Is the Pandemic Gamer Here To Stay?

Order pizza, kids, your parents are playing video games.

Pablo Andreu
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5 min readFeb 23, 2021

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Before the pandemic, I hadn’t played a video game in five years. Now, I have 70 games in my Steam library and 175 more in my backlog. Meanwhile, my sister hadn’t touched one in 25 years. Now, she’s a permanent member of the Van der Linde gang in Red Dead Redemption 2.

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Pablo Andreu
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