| Author |
Topic |
General Meridus
Minmatar
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Posted - 2009.09.05 17:54:00 - [ 31]
48 here |
Lord Zarcam
Amarr |
Posted - 2009.09.05 18:20:00 - [ 32]
46 and still ticking! Seams like last year I was upgrading to MS DOS 6.0 with MS Windows 3.11 on my IBM AT 286, 1024K memory & 20 MB hard drive, and had to add a 3.5" floppy drive to do the upgrades! |
Zeba
Minmatar
Honourable East India Trading Company
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Posted - 2009.09.05 18:42:00 - [ 33]
*checks rearview mirror* Yup looks like that pesky 5th decade I keep losing in traffic is tailing me again dammit.  However as a bonus.. Retired \o/ |
brakespear
Minmatar
Snowman Inc
|
Posted - 2009.09.05 18:48:00 - [ 34]
 Originally by: Marko Riva
40 in a few months, life goes fast after 28.
Yeah, same here. And yet I still spend most of my time wishing the week would pass faster so the weekend would arrive :) |
Toramii
Le Moulin Rouge |
Posted - 2009.09.05 18:51:00 - [ 35]
Originally by: Lord Zarcam
...3.5" floppy drive to do the upgrades!
You flash git! I was jealous of guys with 3.5" floppies  After playing with TRS80's and Commodore Pets at school, my parents were kind enough to buy me a Beeb model B (for educational reasons of cause  ). All games erm educational programmes were on cassette tape. |
Jim McGregor |
Posted - 2009.09.05 18:52:00 - [ 36]
Edited by: Jim McGregor on 05/09/2009 18:53:09
Those seniors can really gank you with a vengeance...
I saw the South Park episode about seniors yesterday so I have lots of mental images of them flying space ships now.
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Mrmuttley
National Health Service |
Posted - 2009.09.05 19:08:00 - [ 37]
Only 37 but i played pacman as a handheld when it first came out for ages much to the annoyance of my family due to its horrible electronic music. Retro Style |
shemnon
Minmatar
Brutor Tribe
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Posted - 2009.09.05 19:13:00 - [ 38]
all right, guys .... I can't take it any more ... 63 |
Chayton Burns
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2009.09.05 19:48:00 - [ 39]
I've been shooting spaceships since Atari came out with this baby: Atari 2600/only 39 though... |
Gerardd
Caldari
ABBSIDEEIN HORDS OF DARKLIGHT |
Posted - 2009.09.05 20:33:00 - [ 40]
50+ here |
Contralto
Rift Tech |
Posted - 2009.09.05 20:56:00 - [ 41]
closer to 60 than 50 here! First PC was an AT 12 mhz with 1 meg ram and 20 meg hard drive, it was state of the art at the time and cost 7 thousand US Dollars in Singapore, tax free. 15 inch Svga Eizo monitor Ftw. Shipped to darkest West Africa where it became a tourist attraction  First Space game was "Starflight" an amazing Universe as big as Eve's on 2 360's |
Britt Foxx |
Posted - 2009.09.05 21:01:00 - [ 42]
I will be 52 in november.
My first online game was the old Star Trek MUD on the compuserve servers waaaaay back, running an apple II with an amazing state of the art 300 baud modem. Before the internet was born to the public at large, i also ran my own 4 node BBS utilizing my homebuilt modem rack, where i offered forums and various text based MUD games. I remember adding RAM to my first 286 machine, upgrading it from 64k onboard to a whopping 1 megabyte via soldering the ram chips onto the existing on board ram piggy backed, only after throwing several alligator clips into my freezer for a while to use as heat sinks while carefully getting on and off with the solder gun as fast as i painstakingly could. I also pulled my first overclock on that 286 by swapping out the timing chip and thus going from 8mhz to an amazingly fast 12mhz making me state of the art!! LOL
Awww...the good old dayz :) |
Cassiopeia Draco |
Posted - 2009.09.05 21:20:00 - [ 43]
Originally by: Mrmuttley
Only 37 but i played pacman as a handheld when it first came out for ages much to the annoyance of my family due to its horrible electronic music.
Retro Style
anyone remember these, http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=3&c=1039 one of the worlds first game consoles. PS : still have one in the loft somewhere, along with a Zx81 (and 16kb memory pack), Spectrum 48. |
Ehranavaar
Gallente |
Posted - 2009.09.05 22:01:00 - [ 44]
Originally by: Khorkrak
Anyone 40 and over playing EVE...besides me :-) Hopefully in another 40 years by the time I end up in some "old folks home" it'll be common place to see us geezers playing whatever evolves from MMOs instead of still cards or checkers.
49 a couple days back. looking forward to the spinal implants for full immersion VR. then i can move into EVE fulltime and ignore this RL thing completely. |
Cyonidicus |
Posted - 2009.09.05 22:36:00 - [ 45]
Originally by: Kezzle
I hear the PC gamer demographic has an average age of over thirty these days. When you've got U3A (Universite du Troiseme Age - they're all over retirement age) running LAN parties in the local community school, it's going to help push up the mean. And that was 5 or more years ago (my dad).
EVE especially is a niche game. Some of the attribtes that it takes to stick with it are less frequently found in school-age kids than in the mortgage-age section of the kid market, notably "the cash to buy PLEXes" :)
Oh, and /kezzle raises his forty hand with two fingers extended.
That would make sense, as all the 12 year olds with too much money are all glued to Generic New Shooter #12747574 on the X-fail. |
MORRS |
Posted - 2009.09.05 23:21:00 - [ 46]
56 here, lol |
welshman |
Posted - 2009.09.05 23:54:00 - [ 47]
52 here still playing even if my son thinks i am to old |
Traidor Disloyal
Private Nuisance
Segregati0n |
Posted - 2009.09.05 23:56:00 - [ 48]
I'm closer to 60 then 40. But it brings joy to my heart when someone in game calls me a 12 year old. |
Krxon Blade |
Posted - 2009.09.06 00:03:00 - [ 49]
Edited by: Krxon Blade on 06/09/2009 00:06:45Couple of months before 37. But Ill be in club +40 soon - life goes fast these days  Btw, any dev/GM already in club 40? (cmon don't be shy) |
none4u |
Posted - 2009.09.06 01:38:00 - [ 50]
turned 56 last month
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Vall Kor
Minmatar
Brutor Tribe
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Posted - 2009.09.06 02:05:00 - [ 51]
Dang old farts! :P Shouldn't you all be playing peggle or some thing???
(33 here) :P |
joxter
Caldari
Science and Trade Institute
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Posted - 2009.09.06 03:23:00 - [ 52]
42 and semi-retired here.
Been gaming since the original apple ][ showed up in my school!
Old gamers never die, we just respawn in retirement homes. |
Jamier Legov
Minmatar
Blue Republic
RvB - BLUE Republic |
Posted - 2009.09.06 04:25:00 - [ 53]
Turning 50 this month, been gaming since the Apple 2/Amiga days. I'm guessing by the time another 40 years has gone by, we'll be plugging ourselves directly into the net ... which may be convenient when were too old to move the joystick any more ... no not _that_ joystick, the one on the compu ... oh ... wait ... it's a mouse now isn't it ... |
Gonada
The Scope
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Posted - 2009.09.06 04:29:00 - [ 54]
Originally by: Vall Kor
Dang old farts! :P Shouldn't you all be playing peggle or some thing???
(33 here) :P
the old guys like us literally invented computer slang for you guys :) also, I am 99 % positive the guys i ran with , when UO first came out, way back in 1997 invented the term "asshat" for after ganking people on day 1 release we would take our characters pants off and sit repeatedly on the dead guys head before we cut him up and deboned him. those were the days allright.../sigh |
Cagot
Spelunkers
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Posted - 2009.09.06 04:39:00 - [ 55]
63 also, and busily pimping my hand-made Proteus. |
Samroski
Games Inc. |
Posted - 2009.09.06 06:19:00 - [ 56]
41
Been playing computer games since the early 80s. Elite was my favourite game :) |
Jim McGregor |
Posted - 2009.09.06 09:03:00 - [ 57]
Im going to be playing computer games all my life too. Dont see any reason not to.
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zat evad
Caldari
The Leather Knights
Aegis Militia |
Posted - 2009.09.06 09:16:00 - [ 58]
50+ signing in Elite on the Beeb was my 1st game. Bring back piloting skills and make docking fun again  |
Prt Scr |
Posted - 2009.09.06 10:47:00 - [ 59]
50+ signing in......you know you'r getting old when you need to trim the hair in your ears before putting on headphones |
Sokratesz
Rionnag Alba
Northern Coalition. |
Posted - 2009.09.06 11:12:00 - [ 60]
I hope I'm still around to play games at 40.
Respect to all of you o> |
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