I don't want an X Box, I wouldn't know how to use one and they sound so mind numbingly boring!

[Dogtrousers]

I think I have figured it out. Accy has been sentenced to a long stretch for crimes against fashion and he's worried they're going to force him to play video games, and he doesn't know how.

 

[mustang1]

I've had all the PSes and most of the gran turismo games. Love 'em!

 

[Stevo 666]

Steam, where you discover games and even during a sale, often find them cheaper on cdkeys and input the key into Steam to install.👍

Good to hear that - at least my mate will be as he got his Assetto Corsa game from CD Keys.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

B

Blimey, calm down ol' Ming fella, or do I have to change a habit of a lifetime, and find a console to try and shoot you down.

Perfectly calm, just saying you were not too old to have done so. 😂

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Perfectly calm, just saying you were not too old to have done so. 😂

Good, was worried for your blood pressure.

As I said, only my experience, not for me, onwards and upwards.

 

[stephec]

I've had all the PSes and most of the gran turismo games. Love 'em!

You've just reminded me, when my lad had a PS2 I used to enjoy the odd game of Colin McRae.

 

[Gunk]

The point was, those born 64 / 65 you weren’t too old to have never have encountered video games in their childhood. No one stated you had to play them to the exclusion of other activities. The too old for statement doesn‘t hold.

I’ve just Googled Sega Megadrive and that was launched in 1989, I was 24 in 1989, married, had a pretty responsible job, owned a house, so a grown up young adult. We never had the paddle tennis games as kids as we didn’t have a TV so computer games were just not on my Radar, if I’d been born 10 years later in 1975 I would have been exposed to them at school.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I’ve never done any gaming, born in 1965 so a bit too old, I sort of missed the whole thing. Plus I’d rather live my life through actual reality rather than act out a fantasy in front of a screen.

Born in 1963, I was thinking I never did either, but then I remembered shooting down some monsters as a teen, what was the game called?

Where you too old at 13 years old to play Space Invaders?

Yes! Space invaders!
It was really my dad's computer games but I played it sometimes.
Lost interest pretty quickly, never played games since then.

I've gone through most of my life never having witnessed a shop theft but in the last year I have seen 4; 2 in Iceland, 1 in a Tesco Express and 1 in Greggs.

All of those are food shops

 

[fossyant]

I’ve just Googled Sega Megadrive and that was launched in 1989, I was 24 in 1989, married, had a pretty responsible job, owned a house, so a grown up young adult. We never had the paddle tennis games as kids as we didn’t have a TV so computer games were just not on my Radar, if I’d been born 10 years later in 1975 I would have been exposed to them at school.

5 years younger and had a Spectrum 48k, then a Megadrive then PC gaming on a 486. House owner and married by 1995. Gaming then stopped by kids 5 years later.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

I was born in 1952 and fully embraced the home computer boom of the eighties, starting with a ZX81 and going through countless others.

 

[Drago]

I was born in '68, but home pooters and games consoles weren't really a thing in Shetland.

By the time I was double digits old I was dragged to England, then bunged straight off to board at prep school because I was deemed to be getting unruly. Strangely enough, pooters and games consoles weren't a thing there either and even if they were I was too busy trying to avoid being b******d by sixth formers to care.

By the time id finally promised not to shoot anyone or set fire to anything and was released into state education I was 15 and moved straight onto chicks and motorbikes.

Thus I escaped the electronic crack cocaine of computer games.

 

[Accy cyclist]

@MontyVeda

I did play quite addictive Bomber Man for hours, trying to beat the now ex Mrs Accy's score, on some plug into your tv device, about 1999 to 2002, but stopped when we got our first PC soon after, when finding the joys of the internet bigger than the joy of trying to drop a bomb on a smiling emoji, hoping to see that 😲 look on his face as the bomb hits him. I also played that 'blip,blip' tennis game on one of those very early black and white plug into your tv device, in must be the early 1980's.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Get with it grandad.

Oh Look! My nemesis 'grandparents' liking another 'love it', when such posts appear. Such a surprise(!) 😏

 

[AndyRM]

I'm probably what you'd call a casual gamer, having enjoyed various games over the years.

Started out on the PC with Quake (which is entirely responsible for my love of NIN), Doom, Duke Nukem, Age of Empires and Grand Theft Auto.

Then got an N64 which remains my favourite console and had some of the greatest games of all time, mostly made by Rare (sadly destroyed by Microsoft): for all that COD bangs on about multiplayer, it's nothing compared to Goldeneye (and anyone who's put hours into that will have a favourite multiplayer setup: Facility, Slappers Only, One Shot Kills).

The last "big" game I truly enjoyed playing was GTA San Andreas which I still play occasionally. I prefer indie games these days and would rather go back to older stuff that I know I enjoy rather than trying to get into something new.

I did enjoy Fallout 4 which I was lent by a pal, but not enough to play it more than once.

 

[Drago]

Oh Look! My nemesis 'grandparents' liking another 'love it', when such posts appear. Such a surprise(!) 😏

The irony is, Accy, that many who deride folk and call them disparaging names like "grandad" would themselves be unwilling to go to war to defend democracy like their grandads did.