A thread for us old folks
I thought you would enjoy this article
the lady is 86 playing GTA4
http://www.saga.co.uk/saga-magazine/2013/may/silver-gamers.aspx
Why don’t you get out of my way? Oops, there’s somebody gone for a burton!’ With these words, 86-year-old Hilda Knott became an internet sensation earlier this year, as BBC News showed her playing the ultra-violent video game Grand Theft Auto IV on her 65-inch TV screen
Elaine Lekisolish, 60, says that, to her, the online multiplayer fantasy game World of Warcraft is ‘like another family’. She adds: ‘All of my five grown-up children play, or have played, and as some of them live too far away to visit often, it’s like being with them in another dimension.’
Dr Jason Allaire, who led the study, said he first became interested in the topic after convincing his 75-year-old grandmother to try playing World of Warcraft with him.
‘She didn’t want to play, she complained – then three hours later she couldn’t stop playing. In our research, we found that gamers scored better on measures of wellbeing – they were happier, they experienced more positive emotions during the day. They tended to have lower levels of depression compared with people who didn’t play games.’
Allaire wonders if manufacturers just don’t want to make ‘old-people games’. But if Hilda Knott has taught us anything, surely it’s this – you’re never too old to shoot a rival gang member with an Uzi.
I thought you would enjoy this article
the lady is 86 playing GTA4
http://www.saga.co.uk/saga-magazine/2013/may/silver-gamers.aspx
Why don’t you get out of my way? Oops, there’s somebody gone for a burton!’ With these words, 86-year-old Hilda Knott became an internet sensation earlier this year, as BBC News showed her playing the ultra-violent video game Grand Theft Auto IV on her 65-inch TV screen
Elaine Lekisolish, 60, says that, to her, the online multiplayer fantasy game World of Warcraft is ‘like another family’. She adds: ‘All of my five grown-up children play, or have played, and as some of them live too far away to visit often, it’s like being with them in another dimension.’
Dr Jason Allaire, who led the study, said he first became interested in the topic after convincing his 75-year-old grandmother to try playing World of Warcraft with him.
‘She didn’t want to play, she complained – then three hours later she couldn’t stop playing. In our research, we found that gamers scored better on measures of wellbeing – they were happier, they experienced more positive emotions during the day. They tended to have lower levels of depression compared with people who didn’t play games.’
Allaire wonders if manufacturers just don’t want to make ‘old-people games’. But if Hilda Knott has taught us anything, surely it’s this – you’re never too old to shoot a rival gang member with an Uzi.
