Old time gamers

Adamon2 · September 2015

By the way I still have my TRS-80. I need to go fire that thing up. I haven't since the 80s.

nimander99 · September 2015

The mmo's I first started playing were called MUD's, MOO's, and MUSH's

Smitch_59 · September 2015

Adamon2 wrote: »

By the way I still have my TRS-80. I need to go fire that thing up. I haven't since the 80s.

I still have mine as well, buried in a closet. The cassette player crapped out years ago, and I doubt that my old program tapes would still work now anyway. I also still have my Commodore 128. I should probably try to ebay them.

Funkopotamus · September 2015

My first MMO was Oregon Trail....... Sitting on some straight back wooden chairs back before schools went all soft and used plastic!

Pallmor · September 2015

Victus wrote: »

This reminds me that the Transformer toys I grew up playing with were metal and hardy as f***. Now they are all cheap plastic and break easily, because it's cheaper to make them that way.

All my toys were plastic and broke easily when I was a kid too. So it's not exactly a new phenomenon.

anitajoneb17_ESO · September 2015

I usually tell my guildies that I haven't played any game between Dungeon Master and Skyrim... They usually don't know what that means since they've never heard of "Dungeon Master". But I'm sure you people on this thread will know ! :-)

Cadbury · September 2015

I challenge all of you to a round of "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?"

Funkopotamus · September 2015

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

I usually tell my guildies that I haven't played any game between Dungeon Master and Skyrim... They usually don't know what that means since they've never heard of "Dungeon Master". But I'm sure you people on this thread will know ! :-)

GOD I loved that game.. First time I ran into a mind flayer I freaked out!

There was another on Sega back then that was similar to it and that game was amazing near the end it got rough.
I always wondered how if I had my cleric in the back of a four person party and the narrow hallway was only two people wide... How they hell did my cleric die?

nimander99 · September 2015

Cadbury wrote: »

I challenge all of you to a round of "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?"

Thanks for sticking that ridiculous song back in my head...

CromulentForumID · September 2015

Junglejim82 wrote: »

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Emily denial is futile , I've never classed myself as a nerd neither would friends . I'm a big handsome jock . Play sports , keep fit , ladies man , modest as hell but I've finally accepted at 32 I am actually a bit of a gamer nerd. It was accelerated from my 28th year onwards when I got heavily into mmos. Don't hide from it , embrace it like I do (in private , among gamer friends but never in public)

Love it

Cadbury · September 2015

nimander99 wrote: »

Cadbury wrote: »

I challenge all of you to a round of "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?"

Thanks for sticking that ridiculous song back in my head...

Do it, Rockapella!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozYg8vDTmkc

And you're welcome

Edit: or did you mean the cartoon? Meh, I preferred the game show myself.

Senet · September 2015

I totally agree with the OP. I am 42 and have been playing games since the 70's as well. Back in the early days of PCs and console systems like the Odyssey.

In my experience, I find that I am much more accepting of things like graphics, load time and such. I really do feel it's partly because I grew up playing such things as pong. And remember the excitement when games started having stick figures and basic graphics. Days where I was excited to get my copy of Micro 80 in the mail to see what was new in gaming and sitting there transcribing the code lines from the magazine so I could try them out. Or better yet, taking 30 min to load a game from my audio tape drive only to find out I had it at the wrong volume and the game loaded with error.

SeptimusDova · September 2015

this makes me miss Byte magazine

ZioGio · September 2015

To the younger players (if there are still any reading this far into the thread), I believe what the OP is saying is that older players are generally more patient because we've seen not only the progression of game complexity, we've seen our share of bugs and learned to have fun while working around them.

How many us (I count myself among the old guard at 45) growing up hit bugs in every day electronics and just learned to work around them as second nature? My parents complain that in their day things were built to last and they get bothered by glitches in today's electronics, whereas I don't dwell on them, I just work around them to get what I want.

I also have the perspective of writing software starting with the TI-99/4A to today working on the latest operating systems, including a few big production games in between. So I empathize with the game developers.

I've said it before on these forums and I'll say it again: no one wants to fix all the glitches and bugs more than the game developers. They know what's missing and a lot of times know how to fix it, but they have to stick to production schedules where tasks for sprints are planned out ahead of time and sometimes features/fixes have to be punted if they can't be completed in time and safely merged into the source code for the next release cycle.

Everyone has the right to complain when they find a bug, but it's how they complain that I think causes some of us to shake our heads. Find a bug, report a bug, go back in and try to have fun. Throwing a tantrum, threatening to leave, and questioning the talent and abilities of the dev team are just so...juvenile.

QuebraRegra · September 2015

47 here.

The reason I complain is that companies like ZOS create a something really great, and then they go about mucking it up... Probably because people complain, and they don't really understand their customer base.

We didn't expect much from PONG, etc., but when something like EOS with it's complexity is made, and it's potential is nerfed, it's just sad.

.02 cents in the can.

Molag_Crow · September 2015

Indeed. I make the odd complaint about certain skills but to complain about games in general? nope, games are for fun and fun is what I have on games. There shouldn't be ANYTHING stressful about games, now I know that's easy to say because there are a lot of frustrations within games, but you shouldn't focus on all the negatives within those games if you really want to have fun and enjoy yourself.

Muizer · September 2015

kalimar44 wrote: »

I'm 44 years old and I've been playing pc and console games since 1977. I truly believe we are the gamers that rarely complain about any game that is made today. You might ask yourself why?? The answer is simple. We went from playing games that had a bouncing ball that went back and fourth(PONG)to the games of today.
So in till you had to live through all of the games from the 1970s to this day you don't have any reason to complain. So if your around my age and you have been a dedicated gamer for all these years you know exactly what I'm talking about. That's all I have to say.

I see. So, people for whom ESO is one of their first games, they should wait 30 years and then say: "I had to put up with *** games like ESO when I was young. Consider yourself lucky with today's games!"

ZioGio · September 2015

Muizer wrote: »

I see. So, people for whom ESO is one of their first games, they should wait 30 years and then say: "I had to put up with *** games like ESO when I was young. Consider yourself lucky with today's games!"

LOL, yes! But to those who may have missed your sarcasm, just don't take the imperfections so seriously. Adapt and have fun!

jkemmery · September 2015

The first computer "game" I played was on a "KIM-1" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1

There was a "horse racing" game where the top, middle and bottom horizontal LEDs would light up and move, and would move faster with key presses. To play the game you had to enter in the binary code on the keypad to program the computer, which in itself was a challenge for my then 8 year old capabilities. If you wanted to do anything else or turn it off, you would have to enter it again every time you wanted to play. Then you sat with 2 friends, fingers on the little keypad, furiously pressing your key to make your "horse" run faster than the others.

Pong was a graphical miracle compared to that!

But it was still great fun!

Caligamy_ESO · September 2015

Red is OP! Needs nerf!!!1

babedenny · September 2015

about to turn 50. started with asteroids, space invaders, etc. now i play eso, wow, and civ5. eso is getting the vast majority of my time. my school had trs-80's. my first computer was a c64. had some great games on that thing.

good times

BabeestorGor · September 2015

brosselle wrote: »

about to turn 50. started with asteroids, space invaders, etc. now i play eso, wow, and civ5. eso is getting the vast majority of my time. my school had trs-80's. my first computer was a c64. had some great games on that thing.

good times

I still remember my school had a computer but us humble plebs in the 2nd maths class weren't allowed to use it, only the top maths class got to use it

Asherons_Call · September 2015

My first system was an intelivision and I played the hell out of a game called utopia. It was a precursor to games like populus and then finally sim city. Great old games! You younglings will never get the enjoyment of putting in a NES cartridge and getting nothing but a rainbow of random colors, so you have to take it out and blow on the inside of the cartridge and inside the system then try to reboot it. Wait no I could have lived without that. Lol

NewBlacksmurf · September 2015

terrordactyl1971 wrote: »

I think my first system was an Intellivision around 1980 ish

Mine too!!!!
Football, baseball, boxing, hockey and then....blackjack, night stalker , etc

Asherons_Call · September 2015

Some of my favorite titles for my favorite console, the original NES. I would suggest any of these to the younger generation if you can get past the graphics:

Faxanadu ( my fav NES game)
Shadowgate
Dragon warrior
Final fantasy 1 (started it all!)
Duck tales ( don't knock it, amazingly well made)
River city ransom ( fighting game with rpg elements )
Blaster master
Ultima - exodus

Cadbury · September 2015

I do miss the days when the plot of a video game involved nothing more basic than the president getting kidnapped by ninjas.
And ,yes I was a bad enough dude to rescue him.

ZioGio · September 2015

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

terrordactyl1971 wrote: »

I think my first system was an Intellivision around 1980 ish

Mine too!!!!
Football, baseball, boxing, hockey and then....blackjack, night stalker , etc

Intellivision was my first console and my favorite games were Astromash, Snafu (closest thing to Tron light cycles at the time), Nightstalker, and Star Strike (Death Star trench scene).

I played the *** out of those games!

Jim_Berry · September 2015

I started gaming in '85 just before I turned 5. I remember well because I was playing "Kangaroo".

Fast forward, I agree that there is toooooo much complaining going on. I currently play Final Fantasy XIV, and that game has the biggest community of complainers. I always blame my age, but I'm beginning to find truth in it.

When I play Gears of War, the team I'm on is happy that I got double-digit kills in four games straight. But that 5th game, I got 3 kills and died 10 times, now they want me to leave.

GreySix · September 2015

kalimar44 wrote: »

I'm 44 years old and I've been playing pc and console games since 1977. I truly believe we are the gamers that rarely complain about any game that is made today. You might ask yourself why?? The answer is simple. We went from playing games that had a bouncing ball that went back and fourth(PONG)to the games of today.
So in till you had to live through all of the games from the 1970s to this day you don't have any reason to complain. So if your around my age and you have been a dedicated gamer for all these years you know exactly what I'm talking about. That's all I have to say.

My first gaming rig:

Two (count'em) two K of screaming RAM, a cassette tape deck for programs (if optional 16K RAM pack attached to computer), no power switch (Who needs 'em?), and a black and white TV. Gimme a magazine with some game code in Basic, an hour to fat-finger it in, and my game was on!

Ahhhhhh ..... those were the days!

Jim_Berry · September 2015

TheValkyn wrote: »

If a game isn't quality then people own every right to make a complaint. They paid real money for it and the product's quality should reflect that. Old, young or dead even this concept holds true. The gaming industry has evolved but it's progression is not an excuse for apologetic excusation.

Except that the complaining is more on the lines of getting a headshot in Gears and the character still yells AFTER their head is gone. Stuff like this CAN be ignored, but people bring it up. In other words, the bulk of the community purposely look for little things to complain about.

Look at Halo 5. Supposedly to be a bad a** game, but no split-screen now makes it a bad game... SHEESH!