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    #62
    L31mr0d
    Registered Users Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    thought a few of you early ~30 y/o's would get a chuckle out of this

    80s1337ness.jpg


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    #63
    TheHairyFairy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭TheHairyFairy


    ShiverinEskimo wrote: »
    What can an old-gamers group do that an all gamers group can't?

    I'm 25 and remember playing hopper on a BBC Micro. Probably wasn't new at the time I was playing it but you don't have to be 30 to play games out in the 70s/early 80s

    Have a better chance of an even playing field :p


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    #64
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,577 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    Im 27,

    been playing games since I had a "50-variations of pong" machine, that took batteries and a power lead! Then the C64 blew me away, that was it!

    Now a prud Wii-60 owner, soon to be ps3 purchaser!


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    #65
    ShiverinEskimo
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭ShiverinEskimo


    TheHairyFairy wrote: »
    Have a better chance of an even playing field :p
    That's an interesting angle - do most 28+ year old gamers believe they aren't as good as younger gamers? I'd have thought experience would favour youth in this 'sport' more than any?


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    #66
    L31mr0d
    Registered Users Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    ShiverinEskimo wrote: »
    That's an interesting angle - do most 28+ year old gamers believe they aren't as good as younger gamers? I'd have thought experience would favour youth in this 'sport' more than any?

    like everything, your skill level is proportional to how much you practice. The older you get the less time you have for games so the less good you will be at them. teenagers have all the time in the world to practice their games. I quit CSS mainly because I got sick of 12 y/o american boys screeching "PWND!!! BEEE....AUUUUTCH!!!"


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    #67
    TheHairyFairy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭TheHairyFairy


    What L31mr0d said and also the reaction issue. I think that this might be a bit of good clean fun with shakings of competition thrown in.


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    #68
    ShiverinEskimo
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭ShiverinEskimo


    Yea there is nothing worse than some knob-end yank 13yo on those games.

    I remember my first outing of BF2. Some kid made it his life's mission to piss me off as much as possible. I wasn't long getting to dislike it with the torrent of abuse constantly coming down. I imagine European servers are generally better behaved and more civil. At least due to language barriers.

    I know I wouldn't know how to trash talk in Italian/German/French.

    Maybe "I feart in your zeneral dy-rex-i-onn" a la Monty Python


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    #69
    Holsten
    Registered Users Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    20 here.

    I assume one day I'll be an old git gamer.. haha.


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    #70
    Davidius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    16.

    Old feckers.


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    #71
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users Posts: 9,557 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    It scares me that when I meet some of the boards regular they always say that they expected a 12 year old boy with a mario t-shirt and not a fine hunky specimen of a man :P
    Wrong...on so many levels.

    Seriously, I'm 38 and love playing BF2 multi-player. As for us older gamers ranting out, I'm afraid the opposite is the truth. If it please the court m'lud I offer in evidence as exhibits a and b respectfully the virals 'Angry German Kid' and 'Croyts Rage' both 1 and 2.


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    #72
    ShiverinEskimo
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭ShiverinEskimo


    Did you mean to quote my post DublinWriter?


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    #73
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users Posts: 9,557 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    ShiverinEskimo wrote: »
    Did you mean to quote my post DublinWriter?
    Yes, read it again.


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    #74
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    20 here, first console was a mega drive :p


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    #75
    Sabre0001
    Registered Users Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭Sabre0001


    Only 21 so it's all ahead of me :)

    🤪



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    #76
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,605 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Of course, with the advent of the Wii, the notion of an older gamer has radically changed.
    No more can the gamer over 30 be confidently be picked amongst others of his ahe by the pasty skin, glasses and Atari T shirt, nope the older gamer could be anyone, anyone whose kid/grandkid got a Wii for Christmas and got it annexed by his older family members for WiiSports, they are out there!
    Get ready for the tragic inevitability when you play Wii Sports 2 online and get your ass whupped by a 67 year old fan of knitting who has discovered the delights of Bowling.
    You'll be wishing for an uncouth 13year old yank or a gaggle of young men swearing in spanish!

    Me, I happily count myself in the greater gaming family of those of all ages, ready and willing to discuss everything from the merits of blood in No More Heroes to the sad misfortune that is Rebel Strike on the GC, feckers!


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    #77
    wayne040576
    Registered Users Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭wayne040576


    31 hitting 32.
    Started with the vic 20. I had break from gaming around the 21 - 26 age when I didn't really play anything.


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    #78
    CiDeRmAn
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    I took my break from 16 to 18.
    Amiga, Nes, Master System and Atari ST passed me by,
    then I spotted a Megadrive on the cover of Megatech and the rest is, as they say, history.

    It's funny though, when I was in my late teens I never really had all that much spare cash, being a student nurse, and so I only ever had 2 or 3 games at any given time for any of my machines, and I had them singly too, Megadrive, then Gameboy then Snes, but I was, as they say, happy.
    Now, I wonder how much happier I am having the means to own any game I choose, and for multiple consoles, do I get more from my gaming pasttime? Do I have more fun because I have more games and more consoles to play them on?
    I don't really think so, yet I feel like I am missing out when I don't have a current machine, I thought I had a big hole in my gaming life while I didn't own a PS3, and now that I have one am I any happier?

    No!

    But I wouldn't sell it!


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    #79
    ciano1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭ciano1


    16.....When I was really young,I somehow got a NES,The one of the old gameboys,then SNES,Ps1,Game Boy colour,Ps2,X360 :D:D:D

    Gave away most of them though....regretting it now


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