34 here, reporting for duty
Same… If you switch the digits.
I think I find more people in the 28-45 age range that are gamers, than I do people younger that consider themselves such.
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
Even most people in the 50-64 years range play videogames: https://www.techopedia.com/video-game-statistics
I got a Deck cuz I’m in my 30s. Best thing ever to relax with.
39 here and still playing. The worst part is STILL having a huge backlog of steam games to work through.
- Passed a Linux exam by installing Doom and getting it running with audio.
LOL, the formatting is making you say that you’re one.
that might be a bug with your client. mine says they’re 54.
Different markdown renderers are different. Most tend to renumber like that.
41 here. PC master race gamer 4 lyf.
Same on both counts! Awkward fist bump? 🤜
Bold of you to assume I’m capable of a fistbump that isn’t awkward. Emoticon goes here, I can’t be arsed figuring out how.
I’m 46 and a PC gamer, but I don’t give a shit what platform anyone plays on. This “PC master race” stuff is infantile bullshit and needs to disappear.
PC master race is about knowing it’s the best gaming platform, not about owning one. “it’s not about the hardware on your rig, it’s the software in your heart.”
You’re being ironic, aren’t you? I can’t tell. At any rate, the best gaming platform is the one that plays the games you want, the way you want to play them, at the price you can afford. For me, that’s the PC, although many pcgamingmasterracers would look down their noses at my setup because it can’t do 60fps in all games at all times. But I’ve learned enough about how personal preferences work to actively avoid associations with elitist crap like ‘pc gaming master race’.
Technically, the members of the subreddit claim the name is ironic, but you’d be hard-pressed to tell by the way they often act.
It ceases being ironic when you lean into it.
Forty-nite playa!
61 in about 3 weeks. I’m older than Pong, and I game every day.
55 here, and I got to play lunar lander on my dad’s lab PDP-8 even before my grandparents got Pong.
Currently working my way through Fallout London.
Dude, that was my first game too! I kind of wish I still had it (and a screen it would play on).
I was 9 or 10 3 first time I saw a Pong arcade machine in a hotel in San Diego.
This was me (figuratively)
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!
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.
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.
That is so cool! Tell your son I said happy birthday from another gamer son!
I’m 28 and I’m a young-un in my Elder Scrolls Online guild lol
Living the dream. I gave up on finding guilds in online games because it’s always a bunch of kids I just can’t relate to.
It’s so good lol, no drama, just people enjoying a game they love. It’s hard to get people in for things consistently sometimes because life and family happens but I guess that’s the price you pay.
Seems like a pretty reasonable trade off haha.
I don’t have hard feelings towards the kids or anything, I just don’t really connect with them enough to want to hang out.
30’s?? That’s rookie numbers, I’m nearing my 50’s.
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
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.
Right on time too my knees are shot
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.
Godspeed you magnificent bastard
37 Guilty as charged
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.
You are good grandchild, and I hope she knows it!
37 and sitting on my Mass Effect 3 run number…I can’t remember actually. Maybe I should go back to the Elden Ring DLC.
Everyone I know turned 30 and immediately turned to dust from their advanced age. So sad. Also, really messy.
Was this from the Night of the Comet movie?
Not the OP but it is, I’d know it anywhere.
It totally is! Such a great movie!
Their poor grandchildren