It’s unclear if LiL Poison still competes professionally today, but although professional video gamers appear to be getting younger and younger, his record seems like it’ll be awfully hard to break.[/nk_text]
Oldest video game YouTuber
At the other end of the spectrum from Victor De Leon III sits Hamako Mori (a.k.a. Gaming Grandma) who is now officially recognized as the oldest gaming YouTuber.
Hamako was born on 18th February 1930, and is currently 90 years old. Her YouTube channel currently has over 150,000 subscribers. Hamako began playing videogames 39 years ago. She became interested in it when she saw children playing them.
“I thought life would be more fun if I knew how to play it. So I started playing, at first while no one was watching.”
The first gaming console she owned was “Cassette Vision”; she has kept most of the consoles and software she had bought over the years.
“I treasure them because I brings me memories” she said.
Currently, her go-to console is PlayStation 4, and she is into action games.
“I didn’t touch it until recently because it’s difficult to play. But recent action games are visually spectacular, and they often use actors for characters. So I’m really obsessed with it now.”
World’s largest video game collection
Everybody collects things—mugs, coins, even Pokémon (and not the digital kind)—and every gamer has his or her own video game collection, however small. It can be one, two, three, or a hundred games. The fact is, when gamers buy a title they like, they tend to hold on to it in case they want to play it again in the future, and before you know it, you have a cuboard full of cartridges and discs and nowhere else to put your new additions. Maybe that just me.
There are people, though, who collect video games for the sake of collecting them—like Joel Hopkins, the Australian-born gamer who, as of October 2015, had managed to amass a collection of 18,000 and recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest video game collection in the world.