56 Year Old Disabled Veteran Wants to Get Into Gaming for First Time, Community Responds

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For decades, gaming was primarily posited as a children’s hobby. Nintendo marketed its first major home console, the NES, as a toy and bundled it with a plastic robot, gaming icons like Super Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog appeared in cartoons targeting adolescents, and video game advertisements have, with very few exceptions, traditionally intended to capture younger demographics. Things have changed in recent years, however, and, as indicated by one decidedly wholesome recent Reddit thread, players of all ages and backgrounds have been welcomed into the video gaming fold.

In a post submitted to r/gaming in late August, Reddit user parliskim describes themselves as a “56-year-old lady who has never played video games” who hoped for some insight on where to start with gaming. What they got was a torrent of more than eleven thousand comments suggesting all sorts of different titles, systems, and services to help them out at the onset of their gaming adventure. Including everything fromStardew Valley and Slime Rancher toDark Souls and Bloodborne, just about every game worth discussing seems to be represented in the thread.

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After some time, parliskim made a few amendments to their post, identifying themselves as a “100% disabled vet who spends a lot of time alone” and who is now looking for a new hobby after growing sick of TV. Some of the discourse then shifted to the poster’s personal interests, and some respondents argued that the original poster will have to identify what their tastes are before in-depth recommendations can be made. Comparisons were also made to the legendary Skyrim YouTuber Shirley Curry, an 85-year-old gamer who