A True Gamer Never Quits

"Unconfirmed reports have suggested that these "video games" (otherwise known as "murder simulators") are turning the world's senior citizens into killing machines at an alarming rate."

Its only the driving simulators that do that.

Is that the real Old Man Murray?

Now they can yell "GET OFF MY LAWN!" in Animal Crossing.

I can hear my 61 year old dad playing Age of Empires III in the other room. He loves gaming. He was hardcore into BF 1942, vietnam, and BF2. He probably has over 100 games he has bought for the past 5 years.

In response to this research, Country Kitchen will now have arcade machines and ski-ball.

Unfortunately, unless there is a MAJOR change in thinking on the developers' part, many older gamers will be unable to play games. The Grandma's and Grandpa's that are playing games are the lucky ones. For the rest of us, when we age, we lose our eye sight, our hearing, our mental capacities and physical dexterity, even in our hands and fingers.

Developers have so far been under educated in how difficult games are to play for older generations and this has hurt industry growth with the older demographics. Unless we reverse the aging process or developers start creating better accessibility features in their games, very few of us will be playing the kinds of games we play today simply because our ailing bodies will be incapable of playing them.

A small list of the kinds of accessibility features I'm talking about:

- timescale to slow down gameplay for physically challenged
- alternate solutions to puzzles for cognitive challenged
- high contrast graphics for poor sighted or color blind
- closed captioning for hearing impaired

"The same research states that 53% of current gamers expect to continue playing games for the next 10 years..."

I would expect something like 99 percent of people playing games today will continue to play for the rest of their lives. Do old people suddenly stop watching TV or movies or stop reading books? What would make someone stop playing games besides arthritis?

I'm 31, I play way more games now than any time during my teenage years. This isn't going to change.

I hope by the time I'm 45, that video games will be more like the holodeck on ST:TNG. That gives all the big brain scientist 22 years to get their shit together. Naturally, the sooner the better, cause I want hardcore holodeck sex simulators.

those numbers aren't suspicious at all.

don't forget casual games and puzzle games. i knew an old lady that absolutely loved mahjong games on her saturn and PC

And here I always thought a true gamer never lies.

I'll own all your asses, you young whippersnappers!

I guess I'll be a gaming grandpa myself. I don't see myself ever not playing games. I hope medicare pays for games!

"Unconfirmed reports have suggested that these "video games" (otherwise known as "murder simulators") are turning the world's senior citizens into killing machines at an alarming rate."


BAHHHAHHAAHHAAH!!!

Oh, Remo...

<wipes a tear from him eye>

You KILL me, dude. That's comedy.

Seriously, though...we should expect this to continue. I think that the younger you are, the harder it is to comprehend the fact that those older than you were, in fact, young once, and may have even been cool, and may have even done the stuff you did.

I'm on the old end of the spectrum for core gamers (early 30s) and I expect to be gaming until I die.

You can pry my PS14 controller out of my cold, dead hands. And when I finally go to that great big PVP battleground in the sky, I still expect Blizzard to keep my WoW account info forever, so I can pass my characters on to my grandchildren.

We don't need to worry about those Senior citizens turning into killing machines, because with all the money they spend on games and such, they don't have enough left over to afford Robot Insurance.

I imagine by that age, I would not be able to play any games, not because I outgrew, but because of some form of Post-Tramatic Stress Disorder.

Especially since war games are getting more and more realistic.

:P

My Mom (who is my son's grandma) is 56 years old and she can and will own anyone in UT2004. She is also plays GTA games quite a bit.

She never played games or even use the computer until after I moved out. My Dad bought their first computer (a 486/dx66) after was married. He mostly used it to call BBSes (porn) and play Railroad tycoon. I was trying to get him to play Doom. I even had Dwango installed. My mom asked "So those are other people you are shooting?" Then one day a few weeks later I stopped by and my Mom was online death matching on Doom. It went down hill from there.

He'll keep up the habit until "the good Lord calls me. It's up to Him when I quit."

I look forward to becoming one of God's coasters. If only EA had done my marketing. :)

90% of all statistics are made up.

More like never ~quit , am I right?

Two words that should never be in the same sentence if you wish to avoid unpleasant mental pictures.

Grandma
Hardcore

Dont look at me like that, I dont write the rules.

I've become alot more choosy with the games i'll spend my time on these days, most likely because i've a keener knowledge of what I feel is a worthy game to play.. but also because I have less time to play. I'm pretty sure i'll be playing games for many many years to come, and look forward to getting ownt by my kids someday.

i would pay good money to be able to see my own 82 yr old grandmother kicking ass at God of war!

My parents don't understand gaming. :/

Senior Citizens + Gaming = Hardest of the hardcore.

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

you made me spit my soda out my nose.

well played, my friend, well played.

oh and as a 34 year old gamer, I can say without doubt that I'll be playing games until I part this mortal coil.

I'm slowing down in my game playing but I don't see myself quitting really, ever.

Until I join the shotgun militia anyhow.

LOL, nice subtle burn there at the end....

This explains their horrible driving. They aren't incompentent they just played way too much gta. Now their lust for blood is all that keeps them going, that and their afternoon nap.