In the picture of the TV, a figure wearing armor, wearing a helmet, and carrying ** on his back stood on the top of a narrow mountain, looked around, took a step forward, and almost stepped into the vast sea water......"Oh, don't go down", on this end of the TV, Yang Binglin held the game controller, and explained it while operating the character to retreat.
Yang Binglin, who plays games, is 88 years old this year, and has become the oldest game blogger to be awarded the Guinness World Records certificate because he has continued to play single-player games since retirement. For the oldest game blogger, some netizens shouted "grandpa is cute" and "Thai cool and spicy", some netizens envied "is my ideal retirement life", and some netizens expect "thirty or forty years later, such an old man will catch a lot of them".
Yang Binglin became the oldest game blogger and was awarded a Guinness World Records certificate. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
However, Yang Binglin's retirement life is much more than just games. He also loves table tennis, likes to do photography, listens to it every day, does housework with his wife, and has the ability to repair small household appliances.
And Yang Binglin also has a strict schedule every day: get up at 6 o'clock in the morning to make breakfast; At 7:30, I went out to take the bus to play ball; At 9:30, I went to the vegetable market near the ball to buy vegetables, and then took the bus home; 1 to 3 p.m. is the lunch break; 3 to 6 p.m. is game time; Go to bed at 9:30 p.m.
After retirement, he started a "game life".
I have played more than 500 game discs for more than 20 years.
Yang Binglin playing a game.
Yang Binglin was born in Fuzhou, Fujian Province in 1935, and after graduation, he came to Luzhou, Sichuan, where he took root in scientific research and engineering positions in oil and gas drilling in southern Sichuan.
During those years of work, Yang Binglin did not have any hobbies, "mainly because he did not have time." His wife Wu Jianmin said that at that time, his lover was busy with work, sometimes in the wilderness, and often went on business trips, not to mention these hobbies, he was often not at home, and rarely participated in housework at home.
In 1996, after Yang Binglin retired, he suddenly became "idle". It was also after his retirement that Yang Binglin began to get into video games.
In 1998, Yang Binglin bought his first PS1 game console, and with the update and iteration of the game, he gradually bought X-Box360, PS2, PS4 and PS5 given by Sony and "fan children".
For more than 20 years, Yang Binglin has played games that have developed into adventure games such as "Tomb Raider", "World War", "Resident Evil", "Sniper" and mystery games, and he has also saved more than 500 game CDs at home, which he jokes says is more than the CD in the game store.
In Yang Binglin's view, playing games is a kind of mental exercise that can prevent Alzheimer's disease, and the most convenient thing about playing stand-alone games is that it is not limited by time, personnel and environment, "It will not be like other games, if your teammates don't play well, they will be held back, or you have to go online to play." Yang Binglin said that as long as he is at home, he can play, and if his wife has something to call him, he can also pause.
Yang Binglin also had the intention of "developing" two friends of the same age to play single-player games, but they felt it was too complicated and could not stick to it.
The three hours from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. every day are Yang Binglin's game time. "I don't play games easily, I don't read the guides, I explore slowly by myself, and the process is very interesting. In the process of playing the game, Yang Binglin will also make a record, record the level skills of the game being played, experience, etc., Yang Binglin said that he is now playing some PS5 games, and it generally takes more than a month to clear a game.
Yang Binglin will take notes when playing games.
For these game discs, whenever he cleared the level, he would clearly write down the time of clearing the level and the ending after clearing the level with label paper, glue it to the disc, and then neatly fill one box after another.
After playing the game disc, he will record the clearance time and result on the disc.
Now, Yang Binglin gave his first PS1 game console and game discs to relatives; X-box360 has been broken for a few years, and if it can't be repaired, he is reluctant to lose it, so he uses a schoolbag to tightly install it; He also placed a PS4 in the place where he went to escape the summer every year, so as not to have no games to play in the past.
The oldest member of the table tennis club.
But it is the "central power" of the club
In addition to video games for mental sports, Yang Binglin also loves table tennis for physical sports after retirement.
Playing table tennis in the morning and games in the afternoon, Yang Binglin arranges his time very tightly every day.
Get up after 6 o'clock every morning, make breakfast for his wife, after breakfast, at 7:30, Yang Binglin went to take the bus, after 6 stations, and rushed to the Luzhou Elderly Table Tennis Club at about 8 o'clock to play table tennis with the members.
Members all say that Yang Binglin is a member of the club at the "veteran" level, because he joined the earliest batch and stayed for the longest time.
Yang Binglin playing table tennis.
The 88-year-old can play for half an hour in a row, and the 67-year-old opponent, playing a ball for one or twenty rounds, the opponent has a good ball, he can't help but praise "good ball, good ball", because he made a mistake and didn't get the ball, he will also be annoyed to "oops".
Club member Pi Dazhi is 73 years old this year, and he often "learns" with Yang Binglin, and sometimes he can't beat Yang Binglin. Pi Dazhi said that the club has more than 100 members, and although Yang Binglin is the oldest member, "he can be regarded as the 'middle' force of our club, and many young people may not be able to beat him."
Because of table tennis, from the competition in Luzhou City to the competition in Sichuan Province, Yang Binglin also won many medals, the most important is the second place in the table tennis event of the 6th Sichuan Provincial Senior Games in 2007.
Yang Binglin said that playing table tennis can fully move the limbs, which is a good item for physical exercise, and exercising and raising the body can also reassure children. "Unless I can't walk anymore, I'm going to keep fighting. Yang Binglin smiled.
The "housework all-rounder" in the eyes of his wife
Won't interfere with him playing games.
Yang Binglin who went out to travel. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
In Yang Binglin's home, at a glance is dozens of ** on the wall of the living room, his wife Wu Jianmin said, these ** are all taken by traveling out over the years, every year, they and their families will come to a foreign or domestic tour, after returning home, Yang Binglin began to print out**, plastic and then frame.
Yang Binglin is ready to seal the ** that has just been printed.
In addition to the conspicuous TV and game consoles, basic furniture and appliances, the rest of the home is large and small storage cabinets that occupy all rooms, from the living room to the bedroom.
In these lockers, in addition to Yang Binglin's baby's game discs, there are also his other hobbies.
For example, he likes photography, he not only buys a video camera, but also has to carry a first-class printer and plastic molding machine; He likes to listen to **, so he tinkered with one set of stereos after another and went home; Occasionally, he is like a child, and likes to buy small toys; I couldn't move my feet when I saw the beautiful handicrafts in the store, so I slowly added more and more items.
The house seems to be full of piles in every corner, and his wife Wu Jianmin said in a doting tone complaining, "What kind of way does he like it?"
Yang Binglin and his wife Wu Jianmin. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
In Wu Jianmin's view, although his wife has many interests, he has never left behind the housework at home, Yang Binglin will be responsible for buying vegetables and cooking, he will do all the heavy work at home, and his wife will repair small household appliances when they are broken, and even if the sewer toilet is blocked, his wife will buy tools to pass it herself. 82-year-old Wu Jianmin happily talked about the retirement life of the two, and in her opinion, her retired wife is "a housekeeper".
I also have my hobbies, usually I go to play mahjong in the afternoon and go out dancing in the evening. Wu Jianmin said that he would not interfere too much with his wife's interests and hobbies, unless he forgot the time while playing games, and would remind him.
It has more than 500,000 "fans and children".
Tell "do your job well and then play the game".
Beginning in 2018, Yang Binglin's grandson and granddaughter-in-law began to upload his grandfather's game clearance on the **platform**, and in the past few years, Yang Binglin, who calls himself "the hardcore gamer Yang Old Man", has gained more than 500,000 fans on the two social platforms. He calls these fans "fan friends" and greets each other through ** and messages.
Yang Binglin playing a game. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
Sometimes, Yang Binglin's ** account has not been updated for several months, and some fans will worry about his body, and Yang Binglin will also respond in **, just like the elders in the family say "It's too hot during this time, my grandfather went outside to escape the heat", and during the New Year's holidays, he will also send blessings to the "fan children" in **.
In the ** recorded by his grandson, when his grandson bought a new game disc and gave it to him, he would be like a child who received a gift, immediately put down the magazine he was reading, picked up the game disc with both hands and looked back and forth, and faced his grandson's daughter-in-law's question "You have to be afraid", Yang Binglin muttered casually, and finally spit out a sentence "Is he afraid or I'm afraid of him".
After receiving the Guinness World Records certificate, Yang Binglin handwrote a line of words on the certificate, and also sandwiched a photo of himself and his wife in the lower right corner of the certificate, and hung it in the living room after the certificate was framed.
Cover News Reporter Xu Qing.
*: Cover news.