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

[Accy cyclist]

Why do we have to justify our enjoyment of playing games to someone who clearly has no interest in playing games?

I's called starting a debate.

 

[si_c]

I've just downloaded Steam. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what I can do with it.

Steam is just a shop front these days - you can buy games and launch them and so forth. There are a few social factors so if you have friends (who does) and they play games you can add them and see what they are playing etc.

I've got a couple of hundred in my library which is decent, but not extreme by any measure.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

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

 

[si_c]

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

Steam doesn't stop developers selling keys in other places which is a good thing, I've got quite a few games through humble bundle, but it's often easier to just wait til it's a price I find acceptable and get it on steam.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Vaguely remember playing Space invaders once, and thought, not as as good as riding my bike or building a den down the park, so never bothered again.

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.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

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.

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.

 

[wiggydiggy]

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

CDKeys was very good, but MS have recently closed the loophole that allowed them to sell 'World' in the UK for cheap. That plus MS lowering the conversion rate for changing Game Pass Core (Old Xbox Live Gold) into Ultimate means the days of me buying 4 years worth of Gold for about £120 and having it all converted to Ultimate have gone Its still good, just not as good as it was.

Its about £80 for 2 years Core now, which converts to Ultimate at 2:1 so £80 a year or £6.66 p/month. My gamepass expires next year sometime, if it stays at that price I'll renew it.

 

[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]

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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