For Gamers: will it go with age?

    Sometimes I feel weird when, at 28, I still video-game and am like a child when it comes to getting something new: excitement, hours of play. But then I say, this is OUR GENERATION's source of meaningless entertainment, so I guess I'll be playing till the end of times (because there's a rumor I will actually live till the end of times).

What do you think?

Edited by The T - January 21 2007 at 13:36

Mmmmhhh.. interesting question

Edited by Modrigue - January 21 2007 at 14:36

I was part of the original video game generation. Remember when every mall had an arcade? I had several different home systems. I gave up after Play Station. I don't do much gaming any more. However, on occasion I can be seen at Pinball Pete's playing Donkey Kong.

Although I'm only 17, my interest in gaming is much smaller now than it was say 5 years ago, and I don't see it getting any bigger in the future. But it's a very individual thing I think. Whether one will stop gaming when growing older depends on what type of person one is and what occupation one has, I believe.

Well I'm 32 years old, now I'm married, have two daughters, my job is a serious one (cardiologist)... and I still enjoy the same with new video games. I'm sure I will keep the same when I'm 64 .

Edited by eddietrooper - January 21 2007 at 18:29

Haha, think about what happens when all the gamers get old.  Can you imagine an 80 year old playing a violent shooting video game? 

micky wrote: I still enjoy a good Avalon HIll boardgame as well...

I was always a sucker for the Games Workshop boardgames (anyone for a game of Talisman or Space Marine? ); occasionally, I'll still have a game of Warcraft III or Shogun on the PC, although if I do play computer games, I generally prefer games like Civilisation or SimCity.

On the whole, though, I usually stay with two of the oldest boardgames around, namely chess or backgammon (with the occasional frantic game of Scrabble thrown in for good measure).

I'm coming up to 44 & do not intend to stop playing games anytime soon.
    

when I'm forty I'm going to attempt to game 25 hours a day. I was thinking about getting a fitted suit and striving to sell something useless or maybe starting a family, or going outside or tidying the house or working on my interpersonal relation skills but none of those feel as good as pure bubble bobble injected directly into the vein.

I'm 18 and never started. From what I see around, most quit in their 20's, but there are some who play forever and there's nothing shameful in that.

Been gaming ever since the Telstar entertainment system late in the 70's and still gaming at age 32.