How old are you gamers

MooseJam

I'm starting to get on in years, sigh, into my 30's now and still playing games, I'm sure I still will be in 10 or 20 years time, just wondering what the age spread is for all you gamers, so only vote if you are a gamer !

Vokes

Im 25, which one do i pick ?

Silverfish

30.

Which do I go for?

25 to 30, or 30 to 35?

I went for 25 to 30, makes me feel younger.

Recon

I'm 24.

challengemaster

16 :d

smithy1981

26

o1s1n

23. Started when I was 4 or 5 on a ZX Spectrum. Don't plan on stopping any time soon. Although, I do find I have a lot less time to devote to it. Shame really.

tman

24 as well (for another 10 days anyway:( )
I've been gaming seriously since I was about 10 or so. Started to go off it a year ago, then I got a DS and fell in love with it all over again.

johnny_ultimate

19 is the age. Gaming since a young age - probably 7 or 8 officially.

Cravez

20 years old, been playin since the commodore64 came out, so been gaming for a long time

mcgovern

25 years young yesterday, also started out on a C64

Rhyme

21. First game was pacman built into a table in a pub in Kerry, maybe 4 or 5 years of age.

Started gaming properly on the NES, Trog and Low-G man for the nostalgic win.

27, started with a NES,a game boy then a mega drive, a playstation, Dreamcast, playstation 2, PSP, PS3 and a PC.
I remember low g man, never finished it though, got it for a fiver in dunnes.

jonski

40 , but closer to the 41 mark so I had to go for the 40-45

ZorbaTehZ

19. First PC game was Blake Stone: Aliens Of Gold, had to learn how to use DOS to get it working.

Sarky

Old enough to remember New Zealand Story in the arcades.

FranchisePlayer

15 I am 16 in febuary:D . Began playing mario when I was about 5 had all the old consoles such as the nes and snes because there was a siginificant gap between me and my elder brother 8 and a half years in fact:D

im...LOST

I'm 17 and my first console was the Sega Megadrive with Sonic 2, The Lion King and a 3-in-one game. Santa was good that year

We soon moved onto the Nintendo 64 several years after.

Qwertyboy

I surprised to see the 20-25 category is leading but whatever.
I suppose the first console I played was one of the old Ataris, in all of its (4 bit)? glory ^ ^

Creamy Goodness

christ i thought i was old playing games at 21, this thread has made me feel better.

Stephen

Michael Cravez wrote:

20 years old, been playin since the commodore64 came out, so been gaming for a long time

I doubt it, the C64 was first released five years before your birth (give or take a couple of months)

edit: forgot to add how I started.

First was a second hand Atari 2600. 4 colours. Pong. Combat. Missile Command. Wanky joysticks. Oh yes! I was very young then, can't remember what age exactly.
Then came an Amiga 600. That was the business. I wasted many hours of my life with that machine. I fondly remember Geoff Crammond's F1 Grand Prix. Quasi-3D graphics and a manual the size of a phone book. Eventually I resorted to making my car indestructible and driving around the track in the wrong direction, smashing the oncoming cars to bits (Hockenheimring was the best for this due to ridiculously long straight sections through the forest). If you hit them fast enough you could split them in two . Two formula 1 cars in a head on collision = ~500mph impact! Lemmings, superfrog, zool, skidmarks, a whole bunch of LucasArts adventures, cannon fodder and many others provided hours of amusement.

I held on to the Amiga for several years, then eventually got my first PC - a 486 with 8MB of RAM, struggling to run Windows 95! Doom, TIE Fighter (the super-sexy 640x480 CD version with full digital audio and a buttload of expansion packs, wow!) and Sam & Max Hit The Road were the stars of that machine's days.
I had a series of other PC's after that (second hand Pentium 200, Pentium 3 866, then followed by a silly amount of AMD based machines when I finally had the cash to regularly ugprade, and now I'm back on my first Intel in ages (C2D E6600). Never had a pentium 4!

I never had any of the 8 or 16 bit consoles in my house, but got to play them a bit with friends. The first console I got since getting my first PC was a PS2. Had an Xbox, GBA, PSP and 360 since, but I rarely play on the consoles. PC is king!

Naikon

18 here, I used to play on an Amiga 1500(I think) when I was a Child, but moved onto consoles such as the Snes and N64.
Never liked Sony consoles(cept for GTA:D), so I went with the PC and haven't turned back since.

Retr0gamer

24. First game was probably in the arcades about 4-5 years of age. Got a C64 when I was about 7 and turned into a very serious gamer in a short space of time.

johnny_ultimate

Cremo wrote:

christ i thought i was old playing games at 21, this thread has made me feel better.

I agree. The boards population is older than I expected

JM MARCONI

Im 20 and I started playing games on my brothers C64. But the first game I really got hooked on was Super Mario World for the SNES. Oh I was as happy as a pig in $hit that Christmas:D

Actually the first game i got hooked on was Golden Axe. It used to be in loads of Hotels and Pubs so id play that none stop until my money ran out. Then id cry until my parents gave me more. (That doesnt work for me anymore though)

mikemac

25, also started on a C64

Crucifix

21.
I have hazy memories of "Jet Boot Jack" on a black and white telly.

the_syco

I remember playing Wolf3D back in the day. That was cool. Played most games on the 486. Played one or two games on the 386. Prince 1, and Duke Nukem 1 & 2 were fun, as was Flashback...

phoenix2181

started playing games on the BBC Micro & also a spectrum 48k (good old basic!!), moved on to a c64, amiga 500, then a 500+, amiga 1200, megadrive / games boy, around 1995 moved on to a 486 dx100, my first pentium was a 200MMX, the a p4 1.4ghz, & then finally my amd 64 3800, I'll be upgreading to a shiny new quad core in a few months I suspect

miju

you should really change that poll option to 26-30 , I'm 25 myself and theres no way I'm putting myself in the 25-30 yr old bracket just yet

thelordofcheese

24, and my first console was the atari 2600, which I think my parents bought when I was born and just kept it for me untill I was about 8. So while everyone else had the graphical frippery of the megadrive and the snes, i was enjoying pacman and river raid in an amazing 4 colours. Joy.