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Hamako Mori
Japanese video gamer · Japan · On the map · Gamers · Born 1930 · age 96
At 90, she held a Guinness record as the world's oldest gaming YouTuber - a woman who'd been working a controller since 1981, long before the internet knew what to do with her.
Hamako Mori is read about 27 times a day, in 6 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
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Hamako Mori was born on 18 February 1930 and picked up video games in 1981, in her fifties, when the medium was still finding its form. She kept playing - through decades, through console generations, through the arrival of esports - and eventually brought that history to YouTube under the name Gamer Grandma. In May 2020, Guinness certified her as the oldest gaming YouTuber alive, and the internet responded with something close to wonder: here was skill and longevity in a space that usually worships youth. She became a sensation not for nostalgia but for the present tense - still playing, still posting, still landing shots.
