Ten Signs You're an Aging Gamer

I did that "tapping during the loading-screen" when I was a kid. But something happened since then, called "growing up" or "bringing up patience", so I haven't tried to fool myself or force the computer since I was lttle... :P

Also, not everyone online is an asshole in games. I think it depends more on what games you play, cause every "community" is quite different per game. For example, it's well known that there are the typical foul-mouthed so-called 13-year-olds in the Modern Warfare games. But take something like... say 'Left For Dead 2', and MOST people really play to play the game properly, and maybe 1 out of 10 are uncooperative or even abusive assholes. Well, maybe there's also a difference in console-kids and PC-people. But in any way, I have very little problem with random people online and won't judge until I've seen their behavior.

Safe for now.. wish I had more time to play more games

There are old gamers that stop playing modern computers that has a lot better things to do rather than playing computer games that's why he is not updated anymore when it comes to computer games.

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I haven't play games online not because I'm not confident with my competitive skills. I just don't enjoy it. I think no matter on how are we if could keep on playing the same things that we had before ,you can even beat the young ones.

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This should have been called "10 Signs that You Used to play Video Games" instead.

 wa, I like game

I don't do #5 very often either people online are terrible I mainly play with friends online.

I'm only 21 and I am already at 1-4 and 6, 7, 10.

no matter how many other gaming devices is out there still Nintendo is Nintendo no one can beat that 

what makes me sad is knowing the golden years of video games are well behind us. most everything has been done, and the new generation of gamers are stuck with the same old games re-packaged and re-released every 6 months. Not that a younger gamer would notice this trend, but still...

ALL OF THESE ARE TRUE FOR ME!! NOO!!! I'M ONLY 20!!!

Forgot to mention you play your old console games on your new desktop or laptop in an emulator on a computer system many times more powerful than the original console.

I have one more for your list:

You have gone out of your way to create a fully functioning Plug n Play emulation device out of an old SNES controller, fully loaded with games from each of your childhood consoles(NES, SNES, and Genesis for me). Just so you can be sure you can get your childhood game fix no matter who you are visiting.

soI am 17 and an aging gamer....somethings wrong in the world nowerdays

I wish all of these applied to me.

I grew up with older gaming systems such as the NES, SNES, and Genesis. We didn't get an N64 until a few months before the Gamecube came out. I don't own any other company's stuff, such as an Xbox or Playstation, and my Wii goes largely unused. I do play online games, though, such as TF2 and...well, just TF2. I'll play my old systems when I want to really jump into a game. I just wish my batteries hadn't failed in my old cartridges...I had to redo my perfect game of LTTP.

Bollocks. I'm looking at the big four zero in the next couple of months and I still regularly get the top score or K/D on CoD, and I only ever play strangers; so mainly 13 year olds, I expect. Just turn the Game Voice down in the options menu and you won't feel like a paedo in the local school playground!

lol too true .. 3 red cherries out of 3

"would cost you 25 cents to play, and you'd get at least 20 minutes of quality playtime out of that."

Holy cow! I might have actually played video games when I was a kid if that was anything close to true...Instead I wondered who all these rich kids were, must have had endless rolls of quarters.

I probably spent a grand total of $2.00 on video games in machines when I was a kid, because it was always the same thing... put quarter in... "OK, now what's this game abo... oh. Game over already? Wtf. I'm not putting another quarter in THAT thing again. What a rip off.

If some of these games actually let you get more than 60 seconds of play for a quarter, I might have actually played.

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If your first gaming love was a NES, you're still young. Atari 2600 ftw.

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I agree with this list!!!....though I am aware that arcade games these days cost more than a quarter. I do mash buttons from time to time. Cuz loading screens suck major balls. And I know that Nintendo smell all to well!. And who does play there portable games in public??? that just screams " NOT GETTING LAID!!!".....

I've been a gamer for "life". I am now 32. None of this is accurate in the least. FAIL.

Disagree strongly with the online gaming. That's really all I play these days and I'm 29. Hell, there are entire groups of people over 25 that I play with online on a consistent basis.

Ahh. I'm old. Even if i am only 16, about half of these things apply to me. What?

im 14 and besides the Nintendo cereal i have everything... as long as you consider N64 retro, that and a retron3(NES SNES and genesis put together) but that was made more recently

Turning 30 this year, and I fit most of these. Although I do play FPS games with strangers online, 99% of my online co-op is with friends. Also, I do rock the iPhone for portable games, but I play them loudly and proudly in public. Especially NBA Jam, nobody looks at you funny when a BOOM-SHAKKA-LAKKA erupts from your phone.

Uhhh... really? First off: What idiot mashes his buttons during the loading screen? That wears the buttons out. Know how I know that? From 20 years experience playing games.

Secondly, of course arcades are more expensive. Ever been to a movie theater and just PASSED BY the arcade there? Just glance at a machine and it'll tell you it's a dollar for one play. But even then arcade games have been more than a quarter for 15+ years.

Also, chiptunes are popular with scrub new kids who have only been playing for a few years. It's "nerd cool/geek chic" music.

This list sucks.

28 and yes its weird that we feel old before we hit 30.Funny thing though i don't suffer from anything you said.I played ZX spectrum 48 an 128, amiga 500 and 1200, a master system, over here nintendo wasn't that famous.

i love online gaming, met alot of graet guys there, after all we are all getting old so we meet a lot of people the same age or older , so it's cool

Interesting how much of these that actually are correct. I did not know of Nintendo Cereal however, but the rest of them made me feel nostalgical.

Mmm.. the Nintendo Smell.

7/10.Close enough.

I am 31 and none of that pertains to me. I played games during the NES days. I love gaming online. A lot of those were odd to me. I also grew big on the Halo and Call of Duty games, something only the young crowd knows of. I do respect the old school games and once in awhile will hook up an old console but right now I have my PS3, 360, Wii, and Dreamcast hooked to my tv.

What? I'm 15 and I'm an aging gamer? really? 7 of the 10 positive?

I am 23 and I grew up with the NES as my first console. Gaming really has changed.

It went like this for me:

NES:(played with family even my dad could play this one)N64: all my friends would come over and play.PS2/Xbox: System link 16 player halo. And the begginings of online play.360/ps3: Play online mostly but can still compete well. My dad and my sisters don't really play the newer games. But there is def an increase in girl gaming.

we call 1-ups "free's". Not sure where that term came about.

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9 of 10 (did not even know nintendo made cereal), also do u remeber sticking out your tongue and flinging you nes controller like the wii, whenever you made mario jump

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OH DEAR GOD I'M WASTING AWAY.

Nintendo smell? It was 2600 smell...and then any and every game for any and every system thereafter.

I totally agree with everything!

yes miss my Amiga 1200 but like some new games also

and by terrible I meant they are horrible people not that they are bad at the game.(by the way I am linkofthefourswords I just hadn't bothered to log in)

yeah it's kinda of depressing more young gamers don't notice it. I'm 21 and I still am tied of the lack of originality plagueing mainstream games.

so, you never played Metal Slug...

Im a gamer for life and I dont play on-line. A true gamer is antisocial.

HAHAHA! I did that as well!!

53 here. 28 computers in my lifetime beginning with the Atari 400. I remember entering programming code from magazines and saving the prog. on a cassette tape just so I could have something new to play with. I've had every console except ColecoVision and only because I didn't like the controller configuration. Currently... 2 360's, 4 PC's including my second Alienware. Fond memories of playing Falcon 3.0 with me and my buddy's 386-40 over a modem line. It took forever to transfer the data back and forth before we could dogfight. It's been more fun than I can remember. Favorite game right now would have to be Red Dead Redemption.