Just Curious: Age demographic of ESO players

Tdroid · August 2016

1993
First game I think was the old LEGO Racers, before I later went on to games like Morrowind. I didn't play a lot of games for the first 10-12 years of my life.

Nodorf · August 2016

39, male, PC/EU.
First game: Giana sisters i think, on C64. First PC: An IBM Pentium 75. First MMORPG: EQ1 back in 2001.

MishMash · August 2016

ForsakenSin wrote: »

AAAAaaaaaaaa anybody besides me remembers those times? commodore 64 and Amiga !!!?

Yes, I remember this when I was in school. These were some of the schools first computers. I also remember the Macs LISA systems being delivered to the school later that year. Just some FYI for those reading this... the Lisa did cost US$9,995 and came with a HUGE 5 MB hard drive

Banana · August 2016

Crikey and I thought I was old

AlienSlof · August 2016

51.

Started late to computers with Tetris. (got good at that)

Then I moved onto FPS games with Doom and Quake amongst many others. Became a top player of Quake 3 in international leagues for a few years.

Now I take things a little more sedately since discovering Morrowind and the Elder Scrolls series. I've been hooked on the Elder Scrolls games ever since.

I've been modding computer games since Doom.

jedtb16_ESO · August 2016

Banana wrote: »

Crikey and I thought I was old

do not be troubled...... it's just a number.

stevepdodson_ESO888 · August 2016

jkemmery wrote: »

Oberon45 wrote: »

First Computer: Timex SInclair (yes, Timex once made computers!)

Yeah but to be fair, the Timex Sinclair, was just a re-branded ZX81. Yeah I'm that old too.

my Sinclair was an actual one by Sir Clive himself, not a Timex re-brand... good god i think i still have it in a box somewhere...Manic Miner where are you when i need you

clayandaudrey_ESO · August 2016

48 here but can troll like I'm 19

mikeb16_ESO41 · August 2016

I'll be 72 this year and when I'm not playing MMORPG's on my PC or PS4 I fill do online surveys. Sadly though when a few and far between survey on MMORPG's comes up I'm always stopped from answering the questions, why? Because of my age that's why!

Acharnor · August 2016

Feeling like an Oldster! 44!! Oi - how did this happen?

Garldeen · August 2016

ForsakenSin wrote: »

The Dam Busters commodore 64

See kiddies gather around ... back in my day ( even thought i was born in the 80s) we had this thing called commodore 64 that used tapes, now you might not be aware what tape is but its a magnetic tape that is made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film, now you would take this tape and place in a tape player rewind the tape RESET COUNTER ( very important ) Type Load and press play on tape.

AAAAaaaaaaaa anybody besides me remembers those times? commodore 64 and Amiga !!!?

36 (for another 5 weeks), EU

Always wanted a commodore, grew up with the might of the Amstrad CPC 464

Spent half my childhood trying to finish a Dizzy game. Never succeeded though

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hairahcas · August 2016

34 Years old, my first console was Sega Master System.

I got into Elder Scrolls around 1996 when I played TES2: Daggerfall. Then Battlespire, then Redguard, etc.... Been obsessed with all things Tamriel ever since.

My first MMO was of course the great Ultima Online in 1998. AH the glory days... (High School for me

).

Sharee · August 2016

Garldeen · August 2016

Sharee wrote: »

Ah the good old days of rubber keys

greyman · August 2016

Using that to play Choplifter circa 1984-5

Tyrion87 · August 2016

29 y.o... so glad I am still classified as the part of the youngest age group xD

Easily_Lost · August 2016

59 years old.
First system ( that I remember LOL ): Apple IIe.
First game: Castle Wolfenstein ( the game that started DOOM )

WanderingBeithe · August 2016

41
First game was on my Grandad's PC and on a cassette tape. Black screen and a stick figure dude running around collecting gold and dodging bats.. After that it was consoles until this last year. This is also my first MMO.

PC EU.

Lieblingsjunge · August 2016

Why do I feel like this is the ESO-version of "ASL?"

Anyway. I'm 21, PC/EU! (Turning 22 this year, though!

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Grunim · August 2016

Lieblingsjunge wrote: »

Why do I feel like this is the ESO-version of "ASL?"

Anyway. I'm 21, PC/EU! (Turning 22 this year, though! )

Hmm, ASL? To me that stands for American Sign Language, what did you mean by ASL in this context?

For my info, I'm 52 and I played Pong at home some time in the mid '70s. I was terrible at Pong and I don't even remember the name of the system my family owned. I honed my gaming skills instead on pinball in bowling alleys and other wholesome spots

Daishichi · August 2016

42, Xbox NA

First game system as Intellivision...parents tried to go educational, but the games I remember were D&D and Night Stalker...guess that's how I end up in Tamriel 35 years later.

First computer? Texas Instruments, TI-99/4A. I used to write little programs that built pictures one two-color 16x16 pixel grid at a time.

Orlacc · August 2016

63 you young punks

xXMichonneXx · August 2016

54 here. Started with Atari --Pong, Space Invaders , etc. Stopped gaming for a very long time and came back about 20 years ago and played PC/Mac games, then went to PS now Xbox. Gaming is a great stress-reliever especially since I'm too lazy to go running these days. I've met people of ALL ages on ESO. I love it.

BlackguardBob · August 2016

61.

I can remember playing "Monster" on the ZX81 which had no sound, no colour but was in 3D and very scary lol.

ThePaleItalian · August 2016

33 PS4 NA Daggerfall

Starting on Dragon Warrior on Final Fantasy on my NES, moved to SNES, bought FF3, I still have it and that working SNES that I play. Sorry, no matter how beautiful ESO looks. Nothing beats 8 bit and 16 bit graphics.

I own Super Mario RPG. Lufia, Ogre Battle, Zelda, Chrono Trigger. Cant stop playing them.

All hail the 30 somethings!!!

reiverx · August 2016

47. I remember playing Space Invaders, Pong, that sort of thing. The first game I really played to death was Elite on the BBC Micro.

Right On Commander

wolfandhammer · August 2016

48 here.

First pong, then like most my age atari 2600 and so on. Mostly console player.
Played very few pc games but have been playing Elder Scrolls since Arena. Never really been into computers except for that and what work requires.

sluice · August 2016

28 here.
Started gaming at the age of 4 and went through these in this order:

-Nintendo
-Sega Genesis (some of my best gaming memories ever)
-N64
*PC (still on it today... went through many setup since then, obviously)
-PS1
-XBOX (I was going to get a PS2 but a friend convinced me otherwise. Best decision ever because of Xbox Live)
*X360
-PS3 (Needed a bluray player...)
*SNES (never too late to own one!)
*PS4

*: Still own today

I wish I would of kept them all...

I'm happy to see some 50+ being mentioned here.
Most 50+ that I know, are still struggling to put a DVD in!

@Oberon45, why no 17 and under?

Stiltz · August 2016

39/PS4
First gaming system was an ADAM computer followed by 2600

Aelthwyn · August 2016

Stay at home mom in mid thirties here. I play on PC, both servers but more on the european one.

Played Super Mario Brothers as a kid, got into Pixie Hollow after college, then my husband got the legendary edition of Skyrim and encouraged me to try it instead of just watching him play. I’d never used an xbox controller before so it took a while to get used to it but I really enjoyed it. We then got a gaming computer hooked up to our TV and switched to using that so we could have mods. When ESO came out I was definitely excited to play it. I haven’t gotten into any other games yet, and don’t really have time to.