So I just finished trying to teach my mother how to play video games after a break of at least a decade. With her mental state the way it is now, it was very difficult. She’s also very hard of hearing, so communicating instructions to her is also very difficult. She recently found a few unopened Gamecube games, a few Pac Man games and Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, that she wanted to play. It took us almost a full hour and a half for her to get to the point where she count run and jump through levels.
You know how you can tell a person who doesn’t play games very often if at all, because they randomly smash buttons and look down at their hands to see what they’re pressing, and have to be prompted to go through menus and such, because they simply don’t understand the basic mechanics of how a video game works? Yeah, it was like that with my mother. But I love her, and we’ll keep trying. Years ago she used to play Animal Crossing without any help, but now that she’s older, she’s very visibly losing her cognitive ability.