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Old Gamers

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Old Gamers is a community for people who like to play games but may not have as much time as they did or like to play different titles and at different speeds with more maturity. You do not have to be old to join in. It is all in the mentality.

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So.... What do you want (self.oldgamers)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by sytone to c/oldgamers
 

Out of this community.

I made it for the hell of it. A way for people who play games. Feel old. Do not have much time to play. May have too much time to play. Are looking for more co op or engaging games. Are looking for high quality engaging content. Are looking to recapture the excitement of waiting for the cassette tape to load. Are waiting for the game to download to then play. Are looking to scratch an itch gained in days past. Remember community and what it can mean. Want to build and think.

Thoughts?

I want to build a community that just understands each other and respects each other and wants to enjoy talking about things like it was the early internet.

Looking at above comments I may be an idealists. :)

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[–] MagnyusG 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What constitutes "old?" What's the age range here?

I'm in my early thirties, I wouldn't consider myself all that old especially in regards to video games, as I wasn't alive in the late 80s when a lot of the heavy hitter came into the market.

But if I were to talk to a child about the Nintendo 64, they would think I'm a fossil.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 2 points 1 month ago

You ARE a fossil! With your creeky bones, and your grey hairs. Don't think we don't see them! Everybody knows!

Me? Oh, I'm 41. I remember playing the original super mario bros as a kid in the mid 80s.

What? I never said I wasn't a dinosaur too! It's just you're cretaceous, and I'm Jurassic!

Seriously though......go get a colonoscopy. Men are getting colon cancer younger and younger these days. Ask me how I know.

[–] sytone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Old is a generic term. I have met people in their 20s that would fit in the bucket. Mature may be a better term?

[–] Fuckswearwords 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Donjuanme 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like polls, and being able to browse past other people's inputs to add my own that others will have to browse past to add theirs.

[–] sytone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Polls we can do. What kind of polls. I can make them up as I go. :)

[–] Lost_My_Mind 1 points 1 month ago

Poll: What kind of poll should I poll?

A) A poll.

B) What kind?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hello,

Found this community on [email protected]

Isn't it close to [email protected], which is already established? Seems like having one community rather than two would be better due to the current small Lemmy userbase

[–] sytone 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Possibly. But I am not patient.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Interestingly enough, I checked the weekly thread here, all the games mentioned were older than 12 months (so "patient") with one exception, Enshrouded

[–] sytone 1 points 3 weeks ago

Satisfactory just released with 1.0 and factorio dropped a dlc. This caters for all games new and old. It is more about the gamers who are older/mature and may or may not have much time to play. Waiting for a game is optional. So if people want to talk about COD black ops 6 they can go for it.

Speaking of which I may give it a run. Have not played a COD game for a while.