Why 20 year old gamers are better than 50 year old gamers.

[SvennoJ]

KingCherry said:

3sexty said:
a 51 year old for example would have been around 6 years of age when the famous Atari 2600 came out in 1977 and younger when pong or other earlier consoles came out in the early 70's. So technically they could have grown up with gaming of sorts. Just not as we know it today.

A 51 year old would have been around 12, not 6, when the Atari VCS was released, and even then, they weren't prevalent until the early 80s... Again, a 51 year old wasn't brought up on video gaming, they missed the boat...

Maybe they can appreciate it better as they spend the whole first 12 years of their live bored with nothing to do!
At work plenty people are older than me (I'm 42) and avid gamers. 90 definitely missed the boat though, my grandfather never understood the point of video games. He did get email working but that was about it. When I was playing Everquest in 2000 there were plenty people claiming to be in their 50's. And why not, enough time for mmorpg (and slow enough :p)

Perhaps now we're at the start of the VR revolution and kids growing up now will be right at home with it while us oldies get motion sick and need to take the thing off every 5 minutes to check for any burglers or fires :p