Average age of gamers is 32, says study

By Ellie Gibson Published 28 May, 2010

Extreme types play for 48 hours a week.

A new study by research firm NPD has found that the average age of gamers is now 32.

The report, titled Gamer Segmentation 2010, is based on an online survey completed by nearly 19,000 people. It found that the oldest gamers, with an average age of 42, fit into the Avid PC Gamers and Offline PC Gamers categories.

In total, 4 per cent of respondents were classified as Extreme Gamers. They are said to spend 48.5 hours per week playing games. Overall, the average time spent playing games per week is 13 hours.

Other categories identified were Heavy Portable Gamers, Console Gamers, Online PC gamers and Secondary Gamers. Which one are you?

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  • guernican #1 2 years ago

    I can live with being slightly older than the average.

  • Gambit1977 #2 2 years ago

    Ooh, I'm average : )

  • redneon Verified Programmer, SUMO Digital #3 2 years ago

    I'm slightly below average. Figures.

  • LHH #4 2 years ago

    Heavy portable gamers

    Must have good hands, when I played through Castlevania DoS on my nice new DS lite I kept having to out it down after half hour an hour to an hour for ten minutes due to my hands going numb!

  • menage #5 2 years ago

    33!:D

    Take that.

    also, around 15-20 hours a week I guess. Depends on the week, the weather and the girlfriend:.

  • Fab4 #6 2 years ago

    I buck the trend...i'm 42 and I prefer online console gaming :p

  • bad09 #7 2 years ago

    35 :( At least I'm above average in something I suppose....

    As for time spent, dunno sometimes I can game for hours, normally GTAs like the 4 hours spent on Gay Tony since yesterday morning! (Mrs bad09 is heavy preggy and on sick leave so sleeping a lot!) but sometimes just a quick 10 minutes on something like COD or Peggle will do me. Probably too much time playing though, I'll ask Mrs bad09 :)

    I do remember playing all night a lot when I lived on my own and played things like Doom and RE on PS1, and RRODing my 360 with 14 hours over 2 days on Halo3 though so I might be more addicted than a cokehead TBH...

  • Madafunkola #8 2 years ago

    I FEEL SO YOUNG AGAIN!!! 3 years off the pace, but I'll catch you old fogies up one day...
    *thinks about it*

    D'oh!
    (Oh goody, the Minority Report advert is back)

  • Emmit_Assassin #9 2 years ago

    Hmmm, I'm around average at 30, so I think they got it right. Most of the people I know who play are the same age. We all grew up with it. People that are in their 30's were the ones this was all aimed at when it began. Once you're hooked, you're in for life.

    There is no 'out'...

    ...I am not a number! I am a human being! Arrrrrrrr!!!!!!!

    (Sorry...)

  • bumgut #10 2 years ago

    I'm exactly average... story of my life.

  • LondonSquare82 #11 2 years ago

    Surely they need another category called "Gamers who bought a Wii and Wii Fit for their wives/partners and then watched it gather dust for months while her ass grew bigeer and bigger".... with that and the average age they would have me dead on. :p

  • Hog-lumps #12 2 years ago

    An 'online survey'?- This hardly seems a fair sample of the population to make the conclusion of average age - I mean how many 5 year olds are going to fill out an online survey?

  • KayJay #13 2 years ago

    Just below average... Dirty 30!
    Probably around 20 hours a week.

  • AlvySinger #14 2 years ago

    31 and about 10 hours a week, though this does not facter in time spent mindlessly playing on the iPod Touch.

    Need to start putting in more hours if I'm going to reach the average by next January.

  • kangarootoo #15 2 years ago

    I'm a little above average age wise, and I play nowhere near 13 hours a week most weeks. A busy gaming week is maybe half that?

  • kangarootoo #16 2 years ago

    @AlvySinger

    Ah, good point. If I count iPhone gaming on the train my count probably doubles.

  • peterfll #17 2 years ago

    I'm 72. I play for anywhere between 1 to 187 hours a week.

  • ignatiusjreilly #18 2 years ago

    My mum is 60 and plays Spider Solitaire on Windows, but I really don't think they should count and are probably skewing the results.

  • Alatair #19 2 years ago

    Wow, I really had no idea that so many of the people on Eurogamer where that much older than me. But the forums are still so immature!

  • Goodfella #20 2 years ago

    Damn, 8 years above average!

  • MiniAmin #21 2 years ago

    I'm not surprised by this news. Most of the people on my Xbox Live friends list are far older than 18.

    Still, we know surveys like this do little to change perceptions of gaming. It's still very much associated with teenage boys.

  • GamesConnoisseur #22 2 years ago

    Almost 8 years above average!

    Per week is about right normally but sometimes more, depending on the game in question.

  • EffEmmGee #23 2 years ago

    Im both below AND above average here. Im 27 and play around 90 hours a week (depending on the sleeping pattern/mental stability/caffiene intake).

    Sounds excessve but given Im medically signed of work (severe back pain/mental issues) its just a hobby thats escalated!
    And when I used to work I would get up early to get about 30-60 mins gaming in, and be gaming till about 1am when I got home.

    I also sometimes review games for my website and write articles for other sites, Ive had work printed too!

    *waits for immature comments regarding my lifestyle*

  • kristo #24 2 years ago

    average, right here.

  • Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #25 2 years ago

    Below average! Woohoo!

  • oupe #26 2 years ago

    above average \o/

    but only barely. aaah the story of my life.

    and:

    *waits for immature comments regarding my lifestyle*

    OMG U SUCK, PS360 4EVER!!!!!!!!!!!
    Edited by oupe at 28/05/10 @ 10:04

  • FogHeart #27 2 years ago

    @EffEmmGee: Allow me to be the first.

    So, you've made the best of a pretty bad situation by doing something you love and taking time to write about it and debate it with other game fans?

    You unspeakable cad, sir!

  • Doctor_What #28 2 years ago

    @EffEmmGee : You're doing it wrong - games reveiwers aren't meant to play the game for more than half an hour before forming their opinions (that's what we're told in the industry) ;)

  • keano #29 2 years ago

    21 ....good old school days where top gaming time for me. school work was piss so i could afford to get up at 3am to play matches with mates in US and Oz.

    i hardly game now at uni...my pc hardly sees action anymore. id blame university work but in truth id blame alcohol :p

  • EffEmmGee #30 2 years ago

    @FogHeart: "You unspeakable cad, sir!"

    Thats Miss, thank you! (and happily engaged to a gamer equal to myself)

    @Doctor_What: I apologise, I didn't attend the 'Tards Reviewing School lol.

    I've not written for a while tbh, I think MW2 was my last one.

  • Godz_Mercenary #31 2 years ago

    I'm 27 and average around 12 hours a week. If I could do 48 hours I really would but I need beer and sexual fun as well.

  • Xeopuppy #32 2 years ago

    "It found that the oldest gamers, with an average age of 42, fit into the Avid PC Gamers and Offline PC Gamers categories."

    Well thats me, I'm 42 next month and a PC Gamer, I also prefer Offline.

    I've been playing Games for 29 Years, since I was 13, 30th Anniversary Next Year...
    Edited by Xeopuppy at 28/05/10 @ 10:35

  • Toothball #33 2 years ago

    Cool I get to be younger than average too. I don't think I put 48 hours of gaming into most weeks but I sometimes go over that. I must be a Heavy Portable Gamer as I play on the move nearly every day, and am easily a console gamer.

  • Sniper_007 #34 2 years ago

    Me too Gambit - I think it is just following our awesome generation ;)

  • Spekingur #35 2 years ago

    MLIA?

  • Mono_X #36 2 years ago

    @MiniAmin
    "Still, we know surveys like this do little to change perceptions of gaming. It's still very much associated with teenage boys."

    That's because the majority of the market is still clearly aimed at teenage boys.

    The only company to genuinely make a long term effort to try change this has been Nintendo - and look at the flack they get for it!

  • Phishfood #37 2 years ago

    Who makes these studies and how do they make them. I don't remember ever being included in a study.

  • mattniche #38 2 years ago

    'Who makes these studies and how do they make them.'

    If only there was a clue in the article!

    "A new study by research firm NPD"

  • sfp_noodle #39 2 years ago

    I'm sure they meant 23 and not 32. I don't wanna be below average :(

  • kendoji #40 2 years ago

    It's quite heartening to read stats like this, and to get confirmation that so many Eurogamer readers are above 30. Not sure why.

    33 here btw.

  • miiiguel #41 2 years ago

    Above average, barely. How many game hours I play? Sorry, that's confidential. :}

  • PlugMonkey #42 2 years ago

    Hog-lumps
    An 'online survey'?- This hardly seems a fair sample of the population to make the conclusion of average age - I mean how many 5 year olds are going to fill out an online survey?

    According to their methodology, participants in the survey were aged 2+. Responses from people aged 13+ were taken directly, and responses for individuals ages 2-12 were captured by “surrogate reporting,” whereby a parent/guardian brings the child to the computer to answer questions, and the child then answers either with or without the guardian’s assistance.

    I found this out while I was looking on their site to see how you get hold of a copy of the report, but they only have a field to "contact them". Can't they just stick it up on the site and let me buy it? The teases. Does anyone know how mush this sort of thing costs? Probably thousands.

  • ignatiusjreilly #43 2 years ago

    So this has turned into the "how old are you?" thread.

    I'm 31. Time spent playing games is utterly dependent on if I'm playing any exceptional games at the time. Not consistent at all.

  • sberemski #44 2 years ago

    Another boring survey...Why dont they ask the questions we all want to know the answers to:

    1. How many gamers are no0bs
    2. How many gamers pwn
    3. How many gamers have been pwned
    4. What is the average player K/D ratio CS 1.4 (lets face it..if you dont play this you are not really a gamer)

  • miiiguel #45 2 years ago

    "Still, we know surveys like this do little to change perceptions of gaming. It's still very much associated with teenage boys."

    I think that's also because many adult gamers don't feel confortable to talk about their hobby (I never start a conversation about video-games with my non-video-gamers friends; collegues and even family). And also, many sites (eg.net is one of the exceptions) are populated with loud teens and it's hard to have a conveersation with such generational gap. Take EG.pt for example, I know quite a few portuguese video-gamers around my age, but eg.pt average must be around 15, and the major problem is that it shows, way too much.

  • siro #46 2 years ago

    I'm spot on average (in half a year). Trying to get more gaming hours in whenever the missus allows.

  • PlugMonkey #47 2 years ago

    sberemski
    4. What is the average player K/D ratio CS 1.4 (lets face it..if you dont play this you are not really a gamer)

    Er, 1?

  • sberemski #48 2 years ago

    1?


    I guess you fall into the n00b gamers who don't pwn but get pwned category.

  • local_celebrity #49 2 years ago

    34.

    Although you'd never guess it from my spazzy childish comments. Like to play every night, with a nice glass of red wine. Think my gaming time might be somewhat reduced, though, when the missus squeezes one out of her front bottom. local_celebrity 2 is slated to ship early Q3.
    Edited by local_celebrity at 28/05/10 @ 11:42

  • dpb135 #50 2 years ago

    Im average :)

  • PlugMonkey #51 2 years ago

    sberemski
    1?

    I guess you fall into the n00b gamers who don't pwn but get pwned category.

    Well, no, it's just that everyone starts every game with a K/D ratio of 1 (0 kills, 0 deaths) and everytime someone gets a kill, someone else gets a death - so if you calculate the average player K/D ratio, they surely cancel each other out and you get back to 1?

    (Actually, I suppose it probably must be around 0.99 to account for people killing themselves...)

  • 00.00.01 #52 2 years ago

    Ghehe, 38 here. Age, that is.
    Mon-Fri 08.00-17.00 40 hrs PC/Wii/PS3/Xbox/PSP/DS, LOC/FUNC/TRC-ing.
    And apr. 15-20 hrs of 'private playtime' when on the PS3 at home.
    .
    So...Yeah...turning hobby into work results in 65+ hrs a week. And square eyes.

  • higganos #53 2 years ago

    37 here and about 25 hours a week. Also my 30th anniversary next year. First console was a vectrex.

    "An arcade in your own home!" The box screamed, whilst being adorned with a 70's photo of a small boy being WAAAAY too excited. Which, incidentally, became me that Christmas :)

    Turned out to be shit. Ahem.

  • sberemski #54 2 years ago

    PlugMonkey....

    Sorry I think I was being a little ambiguous... I realise that its a zero-sum game but it would be interesting to know the average K/D ratio of a single player over large number of games....and yes for every person with a ratio of 2 there will be someone with a ratio of 0.5

  • PlugMonkey #55 2 years ago

    Yah, just teasing. Your specific question just struck me as having a pleasingly simple mathematic solution. :)

    The range would be interesting to know. Exactly how much is the maximum amount people pwn or get pwned over an extended series of games?

  • geeza2020 #56 2 years ago

    25, and been playing games for about 17 years, play for about 15-20 hours a week, social life permitting. I need to stop going out and getting drunk when i could be putting more hours into dragon age!!

    Started gaming on a master system, and have been through every console since as well as a short stint as a pc gamer around the time Warcraft 3 was released. Oh happy days!
    Edited by geeza2020 at 28/05/10 @ 12:49

  • kangarootoo #57 2 years ago

    "If only there was a clue in the article!"


    Heeheeheehee. That tickled me.

  • muscleblade #58 2 years ago

    Just turned 35.

    20 hours a week.
    Edited by muscleblade at 28/05/10 @ 12:02

  • muscleblade #59 2 years ago

    @MattDamon

    Less time used on watching TV, movies and Facebook.

    I have 2 kids, full job, compete in bodybuilding and clocks 20+ hours gaming a week. Oh and i sleep 8-9 hours every night. I dont get how i manage it myself really.

  • muscleblade #60 2 years ago

    "How many game hours I play? Sorry, that's confidential. :} "

    I suspect its quite a bit above average ;-).
    Edited by muscleblade at 28/05/10 @ 12:15

  • ignatiusjreilly #61 2 years ago

    Yeah, apparently the average person in the UK watches 25 hours of TV a week, so most people apparently have easily enough free time.

  • DrStrangelove #62 2 years ago

    27, about 10 hrs. a week. That's going to double by 2013 when GT5 comes.

    My current favourite is Super Castlevania IV. On my old Super Nintendo. One of the best games ever.

  • anomagnus #63 2 years ago

    i thought i was hardcore at about 25 hours per week

    50 hours per is serious play!

  • knightmt #64 2 years ago

    The average age in the uk is 38 I think, so the average gamer is immature, especially me. Though it may just be mentally.

  • Lukus #65 2 years ago

    48 hours a week? Fucking losers.

  • darkmorgado #66 2 years ago

    27 here... this is the first time I've felt young in ages!

    Spend around 40-50 hours a week gaming probably. 360, PS3, Wii, PSP, DSi, PC (online and offline) and quite often Gamecube and Snes.

  • Kenshin001 #67 2 years ago

    Surprised there are so many old people playing video games.

  • Jauffre #68 2 years ago

    This really cheered me up :D

    Been feeling old lately, 'cause I'm just about to hit the big three-oh ;)

  • SYS64738 #69 2 years ago

    To those who game more to watch less TV - isn't that a bit tricky when you have a GF/wife/etc. that thinks watching TV together is spending quality time together? It makes matters worse if she has no interest in gaming whatsoever...

    Oh yeah 34 and 10 hours per week... at best, unless I have a full weekend days available.

  • CaptainQuint #70 2 years ago

    Just turned 33 here.

  • muscleblade #71 2 years ago

    "To those who game more to watch less TV - isn't that a bit tricky when you have a GF/wife/etc. that thinks watching TV together is spending quality time together?"

    My girlfriend hates videogames, i hate desperate housewifes, ER, Couger town etc so we have two rooms with full HD TV setup. We have sex, go to the cinema and play with the kids for quality time. That better be enough.

  • CaptainQuint #72 2 years ago

    The first game I ever remember completing was The Last Ninja 2, on the C64. Good times.

  • malexous #73 2 years ago

    *hasn't read the comments* How do we know a bunch of 12 year olds didn't put their age as 99?

    After all, it was an on line survey.

  • muscleblade #74 2 years ago

    @malexous

    Dont ruin this for us.

    Looking at the comments it seems that the survey was quite right.

  • carlitoswagon #75 2 years ago

    I remember loading games by tape and listening to the high pitched screeching noise. Then having to load them again and again and again.......

    Oh, the kids of today are spoiled.

    Just above average btw (Jet Set Willy rules)
    Edited by carlitoswagon at 28/05/10 @ 14:03

  • fknetwork #76 2 years ago

    27, ha ya!
    I put in around 40-50 hours a week on my 360/ps3 plus any gaming I do on my ipod touch, that little device is addictive!
    Edited by fknetwork at 28/05/10 @ 14:06

  • Trigga_Tybalt #77 2 years ago

    Post deleted at 15:43:01 23-02-2012

  • GamesConnoisseur #78 2 years ago

    Two kids too, three according to my wife (who by the way ordered iPad for my 40th later this year!).

    As for wondering as to the immaturity in the posts when evidently a lot of us are average or older. I think its all about our inner child being let free.

    Otherwise, I suppose we are quite likely at our most mature and serious in almost all regards of our life, family, home, work.

  • fknetwork #79 2 years ago

    "To those who game more to watch less TV - isn't that a bit tricky when you have a GF/wife/etc. that thinks watching TV together is spending quality time together?"

    I did something smart for once the other day! I bought my mrs sega sonic all star racing on the 360 as it was only £18 with a free 800 ms points card at Tescos (superb offer!), she has been playing it non stop every night since, I got her interested in gaming!, woo hoo!
    Edited by fknetwork at 28/05/10 @ 14:14

  • WiseGuy #80 2 years ago

    Few years below average and also below average playing time, with only 10hrs per week. That said 10hrs per week is more than i spend on any of my other hobbies or interests (work is neither of these by the way)

  • SEVQA #81 2 years ago

    Average joe for me!!!

    (thats not my name BTW)

  • Dave797 #82 2 years ago

    23 and sliding in gaming between work and when the missus is unconcious about 10 hours a week I guess.

    I certainly hope I'm still gaming at 32 though, GT5 will be out!

    Badum tish, I'll be here all week.

  • Ryze #83 2 years ago

    In the last 6 weeks, my most played game has been Google Pac Man, and I'm sure it's only been out for a week.

    Over the past year, I've played lots, but still hardly anything compared to 'extreme' levels of gaming...

  • MisterFalseName #84 2 years ago

    26, and maybe 10 hours a week I'd guess.

    But that discounts the fact that I work in the flash games industry, and spend a lot of time playing and comissioning stuff, as well as iPhone commuting time. Hmmm.

  • My1stLoveJak #85 2 years ago

    Below average in both respects...and I'm not sure I like the sound of "Heavy portable gamer", but that's how I'd classify myself, haha - my DS still sucks up more of my time than the Wii or PS3

    I'm now 22, and I game a lot less than I used to...my job and other responsibilities keep me busy (and I have to share a TV). I think I game about half the average, probably about 7 hours a week. Nintendo's always been my favourite, having grown up with the NES and platform games, never really got into PC gaming. I love me some retro-games, but not paying $15 for a remake...

    Oh, and I also enjoy long walks on the beach, looking at sunsets...

  • Metalartin #86 2 years ago

    *Sigh*Ah makes a change to be able to consider myself as a young gamer... ish. :)

    edit: I wasn't gonna say but meh whats the harm... 26... 27 in a month and a half.
    Edited by Metalartin at 28/05/10 @ 18:42

  • Rodchenko #87 2 years ago

    I think that's also because many adult gamers don't feel confortable to talk about their hobby (I never start a conversation about video-games with my non-video-gamers friends; collegues and even family). And also, many sites (eg.net is one of the exceptions) are populated with loud teens and it's hard to have a conveersation with such generational gap. Take EG.pt for example, I know quite a few portuguese video-gamers around my age, but eg.pt average must be around 15, and the major problem is that it shows, way too much.

    Spot on. Same reason I barely ever use my 'native' Eurogamer Germany. The average comments on there are cringe-worthy and often outright immature. But maybe they just need a few more years to get it right. Oh, and I am a good bit above the average age. Certainly among the oldest here with 42. But I hate online gaming (prolly because I am pwned by people much younger than me). So I am not average too ;)

  • Redfive1983 #88 2 years ago

    I play Left 4 Dead 2 with my mates. But recently have been playing a lot of older single player stuff like Wing Commander and Command and Conquer recently. Think it's a nostalgia thing/

  • clemenules #89 2 years ago

    Does this mean that the average age of commenters in the Alan-Wake-review-thread is 32? Blimey.

  • JordanIsMetal #90 2 years ago

    48 hours sounds about right.

  • Arkwright #91 2 years ago


    @ Rodchenko
    Oh, to be 42 again. I'm 52 and I struggle to play 5 hours a week on my ps3. Work, family and other hobbies like running all have to be squeezed in somehow.

  • Metalartin #92 2 years ago

    Clemenules you mean those seemingly virgin males claiming sexism where there was none in the hope that the female reviewer would reward them with sex? Or the numerous PS3 fanboys and PC fanboys that brought an aire of smugness mixed with bitterness over an exclusive they never intended to buy along with its platform in the first place?

    I'd have to agree with you if thats what you mean, the whole thing was cringe worthy. Its not very mature to bring it up to insight argument or point fingers though really, I must point out before anyone else does it to you Clem.

  • clemenules #93 2 years ago

    @Metalartin: point taken, and it wasn't meant that way. It was more my way of saying that you wouldn't think the average age of gamers to be 32 judging by gaming websites' content in general and/or comment threads on this website - and that's considering that Eurogamer is less bad than most others in that respect.

    I'm "average" btw.

  • AnsemsApprentice #94 2 years ago

    I'm 18, play around 50 hours a week. Do you want to know how often I wash too? How about my political standing or impeccable masturbation technique? I am watching Firefly at the moment and eating cheerios. Hmm this doesn't bode well for me, my social status is threatened... I'm going to look at some more studies, Exon Skipping is the one I am worried about at the moment. Gee, the average age of sarcastic bastards is I don't care, how moribund. Joking, but if you look at the comments, it really doesn't add up, that's the thing with these, there is never enough data to accurately estimate the demographic of anything, although it is interesting.

  • gamefan #95 2 years ago

    Well I am 52 and play as much as I can! I have been playing games since the 70's and have owned every games machine except the Intellivision. And, to date, 56 Days play time on COD4 and 17 Days on MW2.

    Statistically, I am an Outlier!

  • DUFFMAN5 #96 2 years ago

    Age: 38 (been playing off and on since I was 10)
    Hours spent per week: 5-15 (if I really get into the game)
    fav game types: Action adventure, rpg (western not Jap)

  • miiiguel #97 2 years ago

    48 hours a week? Fucking losers.

    Says the guy with almost 14000 posts on a games site. eheheh.

  • Lukus #98 2 years ago

    It's an average of 7 hours a day. It's fucked up, loser.

  • miiiguel #99 2 years ago

    Are you that polite in person? I'll pass either way. And tbh, I didn't ask you anything.

  • trip919 #100 2 years ago

    But the average mental age is 7. Hur hur.

  • CHAZBIGPOTATO #101 2 years ago

    34, console gamer 4-5 hours per week.

  • caligari #102 2 years ago

    Heh heh - excellent. It really does give me a warm feeling inside to see that there are people over 50 (possibly over 60) posting on this site.

    I was always worried that 'gaming' (gah - that term sounds too hip for me - let's call it 'playing computer games') would be something that I'd grow out of - but obviously not. There's plenty of proof on here that it's a 'hobby' that stay with you for life. \o/

  • man.the.king #103 2 years ago

    35 - although I believe I really started when I was around 32-33 (had a few stray experiences here and there earlier than that).

    Still, to me it seems the ones who dedicate a lion's share of their day, to games, would be teenagers, and that's not a small number either.

  • super_monty #104 2 years ago

    I will just throw a 37 in here.

    Can we have a survey on the age of the posters in the alan wake thread please?

  • Lukus #105 2 years ago

    losers

  • MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #106 2 years ago

    Every year before now, since even the 16-bit era, I've noticed that I was just a bit under the average age. Finally i've caught up with it at 32, then. I'd say the perception of gamers has changed a bit, thanks to the likes of Charlie Brooker, Jason Bradbury, Dara o'Briain and the cast of The Big Bang Theory, so it's not so much teenage boys as geeky, gadget-obsessed thirtysomething man-children.

    My gaming average has gone up massively this week since I've been off work due to some illness my daughter brought back from nursery.

  • Shabbaranks #107 2 years ago

    Good to see most people here can remember a time when an atari console had wood on it.

  • man.the.king #108 2 years ago

    @Lukus

    You sound like an old record-player stuck in a worn-out groove. Does this statistic really bother you that much?

  • saku_luk #109 2 years ago

    25 here, my first game was on commodore 64 and it was called the last ninja then there was Rick Dangerous! man those were the times....ehhh anyway atm I spent like 15-17h on playing games a week so its not that much I guess. Used to spend twice as much or more when I started university :o

  • BartonFink #110 2 years ago

    41, offline console gamer and manage 5-10 hrs a week
    Tend only to go online with friends and family.

  • nixc9 #111 2 years ago

    - age: one order of magnitude above average.
    - time spent playing: about 1hr per day
    - time spent on eurogamer!!!!!!: 10min per hour, every hour (....)

  • Lukus #112 2 years ago

    man.the.loser

  • dingo75 #113 2 years ago

    Fuck the current console "wars".
    This is nothing compared to the AMIGA vs. ATARI ST riots from way back.
    We did beat each other up in high school because of that.

    Good old times. :)

    On topic: 34 and about 20-30 hours / week (I watch hardly any tv besides the news).
    Edited by dingo75 at 31/05/10 @ 16:50

  • Darren #114 2 years ago

    I'm 43 and don't game anywhere near as much as I used to, perhaps about 10 hours per week on average but if something like Mass Effect 2, Fallout 3 or Oblivion comes along then it can double or even triple easily!

    I'm definitely less interested in games these days than I was five years ago though; multiplayer doesn't interest me at all (that helps cut down the hours I'm sure!) and I only really enjoy story-based single player games. I'm currently loving Red Dead Redemption which is one of those rare games that reminds me just how awesome and enjoyable they are. As long as there are games like that then I'll continue playing them.

  • Avaloner #115 2 years ago

    The average was 24 when I was 24, 28 when I was 28 and 32 now that I am 32. I see a pattern here....

  • man.the.king #116 2 years ago

    @Lukus

    "man.the.loser"

    What is your .. oh never mind - your post illustrates your mental age. Better wait to respond until you are out of diapers :)

    It boggles my mind to imagine how you ever managed to string enough words together to write on a blog.

    Tell me, did some traumatic episode cause this regression?
    Edited by man.the.king at 31/05/10 @ 19:36

  • Lukus #117 2 years ago

    LOOOOOOOOO-OOOOSERS!

    /Jim Carrey

  • gorf #118 2 years ago

    oh dear im 43 one of those fogies. just waiting for EA to develop leg bandage simulator 3 for my demographic. earliest console memory: gunhead on the PC engine. heqvy gaming sessions amount to 10 hours/ week on battlefield 43
    Edited by gorf at 01/06/10 @ 09:16