"Mature" gamers

I shudder to think of myself as a "mature gamer", but I'm 33. I've been gaming since I was like 7. Its just part of what I do, but like reading and cooking.

Depends on what you qualify as mature. If I recall, I wasn't a devil-born brat in my 'child' years.

I'm in my mid twenties, so not quite there yet, but I have no plans on stopping. However, my dad still plays video games, and sometimes we play TF2 together.

I´m 33 and most of my friends are gamers like me. One of them is 46....I think the age doesn´t matter =)
I played WoW with people over 50.....but when you get older your reflexes won´t get better^^

im 25, been playing games since i was 2 cuz my sisters would play with me. i learned how to read when i was 5 or 6 thanks to "super mario RPG legend of teh seven stars"

my parents wouldnt read what people were saying for me anymore so i was forced to play the game and try reading it myself...

im proud to say mario taught me how to read ^__^

my dad is more pissed of than me if he looses in fifa.
im 25. im just faster.
and btw: it was his SNES and his copy of Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, which brought me into gaming!

Lol from the title I thought OP was asking for erotic hentai vn game titles

Well, if we take "Mature gamers" to have the same meaning as "Mature games" then you must be cursing and naked all the time. :)

Both my uncle and father play games, and they're both currently over 50.

that depends where/how you grown up.

If you've been playing all your life and you enjoy it, why should you stop? I'm only 22, and I've been playing video games since I was a child, and I plan on keep doing it for a long time.

im 30, noone gives a crap in my family because they all play games too. Im actually the youngest of 5. Even my mom plays some games, and shes 65

I'm 38 years old and still have no intention of putting games aside. I'll be gaming until I'm too arthritic to use a keyboard and mouse.

It's funny cause my mother always says I should stop playing these childish video games, while I play games like Witcher 2 or so, when I was about 16 she blamed me for playing bloody games, I don't understand the world anymore :(

But actually I don't care, I'm still gonna play games, even in like 10 years, but maybe not that frequent.

Heck, my mother is the opposite of high tech friendly and I hooked her up with Faeries Solitaire, 100+ hours in just 2/3 months.

growing old is mandatory growing up is optional that what i always say

Nope, lol. I'm only 12 years old although I have a really squeaky voice :(.

PS: I never get angry, im a really calm person.

I'm only 23, but my dad's 50 and still plays a lot :) I imagine I will, too.

I'm 23, but we had some 40+ guys in our CoD community. People with like 5 kids and what not. Father playing CoD with his sons. For me it's normal to play with people of all ages.

I'm much much older....

My first "console" was Pong. For real. I remember when we got a deluxe version later that could play more than one version of Pong (you changed the game by flipping mechanical switches on the top, there were no such things as cartridges back then).

In theory, I'm still a gamer. At least, I still buy games (like the humble bundle today), although I have far less free time to actually PLAY them than I used to. So, I buy more than I can play these days. I guess I'm not a kid anymore, haha.

But I'm a computer nerd, so me professing to play games is no surprise, and most of my geeky friends are likewise. Video games aren't just for kids anymore, and the kids who grew up with them are adults now.

I'm a 52 years old mom and I simply love games!
My hair is becoming grey but why should that be a reason to stop playing games?

My two adult sons play games almost their entire lifes and my husband who is almost 63 play games almost on a daily base.

I'm in my early 30s. Most of my clan have got married and massively scaled back on gaming. They still play, but they're not hardcore any more, but there are plenty of new recruits coming in. I work from home and I still put a lot of time into games. I'm the only person in my real life circle of friends that does.

I don't think the reflexes issue (that someone else mentioned in response) is as bad as people make out. There's a guy in my clan in his late 50s and he's really good at BF3 because he plays all the time. He still has good reflexes and he has great map knowledge. I think a lot of people blame their age/slowing reflexes, but really it's just that they aren't putting in as much time as they used to.

Ofcourse older generations always see new things odd which newer generations fancy. Wider audiance anyways that is. Gaming was pretty trivial in older days and majority weren't into this new type of media and entertainment. Just like movies were looked down upon in older days as a media.
Whether gaming makes us dumber or should be looked down upon is frankly a clear no on both accounts. It just needs to mature more to reach new heights and to be accepted by wider audiance. Specially on female side as they naturally pedal behind due obvious development cycle we have faced.

Also forgot to say that maturity doesn't play anywhere close with the age.

My dad has over 55 years old and he plays video games. Nothing wrong with that.

I know I will do the same in his age if I live long enough.

a 40 years old gamer here. No problem with that.