leXX Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 Is there an age limit on games? I mean, do you ever get too old to play games? Am I a 'past it housewife' or a 'cool mum'? I've been playing games as long as I can remember, since pong and pacman and donkey kong handheld etc etc. I just love games too much to ever see a time when I'll stop playing them. I'm married with two kids and my husband and friends say to me, "how do you find the time and havn't you grown out of games yet!" Well I make time to do the things I enjoy doing, and no I havn't grown out of it yet so why the hell should I stop? At what age can see yourself stop playing games?
Dath Maximus Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 since im kansan, cool mum is a word that scares me, so im gonna change it to, cool mom. anywho, i think the age limit should be the point where you start wearing moo-moos and cant get out of your chair to change the channel to watch mattlock
Kstar__2 Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 hmm, i'd better not start about your av again............... i think i'll never stop, i may stop getting new games when i reich a certain, because it will be too much work to figure out how everything works:)
greedo626 Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 I don't think you ever get too old to play games. if you were my 'mum' I think it would be cool. your kids are lucky;)
ckcsaber Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 I imagine myself in 30 years, coming home from work, and playing video games till 1 o'clock in the morning:D
Darklighter Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 I'll only stop playing computer games when I can't physically move the buttons on the controller:D(though in the distant future, we won't be using controllers to play them ^^ lol). I don't think you can ever grow out of games. And who cares if people say you're 'past it' for playing games after a certain, age - that's just pathetic. If you enjoy playing games at that age, what's stopping you? Oh and leXX, you must be the coolest Mum ever;)lol...at least then I'd have a Mum that understood why I played games all day:D
XERXES Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 NEVAR....my cousin (who is a year younger than me) has DOA VOlleyball and my grandpa LOVES it my grandpa has my SNES and zelda,FF, SOM, CT and a few other games he is enjoying
Clem Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 thers no age limit ... altho i must say is it me or are games getting shorter?
Hekx Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 I'll stop playing games when the arthritis kicks in.
XERXES Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 Quote Originally posted by Hèkx Nòxú I'll stop playing games when the arthritis kicks in. by then you wont need controllers...youll be using voice commands or your mind who knows
Clem Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 control by mind think we're all lacking a vital ingredient for that
Hekx Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 Telepathic game control eh? I do it all the time. I think'll stick to controllers, since I don't really trust joysticks or voice control software.
-s/<itzo- Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 Theres no age limit on video games. As long as you enjoy it, you can still play video games at the age of 100.
Hekx Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 I think I read something a while back.. but isn't JKII not allowed in Greece or something?
nova_wolf Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 Nah. Society thinks there should be, but in actual fact, as long as there is something in there you enjoy, and you do it healthly - not alone all the time, but socially, LAning/MP, meeting up w/ mates to discuss etc, then nah. Life is too harsh to take away legal ways to enjoy yourself so readily.
swphreak Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 You're a mummy? You're too old to play games when you have to ask your grandkids to push the buttons for you, or when ou buy "Matlock the Video Game!"
[RAA]-=Chi3f=- Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 We're a different breed Our parents didn't have video games they had tv and that's about it. They just don't understand what video games are all about. Older ppl, for example, love casino and card games (like my grandparents). Look at Vegas; people go there to play games. Gambling is a game too. As for arthritis, I'm sure I'll find some appendage to play games with...
Taos Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 Good topic leXX. I have been wondering the same thing for a little while now. Sometimes I sit back and wonder.....am I too old to be here? Then I think, who cares, as long as I'm having fun with them I don't care what anybody else says. There will come a point sometime when I might stop altogether, but I have no idea when that will be. Playing video games is something I have done forever. I remember Atari games like Space Invaders......so I'm just going to keep on going.
leXX Posted March 20, 2003 Author Posted March 20, 2003 Well I must say, everyone's comments make me feel a lot better. I've always had the attitude that I don't care what anyone else thinks and I know there are many many older gamers out there so it's not like I'm the only one or anything hehe. I just can't see myself ever stopping because I can't see any reason why I should!
swphreak Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 My Uncle (who is like 50) Loves to play video games... specifically those bass fishing ones He even plays a few sports games. Like NBA and some football.
Rogue15 Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 i'm never going to stop playing games. might cut back on the amount of time i spend on them, but it'll be a few thousand years before that happens.
StormHammer Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 Quote Originally posted by leXX I'm married with two kids and my husband and friends say to me, "how do you find the time and havn't you grown out of games yet!" My answer to that is... "Haven't you grown out of football yet? After all, it's just a game where a bunch of 22 grown men (or women or kids) kick a piece of plastic around a field and then into a net." Why do they do it? Or watch it? Answer: Because they enjoy it. Computer games are a perfectly legitimate form of entertainment, like watching the TV or going to play a game of soccer. If football players can get paid £2 million a year for kicking around a piece of plastic...then I say 'pfffrt!' to critics of the games I play on my PC. At least I don't have delusions of grandeur, and claim to 'earn' silly amounts of dosh for my pastime. I'll continue playing games as long as they continue to interest me. And that's for the forseeable future. Talking of the future, I can see that over the next 10-15 years computer gaming will probably become a truly mainstream entertainment medium with links to TV, so you can watch a Deathmatch in progress on your shiny new Game Sports Channel, while you can bet on the outcome down the Bookies, and talk about the tactics of the players down the local LAN-Pub over a pint of *insert toxic brew here*.
leXX Posted March 20, 2003 Author Posted March 20, 2003 Deathmatch TV is such a good idea! I often just spectate and being able to do it in glorious 32inch stereo surround sound would be wonderful. I get just as much enjoyment out of watching other people play as I do playing myself.
Kstar__2 Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 hmm, i don't, i get irritated when i see other people play, because i would do it totaly different (and better IMO), dunno, just bugs me:D
Eldritch Posted March 20, 2003 Posted March 20, 2003 I think anyone that doesn't fall into the 0-8,350 year old age range shouldn't play games.
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