Growing older and still playing video games 49 Articles

by Esmeralda Draic

I think the notion of there even being any question as to whether one should still play video games as one grows older, can only come from those who have never played video games themselves. For those of us who are gamers...read more

by Brian Pittman

As an extremely overgrown adolescent who is staring down his mid-thirties with as much false bravado as I can muster, I have to admit to being someone who can at times fluctuate between an "oh-my-god-i-just-heard-abo ut-peo...read more

by Shelly Barclay

During the 1980's, video games were mainly played by adolescents and the rare "cool" adult. They were played on infinitely slow consoles and in arcades that were jam-packed with kids. Adults really had no place in the b...read more

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by Matt Remley

For most people growing up playing video games was a real horror. Parents often yelled at us and told us that video games would rot our brain or damage the television. These days some of us that grew up in the early or lat...read more

by David Furritus

I remember seeing a little kid staring at the old pinball machines watching other people bounce the little ball around while archaic bells made noises and old style scoring systems racked up huge scores as high as 15,000 p...read more

by Hanna Edwards

I have spent the last three and a half years struggling to build a business. So far I haven't had a moment yet where I had both money in my pocket and the prospect of enough future income that I could afford a nice long va...read more

by Steven Washington

As a child of the 80's, I could have never predicted that the machines generating those mesmerizing pixels and dynamic sounds at my local arcade would transform into a technology by which my adult self would still be encha...read more

by Hugh McKelvy

I'm 46 years old and I still play video games. That rather sounds like the beginning of some 12 step program, doesn't it? Not too far from the truth. These new-fangled video games are extremely engrossing and it is absurdl...read more

by The Unjob

Some people might consider playing video games as one grows older to be a paradox. Incidentally, these people are also the same ones who think that video games are quite literally "games" for kids and young adults who have...read more

by Patrick Swezy

Now in my 20s and looking back at my childhood, I see how I have aged and video games as a medium have aged along with me. Back in the '80s, when I was a toddler, we had 8-bit games that used maybe ten variations of colo...read more

by Art Young

Dude! Your mom's hogging the Playstation, again. If you've been watching entertainment trends, you knew this was going to happen. According to "Packaged Facts," an independent marketing research company, more than half...read more

by Jarrod Coulter

Hello, I'm 31 years old and I play video games. Sounds like I should be standing up at a Gamer's Anonymous meeting. Actually, I play quite a lot of video games, a fact which I'm sure would surprise many of my co-workers. Y...read more

by Fred Jung

They say age is nothing, but a number. And when it comes to playing video games, they couldn't be more right. I am 35 years old with a wife and 2 kids and I still play video games. For as long as I can still breathe, I wil...read more

by Alex Samson

Is there some unwritten rule that says you have to stop playing video games when you get passed a certain age? I hope not! I'm in my early thirties and I enjoy a good blast on a console as much now as I did in my teenage y...read more

by sir jorge

I live in a boring world. I work in cubicle land, far away from the dreams that I had when I was a kid. I wanted to be an NBA basketball star. However, my height and my skills never progressed in real life. However, I was ...read more

by Kevin Schwendeman

I'm not getting any younger, but I don't care. I love video games. From the Intellivision gaming system to my current XBOX 360, I have loved video games. Through the years I have witnessed such dramatic change in the te...read more

by Corey Aaron Burkes

So my wife and I are in Wal-Mart when she holds up a very familiar rectangle box with a guitar on the cover costing about ninety-nine ($99) bucks. Today was a milestone, folks. Here I am; a gamer since the Atari 2600 wit...read more

by Jason Casale

I'm 27 years young. I thought it would take me at least until I was 50 to use that really really dumb expression. But I feel it every day. People my age are complaining that they're getting old, they're getting married,...read more