Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Super senior gamers





 If you think seniors don’t play games, you are wrong. And if you think if they do play game son their mobiles and computers and those are mostly solitaire, chess, tile games, word games..you are just partially right because now the grandparents are playing what their grandchildren are playing.. yes games like elder scrolls, counter strike, PubG, etc..meet 7 super seniors who are gamers and whose popularity is increasing by the day:

1.  1.   Silver Snipers – a team of  5 players who are in the ages of 60 to 80 from Sweden. They participated in the dream hack 2017. The game they play ‘ counter srtike’. The team includes three males and two females. The youngest player, Monica is 62 years old Betil, 81 years-old


2     2. Grey Gunners – 5 players team from Finland, play counter strike. Have participated in Dream hack Paris games week, Euro gamer, Kari ‘Rock’ Walden, 77 years, Marcu ‘Mac 10’, 73 years, Ulla ‘General Ulla’, 70 years, Yrjo ‘Ice’Warma, 70 yrs, Harry ‘Dirty Harry, 71 years also pay counter strike.

 3.     Grandpa gaming, 72.8K subscribers on youtube, the 66-Year-Old Former Navy Diver And Cancer-Surviving Grandpa Dominating ‘Apex Legends’. Armored Warfare, Battlefield, Doom, The Division, Fallout 4, League of Legends, The Witcher 3, World of Tanks, and World of Warships. Lives in St Peters, USA.

 4.     83-year-old Yang Binglin is a complete core gamer in Longchang City, Sichuan Province, his games are shown on a Chinese platform called Weibo and other short video platforms watched by thousands daily.

 5.     Shirley Curry,  84 years lives in Virginia and plays Elderly Scrolls. She live streams her games and has more than 700000 ( 7 lakhs)  followers on youtube. Bethesda Softworks, which publishes “The Elder Scrolls” series, even announced in March that Curry would be immortalized as a character in an upcoming game.

 

 6.     Audrey Buchanan, 88-year-old, plays animal crossing, Pennsylvania on her 3d console. She has played more than 4000 hours. Her grandson works for a gaming company called Nintendo and Animal crossing is one of their games.

 

7.   7.  90, Hamako Mori is officially the world's oldest gaming YouTuber, according to Guinness World Records, May 2020. Her particular favourite is Grand Theft Auto V.

Gamer for 39 years and counting. She has 323K subscribers on her YouTube channel and is known as Gaming grandma.

 

If you are a senior citizen and are curious about the games the young ones play…pick up a smartphone and download a smart game. Or if you have a senior family member, encourage them to play games to keep them occupied and their mind active. 

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