Cool. Which High School did you attend? ... I attended a Waldorf school, which is kind of ... special. :-) (not bad, but it takes a creative approach to education)

It's actually really sad. Most of the people i went to school with went off to Harvard. Here I am living in the middle of nowhere spending all my time in a gaming forum. :P
And I'm not mentioning the name. I'm afraid one of those fuckers might find me.

I know, right?! The poor, miserable suckers.

Yes, I think everyone has to say that their gaming genres changed as they aged. At least assuming they still play games including newer games that have come out over time because the entire gaming market has added new genres, sub-genres, side-genres over time as well as evolving older genres via modernization.

As an example, In the 80s we had Zork... nowadays we have a game like Tex Murphy Tesla Effect, or the recent Sherlock Holmes games in 3D. There is a direct linear progression from Zork through The Pawn, through King's Quest and other adventure games all the way up to the current stuff but today's adventure games are a far cry from what Zork was back in the day. It's the same genre, but is it? I'd say yes and no. :)

I think the majority of gamers that have played over a longer period of time have to have tried more and more genres of games as new genres formed. Not necessarily every genre, but definitely more. Probably are some folks that are exceptions but they'd be the few I imagine. :)

Eh, I dunno, I'd still count that as an adventure game. I'm younger than you people, sure, but I've played the games you've mentioned (save for The Pawn) and consider them all to be relatively in the same ballpark, just with different features and/or difficulty levels. They upgrade, but still remain, at the heart, the same type of game.

No, my gaming genres have not changed. But then again I was already in my late teens, when I started gaming, so I was kinda grown up already.

My first games were RPGs, flight sims, 2D platformers, racing games, beat em ups and FPS. And I still like to play those.

Yes, but is that the only game genre you play? I'd find it surprising if more than a very small percentage of gamers play one single genre of games for 30 years.

Read the tagline.

Considering that our wonderful public education is based on the 18th century PRUSSIAN school of 'do as we say or we send you to ze heer!', I can literally see irony syrup dripping down the words in your post.

America is only the loudest example of the long term failures of the very public form of obedience training/rape masquerading as classical education. Want to throw bad looks around? Throw them into a mirror.

Ah, ok. :) So you're one of the exceptions then. I have to admit, with all the great games out there in a variety of genres... I'm puzzled as to why you'd limit yourself to a single genre. Then again Portal 2 is a puzzle game, but also an FPS, or Twin Sector or The Ball. :) Do you stick to just certain specific types?

^ This. It just takes me longer to finish a game as I have less time now, but the genres remain the same.

Genre. Genre never changes.

Nah, man, I don't discriminate. I love puzzles of all sorts! Adventure games are my favorite, though. I've played at least 50 or 60 of 'em.

Yeah, sure. Back then there were no RTS, no 3D, no city building simulators, no MMO... But in general - most of the genres I liked 20/15/10 years ago are still my favourite ones. Maybe except sport since there aren't many good games for pc anymore or they come from consoles and most of the time a gamepad is required or it lacks good optimization.

The finishing part sure changed, but in a different way. In the '90s I very rarely finished a game. I'd get some, poke through them, play for a while, then maybe get some others, repeat with those and so on. And always played slowly, so didn't really get to finishing, and gave up rather easily when the going got hard.
Then, around 2000, quite sure no later than 2002, something changed and I started making a point of trying to finish them instead of giving up. And since then it's basically the same thing, try to finish 5 games a year, usually fail. Number of games played drastically dropped, as plenty that catch my attention to some extent get sent to the back of the line until I give up on the idea of even trying them completely, but number of games finished increased, as during the '90s I'm quite sure I could count the total number of games actually finished on my fingers. Does also make for periods when I play nothing at all because I want to finish one of those already started but don't feel like it and/or am stuck and won't start another, so just sort of forget about games for good for a while.
RTSs and city builders existed even back in the '80s, even if the earliest may be hard to recognize as such at a glance coming from today's standards. Even MMOs actually, it was the lack of widespread internet access that was the issue.