![]() ![]() From Street Fighter to Sonic the Hedgehog: 10 of the best retro gamesĪmong her videos is one showing her blowing out candles on a cake to celebrate her 90th birthday with her family. “It’s fun being watched by a lot of people, rather than playing alone,” she said of her Gamer Grandma channel. She posts new videos filmed by her grandson three or four times a month and has attracted 300,000 subscribers and millions of views with content featuring her gaming but also showing her daily life. Mori usually plays alone at home, but launched a YouTube channel in 2014 to connect with other gamers. Photograph: Courtesy of Keisuke Nagao/AFP/Getty Images ![]() Hamako Mori says she has no intention of giving up video games, even if some of the finger movements are increasingly difficult. “You can do whatever you want to” in a game, she said, describing them as a “motivation in life”. Her favourite games include action-adventure series Grand Theft Auto and popular fantasy role-playing game Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. She has played most of the gaming world’s smash hits including Super Mario Brothers, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy and Call of Duty, and admits to sometimes staying up until 2am when she is sucked into a session. “I discovered that there was this fascinating thing that existed in the world,” she said. Her first console was a Cassette Vision, which she bought in 1981 after being intrigued by her children’s obsession with gaming. Mori isn’t new to the gaming world, and has played some 200 titles since she took up the hobby some four decades ago. Ordinary old people are not so enthusiastic about video games as she is.” “She always gets into the games,” her only grandchild, 43-year-old Keisuke Nagao, told AFP. Mori, who lives in Chiba, south-east of Tokyo with her family, holds a Guinness world record certifying her as the world’s oldest gaming YouTuber. The first gaming equipment she owned was the Cassette Vision and she has kept most of the consoles and video games she had bought over the years as tokens of nostalgia.But her grandmotherly demeanour disappears when she plays, transformed into a gun-toting character in Call of Duty or a sword-wielding android in NieR: Automata. So I started playing, at first while no one was watching,” she said in an interview on the Guinness World Records website. “I thought life would be more fun if I knew how to play it. “It looked like so much fun and I thought it’s not fair if only children got to play it. The 90-year-old video game enthusiast was born on February 18, 1930, and currently resides in the Chiba prefecture of Japan.Ī solid gamer for 39 years and counting, Mori began her hobby back in 1981 after seeing children around her get into video games. Mori, who goes by Gamer Grandma online, currently has over 256,000 subscribers on her channel where she shares playthroughs of popular video games such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Grand Theft Auto V ( GTAV), and the Resident Evil 3 and Final Fantasy 7 remakes. PETALING JAYA, May 19 - Hamako Mori has officially been recognised as the world’s oldest video game YouTuber by the Guinness World Records. ![]() ![]() Pictures from Guinness World Records website Mori said she was inspired to get into gaming after seeing children around her pick up the hobby. ![]()
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