I found the old ball very accurate if u cleaned it every 5 mins

If you are over 10, you have played with a ball mouse. They're fine until about a year after you buy them. It was a pain to clean them with rubbing alcohol though. Wireless optical mice are a godsend for me because I use a gaming laptop.

Well, I didnt say old, i said older!

Over 10 is pushing it. I figure most kids haven't done much PC video game playing prior to being at least 6-8, and even that's probably a little low.

I don't know about you, but haven't even seen a ball mouse in the last 6 years, let alone played games with one, and don't know any 12 years with fond memorys of age 6 Starcraft sessions with their old ball mouse.

15 is probably a better number to go with. I'm 22, and while I remember having the ball mouse for quite some time, I'm a little fuzzy on actually using it with video games.

My memory's a bit fuzzy but IIRC optical mice didn't start coming around a lot until the tail end of the 90's at the earliest. Lots of gaming before that.

I remember playing with a weird metal stick joystick thingy on a TRS 80.  I also remember having paddles to play warlords on the Atari 2600.  Those metal joysticks sucked compared to the ball mouse.

TRS-80 with the two weird joysticks that came with the game:

Stone age stuff  LOL

I use to drool when I saw my friend with one of those when I was young....