Re: Old Games For The Win

On 3/25/2025 7:28 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 01:06:46 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:55:27 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:46:44 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

 

Tangentially related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pp6yfJmKFg

 

Gaming in your 30s? Really? Try gaming after 45, when all your twitch
skills have completely left you and you can't beat the AI in a button
mashing contest any more.

 

Haha, my twitch skills left after 30! :P Funny, I used to hate turn
based games, but I love turn based games. :D

 I judge my rate of decline by how fast I can drive in racing games. I
used to be able to handle the turns at 280mph, no problem. Now I
struggle at half that. ;-)
 Admittedly, not an exact science since modern games have more
realistic physics so comparing my performance playing
games-of-yesteryear to new titles isn't an apples-to-apples
comparison, but even going back to the original "Need for Speed" I
definitely notice I can't keep up as easily. I tell myself it's
because I'm out of practice with that map, but I inside I know better.
 At this rate, I figure that in another twenty years I will be playing
the newest NASCAR lane by driving in the right lane at 20mph with my
turn-signal permanently engaged ;-)
 My mind, on the other hand, is as sharp as it ever was!
(which you can take to mean however you like ;-)

I can't really compare, as other than the arcade, I was never into twitch games, and comparing playing Street Fighter II in the arcade to playing on kb in mame is almost apples to oranges.  Plus I don't have anyone to fight in it.
Oddly I only really started with the PC twitch games in the form of Dark Souls in my 40's.  My skill has only gotten better into my 50's however my body's tolerance for button pressing, kbm or controller has fallen. Arms, wrists and fingers can't take long sessions.  That's at least partly why I've taken up reading more.  However my eyes are definitely getting worse too, and reading on either electronics or paper books hurts the same places either from holding books open or constant swiping.
I guess I'm going to have to switch to audio books at some point, at least my hearing is better than normal for someone of my age.  It's always been good.
My mind was a steel trap when I was younger, now I take an interminably long time to remember words in conversation.  I do better typing things out.  I can't think of things until I've slept on them either.  I feel I'm generally above average still though, and reading 'news' articles makes me feel far more so, but gives me anxiety, so I don't often.  I'd say I feel more anxious, but remembering the nightmares about dying in nuclear fire I had in the 80's maybe not.
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