89-Year-Old Grandma Is Oldest Video Game YouTuber In The World, And She's Amazing

While adults today make excuses to get back to gaming, blaming work responsibilities among several other reasons, an 89-year-old grandma has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest gaming YouTuber.

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Meet Hamako Mori from Japan who has won this award. She shared this with the world on her YouTube channel, Gamer Grandma, and this achievement was also lauded by YouTube on its Twitter handle.

In the video where she shows her award, she says that it was tough to gather evidence for the record entry. She was asked to play a video game in front of a representative from the Guinness World Records after she was registered for the world record. She also said that she never thought that she would be the best at something.

Gamer Grandma starting gaming around 39 years ago on a console by Epoch Co called Cassette Vision which was released in Japan around 1981, and she¡¯s been gaming ever since.

She launched the YouTube channel in 2015 where she shared gameplay videos while playing on her PS4. She also shares unboxing of new gaming peripherals that she purchases and shares her experiences with everyone. Today, she has over 2.5 lakh subscribers on YouTube where she streams her gameplay videos regularly.

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Her all-time favourite series is GTA and she loves playing GTA V, but she also plays games like Elder Scrolls V Skyrim, Dauntless and others. She has admitted that she stays until 2:00 AM to play video games.

She said in a statement, ¡°It looked so much fun, and I thought it¡¯s not fair if only children played it,¡± Mori told Guinness World Records. ¡°I thought life would be more fun if I knew how to play it. So I started playing, at first while no one was watching.¡±