World's oldest Halo 3 player found

by Kevin Kelly { Oct 8th 2007 at 8:00PM }

Dean Takahasi of The San Jose Mercury News (and recent panelist on the Joystiq Podcast Roundtable) has apparently found the world's oldest person playing Halo 3, and it looks like that honor falls to a 95-year-old Japanese grandmother.

Sure, her gaming skillz look a bit weak, but we've seen younger players do just as poorly the first few times they played. We wonder if she's gaming online at all, because she dishes out some smack talk to the TV at one point ... at least, we assume it's smack. Plus she might want to sit a bit further back or else she'll need glasses. Oh, wait.

If you've got an older Halo 3 gamer in your life, let us know about it. Better yet, drop some suggestions in the comments for what this player's gamertag should be.

Tags: Halo 3, Halo3, Japanese, oldest

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

J-Guy @ Oct 8th 2007 8:05PM

9...95? The headline should be:
"Elderly Woman Tries Her Hand in the World of Youngsters"

DeRock @ Oct 8th 2007 9:57PM

The headline should be "World's Worst Gamer!"

Long Bow @ Oct 8th 2007 8:32PM

I bet she's the one that tea bagged me and called me an F-in noob when I was playing last night. I'll get you Grenade Granny!

Word of the street(IDF-Digital Ruler). @ Oct 8th 2007 8:44PM

Time to upgrade the list of players you don’t to f*ck with in Halo 3

L33Tcat
NinjaHamster
GrandmaHardcore
New* LEETNIpponGranny
NEDM
CHUCKNORRIS17
KENNYROGERSFTW
New* TeHSolid_Snake
NINTENDO64KID
IRBABOON

exit stencil @ Oct 8th 2007 8:16PM

We all know old people are only interested in waggle-bowling simulators. Come on.

Word of the street(IDF-Digital Ruler). @ Oct 8th 2007 8:25PM

What we see here is nothing but the exception to the rule.

That or elder people just had it with their stupid gransons giving them 250$ bowiling simulators in their Birthdays really buy them Metroid why the hell that stupid Bowling game seriously old people aren't vegetables good ol Zelda wouldn't kill them you know.

colin @ Oct 8th 2007 8:21PM

GT ideas:

N0013PVVNER
PushyLiquor
CUIVTSucka
A55R3Ap3R
sukmyBAWLS
InsydURmom
InsydURsista

that's about par for XBL users, can you imagine if it was free ???

J-Guy @ Oct 8th 2007 8:28PM

What part of "grandmother" makes you say "him"?

Brian B. @ Oct 8th 2007 8:29PM

That was completely unnecessary.

TwEE @ Oct 8th 2007 8:31PM

How do the kids use it?

horngreen @ Oct 8th 2007 8:34PM

It feels like grandson put the controller in her hands and simply taped it. I could just imagine some moron online going off on how much she sucks and grandson grabbing the headset and flying off the handle. Plenty of people have a hard time figuring out the two thumbsticks. I figure it is as unnatural as the keyboard and mouse if you've never taken the time to learn it. I sent her a clan invite by the way.

Tamyu @ Oct 8th 2007 10:20PM

That does appear to be what it is, although she seems to be having fun later on. The first half is just her commenting "So this is how it works" and "Okay, I get it" etc
Later on though, she asks specific questions, and calls out "They got me!" when she is killed.

BPM (FDF - Hypno-Toad) @ Oct 8th 2007 8:36PM

"Plus she might want to sit a bit further back or else she'll need glasses. Oh, wait."

Wow, making a jab at an old woman. Simply... wow.

Norm @ Oct 8th 2007 8:46PM

I think the jab was about the fact that she already had rather thick looking glasses.

LAZoftheTamarinds @ Oct 8th 2007 8:36PM

Wow this is cool. An old lady that enjoys a game other than Wii sports. Keep on pwning noobs Granny. :)

Brian Clarke @ Oct 8th 2007 9:14PM

As I type this, my 49 year old father is ripping through Halo 3.

I have a cool dad.

Spooky @ Oct 8th 2007 9:27PM

I have some GamerTag names that she could use;

OG Halo Playa
CortanasGranny
BlueHairedBomber
ChangeMyDiaper
Retired N Kickn A$$
Left2DieAtTheHome
MatlockRulz
Back In My Day
NastyNanna
Kevin Kelly

Matt @ Oct 8th 2007 9:33PM

Yeah, if she actually played it I might be more impressed.

ikiryou @ Oct 8th 2007 10:31PM

The actual video is on myspace tv. Looks like she was just learning the ropes.

Boson @ Oct 8th 2007 9:51PM

My great grandmother is 98 and she has played a little bit of each halo game after being intrigued as to what I enjoy doing all day.

I'm also contemplating bringing my Wii to her "old people home" as they have a gigantic plasma TV and I'm sure some of the people would enjoy playing.