Older people are an almost invisible group among gamers, but they are important.
This article comes from Touchex (WeChat: chuappgame), the original “The old people playing games 》, author Chi Yu, authorized to reprint.
Few people regard the elderly who play games as real players. Their lives in the game, their feelings about the game, and the meaning they have gained in the game have long been ignored. Like the characters in the family, the old people don’t speak for themselves – but they are important.
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The elderly are an almost invisible group among gamers.
Everyone has a few old people playing games. It may be the grandfather who is obsessed with online chess and holding his mobile phone. He may also be the grandmother who wants to collect physical strength and share the game screenshots to the circle of friends every morning. But few people regard these seniors as true players.
Some people may care if the game time of the elderly is too long, and some people may care if they sleep too late every day, but few people have asked them how they feel about the game. What did you get and how to think about the meaning of the game.
For a long time, portraits of players targeting older people are missing. On the other end of the screen, the strength of the breakout may be a retired aunt who hit the “Glory Crown”; in the “My World”, the boy may be confessed by a “sister” who is over 60 years old. Some games that are already old-fashioned in our opinion are still fresh and interesting for them: What are the 2,500-hour grandfathers thinking in The Underworld Saints 2? In the face of this fast-changing era, are these old people playing games more advanced than other old people?
Normally, the old people are silent. Or, not many people are concerned about what they want to say.
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After retiring, Grandpa Xing obviously felt that his focus on new things was not as good as before.
Xing’s grandfather worked on the railway for 40 years. In the two years that he just retired, he went out to find people to play mahjong every day, and occasionally went to other cities to travel. He vaguely knew that the world outside was growing faster, but he didn’t care about it.
“They told me to tell me that it is convenient to make things online. It is convenient to shop, easy to see, and knows a lot of things.” Uncle Xing said, “ISaid, I have been doing the railway for so many years, I don’t know?
The foreigner Zhou Lin screamed at him, learned this, played with that, and directly shared his Steam account with him, first screened out his computer configuration and ran, and then picked out what he might like. The game, let him try it again and again.
As a result, Uncle Xing was hit by “The Underworld Saints 2”. From December 2017 to the present, in less than two years, he spent more than 2,500 hours in The Underworld Saints 2—that is, spending an average of nearly four hours a day. “Sometimes I play for a day, sometimes I play until I play in the middle of the night. Sometimes I can’t go down when I go up.” Grandfather Xing told me.
In the mind of Xing Grandpa, “The Underworld Saints 2” ranked first, “Others can only be ranked behind”
He was deeply fascinated by this game. “The characters in the head design seem to have thoughts. What do I do, he returns to an action. I feel that the old man is strange and makes it mysterious.” He thinks that there are too many places to study in this game. It’s not enough to just clear the customs. He is also very curious about the small games inside. He always thinks, “I’ll finish this thing thoroughly and see what’s going on inside.”
Like the devil, all day long, Xing’s grandfather is thinking about this game. “The heart is always hanging on this matter, and I just want to go home and play as soon as I go out to work.”
Xing’s obsession with “The Underworld Saints 2” made Zhou Lin feel confused and helpless. He tried to recommend other games to Uncle Xing, but Xing’s uncle refused to change.
Zhou Lin gave me a list of every game that Xing Grandpa tried, and why Xing Grandpa didn’t like them. “Portal 2, not interested; “Football Manager 2018”, do not want to be an official; “ICEY”, difficult to operate, the word is too small; “This is the police”, the rhythm is too slow; “blood rogue”, difficult to operate, only look Scenery, can recall Hong Kong tourism; Xbox 360 somatosensory game, do not want to move…”
List of “Game played games” given by Zhou Lin
listThere are more than 20 games on the screen, but in the eyes of Master Xing, these are not as good as “The Saints of the Underworld”. Even if it is the “Saints of the Underworld” series, he is also in love with 2. Zhou Lin put him on the updated 3rd and 4th generations and tried to end in failure. “He said that the 3 and 4 plots are too frivolous,” Zhou Lin told me.
Speaking of his fascination with The Underworld Saints, Uncle Xing is quite content. “Zhou Lin came to me yesterday, and said that let me change the game to play, I said no change, certainly not change, it is impossible to change in the year of life, other games have changed and can not be changed.”
Xing Daye also knows that “Underworld Saints 2” is an old game. “I heard them say that this game is in 2009 and it is already out of date.” But this does not change Xing’s dedication to this game. “I don’t know what suspense left behind by its designers, I am very interested in this.”
“What? You are not interested in this matter?” Grandfather Xing asked me.
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The game played by Aunt Liu is also very old: “Zuma”, “Empty Solitaire”, “Plants vs. Zombies”… These games are played alternately, playing for six or seven hours a day.
Liu Ayi didn’t play games at first, but when her daughter went to work in Beijing, she only had her husband, mother-in-law and her three elderly people at home. She felt that her family had become cold at once. “Don’t I have to make a lot of fun?” In order to make the old lady happy, Aunt Liu played some small games. Sometimes the old lady looked at her and sometimes played with her.
“I used to play checkers and poker with her grandmother. Later, her grandmother’s eyes were not good. She could only see the ball, so I played with her on Zuma, and the old man was happy.”
The word “happy” always runs through Liu’s feelings about the game. In the beginning, she played the game to make the previous generation happy; after the old lady died a few years ago, she played alone, the more she liked it, the more happy she was. Finishing things at home every day, playing games in front of the computer at other times.
For Aunt Liu, playing games is also learning new things – although the games she plays are no longer fresh, she still finds it interesting. One of her favorite games is Plants vs. Zombies. “To be honest, I am applauding the people who make the game. You know, this guy is also very funny with his little zombies. Don’t quarrel with you, don’t give You lose your temper, which one you like to play, and the hammer zombie hammer is so happy.”
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