{"id":55,"date":"2025-03-16T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryan-vanalstine.com\/gaming\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2025-03-30T21:50:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T21:50:32","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ryan-vanalstine.com\/gaming\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are the seniors in your life mystified by why you like to play videogames? Is playing videogames with Grandma something that you always wanted to do? You have found the right place!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why don&#8217;t seniors play videogames?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People born before 1970 didn&#8217;t have the joy of playing video games as children. After all, 1972 was the year that Pong was released by Atari starting the video game craze. 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