Why don't adults play?

...What are you talking about? The biggest gaming demographic is 20s, but a lot of gamers are in their 30s and 40s. My step-dad is going to be 57 this year and plays video games when he gets the chance to.

Generally, it's because they have things that hey do that they consider fun. Some might paint, fish, go hiking, do photography, etc.

 

I've barely hit adulthood, and I barely play videogames anymore...simply they don't provide me actual results for investing time in them. I'd much rather learn another german word, or make more music or whatever. But actually I'd really like to make a video game more than play one.

 

Other than seeing adults swing on swing sets or on the monkey bars, I don't get the impression that adults can't play.

 

When it comes to video gaming, a lot of adults do it, including myself- even older ones. There are even games that are targeted toward adults, not all are child-based.

Even for other child activities you described, I would do them and not care what others think.

I love the swing sets :c

 

Have you been to a convention event?? Its full of adults

 

Oh actually... Grannies and COD
No need to thank me.

 

I cosplay, play video games and Magic the Gathering. I'm 32. They count?

 

I am definitely a kid at heart! I'll get on the floor, wrestle around... go to the park and do exactly what the "kids" are doing. And as a matter of fact I just gave up racing quads on a semi pro level. I'm 43 btw

 

I play games all the time. video games online games everything .

 

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I go to the park with my partner all the time. I LOVE climbing the rope tower

 

Adults totally play!

I have seven uncles (all married and grown men in their 40s with kids) that play around constantly and have been since I was a toddler. They launch water fights in the pool and have hilarious joke diving competitions, they play baseball in the yard, swat each other pillows until my grandmother yells at them, and play monster with their kids on every playground we go to.

My stepfather (53) should probably stop cause he keeps breaking his wrist, but he skateboards and loves going laser tagging or paintballing.

My mom will do this little gentle kick on our butts in stores when no one is watching, especially now that we are teenagers and she things that she embarrasses us and she will ride off on the shopping cart. She is also the first one to volunteer to go jump on the trampoline with my siblings and she is 45.

 

Well I'm 33 and I still play video games all the time. I also like to build and play with lego. I also chase my kids around soft play and my son and I have had many an epic lightsaber duel

I mean, I don't play as much as I used too, you know with working and everything, but I still do when I can. It does help when you have kids though...

Happy days

 

I showed horses, played tennis up until I broke my back 2 years ago this month, and played rugby with a group until I was in my early forties. I still sail and swim, go birding, play Cards Against Humanity.

At the same time we do slow down and playtime is limited. I've 2 kids that still need to be driven to various lessons, camps, and games. We take on more resposibilities.

Why don't we dress like kids? The simple answer we grow up. Would you want your broker to look dress like a cast member of "Godspell"? Maybe you would, but I don't think I could take him seriously.

We still have fun...or...at least, some of us do.

 

I personally disagree on video games, in fact a lot of those are designed in a way that kids wouldn't understand them, or would even be upset by them. However as I grew up, my interests shifted from swingsets to things like the creation of art, and studying topics that interest me. I believe this is because your brain matures as you grow, and the simpler things in life stop being capable of entertaining you.

It's worth noting that my mom's over 50, and she loves to play card and board games.

 

I agree on video games. There are adult rated video games, and even the ones aimed at children will frustrate the hell out of them. I grew up on Super Mario Bros and got no where when I was young; it frustrated me. As an adult, I feel like I can actually get into it and understand it.

 

As of 2012, the average age of gamers in Australia was 32, with 75% of them over 18.

Yeah, gaming is totally only for kids.

Also, put a bunch of uni students on a playground, and they will probably have more fun than the kids it was designed for.

 

I thought this would be more about how kids spontaneously decide to chase and play with each other in circles around stuff and hide in stores or lobbies and stuff and honestly at age 22 I would still like to play hide-and-seek and devil dog/dont fall in the lava floor and tag and stuff if I wasn't like.... too big and get stared at haha, I still remember hiding in clothing racks at Wal-Mart all the time and the urge still exists but I know I'd get in trouble for it now