It’s so funny when kids say I’m too old to game. I’m a first gen gamer. I played Pong on my ColecoVision, I had an Atari 2600, then a 5200. I’ve owned almost every console ever made and finally got into PC gaming in the early 2000’s. My WoW account creation day is 1/26/2006. I’ll never not be a gamer. Gaming has been a part of my daily routine since I was four years old.
I turn 51 in 10 days!
edit to add: I have three kids (all adults now) and they all are gamers, too. 
I work with a ‘kid’ who’s just recently of college, around 25 years old, and he was completely surprised when I jumped in on a conversation he was having with another coworker about Starfield, surprised that I even had a clue about the game.
I had to chuckle because I, also, am a first gen gamer and grew up playing on the Atari 2600 since I was about 9 or 10. I vividly remember trying to roll the score on Space Invaders while my Mom was getting after me because I was late for collecting for my paper route - that’s probably not even a thing anymore. But, I skipped the 5200 and went to the Sega Master system, followed by the Sega genesis, then Playstation now XBox. I never liked Nintendo because I felt the graphics were too ‘cartoony’. I got my first PC in the mid-nineties and got into my second online game (The first were actually multiple MUDs that I played in college) MechWarrior, which (if memory servers me) was played on an early version of battle.net. I then got into Diablo at release, and a long chain of single player RPGs.
I’m not quite 55, I turned 52 in June, but felt the need to post since I’m an older gamer.
I also have 4 kids who are gamers - two in college.
Edit: Started WoW in late 2008/early 2009 when my wife was pregnant for my third child (whose birthday is today).
Interesting necro. This is a fun topic, I don’t fit it, but sometimes I feel way older than the people I’m talking to here and I wonder if part of it is like a generational difference. I’m 45, so Gen X and a Xennial. Thinking about it, growing up at that time was great. Starting with analog and seeing things become digital, being able to go outside and explore the forests at a young age because we all had to go outside and then later on enjoying the game offerings that ended up becoming well known. I was running a BBS and making online friends in my area, who I then met in meetups at 15 in '94 and later ran an online business that let me move out of my parents house three days before I was 19, one that sadly burst a few years after the dotcom bubble, but what a great time to grow up that was.
I had the ultima online beta disc sent to my house but the business took up all my time so I didn’t play it. I loved Blizzard games and when WoW came out I was hooked on it from the open beta.
That was my first console, well for my parents and grandmother. My grandmother would have fit this topic, she was an older gamer before that was in. Her playing games was considered weird.
Her favorite games were Lady Bug on the Colecovision and later Paperboy on the NES, she was playing video games until she passed away.
My son is 12 and he loves gaming with his friends on Discord.
Good morning, yep my first game platform was the Intellivision. 
I got that for my 16th birthday I think. maybe 17th. My friends had the atari version. I have been playing arcade games and pinball since I was 12. I would spend hours at the bowling alley across the street from my house, playing pinball, and bowling. Hard to believe its been that many years ago. My son, who I wrote about above he loves video games, he loves WOW but he will mainly mine craft and some other building type games on his switch platform. he’s on the autism spectrum, high functioning and the things he builds without any help is amazing. he talks about becoming a coder when he is older and tells me he will work for WOW to make it a bit easier for me to play the game. (I am disabled from having my legs crushed in 06 and now the rest of my body is trying to go south too. lol so sometimes pushing the buttons or doing the combos is a bit hard for me. he has tried to set macros for me but i hit the wrong button and everything goes crazy then LOL)
I usually respond with something like “I’ve already forgotten more about WoW than you’ll ever learn”, or “I was old when WoW was young”. Something like that.
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