“Nothing is better than playing with the boys.”
Timothy Foster needed something to look forward to when he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma last summer. The 35-year-old software developer, from upstate New York, knew he would have lots of time to kill while he recovered from his chemotherapy infusions, but what is there to do when you’re laid up in bed all day?
Foster wasn’t really a gamer. Yes, he had owned an NES and SNES in the ’90s, but the last video game he had played in earnest was—a beloved 2013 college football simulator that was the final entry in a series that was discontinued following an arcane legal dispute between the powers that be in campus athletics and publisher EA Sports.
Foster isn’t alone. At 33, I find that most of my friends are lapsed gamers. Yes, some of them have held on to the hobby past their formative high school and college years, dogmatically updating their drivers and remaining eternally eager to drop thousands of dollars on new GPUs. But they’re firmly in the minority. Most of my male friends seldom power on their PlayStation unless it’s to indulge in a couple of dorm-room staples:session, if they’ve managed to hang on to the plastic instruments.
I wish Berry, and his fleet of aging millennials, the best of luck. Chasing down the erstwhile satisfaction of your youth is never easy, but it’s often a noble cause. Maybe life doesn’t have to be so complicated. Maybe the only fulfillment we need is a jet sweep to the house in Sanford
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