Im 14 (nearly anyway) I didn't Know people that old actually played computer games like this(my parents like first person shooters like halo more).

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omg ur parents like halo?!

I'm closing in on 55.

I've been playing since I sold Texas Instrument 99/4a comps in 1980. There was a game called "Tunnels of Doom" which I'm sure Blizzard must have got their Diablo concept from. My 47 year old brother still plays it.

21.

I'm surrounded by gamers aged 30+. It would surprise me if SoaSE didn't have the mature age audience.

54.

My other main game is Forgotten Hope 2, a mod to the Battlefield 2 series. That one I play online and my reflexes are still good enough (maybe) for that.

SOASE I just play SP...so far..

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35 here (just) Played since the Atari 2400 first real PC had 2MB of ram which I upgraded to 4!!! and had X-Tree gold as the OS (I loved that OS).

Love all 'god games' Civ being the pinacle. Too old for 'twitch' games now, even some RTS's (You know who you are Supreme Commander) are a bit full on.

Hi Antracer,

I hope to be playing till my dying day though what kind of games we'll all be playing is anybodies guess. Like you I expect we will be playing hooked up to UBER PC's. The PC's may even have their own personalities and play along side us. Maybe we will be in total immersion games either with body suits and VR surround vision or maybe just linked direct with electrodes to our temples, totally handfree! Who knows??.

NO you're not I will be 13 in 4 months

I'am 4 months younger than you

One month till 15.

I'm 10, so I guess that makes me the youngest.
What's with all the old farts?(just kidding)

You'll know when you get old. You digestive system kind of grows a mind of it's own... When you're young, it has the strength to use the upper of it's two release orifices, but as it gets older and wiser, it realizes it's easier to just let it all go downhill.

T

Just turned 40 ugh!

love gaming looking forward to the Warhammer online. My kids have a Wii that take up their time so I can have my computer that is when My wife is not "Face Booking!"

Jer

Well, I'll add to the parade and say I'm 43 and started gaming on the TRS-80 Color Computer back in high school. I think I paid up for the one with 16K (yes, K) of memory.

I have mostly gone for strategy (Age of Empires, Total War and Civ series) but was pretty into online FPS for a while (RTCW: Enemy Territory) and could hold my own on a decent server. I kept up with my sons in Halo for a while. Have the Wii, but I tell you the best thing out there for family gaming is Rock Band. There old age has its benefits because I grew up with a lot of those songs. My kids were awed by my 100% vocals on Don't Fear the Reaper...

He-he and even more if you say you saw them do that song way back in blah blah blah with Aerosmith....

I wasa TI-99/4A kinda young man.....   

54.

First "video game" was Pong. Loved Tetris, Sim Ant, Sim City, Descent I-III, Warcraft I-III, Civ III and Starcraft -- but only play SP or with friends.

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When I started reading the thread I thought I'd be the oldest but, damn, there are a few that beat me.

On the other hand, my first computer game was back in 1975 - trek played on a mainframe using a teletype machine. No screen, just a keyboard and printer. You typed a command, the printer told you a Klingon vessel appeared at long range (yes, printed on a roll of computer paper), you typed in a fire command (phasers or photon torpedoes), hit enter and it told you the result. Repeat. Those were the days.

When I first saw Elite on a BBC micro in the mid eighties, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Then Civ I came along and I thought Catherine Deneuve had joined me there. Doom made me think she'd invited me to supper and given the servants the night off.

Heavens, I just googled teletype and trek and found this link - the source code in Basic for trek:

trek source code

Usually hate telling my age because of creeping ageism in the US so I'll spell it out in secret roman code.. you'll have to work for it.

XLV

having a tech job since out of high school I've had computers running Zork then Wolfenstein then Doom then Heretic etc, at my workplace constantly.

first pc I bought, probably so I could play Doom at home and the brand new Descent, cost exactly $3000 with it's 13" screen and 90mhz hamster cage processor.. Win95 was dumb as a rock and could barely launch automatically let alone install a modem without a ton of winsock voodoo... the internet was gray pages and blue links to god knows what back then you young punks... good times / bad times..

I suspect most games have similar age appeal range but nobody ever asks.. Developers don't sit down and say 'Lets make games for 30-60 year olds' just like they don't aim movies at old farts either.. We just have to glom onto whatever is offered and hope there's some meat on the bone.

typical Shmups don't appeal to me as much now and I look for unusual approaches to storytelling and play style..

loved Republic Commando, Call of Cthulhu: DCOTE, Nexus, Mechwarrior3-4.. Vampire Masquerade: Bloodlines.. my tastes are all over the map..
I have to hop from one type to another, when I tire of rts it's fps then it's an rpg then a mech or space sim, repeat...

hard to tell what I'll like but I'm always trying to soak in new compelling games and this is one right here..

41 Here....

This would be great... because I wouldn't even HAVE to run... Though It'd be VERY weird indeed to be standing on the bridge of a KOL in SoaSE 10...

Hate to say it, but the day we start "jacking in" to our computers will be the day I walk away. There's too much of a blur between fantasy and reality now, can you imagine how lost we'd all be then?

Not one for the "cows with wallets" scenario... I'll keep my hide.



Doesn't the very fact you KNOW what those letters are, let alone what numbers they mean suggest the term "ancient"???

Of course, being able to point that out...

T

I'm age 66, retired, and still enjoy gaming. No "old as dirt" comments please!
Sam

you people are old as dirt im thirteen i win