I'm in the middle of the age area(I'm in my twenties). Though I've been gaming since I was 2-3 years old.
Without consulting Google, the only thing that comes to mind is Desert Storm or Clinton impeachment...
http://www.theesa.com/facts/index.asp This data is quite stunning to me... I always felt that the demographic of males 17 or younger would account for %37+ and women over 18 would be %13 or less...
No discredit to that thought at all... My sister is much more competitive than most males who play video games, but we were raised on NES and Genesis (back when video games were challenging instead of hand holding) so we had to be brutal to win.
Co-op with my family and friends has always been who can mess up the other player more. Harsh but funny it is.
Yeah i was raised on that, now most games are so easy its hard to find a medium between super hard and easy. Games like COD are holding your hand with easy controls and such, I don't buy into that, and get killed by a 10th prestige level 80 guy who probably plays the game every time he turns on his Xbox. Women game "Better" Because essentially, they play the easier games IMO.
Whatever helps a male feel better about being inferior. I play and win at plenty of "hardcore" games. I'll show you how good I am with my impact hammer.
You're going to get so much flak for saying that and also I've never seen that to be the case. You make it sound like girls are different from guys when it comes to playing videogames when in fact we are the same in the sense that most of us play for the challenge of it, not to just get by and win.
That doesn't surprise me since you're an AI. I'll take that as a compliment because I don't think videogames would be as fun without a bit of a challenge