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"Give the OAP's a games-console!! :)"

Have you ever thought of how bored old people must get? If they are in a retirement home then they just sit in their room all day and occasionally get visitors. They dwell on the memories they have and think about the next time they get a visit from the family. For those OAP’s who don’t have families then they have very little things to look forward to. It would be great if all the OAP’s spent their last few years having fun instead of sitting at the window waiting …

Wouldn’t it be great if in every retirement there were a games console! Think how much enjoyment it would bring them. Either racing the streets of Liberty city in their favourite car or competing in the winter Olympics! Some OAP’s don’t have full use of their joints and driving is out of the question. Games could help them get closer to their hobbies that they can no longer do.

A driving game such as WRC could take them into a world far from reality. Not being able to drive must annoy a lot of people especially OAP’s. Driving on some of the meanest dirt tracks in Africa could give them some compensation. Or for the football fan playing in the world cup would be a dream. Also if the OAP’s could play their grandchildren over the Internet on games such as THPS3. I know that most of the games which are out at the moment wouldn’t interest many OAP’s but if there were some new ones made especially for them.

When they were children they didn’t have half as much things as were have nowadays. Children in today’s world have far more than they need to keep them amused. Don’t get me wrong I think its great, but older people now missed out on all this technology and it would be really cool if they could catch up on it through games and graphics.

To play on games such as commandoes 2 would bring memories back to them and on other war games such as medal of honour. If they could get interested I think they would enjoy the games of today’s world.

Just an idea :) what do you think of OAP’s having no games back in their childhood. Wouldn’t it be great if they were playing video games? Their grandchildren could race against them or beat them up in Teken or vies-versa.
:) Give the OAP’s a console.

Ha ha... you can just imagine it.... An over 70's skate park. All performing their moves.
*If only* *If only*

lol id rather like to see my grandma on skates!

:) Yeah maybe he he. I would love to play my grandmother at THPS3 :) I think it would be highly amusing. :)

Maybe they could use a real USP and M9 when playing MGS to brush up on that hand and eye coordination :D

That's okay, it was a good post

RM18 wrote:
> Maybe, but their hand eye cordination wouldn't be too good though
> would it?

Thats a point! :) But on driving games they could use a steering wheel and foot pedals to take them even closer to the real thing! :)
Cheers for the reply

Maybe, but their hand eye cordination wouldn't be too good though would it?

Totoro wrote:
> Some of the game ideas i came up with in my 'OAP Interactive' post in
> Prime were:
>
> DUCK FEEDER 2003
> VIRTUAL LUCKY BINGO
> DANCE DANCE HIP-BREAKER
> BUS RIDE TO BOGNOR
> ALLOTMENT TYCOON
> NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH INVESTIGATOR
> ROGER MOORE’S CRUISESHIP CASINO
> LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE
> COUNTDOWN and FIFTEEN TO ONE
> INDOOR BOWLS 2004

Lol good ideas i think they would like indoor bowls the best and bingo, cos they always play them :D

"Granma's knitting challenge"

:D

Some of the game ideas i came up with in my 'OAP Interactive' post in Prime were:

DUCK FEEDER 2003
VIRTUAL LUCKY BINGO
DANCE DANCE HIP-BREAKER
BUS RIDE TO BOGNOR
ALLOTMENT TYCOON
NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH INVESTIGATOR
ROGER MOORE’S CRUISESHIP CASINO
LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE
COUNTDOWN and FIFTEEN TO ONE
INDOOR BOWLS 2004