This ain’t your mom’s gaming console? Oh yes it is! At the AARP’s annual Life@50+ Expo event at Washington, D.C. over 50’s were seen playing the Nintendo Wii and DS.

	Sharen Price and Virginia Foale of Jamaica, NY, find out their brain age at Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes A Day, a brain-training video game for the portable Nintendo DS system. Featured at AARP’s annual Life@50+ Expo event in Washington, D.C., the game is designed to help seniors and baby boomers to keep their minds agile with a series of math, memory, verbal and musical activities.
Brenda Stells of Berwyn, PA, watches as her friend Kathleen Marshall of Wyndmoor, PA, bowls a strike at Wii Sports: bowling at AARP’s annual Life@50+ Expo event at Washington, D.C.’s Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Nintendo’s interactive booth attracted crowds with live demonstrations of senior- and baby boomer-friendly video games for its Wii and Nintendo DS systems.

Just goes to show how Nintendo broke the mold and is bringing people, young and old into the gaming culture. Or is it gaming culture that is becoming mainstream?