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An Interview With 2old2play's Doodi

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the never-too-old-to-play dept.

vinnie2k writes "This is an interesting interview with the founder of 2old2play.com. In it he discusses the future of gaming for older people, why we need communities like 2old2play, and how the gaming industry needs to refocus its efforts on the games it makes. Cool insight and worth the read for any older gamers."

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  1. This is so timely (for me anyway) by conteXXt · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Today I was playing some Enemy Territory (Sniper mod) for a few hours.

    Server was a Clan branded one, and a few of the members joined in the frag fest (well as much of a fest as sniper mod can be, but I digress).

    To my surprise, they asked me to try out for their clan.

    My response? How late do you play as I am old (well not really but I have responsibilities)

    Average age of the clan? 32.

    That was a surprise to me.

    I guess certain games attract different age groups (duh) but I would have thought that a *clan* would generally be younger folks.

    Anyone else have this experience?

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  2. Re:Old gamers? I must be ancient. by magicRob · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well anyone born before 1980 is too old to game ;) I'm part of a group (no we're not a clan, clans are for young people) called Below Eighty (eg born before 1980). Most of the people are married, have kids and game for fun rather than anything competitive... And if we do have gaming get togethers, it involves more drinking than gaming :)

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  3. Bring back adventure games! by nighty5 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm 30 years old, but I remember playing the my first Sierra game, Kings Quest .

    From a very early age I was programming, TRS80's etc. Lucky my old man was a programmer, we had all types of all gear lying about.

    My Favourites were:
    Space Quest
    Police Quest
    Hero's Quest
    Leisure Suit Larry
    And last but not least: Zork

    I am disappointed to see they no longer make such games, now moving to more action type games. Adventure games were cool.

  4. 2old my arse by ross.w · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm over 40, and I regularly play Lego Starwars with my 7yo son (highly rcommended game btw). And I play Doom 3 after he's gone to bed.

    Since when was there an age limit?

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