32 Gaming Memes for Casual Gamers Leveling Up for Laughs This Week (August 28, 2024)

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Aug 28, 2024 11:30 AM EDT

The best feeling in the world is when you open up the packaging of a new game (yes, a real disc, not an online download). You slip the game into your console and sit cross-legged in front of a 2% downloaded loading screen and even though you've got hours to wait until actually playing the game, the excitement bubbles up in your soul at the prospect of a new play through. Every gamer has a specific game that carved a core memory in their hearts and the beginning of that journey started with a laboriously slow download…

Nowadays, if you're an adult and a simple casual gamer, you don't have hours and hours to play your favorite games anymore. You come home from a long day at work, kick off your shoes, and tackle your house chores (cooking, cleaning, you know the drill)–and by the time you're done with all of your adulting, there's hardly any time left before your eyelids start to get heavy. Casual gamers suffer from 20-minute gameplay stints and limit their video game moments to single missions or beating just one boss. But it's those brief and glorious moments that make us feel as good as that disc download from way back in the day.

Video games still get us casual gamers fired up, even if we only have 10 minutes to play before beddy-bye takes over.