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Lance Bandley ReportingDoes this sound like your house every so often? Do you wonder how your teens and children can waste so much time just sitting their playing games?
Recycled Games Manager Casey Allred says ten's of millions of Playstations, X-Box's and Gamecubes are in houses all over the county. However teens and young adults are not the largest group of game players anymore.
It's now estimated 100 million adults are playing casual games on their work computers, PDA's and cell phones. Casual games are simple classic puzzles, word or trivia games and they are the fastest selling computer games.
Allred says adults enjoy playing games, but today's game systems are too complicated to understand and most games are violent shoot 'em up types.
Now teens and young adults take their games a little more seriously most adults. Casual games are often downloaded off of web sites like Yahoo, CNET or AOL for that quick diversion at work. And in a recent survey from the creator of most casual games, 58 percent of players are women and three out of four of those women are over 35.
