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Sometimes it's nice to just pack one's brains up and have a bit of mindless fun. And why not?

3. People of all ages have always enjoyed playing games. Before the advent of video games, our grandparents enjoyed playing cards, charades, board games and a whole plethora of fun pastimes that people of all ages enjoyed, from children to seniors. Why should we look at their modern-day equivalents, video games, as though they had an upper age limit?

4. Those of us of a 'certain age' such as myself have grown up with video games, from the first primitive games of the late 1970s through the console games of the 1980s and beyond. Why should we be deprived of the happy pastimes of a lifetime just because we've reached a certain age level? We grew up with these games just as our forebears grew up with charades and such.


I can't see me ever losing my enjoyment of video games. Sometimes I want to immerse myself in an absorbing other world in my adventure games or role-playing games, sometimes I want to exercise my brain with my puzzle games or card games, and sometimes I want to just work off tension with a good old mindless fragfest. Games can be therapeutic, escapist, brain-stretching or a combination of all three, but the end result is plain and simple: fun. And there's no age limit to having a bit of fun!

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