Subj : Re: Growing Up
To   : Nightfox
From : J0hnny A1pha
Date : Mon Aug 26 2024 03:17 pm

BY: Nightfox (21:1/137)
On Sunday,August 25, 2024 at 01:23 PM, Nightfox (21:1/137) wrote:

N>   Re: Growing Up
N>   By: Utopian Galt to All on Sun Aug 25 2024 11:44 am
N> 
N> UG> As someone who will be 45 in a week, I am thinking I am a bit too
N> UG> old for
N> UG> console video gaming these days. I might make a special initative
N> UG> to play
N> UG> final fantasy 4,5 and 6. Or finish Dragon Quest 11. Maybe instead
N> UG> of going
N> UG> to Europe or
N> UG> Washington DC next spring/summer, I'll do a cheap vacation where I
N> UG> play
N> UG> some video games for a whole three days or
N> UG> more.
N> 
N> Why too old for console video games?  I'm 44 and I still like to play
N> console video games sometimes.  And in the past 10 years or so, I've set
N> up several different ways to use emulators to play old console games. I
N> modded my Nintendo Wii and installed some console emulators on it. I
N> also have a handheld gaming system that runs emulators (currently a
N> Retroflag GPi case with a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4). Also, a couple
N> years ago, I bought a Nvidia Shield Pro for my TV, mainly for streaming,
N> but there's a Retroarch app for it that can emulate multiple old game
N> consoles.

Same. 53 years young, and still playing. Some console, some PC. My son is an avid player, and my daughter just shipped off the college to learn game design. I don't plan on stopping any time soon :)

..jA


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