In this thread OP discovers both, selection bias and that young people, in general, don't use forums.
Yes, I'm an old fart.
My most played game ever is CS:GO (4000+ hours), so I play at a high level (relatively, im not esports level or anything) and I am absolutely dreading the day when my reflexes and awareness starts to deteriorate to the point I gradually become worse and worse. I turn 26 this year and thats probably gonna start happening in the next 3 years.Seriously though: You ever wonder how long you'll be doing this? How long you'll be on forums arguing over image quality and console specs? How long you'll play online shooters? How long you'll be able to keep up in fighting games? Do you see yourself continuing for another decade or so? Will they have to pry a controller from your cold, dead hands?
A bunch of oldies played the Wii. Now they play free to play iphone / ipad games. Not to mention the popularity of bingo, card games, and lawn bowls. The yearning for play never goes away I suppose but the games we choose will change as we age.Hmm... I think gaming is a bit different, no? Like imagine playing online pvp @ age 65 vs just watching TV @ 65. Or doing a lv1 run in dark souls @ age 72. Lol .
Believe it or not, a lot of us hope to even live that long ... But gaming at that age competently? That's very unusual. Gaming is a bit more "active" than tv.
My parents had a yellow PONG console (I wish it didn't finish in the thrash) it's the first game I played.
After that, it was the first arcade machines (pac man, space invaders etc...) until my father bought an Apple ][ to do his accounting - and I played Wizardry without understanding anything, but I loved it. Got me hooked to RPG up to this day.
First console I bought with my money was Master system, and after that many more...
Oh yeah, forums are very Web 1.0.I didn't realise we were such universally old farts on this forum