Well if you take that the 1st videogame ( arcade ) was out in 1971 Computer Space and failed but the 1st successful one was PONG in 1972 ..

1971 then count up till the year you 1st played an arcade game will give you your generation of Gamer

As best as I can tell my year was 1976 = 5 Makeing me a 5th Generation Player ..

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Any gamers from the 70's
Should be good at SHOOTERS as This was their age of power ..
so 1-9th Gen gamers should have mastered Fast fingers for rapid fire and good acuracy ..
Weapon of choice : JOYSTICK ,1 or 2 Buttons .

Any Gamers from the 80's
10th-19th GEN should be Masters at Maze,Driving and Run and Jump games( Platform) . Thus better at timeing skills and due to timeing jumps and attacks ..
Weapon of choice :Joystick 1 or 2 buttons. Enter control pads ...

Any Gamers from the 90's
20th - 29th Gen Should be Masters at FIGHTERS,PUZZLE and RPG's .
Thus Better at Useing multiple buttons at once along with joysticks also we see increased problem solving as the game industry starts to become diverse ..
Weapon of choice :Control Pads or joysticks with 2-8 or more buttons .

Any Gamers from the 2000's
Should become masters of many Real Time Stratigy , First Person Perspective Shooters ( 3-D games ) and what ever else this decade spawns ..As PC games become main stream .
Weapon of choice : Keyboard and Mouse or Control pads as joysticks become rare except in arcades ...

SO See where you started out at then think of WHAT kind of games you mastered and it will give you your Generation Skill Base ..

Like THIS ..

I will bury anyone at PONG ( NEVER BEEN DEFEATED ..yet ) ,have some of the quickest fingers around smoking most opponents at Shooters Im even faster than thoose lame controlers with AUTO.. Most of the Games I am best at came out around the 70's-80's and are Shooters , I will always do good at just about any game of thoose years needed skills ..where as Im only a decent opponent at FIGHTERS ,RTS ,PUZZLERS and dont play SIM anything !!

BUT Cross me in a TWISTED METAL or VIRTUAL ON And ILL kick yer but !! also dam good at Quake,Unreal style games ..but not a GOD at them like younger players or say later GEN gamers who started on these kind of games ..