To be fair I’ve aged 30 years in the past 5

Assuming you don't live in Japan, Red/Blue actually is slightly more recent than OP led you to think. JP Red/Green was 1996, but international Red/Blue was 1998. Assuming you don't live in Japan, you get two years of youth back.

I'm pretty sure it was yesteryear that all the kids were hazardously catching Pokémon outdoors while staring blindly into their phones.

Here's something I do that helps with "feeling old" when people point out things that happened 20 or so years ago.

The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion came out 20 years ago, but what was I actually doing 20 years ago? I was like 10 or 11 years old in middle school and my brothers friend let him borrow the game over the weekend. It was my first open world RPG and I was so excited to play it and could barely even comprehend how big it was. I've basically lived two thirds of my life since then. My first job, moving out of my parents, my first apartment, getting my drivers license, my first car, my first real girlfriend, all of my neices and nephews being born, going to an amusement park for the first time, going to a movie theater for the first time, and basically everything else I can think of because I sure as shit don't remember much from before I was 10 years old. So pretty much everything important that has ever happened in my entire life was between the time of Oblivion coming out and now.

So yeah, we are definitely getting older. But that doesn't mean the time in between was just nothing. It feels like 2006 was yesterday because we often gloss over everything in between and don't really focus on what was actually going on in our lives at the time.

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You're pretty young. Enjoy it. Soon you'll get one grey hair, and then another. And another. Soon you'll have back problems, and be regularly aware that you need to eat more fiber.

Talk about feeling old I played almost all the games until 2006, but fewer of the list after and hardly from the 2016 one. Not trying to one up but figured good place to comment.

It's been a fun time seeing progression over the years, haven't stopped playing since my first Gemini (Atari 2600 knockoff that played the same games) system. Going from 2d squares to a proper video representation has been awesome. I always enjoyed the graphic improvements the gameplay has had its ups and downs but the remembered ones did that part right.

10 years ago, it was also called hitman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitman_%282016_video_game%29?wprov=sfla1

There was indeed an earlier Prey game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(2006_video_game)

There was a Prey in 2006