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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.

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..

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.

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

One month till 15.

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

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...

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.

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.

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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..

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

you people are old as dirt im thirteen i win