Are ever too old to play video games?

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Boy, i didn't even see this thread. I grew up in the mid-80's playing Super Mario (II?, I don't even remember), RC Pro-AM, Kid Icarus and others on my Nintendo NES. Two tone gray unit with big, plug-in, flat cartridges, IIRC. I would spend HOURS on it (to my detriment, I think, but I'm disabled, and kids wouldn't include me).

Nowadays, I have no need to have a game system. I have a Facebook account. Not everybody loves Facebook. I know. But I have family on there, and it's good to have that connection. And they have all sorts of games, some of which have associated FBs where users can post questions or thoughts. So that's a sort of community right there.

I quite like Pearl's Perils, but as with anything addiction and burnout can and do happen (I think it did with my old NES as well, but I never recognized it as such).

So, yeah, like people have already said, those old games are a bit childish in some ways. The new games are often quite better for the mind and the social element.

Oh, and Rare still seems to be around. But they lost several people to a new rival studio, Playtonic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Ltd.