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Poll: Older GAF gamers? (40+ only)

Older GAF -- how old are you anyway? (40+ only)

  • 40 to 44

    Votes: 198 51.3%

  • 45 to 49

    Votes: 103 26.7%

  • 50 to 54

    Votes: 36 9.3%

  • 55 to 59

    Votes: 14 3.6%

  • 60 to 64

    Votes: 3 0.8%

  • 65 to 69

    Votes: 2 0.5%

  • 70 to 74

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 75 to 79

    Votes: 2 0.5%

  • 80 to 89

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Above 90

    Votes: 28 7.3%
  • Total voters
    386
46. Started with Atari 2600 and c64. Still play pretty much everyday on ps5 and pc. Play alot of VR to. I'm also Champ 2 on rocket league and my goal is to be the oldest grand champ!!

Love me some old games too. This is my mame cab I built a few years ago šŸ˜ƒ

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We've got almost 30 people in their 50's. That's pretty good.

Most older GAF (78%) are in their 40s.
 
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Somebody should start a 40+ GAF gaming group. I'm not on multiplayer very often, but I might be up for it, if there were an old fogie's league.
 
Shubh_C63 said:
Which game or genre you guys found you were good before and now you're not.
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I would say competitive multiplayer shooters. I no longer play anything online because I don't have the time to "git gud", and honestly, I don't really enjoy it anymore.

Started with the Half Life 1 mod trifecta of Team Fortress Classic (mostly played CTF), Counter-Strike, and Day of Defeat. Enjoyed the first Unreal Tournament, but spent most of my UT time in Unreal Tournament 2k4. My first Battlefield was BF2 (always played the hero medic but commander mode was awesome too), but Battlefield 2142 holds some of my favorite gaming memories and almost exclusively played Titan Mode. I've played some multiplayer shooters since then but, like i've said, I've lost enjoyment of the genre.
 
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41, no kids, wife plays games. So I get to play all the games I want!

In theory, at least. I'm still like a kid where I could play games all day but I try to enjoy more things in life since I have some money now. I was working poor up till just 3 years ago so I would miss a lot of social functions as my peers did more and more expensive activities. So now I jump at the chance to get out there.

I have these two longtime friends who got married. Had kids. Hardly ever hear from them. Recently they split up and I get a call from one any time the other has the kids because they want to regress and stay up all nite getting trashed and watching reruns lol. They know who to call.
 
Crayon said:
41, no kids, wife plays games. So I get to play all the games I want!

In theory, at least. I'm still like a kid where I could play games all day but I try to enjoy more things in life since I have some money now. I was working poor up till just 3 years ago so I would miss a lot of social functions as my peers did more and more expensive activities. So now I jump at the chance to get out there.

I have these two longtime friends who got married. Had kids. Hardly ever hear from them. Recently they split up and I get a call from one any time the other has the kids because they want to regress and stay up all nite getting trashed and watching reruns lol. They know who to call.
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At the end of day, unless you killed that kid inside you that's the place you always want to kinda go back to. I think most of the "adulting" shit we do is to ensure we can "go back" and grasp some of that excitement/fun/surprise/carelessness. Not saying that you don't get that in other things, but there's something different about doing the things you did as a kid or even have the things you had/or could never have as a kid, in the words of gen Z's "it hit different, no cap" :pie_roffles:
 
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itsjustJEFF said:
At the end of day, unless you killed that kid inside you that's the place you always want to kinda go back to. I think most of the "adulting" shit we do is to ensure we can "go back" and grasp some of that excitement/fun/surprise/carelessness. Not saying that you don't get that in other things, but there's something different about doing the thing you did as a kid, in the words of gen Z's "it hit different, no cap" :pie_roffles:
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That's true, I think. At some point, I realized that I look at people as children with a bunch of baggage piled on top. That kid is always in there somewhere. Just ask your therapist lol.
 
47 here.
Kind sad that my reflexes aren't how they used to be, so competitive online multiplayer are usually a no go, but I still have some IRL friends that get together from time to time, and then we play MK64, SF2/Alpha3, MK2/3, Contra3, TMNT2 (the new one is good), SoR2 and all those awesome co-op couch games of yore.
Having little time to play, 10 hours a week with luck, playing MMORPG that I used to are out of question. I miss my time with FFXI and LotROnline...
 
GrayDock said:
47 here.
Kind sad that my reflexes aren't how they used to be, so competitive online multiplayer are usually a no go, but I still have some IRL friends that get together from time to time, and then we play MK64, SF2/Alpha3, MK2/3, Contra3, TMNT2 (the new one is good), SoR2 and all those awesome co-op couch games of yore.
Having little time to play, 10 hours a week with luck, playing MMORPG that I used to are out of question. I miss my time with FFXI and LotROnline...
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I feel pretty lucky at 47 that my reflexes are still near the top of my game..
my eyes however are not what they used to be... so I can PC game like a mofo since I can be close tot he screen but trying it on consoles doesn't fly so well.
 
45 here. I played a lot of games until I was a teenager (and casually inbetween) but I only got properly hooked again when I bought my PS4 in 2015. Since then I've gone all in buying CRTs, old consoles, and pretty much everything I missed over the years. I didn't play Chrono Trigger until 2020 and it absolutely blew my mind.

I think Bloodborne is what did it for me. I hadn't been this hooked on a game probably since my SNES days and it's been happening a lot in these past few years.
 
Krathoon said:
The 40s are when you start cutting your losses. It is the f**k it age.
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You post like my grandma and you're absolutely right. Hitting the age where I've mostly stopped caring feels like incredibly liberating.
 
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Inspirational thread. I love seeing you old geezers still out here shitposting and playing games. I hope I still have the interest in my 40s and beyond.
 
45, and been lurking here since 2003 maybe 2002, signed up when I found out no bs emails needed. Started with the NES in 86. As I've gotten older I've fallen out of love for playing games, but love the industry, and tech involved.
 
My dad used to hold me up cause I couldn't reach the knobs for Pong at my childhood pizza place.

I remember when the home version released and we hooked it up to our bad ass crt that had tuning knobs for local stations and the uhf mode. We couldn't believe we could play pong at home...

Then the Atari 2600 released with those slick black joysticks and game cartridges. Life would never be the same.
 
GrayDock said:
Kind sad that my reflexes aren't how they used to be
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Oh, same! Elden Ring will likely be my last "hard game", as something else that happens is that your patience starts to go.

When you're in your teens and twenties, retrying that same bit over and over is fun. 30s, you tolerate it, but wish you can just move on. 40s? Yeah, screw that noise :)

(I turned 45 back in April, however I got my PS5 in March 2021 and it was one of the happiest days I'd had recently, due to pandemic, losing job, etc. So, still have the love gaming)
 
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48, and I am becoming a more casual gamer by the day. I now shy away from pretty much all multiplayer games nowadays and I got a switch last week to get in to some "less intense" games like animal crossing.
 
Only 1 person between 65-89 but 18 over 90? Seems suspect. It's the kids (anything under 40) who can't help themselves trolling.
 
PUNKem733 said:
45, and been lurking here since 2003 maybe 2002, signed up when I found out no bs emails needed. Started with the NES in 86. As I've gotten older I've fallen out of love for playing games, but love the industry, and tech involved.
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It is pretty easy to fall out of love with it. Lots of obnoxious young people.
 
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Duchess said:
Oh, same! Elden Ring will likely be my last "hard game", as something else that happens is that your patience starts to go.

When you're in your teens and twenties, retrying that same bit over and over is fun. 30s, you tolerate it, but wish you can just move on. 40s? Yeah, screw that noise :)

(I turned 45 back in April, however I got my PS5 in March 2021 and it was one of the happiest days I'd had recently, due to pandemic, losing job, etc. So, still have the love gaming)
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Yeah. From Software games really try your patience. I am at that age where I know there are more enjoyable games.
 
Starforce2005 said:
What are your favorite games?
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I'm a 48, OG 80's kid here lol. I recently finished Horizon and I like messing around in Elden Ring, Division2. I really like story-based walking sims games (Edith finch, Firewatch, Ethan Cater, Dear Esther). I also really enjoyed Limbo, Inside, and Little Nightmares. On the classic end, I'm replaying "The Legend of Zelda" after that probably "Link to the Past". I still play many classic arcade games on my Meme cabinet like Stargate, Pacman, Donkey Kong, and Astroids.....Etc
 
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Turned 50 last year. I am starting to find AAA games too complicated and bloated to play. I would like the tech of today with gameplay mechanics of the 90s.
Favourite era will always be the Amiga. Before that ai owned a ZX Spectrum and seeing the Amiga at a local store running the Newtek Demo Reel blew me away. Never experienced such a leap in tech since
 
43 here. Started gaming when I was 3, so yeah 40 years of gaming now. I still play everything from Atari 2600 all the way to modern games. For me the greatest gaming era was during the '90s. I went from playing NES to Dreamcast in one decade. No kids today will experience a ride like that. My all time favorite game ever is Thief: The Dark Project.
 
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