Summary: Elder Games. Yes, the 50+ generations love games too. Did you know that according to a survey done by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Software_Association" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">(ESA)entertainment software association</a> that almost half of you play video games. The generation that grew up with Atari, Sega, Magnavox, Mattel, Fairchild and Coleco in the early 70's is still playing games. Some with grandkids others play themselves. This generation of game players is expected to grow. The Odyssey was the first home video console in 1972 then came the VES, 2600, Intellivision, ColecoVision, Genesis and others. I would bet that at least two thirds of you played or had one of these console games in the 70's to early 80's. Later on in the 70's came the consoles at your local shops, restaurants and bowling alley's. Who doesn't remember games like Pong, Space Invaders, Galaxian, Pac-Man, Asteroids and others. It is kind of funny how you play these day's too. I watched a recent news segment that showed 50+ boomers playing current games like Grand Theft Auto. They would obey the rules of the road while driving. Things like stopping at stop signs or not speeding. But then they were just as cruel and blood thirsty at shooting or hitting criminal types as any younger kid would be playing these type of games. Kind of interesting how you act. Links to Video Game History, Manufactures and Games: - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Video game console</a> history of first through eighth generation. - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_arcade_video_games" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Golden age of arcade video games</a>. - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_arcade_video_games" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">List of arcade video games</a>. - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_arcade_video_game_history" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Timeline of arcade video game history</a>. - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Pinball</a>. - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_arcade_cabinet" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Video game arcade cabinet</a>. - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_system_board" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Arcade system boards</a>. Video game sources: - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_websites" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">List of video game websites</a>. - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_video_games" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Lists of video games</a>. - <a href="https://archive.org/details/classicpcgames" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Classic PC Games</a>. - <a href="https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">MS-DOS Games</a>. - <a href="https://archive.org/details/tosec" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Old School Emulation Center</a>. I have owned many different consoles myself. The Atari 400, 800 and 2600. I even tried to start an arcade in the town of Silverton, OR called SilverFUN about 5 or six years ago. It had pool tables, ping-pong table, bumper pool, darts, one pinball machine and two retro mini video game machines that played over 100 games that was two thirds the size of a full size video arcade machine. This was a town with only one movie theater, NO skate park and nothing for kids to do. It never did well so it closed. But the retro machines were definitely a hit with the older crowd. So don't let anyone tell you your too old to play. Enjoy and get a high score. Now we have newer consoles like the Microsoft Xbox One, Sony Play Station 4, Nintendo Wii and PC games keeping the video games industry alive. We even have handheld game consoles, Smart phone or tablet Apple iOS or Android games or the ones you can play on your TV set-top box like Roku, Amazon Fire, Apple, Google or others.
