How old are you?

Csub · July 2014

Jinxycat wrote: »

Going to be 26 on August 11th *sobs*

13th of August here (though I will be only 24).
Yes, I sometimes have my Birthday on Friday 13th, but I was born on a different day of the week. :P

Moonscythe · July 2014

Jinxycat wrote: »

Going to be 26 on August 11th *sobs*

Have hope, life does not end at 26 and your gaming brain cells will become even more cunning thus overcoming an slowing of the reflexes which, I hasten to add, will not happen for quite a while yet.

m_thatcher610b16_ESO · July 2014

45 here.
Started mmos with Myth of Soma, never found anything to hold my attention until this. Enjoying it loads.

Lunerdog · July 2014

46 here, don't think I feel any different to when I was younger, just that some things take longer to do and some things are over way to quickly

Azzuria · July 2014

You don't ask a lady that question.

Let's just say I'm old enough to know better... and young enough to do something about it.

GreySix · July 2014

Born in '69.

PSLAnimal · July 2014

I remember when the Dead Sea was only sick.
I remember when rainbows were in black and white.
When I was in school, there was no history class.
On my birthdays, the candles now cost more than my cake.
I still owe Fred Flintstone five bucks.
At my age, "getting lucky" means I found my truck in the parking lot in under ten minutes.
My ears are still ringing from the Big Bang.
I fart dust.
The other day my wife said to me, "let's go upstairs and make love." I told her, "I can't do both!"
The other day I went to an antique auction and three people bid on me.
When I was a baby my diapers were made from mammoth hide.

Seriously. I'm 52. Heh.

Phantax · July 2014

PSLAnimal wrote: »

I remember when the Dead Sea was only sick.
I remember when rainbows were in black and white.
When I was in school, there was no history class.
On my birthdays, the candles now cost more than my cake.
I still owe Fred Flintstone five bucks.
At my age, "getting lucky" means I found my truck in the parking lot in under ten minutes.
My ears are still ringing from the Big Bang.
I fart dust.
The other day my wife said to me, "let's go upstairs and make love." I told her, "I can't do both!"
The other day I went to an antique auction and three people bid on me.
When I was a baby my diapers were made from mammoth hide.

Seriously. I'm 52. Heh.

Nice... but I got you beat !

"When I started playing video games 'vanilla' was still just a flavour of ice cream !

Kronosphere · July 2014

wow i love there are so many 40+ i wanna be a cool old dude playing games when i get there! good stuff!

Guppet · July 2014

Kronosphere wrote: »

wow i love there are so many 40+ i wanna be a cool old dude playing games when i get there! good stuff!

Us old dudes can afford gaming rigs, that you young whippersnappers can only dream of too

NorthernFury · July 2014

Old enough to know better, and still too young to resist!

NorthernFury · July 2014

kip_silverwolf wrote: »

Ur-Quan wrote: »

seneferab16_ESO wrote: »

That's when it dawned on me.
Growing up in the 90s was pretty damn awesome.

31 and ticking.

You only say that because you didn't grow up in the 80s.

aah the 80's! Such fond memories of awesome fashion, music & games! (King's Quest on the Apple, anyone?)

Man, I still remember Ultima and Ultima II on my Apple II plus.....and the 300 baud modem that you would put your phone handset on.....

80's were by far the awesomest decade for me.

TequilaFire · July 2014

Yep, young or old enjoy yourselves.
There are no "reloads" on life!

GreySix · July 2014

Ah, my first gaming "rig"

NorthernFury · July 2014

GreySix wrote: »

Ah, my first gaming "rig"

A whopping 48k of memory....."All the computing power you may ever need"

Those days were awesome.

Woogawoman · July 2014

My first computer had 512K memory, no hard drive, and only read single-sided 3.5" floppies. I played Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on it, among other games.

Here's a plug for Antique Ordinatus Populus, a guild for those of us in our 40s and higher. Take a look!

Hoamaii · July 2014

Interesting, it's 50/50 above and below 35... There goes the prejudiced idea that games are "just for kids"...

What's the next poll this forum is going to throw at us?.. What SEX are you? Male? Female? Cylon?

I'd love to see the other prejudiced idea that games are "a boy thing" go to trash too...

theyancey · July 2014

NorthernFury wrote: »

kip_silverwolf wrote: »

Ur-Quan wrote: »

seneferab16_ESO wrote: »

That's when it dawned on me.
Growing up in the 90s was pretty damn awesome.

31 and ticking.

You only say that because you didn't grow up in the 80s.

aah the 80's! Such fond memories of awesome fashion, music & games! (King's Quest on the Apple, anyone?)

Man, I still remember Ultima and Ultima II on my Apple II plus.....and the 300 baud modem that you would put your phone handset on.....

80's were by far the awesomest decade for me.

I still have my collector's tin Ultima somewhere. I ran a punch tape driven mainframe in the 70s, had an Apple 2C in the 80s, later a Tandy that used floppy drives instead of a hard drive. Things seemed to have changed.

AlexDougherty · July 2014

Woogawoman wrote: »

My first computer had 512K memory, no hard drive, and only read single-sided 3.5" floppies. I played Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on it, among other games.

Here's a plug for Antique Ordinatus Populus, a guild for those of us in our 40s and higher. Take a look!

Well my first Computer was an Acorn Electron, according to Wikipedia it only had 32 Kilobytes of memory. I had to look it up because in those days the amount of memory was never an important figure.

And you had to load games from a cassette recorder, and if you had the volume setting wrong it didn't load properly, and each cassette had a different setting, which you had to figure out by trial and error. On the plus side it could also play most BBC micro games (but not all).

And most of the games were text based.

uzul77 · July 2014

Xenite wrote: »

Hah, slipped into the 35 bracket by a few months. Eat that birthday!

Sigh, when I was 16 I wanted to just be 18, then I just wanted to get to 21 ;-)

Now at 35 I just want it to stop. >_<

Careful young one, ages stop when we die

so ... live your life and begin looking forward to those 40s, 50s, 70s, 80s...

43 btw

Durham · July 2014

According to this poll almost 60% of the player base is over 30... close to 3/4 is over 25

If this thing ever goes ftp this will reverse.. Keep subscription please...

GreySix · July 2014

AlexDougherty wrote: »

Woogawoman wrote: »

My first computer had 512K memory, no hard drive, and only read single-sided 3.5" floppies. I played Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on it, among other games.

Here's a plug for Antique Ordinatus Populus, a guild for those of us in our 40s and higher. Take a look!

Well my first Computer was an Acorn Electron, according to Wikipedia it only had 32 Kilobytes of memory. I had to look it up because in those days the amount of memory was never an important figure.

And you had to load games from a cassette recorder, and if you had the volume setting wrong it didn't load properly, and each cassette had a different setting, which you had to figure out by trial and error. On the plus side it could also play most BBC micro games (but not all).

And most of the games were text based.

Yep, remember those well. The first computer I ever got to play with at home loaded programs on cassette tape, like this.

... and yeah, had that flight simulator game, spending hours on it.

smeeprocketnub19_ESO · July 2014

Back in my day, a video game was two plesiosaurs who would push a wheel back and forth at each other when you pulled their tails. Interactive!

Fi'yra · July 2014

I told support I was 16, and they didn't care.

#yolo

Elf_Boy · July 2014

RedMiniStapler wrote: »

Tabbycat wrote: »

Like fine wine... we just keep getting better with age.

well you're forgetting the important fact, wine needs to be stored in right temperature to become better with age, imagine a bottle of wine that's been sitting in hot storage for 20 years, you definitely do NOT wanna drink that wine.

Perhaps not, strong vinegar is however just as useful as wine, except for cleaning, cooking and a few other more pedestrian activities.

For some this could be a vast improvement.

Myself I like cooking with the right wine vinegar and sometime I prefer to drink a nice wine.

Ohh I could go for some chard or spinach right now with a nice mild vinegar on it, along some beef simmered all day adobo style, getting a bit hungry now.

Moonscythe · July 2014

My first Mac didn't have a CD player (it was the pizza box Performa) and I didn't have any games for it. Then Myst came out and my son wanted to play Marathon so I bought a CD player and decent speakers because it should never be said that I was too backwards (read old) to learn new tricks.

theyancey · July 2014

Balance doesn't just apply to classes. We geezers know it applies to life too. So far this year I have kayaked the Banana River and did a mile high hang gliding adventure. ESO takes up much of my gaming time but I almost always have a game of Civilization going, occasionally play D3, and am looking forward to Dragon Age Inquisition. I bought a smoker last year and am making really good ribs and such. It is only my body that has aged. I still feel like I should be 30 something.

kassandratheclericb14_ESO · July 2014

I have to say...age does not always equal maturity.

However the statistical probabilities of it go up with age. *grin*

Born in 1971...I am so old I remember when I had a video game that you had to load in (and it took HOURS) via CASSETTE TAPE!!

grimjim398 · July 2014

Born in 1955. Wondering whether my reflexes are still fast enough to try PVP in this game. Also, I need longer arms so I can see the screen.

Soothy · July 2014

kassandratheclericb14_ESO wrote: »

Born in 1971...I am so old I remember when I had a video game that you had to load in (and it took HOURS) via CASSETTE TAPE!!

They were still using them up to the early 80's