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ryosnk
08-31-2004, 12:52 PM
What are you going to do with all those games and systems once your too old to play with them? Like for example are you going to sell them when you get older, get buried with them, give them to your kid(s), or maybe give them to your ex-wife when you get divorced! What are you going to do? :)


OK- OK, let me just say what will you all do with your games when you die; get buried with them, let your kid(s) inheriate them, or let your wife sell them?
Cornfedwb
08-31-2004, 12:53 PM
Keep them and play them.
Zenithian Legend
08-31-2004, 12:56 PM
Sounds like a plan to me.
Indiana
08-31-2004, 12:57 PM
When would you be too old to play them? This is a LIFE long hobby!
Xevious
08-31-2004, 01:05 PM
I'm 32 and one of my bosses is 60 and we still play games. How old is too old?
Scorch
08-31-2004, 01:16 PM
Keep them and play them.
Backlash
08-31-2004, 01:26 PM
Yeah wtf? Why would I ever stop playing them? Especially when I get old and I can't do as many physical activities?
Sartori
08-31-2004, 01:28 PM
Remember the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt?

Need to have plenty of games for the afterlife!
epobirs
08-31-2004, 01:44 PM
Remember the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt?

Need to have plenty of games for the afterlife!

Bingo. If I get so old I can't play even the slow paced ones, then it's time for the big dirt nap.
Mafia
08-31-2004, 01:50 PM
My dad played games to one extent or the other until he died, and I'm sure if he was still alive he'd still play something here and there, even if it was just a pinball machine or a classic like Centipede (his personal favorite). And unless I suddenly find that every game I play is too difficult, then I probably won't stop playing unless I don't have time for it, and I doubt that too.
evilpenguin9000
08-31-2004, 02:04 PM
Video gaming into the golden years. Will there ever be video games designed for older people. WIll geriatric Link save Zelda from the evil Iron Lung Gannon? Can retired plumber Mario stretch his social security check far enough to go see Princess Peach in the retirement home?

These are questions that need answering.
PaulEMoz
08-31-2004, 02:08 PM
Too old? To play video games? How does that happen then? :?
epobirs
08-31-2004, 02:09 PM
Video gaming into the golden years. Will there ever be video games designed for older people. WIll geriatric Link save Zelda from the evil Iron Lung Gannon? Can retired plumber Mario stretch his social security check far enough to go see Princess Peach in the retirement home?

These are questions that need answering.

I can't find the link right now but there was an article a few months back (LA Times IIRC) about the growing paid subscriber base of big gaming hubs like Yahoo, MSN, EA, and others where the primary fare isn't driven by quick reflexes. They're finding themselves with a very valuable demographic of people who were already entering middle-age when video games first became popular and are only now getting into it themselves in retirement.

This is going to be a very well established market long before the average CAG gets to that age.
Moxio
08-31-2004, 02:46 PM
I'd still play them.
x0thedeadzone0x
08-31-2004, 02:48 PM
Too old to play? Ha. I'd suffer my arthritic pain and keep playing.
Sartori
08-31-2004, 02:50 PM
I'm all ready going down the drain. My right pinky finger starts giving me some problems after playing Melee for a while (I don't really understand this).

I also have early symptoms of CTS in my left hand, as I gather.
Cornfedwb
08-31-2004, 02:59 PM
I'm all ready going down the drain. My right pinky finger starts giving me some problems after playing Melee for a while (I don't really understand this).

I also have early symptoms of CTS in my left hand, as I gather.

A few months ago, one of my friends had such a bad case of Nintendo thumb his doctor actually banned him from video games for a month. It got so terrible he couldn't even pick up a pencil properly.
Duo_Maxwell
08-31-2004, 03:01 PM
My dad is still big on board games and puzzles and he's in his 60's. Had he grown up in the video game age like me it's likely that he'd play video games rather than board games, he's even said it himself.
Zenithian Legend
08-31-2004, 05:38 PM
Actually I plan on being buried with all of my games.
nickmad
08-31-2004, 05:46 PM
im going to eat all my games and plug the controllers into my ass when i die.
killswitch64
08-31-2004, 05:47 PM
I plan on being buried in a ps2 shaped casket.
Gothic Walrus
08-31-2004, 06:54 PM
Too old to play? Ha. I'd suffer my arthritic pain and keep playing.

That's the attitude! :D

I'm not too worried about finishing all of my games, as I know that I never will. I'll play the ones that I feel like, ignore what I don't, and do my best to live my life as best I can.

Whatever happens, happens. We can't experience everything in live - there are countless books we'll never read, songs we'll never hear, places we'll never visit. Just do what you can while you're alive, and try not to regret what you don't get to.

EDIT: Wow...that was a hell of a lot more optimistic than I usually am. Freakish... :shock: