I'm 52 and have been playing video games since we go the Atari 2600 when I was about 6 (while they only play mobile shit these days, both of my parents actually played the Atari when we had it).

We've owned all but 2 of the Nintendo consoles (Wii U and the Switch 2), Numerous Xbox and Play Stations (more for my boys, but I have an XBox One that I still play a bit), and have been a PC gamer since DOS (Lemmings and Duke Nukem).

My Steam account will be 22 years old in a few months, and something gets played every week.

Are you 12?

Most 40 year old are now from the beginning of peak video game era. I don't know a single male friend who doesn't at least dabble.

Oh right, engagement bait exists.

Got the timeline wrong, should be over 50s.

If you are in your 40s you were probably were a full-on teenager blaring this as hard as your crappy Trust speakers could manage.

Of course that means if you were in your 50s you were in your twenties, so... probably same? Games have been around for a while now.

I'm almost 40 and none of my 40+ friends use Facebook that way if at all. I don't have an account in the first place

In my experience it is mainly teenagers who are watching videos on their phone in the public space (especially public transportation) with max volume.

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