A 69-year-old grandmother has become the heroine of young video-game fans and the star of a Web log created by her grandson.
Barbara St. Hilaire plays video games 10 hours a day and spends a good part of her Social Security check on games.
MTV profiled St. Hilaire, hired her as a video game correspondent and offered to screen her interview requests. It’s all been, as her 22-year-old grandson Timothy St. Hilaire put it, a bit head-spinning.
According to the trade group Entertainment Software Association, 19 percent of computer and video game players are 50 years old or older. The senior-citizen share was 9 percent in 1999.
Rock on!
I heard an interview with her on NPR last week. What a cool grandma.
As the X generation grows older, the rise in “elderly” gaming is going to skyrocket.
I love grandma and Tim. I’ve been reading their blog since June or July and I’m on their blogroll. She and Tim are not only passionate gamers, but they are really good people too.