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.
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
Listen here you little shit.
Everyone I know turned 30 and immediately turned to dust from their advanced age. So sad. Also, really messy.
Their poor grandchildren
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!
I've got unplayed games older than you!
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.
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.
Yall GOTTA stop pretending 30 is old
ive only been an adult on my own for like 5 years, relax
Same. I'm 35 and I've only been independent for 5 years as well. This is the new norm. Adulting is expensive. 30 isn't old; you're just starting your life.
As I said in another thread, I'm 37, I'm not old, I'm lower middle age. I make noise sitting down but I don't make noise putting my feet up yet.
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 know an 84 year old man that has played WoW since vanilla.
Im 60 and been gaming since Wolfenstein 3D.
posting this on lemmy of all places is hilarious, i have a hunch that half of the userbase is 40+
Even most people in the 50-64 years range play videogames: https://www.techopedia.com/video-game-statistics
Look, it's a cheaper hobby than drinking, or outfitting my vehicle. I don't have the time to retreat to a fishing hole and there's no hunting nearby.
Yes I play video game, geez.
Turning 50 this year. Still balling. Love a drink when I play. The combo remains cheaper than going to dinner
People act like video games are some niche hobby, while it's a bigger industry than movies and music combined. And it's not even close.
Yeah it was bonkers learning that video games are no longer niche and are now cool
Lol people can be so weird.
I have 70 year old family/coworkers who are like "hey 70 isn't old!"
And then there's Lemmy "hey 18 year olds, what's it like to be minutes from death?"
56 here , started with pong , atari 2600 and still play PC games daily.
57 and same.
Man we sure are suckers for this Facebook level interaction bait.
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
48 year old here. Now I feel old.
Original video gamers are like 75. It’s weird to assume that most won’t at least occasionally play.
I’m 48 and play daily. Husband is 43 and has like 2k hours in Baldurs Gate.
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.
Turning 40 on two months! Where my going grey bush gamers at? I got over 600 games in Steam alone and play like 10 of them! Who else?
44 and I have clocked about 40 hours in Final Fantasy XIV this week. When I get home from work, it's game time.
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.
"Where are the old gamers?" Yo! "The thirty year old gamers?" Never mind.
Look, honestly, I'm more disgusted by the amount of people who don't play videogames.
Some people just hate fun I guess
It's such a fucking kid move to not have enough imagination to understand adults needs recreation too.
Do you think you'll stop gaming in, like 20 years when you're 30?
everywhere. thinking mostly kids play videogames is some boomer-ass take. SNES was 35 years ago... do you think people who grew up playing videogames in the 90s just quit one day? about three quarters of people who play videogames today are adults, and 40% are 35+.
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