Find the oldest gamers .. am I too old for gaming ?

[CDdude55]

Will be 20 in a couple months. I started gaming on the early consoles throughout the 90's and didn't get much into PC gaming until around the early 2000's.

I know there is one guy on here that was talking about fixing computer equipment back in the 1960's. He's probably old as hell.

 

[Taz100420]

Im only 25 but I been playin games since NES and first computer was a Packard Bell that had Doom, Rise of the Triad, Wolfenstein, Betrayal at Krondor, One Must Fall:2097<Badass game when I was a kid lol

 

[WarhammerTX]

Well Im 51 and started with a Ti 99 and the rest is history, still play everyday bf2,bfbc2 and still lovin it.

 

[cadaveca]

PC gamer avg age =34.

 

[MT Alex]

The older you get, the nicer the rigs you can afford

 

[mauriek]

I'm 34 and starting play games with Atari in 1985, is it only me? or new games these days cant make me say wow anymore..the FPS game in recent years feel so easy especially in their aiming system, i remember i have good challenge while playing COD2 back then but not with new FPS nowadays, the online version is worse..thank god there's still good release like Fallout NV that keep me play..really need better challenge now..

now i play with my 5yrs old boy with my Desktop PC, really nice to watch the enthusiast glow in his eyes when we plays, the excitement when he win something in games..reminding me the excitement when i was a kid playing with the Atari after school..with all the nice thing that games brought me, i'm glad i play games..never regret it for a moment.

 

[johnnyfiive]

I'm 28, been gaming since I was 6. Nintendo. ^^VV<><>b,a, select, start. Yep, i'll never forget it!
I don't play nearly as much as I'd like to, too busy. But.. I'll never quit gaming entirely, everyone needs fun, I find fun in gaming (when I have time...).

 

[Techtu]

Thread need's a Poll:

 

[yogurt_21]

The older you get, the nicer the rigs you can afford

well that's true up until you get married, then after a little while it becomes true again, until you have kids... then 22 years after the last one is born they all have finished college and you can start saving for rigs again. so

1.<12 begs for rig parts
2. 12-15 odd jobs for rig parts
3. 15-18 works can start to aford real rig parts
4. 18-22 if working while in college can afford nice rig parts
5. 22-24 married and broke
6. 25-25.5 briefly able to use dual income to afford awesome rig
7. 25.5 -mid 50's broke due to costly kids
8. mid 50's and beyond time for pimpin rigs.

 

[Black Panther]

The first game I played was on a friend's computer - I didn't have one yet. I was 12 or 13, and the pc in question was some Amiga and it had a colour monitor.
The only glitch was that her games were on a tape-cassette, and we needed to wait until it rewinded & loaded the game before we could play. And that took some 30-40 minutes

Got my first pc when I was 14 or 15. It wasn't an Amiga (perhaps that was why no colour monitor was available ) but it was IBM compatible So we could choose the monitor being either black & white, or amber & white or green & white

I remember thinking how awesome our pc was because I could use a word-processor to do university work.
Which was better than the old-fashioned typewriter where if I made an error or wanted to insert some paragraph in page 1 I had to tear up all the pages I typed before!

I don't remember the name of the first game I played, but one of them first had been an awesome adventure game where I had to type the directions (NE, SW, N etc) and then get a text reply saying I was faced by so and so and need to choose whether to fight or escape or bribe etc...

Needless to say Windows was unheard of. The OS was DOS I think it was 3 or 4 point something .....
To play a game one had to go cd\ then c: and dir\w to show all directories of the c: drive and then you had to type the exact directory, press enter and type the exact filename for the 'game' to launch (Hey it's amazing I still remember this stuff, prolly because I typed it out so much long times ago!)

After that we got another pc, still DOS based but which had a colour monitor. I remember playing a game called worm (it was like a platform game with a blue background and the worm and the ladders & obstacles were white) and some breakout games which were blue and pink on a black background.

The first Windows based pc I had was when I was 19 years. (Gosh this makes me feel like an oooold fart... )
That was Windows 3 point something

I remember it felt so awkward for me then to have to 'run a program' in order to run the application I wanted that there was some command which I used to bypass Windows and just use the DOS I was accustomed to

But the pc then had made a great progress leap. At least this one kept the 3.5" floppies and traded the 5.25" drive for a CD drive. I spent long hours browsing encyclopedias and other CD's like how stuff works etc....

We still had no internet here then - I think we had the internet after 1994. The dial-up was so slow that I figured out how to prevent images from loading so as to make it faster. Also it was really hard to get online - the dialup always got an 'engaged' tone and we had to pray to get through.. Plus it was expensive - every minute costed and if you disconnected there was a big chance you wouldn't get connected again.

Things then got better with the 56K connection

 

[HossHuge]

I mod should change the title to let everyone know this has become a poll question.

 

[Black Panther]

I mod should change the title to let everyone know this has become a poll question.

The word "poll" is automatically added to the thread title when a poll is made.

 

[mudkip]

I'm 81 and play CoD

 

[HossHuge]

The word "poll" is automatically added to the thread title when a poll is made.

Thanks for pointing out my stupidity. Ill go and crawl back into my hole now...:shadedshu

 

[yogurt_21]

Thanks for pointing out my stupidity. Ill go and crawl back into my hole now...:shadedshu

that's what she said!


and to the younger crowd, you're the jerks without attention spans that make every game no longer than 10 hours. lol jk, it's totally tatty's fault.

 

[Kreij]

Thanks for pointing out my stupidity. Ill go and crawl back into my hole now...:shadedshu

Don't feel bad or singled out. We get paid to point out people's stupidity.
Plus, this being an internet forum means that the odds of any one of us making a stupid/uninformed post at some point is 100%.
Forum + posting + thick skin = internet bliss.

BTW, I'm older than Tatty. Not by much, but older non the less. So if you want to trash an old dude, feel free to pick on me too. We can take it ... and if we can't, we have bansticks.

 

[Black Panther]

Thanks for pointing out my stupidity. Ill go and crawl back into my hole now...:shadedshu

I didn't point out your stupidity, I pointed out something you unintentionally overlooked - there I thought I had done my daily good deed...



Apologies for any misunderstanding

 

[NastyHabits]

I'm in my 60's and have been playing games since Pong. I've slowed somewhat, prefer RTS to FPS these days.

 

[Kreij]

If the young gamers on this board really want to gain an insight into the future of games, they need to play the old games that originally defined the genres.
There is a reason that they are seen as the basis for all that follow, and it is not because of the graphics.

 

[TheMailMan78]

If the young gamers on this board really want to gain an insight into the future of games, they need to play the old games that originally defined the genres.
There is a reason that they are seen as the basis for all that follow, and it is not because of the graphics.

And its also why younger gamers see us as nay-sayers. We still remember the days when you got maybe ONE good game a year and DLC is when you went to the bathroom. Its also why paying monthly for a game is so foreign.

 

[kyle2020]

Im 18, and I can remember gaming 'back in the day' on my sega megadrive, playing goldenaxe and track & field with my dad and sister - id sayive been gaming for 10 or 11 years, from the megadrive to a PS1, gameboys, PS2 & PS3, XBOX 360 and now Im a PC gamer and will stay that way, own no consoles bar my prized possesion - an immaculate NES system with duckhunt and super mario bros.

 

[Kreij]

It was not the cost or marketting of the game years ago.
The developers were bound by the hardware limitations at the time.
The games were all about content, as there was little else that would sell a game.
The lack of visual feedback (graphics) in the games left the gamer to create his/her own vision of what was happening in the game. Similar to reading a book, and also why seeing a movie based on a book usually leaves one unsatisfied.

If the developer of games want to recreate (and they do) the attachment of a gamer to a game as the old games did, they must learn to create games that do not feed the gamers their idea, but instead let the gamer create their own food for thought from the premise of the game.

 

[Samdbugman]

lol i cant do pole, missing my age bracket 55-60

 

[yogurt_21]

lol i cant do pole, missing my age bracket 55-60

that's because those in that age bracket cease to exist for 5 years while they try to find themselves and then reappear once they turn 60.


it's called, wait for it......mid life crisis.

yes it's true! due to better medical care, porn channels, and food preservitives 55-60 is now middle age.

 

[Mr McC]

37 and startin to flake a bit around the edges