Virtual games a hit among retired US seniors
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Amid rousing applause and cheers, seniors in a retirement complex in the Washington suburbs have hopped onto the videogame craze, belatedly but with a vengeance, swinging their arms in a virtual game of bowling.
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THEY USED TO be for kids. Space Invaders, Pong, Doom, some of them were shoot-âem-up fun, others were just, well, fun. But computer games have changed.
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The basics of gameplay -- competing against opponents, setting records, winning prizes -- are as old as human civilization. We use game models to motivate ourselves, to answer questions and to find creative solutions. Our online lives are just twists on the videogame leader boards. For many, life itself has turned into a game.
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By Helen Bebbington Contributing Writer  DAYTON -- There was a time when Sandy Rash, 64, of Centerville would have to ask friends to help her surf the Internet for information. Her friends would encourage Rash to get her own computer.
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Some companies are turning to online games to motivate staff and remake the workplace, say researchers.
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Gambling good for your health? Perhaps among the elderly, according to a new report.
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Think teens and twenty-somethings hog all the online attention? Time to shove the teenyboppers aside: It&#39;s Grandma and grandkids - some too young to read - who are forging the newest interactive social networks in cyberspace.
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The recent boom in internet banking has been greatest for people aged over 55, a report says.
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Reviews of ActRaiser and other vintage classic games served up by Nintendo's Virtual Console.
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The Nintendo DS includes a touch-sensitive screen and is geared for an older crowd.
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Unbeknownst to many of her peers,  70-year-old Barbara Sainte-Hilaire, MTV's "senior" video game  correspondent and star of the blog "Old Grandma Hardcore," is a  sensation in video game circles.
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By Clint Cooper, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Dec. 19--Talk about getting up close and personal with your video game.
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GREENDALE, Wis. - Violet Fojut, 88, isn't happy that the bingo games she and fellow senior citizens have participated in at the Cream City Cafeteria in the Southridge Mall won't be held any more. "It was always packed.
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In an age when the latest video  games sport ultra-crisp graphics and cinema-like sound, there  is still plenty of love for the good old-fashioned games just  like Mom and Dad used to play.
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Medical researchers and gamers alike are embracing Nintendo's Wii as a way to get off the couch and get active.
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In an age when the latest video   games sport ultra-crisp graphics and cinema-like sound, there   is still plenty of love for the good old-fashioned games just   like Mom and Dad used to play.
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Video games aren't just for the kids anymore. More than one in three U.S. adults who go online, or 37 percent, own a video game console and 16 percent own a portable gaming device, Nielsen//NetRatings said on Tuesday.