How old are you?

[honkydory]

18

 

[Oyeve]

41 and have been playing PC games before they even had graphics! Zork anyone? My first foray into COLOR PC gaming was a 300 buck CGA card! Had a whole 4 colors. Then EGA with a whopping 16 colors! My first experience of a 256 color VGA game was a game called "If it moves, Shoot it!". I was in AWE at the cool 256 colors!

 

[rpanic]

34

I was in Fry?s a while ago in the pc game section. There were these two old ladies talking about C&C and other strategy games. They most have been 60-70 it made me chuckle.

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: Drift3r
30 yrs old - When you got money to drop $1,500+ on a rig chances are you aren't a 14 year old kid. Not that there aren't any out there with fancy rigs but PC gaming has always been dominated by adults.

I built a $1,200 rig when 15. That was last summer.

Needless to say, I nearly went bankrupt, but I'm stabilizing this summer with a nice job.

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: tigersty1e

Originally posted by: ArchAngel777


However, my Dad, who is 57 years old LOVES video games. He plays every evening is in a clan and has a new gadget everytime I visit him. I mean, he has IR-Tracker (Very cool, BTW... I just can't fork over $200 for it) and has flight pedals, dual joysticks, 42" Plasma and plays BF2, FSX, FEAR, CFS3 and CoD2, etc... Crazy..

I love that. 57 year old man in a clan owning 20 year olds. lol

Yeah, me too, lol.

 

[doggyfromplanetwoof]

25

 

[imported_NorthStar]

I'm 51. Not old, but older than most. I only play a few of the best games, like Oblivion. Been a gamer for about 7 years now.

 

[CrystalBay]

< 40 :wine:


My Dad's 79 and he plays Chess Master , Vista Chess, Hoyle Casino and some 3D bowling stuff. He used to be a Wolfenstien addict and a Commander Keen fanboy back in the early '90's

 

[schneiderguy]

16

 

[Mem]

Old gamer here at 45,first computer game I played was on a friends Sinclair ZX81 black and white picture with no sound,was a dracula game.

ZX81 specifications:



* Processor : Z80A
* ROM : 8 kbyte, Sinclair Research Limited Basic interperter
* RAM : 1024 bytes, expandable to 16 kb - 32 kb
* Datawidth : 8 bits
* Adress lines : 16
* Powersupply : 6-9 volts D.C.
* Keyboard : 40 key multifunction membrame
* Output : Output of data to tape
* Input : Input of data from tape
* Display : 75 ohm T.V. output jack
* Expandability: Exp.port at the back.

Hehe I had to put that in,awesome power in those days .

 

[cirrhosis]

27, been playing games since I was seven or eight - first started playing on the Apple IIGS.

 

[mismajor99]

Originally posted by: Oyeve
41 and have been playing PC games before they even had graphics! Zork anyone? My first foray into COLOR PC gaming was a 300 buck CGA card! Had a whole 4 colors. Then EGA with a whopping 16 colors! My first experience of a 256 color VGA game was a game called "If it moves, Shoot it!". I was in AWE at the cool 256 colors!

Zork Zero on my 286 ftw!

 

[Harmattan]

30. Been gaming since Commodore 64 - 286 days. Will probably be gaming when I'm 90 too.

 

[stuicidal]

16, been gaming with my brothers since i was 9

 

[StevenYoo]

26, first game I played was Gorf on the Atari 2600

 

[spamsk8r]

I'll be 24 in 2 weeks. I've been playing PC games since I was 3, though. And I also play XBox 360 and other consoles.

 

[Grimal]

48 and used a Tandy PC with a 5 1/2 " floppy Drive and no hard drive to start. Played some D&D games back then and been trying to keep playing online games like WOW and EQ 2 here lately but don't seem to have the time.

 

[MRGOOCH]

65 plus. I have been playing since there was no sound,no color and 256k of memory. Oh yeh! and no hard drive. It was a Radio Shack Tandy.
It wasn't until there was software that home PC's improved.

 

[Maximilian]

Whos 81+?

 

[Cuhulainn]

Originally posted by: Soviet
Whos 81+?

That's what I was wondering. If I make it that long, I plan to do a good deal of gaming. Game on, retirees!

28 here, married and our first child is due New Year's Eve. Been gaming since Oregon Trail circa 1987. I'm sure I could still kill thousands of pounds of buffalo in a round, and of course only carry 100lbs back to the wagon. I played all the "quest" games growing up, (space, king's, police) and am currently still working through Oblivion and just got Civ4:BTS.

I just built my first rig, always went pre-built in the past, and I am greatly enjoying the benefits of my x1900xt.

:beer:

 

[JBT]

24 I stopped playing Consoles afterI finished up FF7.

 

[PowerRanger]

25 currently. First game played was Pong. I've been less and less interested in gaming recently though...kinda sad.

 

[Painman]

Almost 39. First game I can remember for sure playing on a computer was a text adventure on a TRS-80. That was probably '81 or so. Had a cheapo Telstar knockoff Pong console in the late 70s somewhere.

Stop gaming? Not likely. I've been at it for probably 30 years now.

 

[Poulsonator]

Originally posted by: tigersty1e

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
I'm 26 and my wife is 24. We both game on PC & PS2 mainly and right now we are patiently waiting for the Eye of the North preview.

That's real cool. I hope I can play games with my wife. That way she'll understand when I want to drop $$$$$ for that extra fps or notch in texture quality.

There's nothing finer. My wife loves video games (consoles and PC), especially when she can play with me. Needless to say, we were big fans of WoW, and we're now into LOTRO (I have our gaming rigs setup in the office to where we are back-to-back when we play, hence MMO's are ideal for us).

To play a bit on what you said, tiger, I just dropped $4,000 to build two new gaming rigs (ours were just over 2 years old), re-build the home server, my music PC (DAW), and upgraded the laptop. I also bought a few things to update the home network (new battery cartridges, more robust UPS for the home theater, etc.).

The best part? My wife ASKED me to do this.

Granted, this is something that had to be done, considering how much we use our PCs and how old some parts were, but still. When your wife says "Honey, my video card is acting up again...it's time to upgrade the gaming rigs", you listen (after waking up from fainting as you never thought you'd hear her say something like that, of course).

Find a partner in gaming crime. If you think you like video games now, just wait until you find a significant other to share them with.

*Edited to add: I'm 32, by the way.

 

[coloumb]

Originally posted by: Oyeve
41 and have been playing PC games before they even had graphics! Zork anyone? My first foray into COLOR PC gaming was a 300 buck CGA card! Had a whole 4 colors. Then EGA with a whopping 16 colors! My first experience of a 256 color VGA game was a game called "If it moves, Shoot it!". I was in AWE at the cool 256 colors!

Text based adventures rocked [Zork series, Scott Adams, Adventure, etc] back then - having to use your imagination for the graphics/sounds and create your own map truely immersed you into the gameplay.

My first experience with pc gaming was on a TRS-80 [at my mom's work] that used 8-inch floppy disks. While taking a break from entering data into a spreadsheet, I would play text based games during my breaks.

hand-held gaming - Mattel's Football - I had a love/hate relationship with that game.

console gaming - shiny new atari 2600 from sears.