Earlier today I came up with the idea for a Digaea-like Strategy-RPG…Where your fighting units are Pokemon. 
I swear I was not on painkillers at the time. 
I often wonder why nobody writes video games for the aging, Baby Boomer cohort now reaching retirement. It’s true they have slower reaction times and possibly other issues associated with aging, but keeping them challenged mentally has great benefit for their mental health.
They have money to spend and time to kill, seems like a no brainer to me. Plus, it would force some, to stay/be marginally computer literate, which really means everbody wins!
Making a 100% redo of the original red and blue Pokemon, only for the PS4/Xb1 with actual fighting graphics (like in Stadium) and 3D and all that good stuff.
Literally impossible for them to do? Yes.
Should they do it? Yes
What sort of games? There’s a jillion point-and-click story style games, including those licensed off the Agatha Christie franchise. Maybe I should get in on making some Matlock games.
55+ women love casual games. First I noticed was when they were playing Zuma, Peggle, Bookworm Adventures, and Bejeweled years ago, not to mention the old standbys, Scrabble and Solitaire. After Farmville and Candy Crush, they love FB apps and mobile games, too.
Well, to start with, they could use music of that generation for the game. They could increase the size of the fonts used, and all indicators, clues etc, need to be visible to older eyes, as it were. Maybe the characters could be elders instead of youngsters!
I don’t think they do much ‘like’ those games, and it’s really all that’s out there that holds the slightest appeal. By default it’s what they play. You don’t have to slaughter anyone, out run anything etc!
I was thinking of a Disgaea like RPG with superheroes. Let’s start a video game company!
Woo hoo! 
I misspelled Disgaea in the original post, but I don’t think I can fix it…
They need to rip off Planetside and slap G.I. Joe skins on the soldiers and vehicles. It’s like the perfect game for that IP.
Yep. They’re a HUGE market. I tried a few of those “hidden picture” puzzle games over the years, and it’s kind of awesome how target-marketed they are. A lot of them have protagonists that are moms, and the end rewards after the big adventure are focused around your family paying more attention to you. Another I played had a male protagonist, but he was totally a fantasy man for a 55+ woman: reliable, family-oriented, and helpful.
The lack of games targeted at male boomers is kinda strange, but I think there’s an assumption that if they wanted to play something, they’d just play “normal” games. Years ago, I think military and flight sims were the big games for older men, but those genres have pretty much died.
I would have said Toy Soldiers was the perfect game for the GI Joe IP, but I’ve heard lukewarm things about the GI Joe version.
There actually was a Pokemon SRPG, Pokemon Conquest. It was a mashup of Pokemon and Nubunaga’s Ambition. Unfortunately, it wasn’t really that interesting, at least I didn’t think so. I would be entirely on board with the kind of game the OP’s describing.
A lot of strategy games have a pretty big older audience, don’t they? Games like the Civilization series and Endless Legend and other 4X strategy games. But really, there’s no reason someone past retirement age couldn’t enjoy XCOM 2, Cities: Skylines, Crusader Kings II, Prison Architect, Euro Truck Simulator, or any of a dozen other games I could name off the top of my head. I admit I hadn’t really thought a lot about scaling up interface elements for people without great vision, though. My suspicion is that’s it’s more a matter of marketing than anything else. Staying up to date on what games are out can be pretty overwhelming, and the bombastic action games tend to draw the most attention. Publishers definitely target younger audiences with their advertising.
But really, there’s plenty out there for older folks to enjoy, it can just be a little hard to find.
I’d like to see a game like Divinity: Original Sin in a space setting. Or, hell, any Sci-fi. Maybe they can license the next Fallout one-off.
A good, open world game set in the Star Trek universe. Where I can run my ship with my crew, explore the galaxy and fight the Klingons and the Dominion. Where Section 31 is the primary antagonist. Where I can run an adventure with Sherlock Holmes on the Holodeck. Where Q whisks me away to the Delta Quadrant and the Borg almost assimilate my ship’s Doctor. It would basically be Fallout in space, but with more diverse quests.
A WW1-themed game which treats the material with respect but isn’t wholly depressing.
YES! A cRPG but less fantasy, which seems the new revival has kind of stuck to.
Imagine a mass effect like game but with tactical team based combat, and more dialogue options!
My dream come true.
I’d love a modern remake of the Red Baron games that Dynamix developed. Tried the originals in DOS Box and couldn’t even get my plane off the ground.
I want Aliens vs Predators vs Colonial Marines built using the Dragon Age: Origins engine. I’d also like a Cthulhu Mythos game on that same engine.
Another game I’d like would be a FPS sniper/stealth game where you’re given a target and a deadline but nothing else. You would need to discover the target’s itinerary, then where, when and how to inhume the target. Ingress and escape would also be up to you, but none of that muder a hundred guards and no one knows anything crap.
Have you played Valiant Hearts? It’s a little recent masterpiece set in WWI. Lots of real history included, and broadly respectful. It’s a puzzle adventure game about individuals caught up in the war, not an action or strategy. Emotional and powerful, but not strictly depressing.
Toy Soldiers is fantastic, too. Not perfect (and definitely some goofy bits), but has a lot of interesting period-appropriate stuff.
Harry Potter Theft Auto.