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Greetings, all. First, I think it's important to understand who I am. I'm pretty far outside of the gaming demographic, I'm 72, and I am NOT a 'gamer', though there's a few things I can play. Minecraft, Hot Shots Golf (we have PS2, PSW3, and PS4), and the wife IS a gamer, all the way back to P/S and Atari, and she just got the Hogwarts game.

Here's my deal, I know I can't be the only one. When you get old, all sorts of things happen. Getting out of a comfy chair can be tough. The brain and reaction times slow down. Forget about crazy flipper fingers, arthritis takes care of that.

So what does that mean? IMHO there are probably a good amount of folks like me, seniors who like to dink around for fun but have nowhere near the skill set needed to play some high action game. I'd say there's market that's not being tapped.

But what should happen? I got the idea from Minecraft, 'creative mode'. I'd like to see games have 'Geriatric Mode' for lack of a better term. It might be able to be done easily, a simple switch in settings that allows a game specific 'God Mode', no monsters, you can't be killed, unlimited whatever, and online tournament play disabled, maybe even a slider if something like Mario Karts could be slowed down a little, sliders for sensitivity, I'm sure you get the picture.

I'd love to hear what real gamers think about the idea.

that basically already exists with game difficulty selections & accessibility options. games have plenty of options to make the experience easy for you.

Certain developers have really been pushing bigger and better accessibility options over the last few years. Santa Monica and Naughty Dog have been really hot on this recently, to the point where I think The Last of Us 2 could be played