinn and it’s blowing us away.

              The voice acting is especially awesome.

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        Satisfactory, Counter Strike, Fallout 4 (heavily modded), Assassin’s Creed (still love Black Flag), Portal 1÷2 and of course every game of the Witcher series. This is a small fraction of the games I played in the last years but all I can remember for now 😅

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      No idea what our first computer was, but it was BIG. The first thing I did was play games. This would’ve been somewhere around 87-89.

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    44 and I have clocked about 40 hours in Final Fantasy XIV this week. When I get home from work, it’s game time.

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      Over 30. New Path of Exile league this weekend-- 12 hours Sat/Sun because I can’t do all day gaming anymore, what with being ancient and all.

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