84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900k ‘Grandkids’

I'm not the only one who thought this was going to be more of a Genghis Khan situation rather than a PewDiePie, right...?

Not entirely surprising. My parents bought me a Nintendo because ... well, they wanted one. I started on an Atari VCS 2600 because they got one while my mother was pregnant. Two years old and all of us (sister included) would be playing Missile Command, Clowns, Pac-Man or Centipede as a family.

I got things like Zelda, Metroid and R.C. Pro-AM because my father wanted them. For years after I was sent to bed, I'd hear the hum and screeching of R.C. Pro-AM coming from the living room. Or the sounds of Snake Rattle N' Roll.

He's a bit frustrated with his mind going, but my father still plays and 100%s Zelda games without looking for a guide. My mom spends a lot of time with Roller Coaster Tycoon, Stardew Valley and recently FTL, but she still breaks out the Wii for Virtual Console favorites of hers (mostly "black box" NES games).

With a fixed income, video games are astonishing amount of entertainment per dollar, and old games don't get, "less fun" over time. I still have all my old games (and still play them) for that reason.

Wow, I did not expect clickbait to make its way to the number 1 spot on HN. I would be curious to see if this was due to some someone gaming the algorithm or people carelessly upvoting the headline. Though it is a bit funny that the platform that clickbait is most prevalent on is part of the topic of discussion. Youtube subscribers in this case = Grandkids in the title.

I can always count on HN to take an uplifting story, ignore its contents, and complain about a perfectly reasonable headline.

Anyway, when was a kid I used to think retirement would be the perfect opportunity to do a massive amount of gaming. I tend to not be that optimistic since I worry I won't have the eyesight, memory, or even interest in my 80s, if I even make it that long. It's pretty remarkable to see someone doing it and doing it really well.

I recently heard a podcast in which a disabled lady, 76 years old, talked about how she played The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. In real life, she could hardly move, so it was her way of going for a walk. She would wandered arround in the woods, or climbed mountains, just to enjoy the sceneries. It helped her cope through her disablily. I thought it was a wonderful way of using a game. :)

What’s the opposite of flagging a post here on HN? Upvoting?

How many people does it take to get something flagged?

This title is starving for your clicks. Here's an accurate and honest title that represents this article:

84 Year Old Gamer has 900k+ Online Followers on YouTube.

It's not really hard to strive for honest titles, but I guess clicks matter in desperate times for the New York Times. What a shame for journalism there.

TLDR: An old person does a thing that other people do, somehow this is newsworthy and is presented with factually incorrect title, even on printed media as "She Has 900,000 Grandkids and Fights Big Spiders"

Not worth reading, but if you really feel you need to: https://archive.is/mBjOr