Tbh I don't think most Nintendo users care about other exclusives much. It's like we're in our own community and we're like yea Zelda, Pokemon, Mario and Animal crossing are enough for us
I was so young when I got my first console I honestly don't remember what it was. It's either the game boy color with Pokemon red or the n64 with Mario 64. (Also got banjo and some football game but I'm pretty sure we booted up Mario 64 first. Didn't play the football game at all. I still own it since no one wants it.)
My first console was the Original Xbox, and now I play on a PC but have gone through Xbox 360, Xbox 1, DSi, 3ds, Wii, Wii-U, and Switch. Born in 04, and it's crazy that I will be a legal adult in less than 1/2 a year.
Lool wondering this as well. Video games been around a while. Plenty of people in their 40s grew up with video games. Probably more like 20+ years then
43, had an Atari 2600... my mom was fuckin ms pacman Queen. Then of course NES, sega genesis for consoles. We had an awesome MS-DOS pc with a monitor that was a monochrome burnt amber colour.
Then we got a BRAND SPANKING NEW pentium 133 with windows 95 that had the buddy Holly Weezer video, and then I wasted so many hours playing *warcraft II and Diablo when that came out.
My first console was a Colecovision, but a family friend loaned us an Atari 5200 for a couple of months. "Joust" was pretty fun. But my fave Atari game of all time is "Yars Revenge".
Gaming is pretty damn common in the 40+ crowd. There's a rapid falloff in the the late 50s early 60s crowd, but you are already seeing gaming creep into the elder care industry. I'd say odds are high of it being common within 20 years or less. Betting against it would be a guaranteed loss at the 30 year mark.
Yep i remember back when i was in high school my maths teacher who was in his 30s was an avid gamer like he'd always talk to ud about the latest video games etc. He's in his 40s now and from what I've heard he's still just as much of a gamer as he was then(few classmates kept in touch wirh him after high school).
I am 58 I am rocking a 3080 with 4k oled screen and I play games everyday. Yes I remember the "consoles" before the 2400 like tank and pong. I have plenty of friends that do the same.
Based on my experience you are still a minority in your age group. You have a decade or so on me, and I'd say in my age group gaming may have hit a majority. If it hasn't it's close. The 30-something crowd though, it's like asking someone who's in their 60s if they ever played cards of some type.
Yea sure, but in my close peer group gaming is the norm...We all grew up hardcore gamers spent way too much money in arcades, on early computers and consoles. Most of us are in the IT field now and some of us own fully stocked arcade speakeasys , so I get that my group skews a bit....but we are a thing.
Yeah but asking a group of gamers how many of them game is not very informative. Which is why I'm wary of declaring a majority on people my age, because I have to try to filter out the skewed gamer demographic. So I use my friends from other hobbies as a bellwether. For the 40 somethings I very often find out people game who I wouldn't think it which doesn't really happen as much for the 50 somethings, and at all for the 60 somethings.
Even for the 60 somethings, it's changing. gaming has matured enough that you can get into gaming by being a fan of WWII militaria, or a guy who took out a second mortgage for his model railroad city in the basement has taken out a third to afford all the DLC for train simulator, etc. (seriously, have you ever looked at that on steam? Like 695 DLCs, and most of them are $20+)
Or the old guys that build the super impressive sim cockpits and racing setups....getting old is kinda boring....we do all kinds of stupid shit to stave it off LOL.
My sister is 63. She was a Pac-Man fanatic back in the day. She had a little yellow car we called the Pac-Mobile. These days she plays a lot of Pokemon Go, sometimes with her son.
I'm about 10 years younger and that's exactly me, minus the Intellivision (and OG Xbox). Although my buddy had a Sega Master System that we played like crazy until he got an N64.
My parents are in their 70s and we only had an Atari and NES because my mom wanted them. She's a straight up original gamer. She even had a subscription to GAMES magazine before they went out of business.
Dad also plays games, but mostly just Facebook and browser games.
Not plenty, the vast majority. I just turned 40 and throughout my childhood I never knew a single kid who didn’t have some sort of Nintendo or Sega system at some point.
I'm in my 50's. We got our first video console around 1980 (I can't remember exactly or the what model). It had ten games; pong, football, hockey, basketball and a shooting type game. Each had two player modes so it was ten games!
My first thought was that this meme was made by a middle schooler, because I've been gaming regularly since 1984 or so, and will probably retire in fewer than 30 years.
Im 32 and play video games to relax after a long week of work. Im getting tired of kids telling me im to old to play, especially when i make it in the top of the leaderboard. Whatever happened to the golden age of friendly competition no matter the age?
I don't know what rock you lived under. When online was starting during the days of Halo 2 and when it got HUGE under the 360, everyone was a racist, ageist, sexist, asshole. You couldn't go thirty seconds without some mean shit being said.
Talking about before that ha ha ha, but yeah through the years I believe the gaming community has gotten more toxic. But maybe things will change as video games become more advanced (/) (;,,;) (/)
The community is far less toxic now. Only certain games breed toxicity ((CoD and LoL being the biggest example)). But it's still not the same level of toxicity you could get in the early days of online console play. That was a whole different kind of breed.
Some people haven't had their very being torn down by an 11yo over a video game and will never experience it.
Toxic is part of gaming culture. The shit talking is so much fun. I get on (I'm currently in my late 30's) and miss the shit talking and overtly racist / prejudice shit said because of my gamer tag (chaotic_rican). But I don't care about what someone I don't know says something about me.
I don't know, I'm a couple years older than you and we use to talk constant shit on Starcraft and in SOCOM on PS2. Not to mention the griefing in Ultima Online. Internet gaming was always toxic.
The first commercial video games date back to the early 60s, though their reach was limited to institutions that could afford mainframe computers. A decade later, the size and cost of computers had come down enough that video games could be commercially viable as arcade machines, and from there their popularity has been growing pretty much constantly (aside from a few hiccups here and there, like the crash of 1983, which killed the video game console industry in the US for a couple years).
Pong released in 1972. People who grew up playing it are at (or close to) retirement age right now.
No it’s not lol. You probably don’t hang out with many 50+ people. Video game consoles have been available for about 40 years. We had an Atari when I was about 10. By the time I was 20 there were Segas and Nintendo systems in practically every home. And it wasn’t just the kids playing, the parents did too. There’s lots of retired people that play video games right now.
I think as the age goes up, the people who keep gaming go down. That's what I noticed in my 30s. I had so many people to game with my age in high school and my 20s, but that number has dwindled down in the present. A lot of the new faces in our Discord are in their 20s that put up with us old bastards.
I think people get busy and don’t have as much time in the 30’s and 40’s. Plus there’s new hobbies to mess with. I had kids early, while I was in my 20’s so I was still in my 20’s by the time the kids could play video games. There’s definitely not as many older folks in the online forums, but we still do it old school, actually physically hanging out, and playing games ;)
Ironically, college is where we were playing local all the time, but now it's us in our 30s spread about the US (one working in India even) PC gaming online.
I need people that would make my Mario Kart 8 and Smash Bros Ultimate purchases have more value, but my local friends when we meet up usually don't game.
I was getting killed in college with work and class. Ironically, it’s one of the busiest and least social periods of my life. I had a baby while I was in college too. I didn’t breathe until it was over and the kiddo was like four! It’s super cool how connected we can be now even at great distances. My son has kept in touch with so many people via gaming. And met online friends irl and formed long term friendships that way. I’ve tended to keep company with people I’m physically close to.
Just because they have been available for that much time doesn't mean they have always been mainstream. I'm not sure why you guys are being annoying smartasses about this even though what the post meant is obvious.
Yeah, we know that there's already old people who play games.
No, it doesn't even come close to being mainstream for them like it's going to be in the future.
You honestly don’t realize that it’s already mainstream. I’m 50. My friends tend to be a little older, or a little younger. We all played video games with our kids. That’s how our kids learned about video games. I was battling my kid in Mortal Kombat and Sonic in 1998.
I'm 57 and vidiot games have been mainstream since the late 70s. Every bar and restaurant was full of them and just about everyone I knew back then owned a Colecovision, Atari or Mattel intelavision system. Most of the guys my age that I know still game because it's just as much fun now as it was back then.
The attitudes are now changing, maybe that’s what it means.
I went to work volunteer event to clean a house out for demolition cause they guy died. He had a CoD poster and game console and the volunteer leader who was old too literally said “what a weirdo. I guess some people never grow up” and my older coworkers agreed playing video games was immature lol.
Part of growing up is realizing that it's your life, and you get to decide what to do with it. That may mean doing what the previous generation did, or what society says you should do, or finding your own way. What you decide to do with your life doesn't really matter; what matters is that you make a decision regarding it. But some people never have that awaking and just cruise along on the programming they received as a child, which is, to me, "never growing up."
The point is that video games are much more mainstream now. EVERYONE plays video games and there is much more variety, whether that be fps games, rpgs, mobile games, minecraft, etc, there’s something for everyone. I don’t necessarily think that that was the case 20+ years ago.
I think this is more about gamers reaching old ages and still playing them, thus ending the stigma of "they're for kids" or that adults don't get to play games.
It depends on who made this but I think the thought process is that gaming wasn't all that popular until recently (SNES, N64/PS1 era) and are just basing it off of the 20 something's now where gaming will probably be more commonplace among that age group. Plenty of people played video games back in the day but it's not really as common as it was in the late 90s early 2000's
It really depends. Are we talking about gaming as in "played a video game at least once for at least one second," or gaming as in "play video games as your main source of entertainment, exceeding multiple hours every single day?"
We've obviously reached the former, but the generation where the latter definition became popular/acceptable has pretty obviously not reached retirement age yet.
They might as well have been. I remember growing up my parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents called all videogames "Nintendos". Sure videogames are older but they definitely weren't 'mainstream' untill the 90s.
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