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[–] Kid4today@lemmy.world 138 points 1 month ago (5 children)

30’s?? That’s rookie numbers, I’m nearing my 50’s.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same. And I still game. Who the fuck quits when they pwnd everyone and still have tea bags to spare?

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The tea bags are a bit saggier, but they're still good!

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It just means you don't have to squat as far.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right on time too my knees are shot

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 95 points 1 month ago

Listen here you little shit.

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 89 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Everyone I know turned 30 and immediately turned to dust from their advanced age. So sad. Also, really messy.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Their poor grandchildren

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[–] rhacer@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago (9 children)

61 in about 3 weeks. I'm older than Pong, and I game every day.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Alright, we have enough to run a tournament. Who’s streaming!

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 58 points 1 month ago

I've got unplayed games older than you!

[–] shish_mish@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] cpw@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] AShadyRaven@lemmy.zip 42 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yall GOTTA stop pretending 30 is old

ive only been an adult on my own for like 5 years, relax

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 42 points 1 month ago (3 children)

41 here. PC master race gamer 4 lyf.

[–] rainynight65@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

posting this on lemmy of all places is hilarious, i have a hunch that half of the userbase is 40+

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[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know an 84 year old man that has played WoW since vanilla.

Im 60 and been gaming since Wolfenstein 3D.

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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 1 month ago

Even most people in the 50-64 years range play videogames: https://www.techopedia.com/video-game-statistics

[–] Tugboater203@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago
[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] zibzanna@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Turning 50 this year. Still balling. Love a drink when I play. The combo remains cheaper than going to dinner

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 28 points 1 month ago

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?"

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  1. Passed a Linux exam by installing Doom and getting it running with audio.
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

LOL, the formatting is making you say that you're one.

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[–] Karmanj@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

56 here , started with pong , atari 2600 and still play PC games daily.

[–] DelightfullyDivisive@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

57 and same.

[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think I find more people in the 28-45 age range that are gamers, than I do people younger that consider themselves such.

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[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Man we sure are suckers for this Facebook level interaction bait.

[–] ericatty@infosec.pub 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

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[–] slingstone@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

48 year old here. Now I feel old.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My mom recently retired from tanking in wow. She was 74.

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[–] stoly@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] donmoxxa@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

Late 40s here... Gaming since 1986 on Amiga

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

44 and I have clocked about 40 hours in Final Fantasy XIV this week. When I get home from work, it's game time.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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?

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[–] RichCorgi@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 1 month ago

I'm 35 and my dad turns 68 this year. He had a stroke about 13 years ago that narrowly missed killing him and paralyzed half of his body (he recovered some use of his leg, but his right hand just hangs out).

He had to give up a lot of things, but I made sure gaming wasn't one of them. He plays with a foot pedal and a mouse, and still loves it.

He plays all of the fallout games on a loop, has a thousand hours on the Bioshock franchise, and we play Co-op shooters together sometimes. He has a bunch of other games, but he's super picky lol.

Old-ass gamers unite!

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Look, honestly, I'm more disgusted by the amount of people who don't play videogames.

Some people just hate fun I guess

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[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 10 points 1 month ago

I believe games were originally marketed to adults until Nintendo decided to buck the trend?

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