We've all heard the expression, "____ is a young man's game"- but who knew that also applied to videogames!

CAN you be too old for gaming?

Well…Maybe. It's complicated.

The topic of discussion: Why You're (Probably) Too Old for Gaming

TheGamersician explores the current data on age and videogames, a variety of academic research on the topic, as well as the anecdotal evidence and stories of himself and his peers to finally answer the question:

Are you too old for gaming?

Let's dive in!

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Special shout out to Dr. C. Clare Strange for assisting with all the research. I couldn't have made this video without her!

Sources:

Birk, M. V., Friehs, M. A., & Mandryk, R. L. (2017, October). Age-based preferences and player experience: A crowdsourced cross-sectional study. In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (pp. 157-170).

Griffiths, M. D., Davies, M. N., & Chappell, D. (2004). Online computer gaming: A comparison of adolescent and adult gamers. Journal of Adolescence, 27(1), 87-96.

Osmanovic, S., & Pecchioni, L. (2016). Beyond entertainment: Motivations and outcomes of video game playing by older adults and their younger family members. Games and Culture, 11(1-2), 130-149.

Salmon, J. P., Dolan, S. M., Drake, R. S., Wilson, G. C., Klein, R. M., & Eskes, G. A. (2017). A survey of video game preferences in adults: Building better games for older adults. Entertainment Computing, 21, 45-64.

Thompson, J. J., Blair, M. R., & Henrey, A. J. (2014). Over the hill at 24: Persistent age-related cognitive-motor decline in reaction times in an ecologically valid video game task begins in early adulthood. PLoS ONE, 9(4). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone....

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