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 .

Originally posted by iZakaroN

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

Happy Birthday

I'm 40.

I never understood the "stop gaming when you hit a certain age" mentality. You do what you enjoy doing. I remember when mainstream video gaming first started when Space Invaders and arcades where seen as the doom of mankind.

In my fifties.

I started to play online to understand why my sons were playing so much time. A bit after i was enjoying playing with them and at the end i got caught.

Now is not easy to me to make my RL friends understand why i'm playing so much time

38  here .. thats still young ? :)  been playing since the 80's, grew up with that stuff + some D&D PP helps for the inspiration in mmorpgs..

Anyways .. According to ESA there's many "older" players.. and like a lot , they grew up with games/ online games.. Imho 60 years aint 60 years as it was just 20 years ago.. For me it seems that 60 to day is more like mid 40's to 50 to day?  Wello depends on the mentality..

http://www.theesa.com/facts/index.asp

Age really doesn't matter playing any mmorpg's since what far more important is if you enjoy the game.

If you think about it, a lot of people who got into gaming in the early 80's are probably well into their 30's now, and the whole sitgma attached to gamers is being blown out of the water. It's now becoming a perfectly legitimate hobby.

I used to get mocked by my old WoW guild for being an 'old man' as I was the oldest in the guild, but it was all taken in good spirit. I hear a lot of people moan about 'kids' spoiling MMO's, but not one of my guildmates was over 20 and they were some of the most mature people I'd met in-game, which is why I stuck around.

I do remember playing pong in bars..lol

My first game played in a personal computer was tron in a ZX81 a friend of mine had ( Carles). It was epic. But I had started years before, in 1976, playing in coin machines. I remeber I saved the money for the breakfast and spent it in the machines, feeling so guilty. I was an addicted already

Originally posted by ttomm46

I do remember playing pong in bars..lol

I remember when my dad got one of the early 'Home TV Pong Sets', we all thought it was so high-tec & even the neighbours came round to play it!

I am 47 but regularly forget my age & have to work it out in my head. It just isn't that important to me unless I have to apply for a new job, then I remember that it is only important to other people.

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.
 

The first Star Trek game was a text only game and played on teletypes. This was before PC's were available.  Usually found on College campus's. Accounts that had access to the teletypes were sought after, usually burning the account hours on Star Trek than writing the computer code they supposed to be writing.   Up until a few years ago, I had a card deck with the fortran code for the entire game.  Now I sometimes wish I had not thrown it out, it was a real relic.

Yeah, I am up there with the OP.

  Yes, I am also one of those born in BC (before color television). Started playing tabletops and Pong was my first video game. We have come a long way since a big old cardboard box was the best thing on the block.