91-year-old gamer gets a visit from police after she misses her daily check-in call because was 'trying to beat her record level'

You won't believe what happened next, maybe.

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The happy-ending story comes to us from News 5 Cleveland (via GamesRadar ), which kicks off with the promise of "an amazing ending to a scary situation," and the classic, "officers never could have imagined what they were about to find when they went to check things out."
"Turned out to be okay," Westlake Police captain Jerry Vogel said.

"Everyone got a good laugh out of it."
Look, I'm glad it was a happy ending, but I also take a little issue with how the whole thing is played.

Imagine if this had been your 22-year-old wastoid roommate instead of gam-gams—would you be laughing about it?

Or would you be yelling, "God dammit Ted, I told you I've been waiting for that callback all goddamn week and all you had to do was pick it up and tell them I'd be back in 30 minutes, you asshole!

"
I'm guessing you'd be more inclined to the latter.

I know I would.

But we treat elderly gamers like cute aberrations, despite the fact that if you were a youthful 30 when the original Bard's Tale dropped, you're 70 now.

And we're not weird!

I mean, they're not weird.

The point is, do you think this story would be in the news if the 91-year-old had fallen asleep watching Matlock?

Not to be a persistent buzkill about the whole thing, but I haven't even gotten to the biggest issue of all here, which is the complete lack of journalistic responsibility on display that leaves the most important question unanswered: What game was she playing?

As a True Pro myself, I am not willing to let such an oversight stand.

I've reached out to the Westlake Police to ask, and will update if I receive a reply.

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Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80.

From there he graduated to the glory days of Sierra Online adventures and Microprose sims, ran a local BBS, learned how to build PCs, and developed a longstanding love of RPGs, immersive sims, and shooters.

He began writing videogame news in 2007 for The Escapist and somehow managed to avoid getting fired until 2014, when he joined the storied ranks of PC Gamer.

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