Why you are never too old to play Video Games

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I will NOT quit video games as long as they continue to be fun diversions!! !

Video games are better than a lot of other media formats types like modern music and TV!

That's like the equivalent of asking older people that they're too old to watch "Looney Tunes" or "Tom and Jerry".

....Was that a bad analogy? Sorry about that. :p

I agree with the guy in the YT video.

A person is never too old to play video games.

Unless of course, they lack the mental or physical capacity to do so because of ill health or whatever.

Great video! This is a topic I've kind of struggled with and thought about alot. I used to play a good bit in my teens and twenties but once I hit 33 I kind of stopped. I think some of it was faith reasons and some of it was this topic. I pretty much only play now with a close friend when I get together which is infrequent. He has a wife and kids now so it's harder to get together. I kind of miss playing sometimes. I think video games helped me alot growing up with coordination, problem solving and just something in common. I should try to play some again.

Yeah, too bad games are insanely expensive in Canada now thanks to the megalo orange diarrhea dump.
Thanks for ruining our lives, USA.

When are you too old to read just for the fun of it?
When are you too old to watch movies or TV series?

I don't think anyone would ask that, but for video games they might. I fail to see the difference in what media platform you prefer your fictional story to be on. You're never too old for any of them.

One is only too old when one's interest in them moves on to other things.

Yes. In fact, if anything, it's the opposite: you're old precisely because you don't play.
Games train the human mind.
Then people judge others by what your passion is.
Everyone plays games, some change their name to "hobbies."

If I climb a mountain, I'll be having fun, not playing (of course, with full awareness of the situation), and it will be my hobby...
While if I play a video game and I'm an adult, I might be addicted.
But it only works with gaming addictions.
Not with others like eating too much, drinking too much, or driving too fast.

Basically, everything we do will require a strategy.

And playing is like training in something non-stressful.

Almost forty isn't old, unless you're young. But when 40 is receding from your rear view mirror, it's not old. It's still youngish you realize.
50, and still playing games but only from time to time. Now is one of those times, but it's been maybe a year or two since I lost got into a game.
I still need to finish Talos Principle II.

I ran across this YouTube channel. I am delighted watching this woman play Minecraft.
Never too old to play video games.
Channel: GrammaCrackers
Her first video. As of November 9, 2025, she has three.


I find her fresh enthusiasm delightful. She is wonderful and having fun.

She now has five videos. Someone gave her inexperienced advise or they are just mean.
Mining straight down is not a very safe way to mine, and she dies several times, losing everything she is carrying each time. But she stays so positive.
Never too old to play video games.