About Grey Haired Gamer

The Grey Haired Gamer blog was started as an alternative to all those gamer blogs/streams/websites starring whippersnappers who don't remember Pong.  Grey Haired Gamer is "for the rest of us".  We aren't college dropouts who can stream 8 hours a day, or art school girls journaling their crush on Kazuma Kiryu.

We game as we can as it fits into our lives.  We may be old enough to join the AARP, maybe we wear bifocals, maybe our hands have a touch of the "arthur-itis", but we still game, as we did when WE where the  young whippersnappers playing Pong, Pitfall, or Pac Man.  We don't get that nostalgic over the NES...because we were adults when it came out.  Some of us may be a form of "otaku", but we were fans of "Japanimation" when it was only Speed Racer, Battle of the Planets or Tranzor Z.

We can be a bit grumpy to the whippersnappers, but polite and friendly folk of any age can walk across our lawns and visit our gaming spots.  We'll offer a friendly drink, some old-timey gamer wisdom and some jokes.

Me, the founder?  I have many names, but here you can call me THE Grey Haired Gamer. You might find me as CronoCloudAuron on PSN.  "GHG", Crono, or Ron, will do.





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