Posted on 12/06/2017 7:11:02 PM PST by sparklite2
If you're between 55 and 75 years old, you may want to try playing 3D platform games like Super Mario 64 to stave off mild cognitive impairment and perhaps even prevent Alzheimer's disease.
According to the MRI test results, only the participants in the video-game cohort saw increases in gray matter volume in the hippocampus and cerebellum. Their short-term memory also improved.
The tests also revealed gray matter increases in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and cerebellum of the participants who took piano lessons, whereas some degree of atrophy was noted in all three areas of the brain among those in the passive control group.
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The kids left Nancy Drew games on our computer. That makes me hard core!
I used to love to play pinball when I was a kid although I could not afford to play a lot.
I wonder if there is a reasonably priced digital version.
I still play Duke Nukem and Shadow Warrior on my PC.
I only try some crossword puzzles and kenken.
I have Wolfenstein Collossus on my XBOX ONE X..dang that game, the scene with the killing of the dog is BRUTAL!! Bought the game on sale at Best Buy on Black Friday..Wasnt going to buy it since Bethesda went anti Trump with their “There is only one side” slogan but still the game is fun
EVE Online since 2013. Mind boggling complexity. Amazing beauty. No endgame. No scripts. No one “wins” EVE. You can only participate.
Pinball. Check out “Pinball Arcade” from Farsight Studios.
Extreme level sudoku puzzles, building a room in the basement, purchasing repairing and re selling various household items off the web, writing (in long hand cursive) letters to various folks.
Cooking dinner, canning various fruits and veggies, designing and manufacturing a catalytic woodstove, cutting and stacking firewood for same, keeping house.
Oh yeah, I work full-time, too.
Who has time for video games?
Burgertime. :-). I need to find one to restore.
They made an updated version of that a few years back. Same concept and addictive play but with modern eye candy. It was a pretty good game.
Thanks, I will.
I want to give Eve Online a try sometime. But it’s complexity seems way daunting. Still, even if I never play it, Eve is the kind of thing that I’m glad exists in this world. The massive wars that have broken out and cost serious real life currency boggles the mind.
Civilization V
Aces High WW2 combat vs a couple hundred players in one big arena. Fly planes, drive tanks, PT boats, carriers, cruisers. Keeps the brain firing.
As far as a workout for my mind, it's mostly just an exercise in humility.
It’s now possible to play for free and have access to significant skills, resources and ships. Jump in.
Chess. Face to face with a real human probably is the best game to play to keep the mind working well.
When I was a kid, my grades would go way up in those periods where my father would play a few games of chess with me during the week. Decades later, after he came down with Alzheimer’s he seemed to do much better overall, when we started playing chess again, although it was sometimes difficult to get him to keep his mind on the game.
Any of you guys play World of Tanks or Blitz??
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