Too old.....NEVER!!!!!

I can see the future, a bold statement indeed, but one I believe, and here’s what I see……30 years from now gameshops Worldwide over-run by an army of pensioners hungry for the next installment of Call of Duty (which by then is set in deep space as the Human race battle a cyborg army and everyone still camps) or FIFA 40 or Gears of War XIV : 'The nursing home years' or god forbid Quantum Theory 2 (it’s been 30 years, we hoped you’d forgotten how bad the 1st one was….no we haven’t.) I know this because as long as there’s still breath in my body i’ll still be gaming & i’m not alone.

It’s sometimes thought, wrongly of course, that playing video games is the domain solely of whiney, shouty kids or angry teenagers with a penchant for tea-bagging & verbal abuse, those 2 groups exist of course , god do they exist, (better just say not all the young ‘uns are bad news….most of them, but not all) but there’s another group out there, large in number, occaisionally quite skilled, frequently quite drunk but always having a good time…..the ‘mature’ gamer.

Gamers like myself who have grown up with video games, gamers who spent hours playing Jet Set Willy & almost as long waiting for it to load, were mesmerised by Pac Man (or in my case Hungry Horace), and sat in awe as Sonic sped across the screen in his lush green World collecting rings & looping the loop, gamers that have been playing since it all began & will be playing for decades to come, I for one didn’t sit through hours of loading screens, poor graphics & laughable sound only to hang up my controller now it’s starting to get good!!!!

Fair play, it wasn’t all bad back in the old days but jumping over barrels & climbing up ladders to rescue a princess from a Gorilla didn’t quite enthrall me in the way going on a sniping mission deep inside enemy territory in ‘Ghillies in the Mist’ did.

So look out for me in 30 years time when you head out game shopping, i’ll be the one with the Master Chief slippers, the hover zimmer and a big, happy toothless grin from decades gaming, hope i’ll see you there.