I am 36 and most of my friends who play are 35-40 years old.  We all started 25 years ago playing board games, D&D and then the really basic stuff on the commodore 64.  Its amazing to see how far the industry has come and for me its an integral part of my social life now so I cant see myself finishing any time soon. 

Originally posted by SgtFrog

Originally posted by ttomm46

Sarge,,that is a really cool Avatar!

LOL thankyou

 

Yar, his name in Japanese is "Keroro gunso" - a popular Sunday morning/afternoon Japanese animation.

Same meaning in English, Sgt. Frog.

Back to topic. I am oldish at 35. Started gaming with the old paper&dice rpg games back in the good ol' days. I love mmorpgs, but nothing yet has been able to surpass the "magic" and yes, maturity, of old paper&dice rpgs. Started with D&D and then Call of Cthulhu, Paranoia, Twilight 2000, Bushido, Traveller, GURPS, etc and so on.

You're never too old to game. All that counts online is your psychological maturity, social skills and decency.

Me and a friend foolishly joined a largish WAR guild on random invite recently. The Guild Leader was a child who kept going on about porn (sigh) and we told him stay focused on the game and keep his adolescent obsessions to himself. He kicked us immediately, which caused 3 other guildies to resign on the spot.

The problem is not old people, but unsupervised and petulant younglings.

Regards

Melmoth

What? We age here???--- Now that sucks!

44 yr old Mom here and I'll be gaming till my hands are too arthritic to type:)

I look at it like some people's brains need more stimulation that TV can provide and MMO's are perfect for those kind of people:)

I'm just thankful there are games that older gamers gravitate to- like Asheron's Call and LOTRO. WoW almost made me want to quit MMO's for good!!  But then I got into the beta for  LoTRO and my faith in humanity was restored LOL!

63 years old here.

I got my first home computer in 1978.  It was a TRS-80 Model One.  I remember paying $1500.00 for a 4K ram chip and $500.00 for a Hayes 300 baud modem.  Things have really changed.

I have played online games since they started.  Played most any you can think of (except ones that have anime). Never could stand it. 

Anyway at the current time I am playing no online games.  I dont know if its me or the crappy MMOs that are out now.

I am still keeping up with them and hoping to see one I might like.

Well I guess I had better get back on the front porch and yell at the kids in my neighborhood. :)

Originally posted by kb4blu

63 years old here.

I got my first home computer in 1978.  It was a TRS-80 Model One.  I remember paying $1500.00 for a 4K ram chip and $500.00 for a Hayes 300 baud modem.  Things have really changed.

I have played online games since they started.  Played most any you can think of (except ones that have anime). Never could stand it. 

Anyway at the current time I am playing no online games.  I dont know if its me or the crappy MMOs that are out now.

I am still keeping up with them and hoping to see one I might like.

Well I guess I had better get back on the front porch and yell at the kids in my neighborhood. :)

 

Cool, you got your first computer the year I was born. For anyone who can't do the math, I'm 30 and gonna be playing til the day I die, lol I've been playing console and pc games since I was like 3 or 4 years old and it had be like 1982 or 1983. 

I started with the Commodore 64 and the Atari 2600, I even remember playing the infamous E.T. game, lol. Can't believe all the years that have gone by. Since the first time I picked up a joystick, a trackball, and a paddle.  How many of you remember the Atari paddle and the Tac series of joysticks?

Originally posted by ttomm46

Hi

Sometimes I feel guilty loving to play and being 62 years old...I'm still 25 in my mind..Or whats left of it..I know last time i accidentley mentioned my age i was told i should be in a nursing home instead of playing.

Just curious.

thanks in advance

Tom

Im nearly 30 myself now but trust me i will never stop playing till the day i die. I just love it too much tbh. Tried most mmo's out there  playing war right now till darkfall  comes out, I just pray that its going to be the one.

You shouldn't feel bad just for doing something that you love no matter the age.  In  one of my last guilds i had 2 people in it over the age of 72, had some great times with them exploring and pawning the darkies Shame the game is now dead never really made it but it did had potenial DarkandLight R.I.P

  nearly 30? wow my son is nearly 30 lmao!   I am fitty-tree... and I well also be playing until the day I die.  " Let me stop playing when they  pry the controler/keyboard from my cold dead hands..." my first computer was he commodore 64.  Then I graduated to the Radio Shack  Color Computer 2.  these things have come much further than some people even realize...

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I'm going to be 35 next week. I'll never stop gaming. I loved video games as a kid and I will love them till the day they cart my ass off to the morgue still clutching my mouse in a death grip. My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20 that my dad bought for me when I was 10. Later the schools all got Apple 2's so mom bought one so I could study my computer work at home. Back then I had dreams of being a programmer. Of course a simple program then was maybe 300 lines of code...

No mention of the Tandy series (mini) comps from RadioShack that had micro-cassette drives, nor the old Intelvision console game?  You would remember the tiny Tandy's if you ever had to type on one!

Originally posted by xaldraxius

I'm going to be 35 next week. I'll never stop gaming. I loved video games as a kid and I will love them till the day they cart my ass off to the morgue still clutching my mouse in a death grip. My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20 that my dad bought for me when I was 10. Later the schools all got Apple 2's so mom bought one so I could study my computer work at home. Back then I had dreams of being a programmer. Of course a simple program then was maybe 300 lines of code...

The joys of DOS programming back then, not.

51 here, first games include Star Trek on a mainframe, TRS-80 Dungons of Daggorth, Space Invaders etc.

Forever young......

I have been celebrating the anniversary of my 20th birth day for longer then it took me to become 20

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Originally posted by ttomm46
I played the Realm too...then Asheron's call..

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Asheron's Call was my first MMO, and was in my opinion the best MMO ever. I'd still play it if the graphics weren't so dated.

You don't have to be guilty to enjoy playing even at your age! Don't listen to what other people say! Just enjoy your life and continue on playing!

I'm permanently aged 25. I refuse to get any older than that I also seldom say my age in mmo's and I prefer people don't tell me theirs. I judge people online by how they act, not their age, or sex for that matter. I never tell random puggers my sex when they ask as its as irrelevant as my or theirs age.

That being said, I prefer to play with mature people. When you get to know people, its easy to pick who's kids or teens. You can't discuss job issues/politics/parenthood and other adult themes with kids/teens and they often display their ignorance. Now, before I start sounding like some elitist prick, teens don't have the life experience as an older person got therefore they are ignorant about alot of topics and by that easy to spot(that was for the teens reading this btw ).

Anyway, my real age soon 35 and still a childish kid who play videogames alot. When people I know comment on that I just roll my eyes at them. My gaming habits not up for discussion anymore

Originally posted by zymurgeist

Pushing fifty. First computer game, Star Trek on a mainframe.

lol, I think that was the Star Trek game we used to play that was later stored on a cassette tape and fed to an old Radio Shack computer by a tape recorder, one of the first ever personal computers that was in our school.

39 here, and gaming has been my addiction since Pong and Zork.  I remember when we used to play the old DnD pen and paper games how we imagined someday playing them out on computers.  Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine how fully realized this would be with the advent of the MMO.

Well here's to my fellow old farts and to many more great years of gaming.  Its funny now when I think about how we moan and whine about the MMO's today, I would have gone nuts 20 years ago over some of the titles today that we consider failures. Lets hope the genre will evolve.

What is old? I consider 90 old, 28 here.

I think I understand what you saying, being guilty about loving to play even if the people around you are giving you the look that says 'you're to old to be playing'... But, I don't think you're to old to do anything! More and more games are being catered to the 'matured' audiences, anyway.

I'll be officially crossing the line into oldmanhood here in about two months when I turn 30.

Of course, I've never been one to live up to any kind of social norm about being adult, or anything else for that matter -  I really don't give a shit what people think about me still gaming at my age.  People who like me think I'm eccentric, people who don't say I'm immature and need to grow up.  Either way doesn't really phase me.

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Originally posted by zymurgeist
Pushing fifty. First computer game, Star Trek on a mainframe.

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On a mainframe?! And which Star Trek game was that? :)

p.s: I'm 31.

@TS

You should have make it clear first the definition of older players in your own words. Coz I myself, at the age of 23 is a gamer. And still I don't consider myself old enough to stop playing any games. And one more thing, age really doesn't matter when it comes in gaming, as long as you enjoy the game on any age group it is what is really importatnt. And, being young at heart is quite far more better rather than being young by attitude. 

Originally posted by magdalene08

 

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Originally posted by zymurgeist
Pushing fifty. First computer game, Star Trek on a mainframe.

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On a mainframe?! And which Star Trek game was that? :)

p.s: I'm 31.
 

He's talking about "trek". One of the first (if not THE first) computer game. It was the first real computer game I played back in the olden days, too.

http://almy.us/sst.html

The link gives a little history as well as a link to download the game itself, hope you have fun with it 

And yes, I am an old gamer 42yo, with 30 years of computer gaming under my belt.

I'm 43 next week.

Just hit 33 yesterday. I'm glad to hear that there are so many old peoples here .