Well, my mother has had occasional brief instances in which she wanted to play a really good game. I tried to give her something with a leisurely pace with Age of Empires III, but she kept forgetting that there was more than one task to accomplish at the same time, and then the Spanish came in with mortars and her village burned. Later, I tried to interest her in something of a different genre by letting her play Portal, and after she finally mastered the basic FPS controls and stopped running directly into walls for minutes at a time, she still couldn't quite grasp how the portals linked up with each other. She missed most of the humor and subtlety the game had to offer, and when she created portals in facing walls and then began to run straight through them again and again, still not quite understanding they were leading her through the same room over and over, I knew she had no chance of getting through the game. My parents are quite intelligent people but video games are seemingly beyond them.
