Am I too old....?

Am I too old....?

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Originally posted by Ren
I'm 16, been playing Civ since the glory days of Civilization 1 :)

Ahhyes. 16. I vaguely remember then. I worked for the post office, or P&T as it was then. Post and Telegraph Department.
Went to a training course in Auckland and saw my first ever computer. It took up a whole floor of the exchange building, had lots of relays and valves in a sealed air conditioned room. To enter data you went into this small room with a window that looked into the works and sat in front of a row of switches. You used binary code by setting the 8 switches up or down, on or off. Ie: a 1 or a 0. Then you pressed the button to enter your byte of code. Wow! Technology. Highly efficient -- as central heating. And that cost several million pounds ($2 per pound) The cheapest calculator now could do far more than that garbage heap ever managed. But it got me hooked on computers though. Just it took another 15 odd years for personal computers to arrive. Ahh the memories. A Sinclair ZX81. Then a Vic20, a C64, a BBC, an AT with a fantastic 10 meg hard drive. Woooo boy! Then an XT with 20 meg, WOW, double the drive space. Actually some of that gear is still in my basement somewhere. Must start a museum.
Well, still can't get my Civ1 and 2 to work. Gone back to my old DOS version of Civilisation and guess what? I prefer it to all the others. Cheers. Red.
 
Originally posted by Emperor Josiah
I am the youngest at 14. I had no idea people as old as my grand parents play. That is so suprising.

Yeah, well, look at it this way. We spend our lives working hard to pay for our retirement, so that we will have time to play all the games we didn't have time for earlier because of work.
Also some of the best ideas come from older people who now have the time to work on them. Sid Meier isn't exactly young now, are you 'Skids'.
I still write programs, now in Visual Basic and you could possibly even have some of them. Lord knows I did enough and they are out there as shareware. Never got paid for them by many though. My grandkids ask me what the good games are, then show me how to play them. ;-)
 
Cool I just was a little surprised. Most kids my age hate this game because their not into historic simulations. and would rather shoot some one or reck a car (grand theft auto 3.)
 
Better for older folks to play "silly video games" (er, and Civ, too) than to waste all their time and money in casinos.

I am old enough to remember being introduced to Civ 1 on an ... Amiga, I think it was.
 
Originally posted by Emperor Josiah
Cool I just was a little surprised. Most kids my age hate this game because their not into historic simulations. and would rather shoot some one or reck a car (grand theft auto 3.)

My 16 year old Grandson got me hooked on Civ (I'm 62). I got him back he is hooked on my old Wing Commander and Shivers games.

Simulations make you think, and we of the (much) older generation can still do that. :lol: Even if our reflexes have slowed down a little bit. :rolleyes:
 
I can still remember the days of Civ1 when I was watching my father playing it. Then he got Civ2 and I still watched. Now I'm playing Civ2, and will probably never stop even if the world explodes.:nuke: I played my first game at the age of 8, and I am now 16.(Wow, that's half my life!);)
 
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