Will playing games damage your laptop in the long run?

Person just above me is a bull****** , i have a laptop ( its 6 years old) its an Asus , WIndows Xp SP3 , 754GHz(i think) and its a Pentium . So i played games on it and stuff , it is working even faster than my dads desktop ( 2 years old) but i just got a new Laptop ( Asus M51, 3 GB ram added 1 GB = 4 GB ,Core 2 Duo @ 2.40 GHz 2.40GHz . nVidia 9500 m , Better than yours by 40% ) .Yea , just keep reinstalling the Windows and change the keyboard and you should be fine . Some laptops already have the 2 year global warranty ( like mine). Keep playing , 2.5 hours is the max i play .