How old are you all?

[Andygal]

Some of my earliest memories have to do with computer games.

My dad used to work at a software devolpment company so he got cheap computers.

I still get a little nostaligic thrill when thinking my earliest favourites like Reader Rabbit 1, Putt Putt Joins the Parade and Word Rescue (all 3 incarnations of it). Oh and War and Peace which was a little later, that was my first war game. It was a simple one but anyway...

Remember when you used to have to get off the Internet if somebody else wanted to use the phone? I sure do. I think I was like 10 when we got away from that. And already addicted to the Internet.

 

[Dtry]

I am 41 turning 42 in Jan. I guess that makes me ancient. Funny.. Everyone says I am kid at heart.

 

[Master Ray]

I am 46. Been playing Civ since 1991. I played civilization type games in high school on the terminal connected to the main frame. No graphics but a text game where you had to decide how much grain each of your cities put towards growth, taxes, or sold. Does anyone else remember such a game?

 

[TyranusBonehead]

42

life's too short to take everything too seriously, have fun

 

[Belfran]

Remember when you used to have to get off the Internet if somebody else wanted to use the phone? I sure do. I think I was like 10 when we got away from that. And already addicted to the Internet.

Heheheh. I DO remember that. Only thing is when you speak of it as the good 'ol days it makes me feel ancient as all hell. For me the internet is still like this new thing. I know, I know: it's not; it just feels that way to me.

"Look!! I can send text and it will be recieved INSTANTLY accross the world!!"

Wowzer!

 

[TomOC]

40... just miss the cut-off.

Civ is about the only game I have time to play... because it takes up all my time.

 

[Meffy]

No graphics but a text game where you had to decide how much grain each of your cities put towards growth, taxes, or sold. Does anyone else remember such a game?

That was "Hammurabi" most likely. Remember "Hunt the Wumpus" and "Animal" and "Bagels" and "Lunar Lander" and... heh... one could go on all day.

 

[fe3333au]

What about Trek and that game where you moved N,S,E,W,up and down exploring some cave under a house ... never knew what to do with the lint in my pocket

 

[GoffTiddums]

Sire's of the Forum, I must state that I am 22, that 15 hours a week is my average, that I quite enjoy a bit of chicken after a long day at University.
Ontop of playing Civ4, I've been playing a bit of UFO Aftershock which is also a great game.

 

[Arizona_Steve]

38 here. Just three years from being considered "Ancient"...

There was a thread on this subject a few years back called "Too old to play" with a more comprehensive list of options (and the same problems with putting age 30 in two categories, which was subsequently corrected by the mods). I remember one guy, Eclectic, who came in at 81. I wonder if he's still playing.

 

[Meffy]

Breunor: Oh, and how. When I was given access to my first Selectric terminal I left -- for a while! -- the world of "leave your source deck in the basket by 10am every other Thursday so the clerk-messenger can drive it across the state to a IBM 709, where it will be fed into a card reader, parsed, and rejected with a thirty-page sheaf of header pages, one error message, and footer pages (which the clerk-messenger will pick up on the following Thursday). Had to go back to punched cards when I went off to college four years later, but I'd tasted interactivity and would not let go.

elderotter: Well said. Congratulations to you, fellow mustelid. Respect. *deep bow* o/~ Duck... and cover! o/~ with Tommy Turtle, ah yes. A gentle, childlike, fun-loving introduction to the world of instantaneous annihilation for America's little folks. Wasn't it great living in the 1950s/early 60s? :-D Though dropping a sorted deck could be nearly as devastating as an atomic attack.

Y'all ancients: Ever seen someone set a card box full of source or data atop one of those good old-fashioned mainframe printers, forgetting that the printer in question had an automatic motorized cover-lifting mechanism? Electro-Dump -- yipes. =>_<= Such panic! Such dismay!

 

[FuzzyWeasel]

That was "Hammurabi" most likely. Remember "Hunt the Wumpus" and "Animal" and "Bagels" and "Lunar Lander" and... heh... one could go on all day.

Hah! I had forgotten about wumpus!

I also remember the c64 games that I manually typed in. There was a huge wolf game.... where you played the part of a wolf leading a pack. The graphics for those were typed in by hand... "c1 f7 ab 72 2f"

-Weasel

 

[Meffy]

Oh yeah. ISTR something called "Magic" (?) magazine that had C64 fun in every issue. Just start typing. And typing. And typing. And... *dizzy* whew!

And trek! Of course. I sure wasted some time playing that one.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

Shouldn't this go into the OT forum?

 

[Meffy]

Yes, it probably ought to.

 

[rabottens]

Let me put it this way. I played Civ back when it was an Avalon Hill board game circa 1975. I was 20 years old then so do the math. Guess that makes me 50. But 50 isn't old if you're a tree.

 

[MaskedFrog]

37 year. I remember playing pong, Atari 2600, Zork. I remember and ASCII map game called Empire that I played on Tandy computers.

I played the original Civ to death and only came back for Civ 4. I play about 4 to 5 hours a week. Fortunately my wife understands my addiction as she is addicted to the internet. While I play Civ she is off surfing the internet. I may not be able to play as much as I did in college but I will never stop playing computer games.

BTW - I also find time for rolepaying games, miniatures games, and other board games played with live people.

For all you youngsters out there you will learn as you grow older that life is all about balance. You will have to work hard but you also need to play hard as well.

 

[rabottens]

One thing I would like to add. My father was ancient. He died this spring at the tender age of 91. My average family life expectancy according to ancestry.com is 96. So at age 50 I have just barely reached the halfway point of my life expectancy. I play civ almost every spare minute that I have because I love the challenge it offers and it keeps my brain active.

 

[rdclark]

I'm 54 ("ancient" only from certain limited perspectives!) and I've been playing Civ since the day the original version was released.

RichC

 

[Whomp]

I think it's time to throw the gauntlet at the feet of the non ancients. Ancients vs. non-ancients in a PBEM.
I'll take my ancients anyday. En garde young grasshoppahs.