I have been playing games since the moment i heard they exist. SP1, PC Pentium1 ? Etc.
We had PC gaming place in neighborhood, 1 euro 1 hour at the time. 5min away from my home. I didnt had SP1 nor PC. I used to spend quite some time and play even when my friends left for lunch and they would come back, on few occasions they would have found me still in the same place. I could never get tired of it.
However, i have played games since '99. And then i began with F1 Challenge 99-02 in fact.
Till today, i had few things for which i thought i would never get old. Toys were one example. I thought they would be around me forever, and there was time i couldnt find any satisfaction.
How the time is passing by i feel the same experience comes to me about the games. But thats not the case with sim-racing. I am involved more than i have ever been. But for anything else, nah, i dont have nerves to sit and waste time on some made up story etc. Only for online perhaps, it would be fun or worth. Otherwise, i have other worries.
I guess the fact i was into games since young age, now on 24, i still have my father entering the room, seeing me driving and saying "you are mad! you are racing with ghosts" but, yeah, he is like that, let say different. He wont understand it nor tries to, I have same age friends who are racing with their fathers. That's one of the reasons i hardly find time to race from home. He is 99% home in the only time i can drive and 110% the chances are that if i start some race he will interrupt me
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reason why i rarely show on servers)
But too old ? Nope. I think this thing, sim racing, isnt about ages but passion. I know people racing from 7 to 77, so, it depends how you see on that.
And i have read what Andrew and Bram said, dont go there, the only way you could start your own life with house or decent job from where i come from, is either your father has big company, or you win bingo. About the job, you would need first to decide on which party youll be.