In this thread pokey said:
I, too, would like to have video games in my elder years. What I’m curious about is whether video games are already being used in retirement homes and whether there are any games or accessories being developed for that market. If not, does anyone want to kick in. That is definitely going to be an expanding market soon.
Video game designer chiming in here.
As far as I know there’s no one making games for the elderly market.
People tend not to start playing video games as adults if they didn’t play them as kids. The first arcade kids – the leading edge of the mass market – are only in their early 40’s now, so we’ve got at least another 25-30 years before we have a sizable number of people in retirement homes who want to play videogames.
I suspect there won’t be many games targeted specifically at the elderly. Rather there will be a broad market for adult games in general – less twitchy, deeper storylines, more strategic – that will spill over into the elderly demographic.
In your opinion (and anyone else’s, of course), what changes would have to be made when designing games for the elderly, taking into account a general decline in eyesight, hearing, reaction time, and such. How will the video game adapt to this segment of the market? Will there likely be the same level of violence/blood since this is common to the games someof these folks grew up with?
(And yes, I know “my 95-year-old gramma jogs 6 miles a day and can put a bullet through the forehead of a bunny eating her prize begonias”. I am making a broad generalization out of curiosity.)
I nurtuer the dream that, by the time I turn 90-something, my mind and reflexes will remain sufficiently honed by a lifetime of playing video games that I can still kick arse in Street Fighter II.
(Okay, okay, I’ll settle for clearing the first seven mazes on Ms. Pac-Man. 
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I’ll need padded tips on my walker so it doesn’t rip up the DDR mat.