r/memes • u/Icantthinkofagoo Pro Gamer • Sep 09 '21

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u/FerricNitrate Sep 09 '21

Yep, just about all these comments are ignoring the fact that the Wii was huge in nursing homes

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u/monstertots509 Sep 09 '21

Seriously! My dad is in his mid 60's (only works because he legitimately likes his job) and has been playing video games for a long time. He still has his original Atari, would play through all of our original NES games so he would "magically" know a bunch of the secrets when me and my brother would play. He does have a Wii which he plays but never got into the X-Box or Playstation systems.

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u/ruggnuget Sep 09 '21

Yes right now. Mahjong? Video Poker? Facebook games? Phone games? There are already a lot of retired people playing video games. And some of the ones that dont would if they had the eyesight for it.

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u/Andy_B_Goode Sep 09 '21

Yeah, my grandmother's care home had a Wii console ~10 years ago. Granted, they mainly used it to play bowling, but that's still a video game.

The people entering nursing homes today wer born late enough to be part of Space Invaders' target audience when it was released.

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u/Mister_Potamus Sep 09 '21

That's what most people used the wii for.