Japanese Care eSports Association, an organization specializing in video game tournaments for senior citizens, began during the Covid-19 lockdowns to challenge "assumptions about aging."
92-year-old Hisako Sakai certainly did that!
BEHOLD:
Note how she has mastered the button-mashing technique.
Oddly enough, it's the exact technique my wife uses any time my son talks her into playing a fighting game with him.
It always works for her too.
The organization just held its 12th bi-annual tournament featuring this fighting game, Tekken 8. Here's what spokesman Shinpei Hama had to say:
‘Some of the participants are living with dementia, but many really enjoyed the game,' said Hama in an interview with Game Spark. ‘As they chose characters, they seemed to get more attached to them. Some players practiced with passion, saying they wanted to win at least once. They had about a month to practice before the event, and a few of them stayed up late into the night, playing about 60 games.'
Anyone else excited for the Halo tournaments when the millennials hit 90??
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