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How To Tell You're An Aging Gamer Print E-mail
Nick Greeley, Monday, 12 May 2008
Old GamerOld GamerKids these days and their new fangled 3-dimensional gaming worlds with their online buddy lists and their guilds and having more online friends than physical friends!  Why, when I was young, I used to have to walk up hill, BOTH WAYS, just to get to my Atari.  And we didn't have none of those fancy wireless controllers that they have to day!  No!  We had to sit 4 feet from the little 14" TV to play Space Invaders on the 2600!

Ok, that's enough of my ranting.  MC, once again has brought us another useful, if not depressing for some of us, story about How To Tell You're an Aging Gamer .   For example:

"You see more double digit anniversaries for your favorite games."  or how bout the fact that when many of us started playing, controllers had 1 button.  Not 15, but 1!

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