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"Gaming for Older Generations!"

While your on the PC does anyone having there Dad next to them going, "oh let me go on the PC, I need to defeat Genghis Kahn on Ages of the Empires". Or is your dear old nan shooting the Naboo Starships on Starwars starfighter on your PS2.

I know i have this problem, my Dad is addicted to Ages of Empires II. The game he got me for Christmas. I think he's going in a mental state as it's at my friends at the moment.

Did you know that it's a commen fact that the average game buyer is something like 25. It's true.

But the weirdest thing I've seen is this 78 year old lady playing on her grandsons Dreamcast. I found that so funny, she was quite good at it as well, and the thing that cracked me up was when she said. "I dont want to playonline as I feel i'm spoiling the youngsters fun."
Can you belive that, theres millions of people that go online, idont this one AOP on the net wont make a different.

How do you feel towards this subject, does your Mum shoot Zombies with a massive shotgun on Resiedent Evil when you go to bed. Or would you hate to see old people online.

Just feel free to leave a message. :)

Spider II wrote:
> I just relised that waht i said was very dirty. "My dad always
> play on AOP" AOP also stands for Age Old Pensioners as well as
> Age's of Empires

Well i found that funny

:) (:) Well we didn't.

I just relised that waht i said was very dirty. "My dad always play on AOP" AOP also stands for Age Old Pensioners as well as Age's of Empires

Well i found that funny
:)

pb wrote:
> When I used to play about on my Spectrum, back in the old days, my
> dad used to be interested in all of the new stuff I had and what the
> computer could do. He started to get less interested as the years
> went on and now he mearly grunts at a computer conversation.

Mind
> you, he recently bought one of those Internet set-top boxes, but I'm
> not sure whether that's a recommendation or not...

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My Dad's intrested in my PC, and sometimes my Dreamcast. But he always plays on AOP.

He just wouldn't listen....

When I used to play about on my Spectrum, back in the old days, my dad used to be interested in all of the new stuff I had and what the computer could do. He started to get less interested as the years went on and now he mearly grunts at a computer conversation.

Mind you, he recently bought one of those Internet set-top boxes, but I'm not sure whether that's a recommendation or not...

Er-No you should tell your Dad that games have changed since the days of Space invaders

Lol :)

Well, I have to say that my dad says gaming is going to be the end of me... I can't really see it as that and reverse it back around and say well its better than smoking. Which is true, and plesantly more addictive as well. My dad never really took to gaming, he said it was because he doesn't have the time but the story goes that he hates the game Space Invaders and he feels that every game reminds him of the time when he lost 19 hours of his life playing that game....

...and the only game I have ever seen him watch since then was Zelda Ocarina of Time, he sat there and watched me play it for hours on end, and said this story line was brilliant and he was amazed, he wants me to play Majoras Mask again so he can watch that in the summer, because when I completed it he had a photographic shoot on.

Anyway thats my account!

:)

My Dad loves racing games. He plays on Gran Turisomo, Ferrari 355 and sometimes MSR.

Ok, nice topic Spider.

When I last had my parents around to the house I let my dad have a go on MSR, as he's mad on cars. The results were similar to having someone who had been out to every pub in the UK, and drank it's contents, sit behind the wheel.

It was actually very funny and even he enjoyed the experience, but complained about it not being too realistic. Perhaps I should have bought a steering wheel after all....

sorry mate but it is my trade mark. (:)