69-year-old grandmother plays 10 hours of video games per day
Barbara St. Hilaire plays video games 10 hours a day and spends a good part of her Social Security check on games. The 69-year-old grandmother has become the heroine of young video-game fans and the star of a Web log created by her grandson. I got $20 that she can take down Fatal1ty on her off day!
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. “Well, last weekend was hell, but it’s over,” the grandson told his grandmother’s fans on his blog http://oghc.blogspot.com/. The blog is named for her moniker, Old Grandma Hardcore — as in hardcore video game player. 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.
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