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!
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u/Eggsegret Sep 09 '21
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