Gaming

I do think reaction times fall off a bit, like when playing older fighting games. Still I feel gaming has never been "easier". I do feel we now don't have the time we once had back in the 80s, 90s to play as much as we used to, so that probably plays into the "not as good at gaming" as before.

Also, now there are just too many games to play compared to back in the day. I mean, we'd be lucky if we got one game on your birthday and another cartridge on Christmas. One would play the saaaame game over and over and over again. You HAD to get good. No save state, limited continues, etcetera, meant you HAD to memorize layouts and enemy positions. You just had to play more focused than now a days.

Finally and I say this as a fighting game player, but the amount of "under the hood" assitance that developers have included in games, has contributed to one playing worse than what we once did. Remember when you HAD to memorize all those phone numbers from friends and relatives. Now we don't have to, we store all that on the cellphone or whatever. So that skill we once developed, has slowly deteriorated. It comes with age and with the changing of the times.

But our capacity to adapt is incredible. Pretty sure if you dedicated the same amount of time to gaming as you did when you were younger, you'd be back to your prime shape. Just like I am certain that gamers of this generation, can easily plow through all those 8 and 16-bit games of old, if they sit down to play seriously like we once all did. So don't despair and keep on gaming.