Which decade has the most Civfanatics?

[Birdjaguar]

I remember the days when college papers were written on typewriters. (You brought your white-out, right?) I watched Ollie North testify before Congress. I remember the first space shuttle mission. I remember where I was for the USA's Bicentennial. Heck, I remember Nixon's resignation speech (my mother cried). I remember when there were only three television networks. I know what Kohoutek is - without running to Google. I have actually used a set of encyclopedias. I remember when popular music used acoustic violins. And I remember bellbottoms - the first time - and afros.

I'll leave it up to you to figure out when I was born, exactly.

Bell bottoms first time around: 1966-1972
Nixon resigns: 1974
Kohoutek 1973-74
Computers in college: 1983

OK, College before the 80s and remembering the 70s means born in the late 50s. Had you been born much earlier, you would have noted the moon landing rather than the first shuttle and Kennedy's death rather than Nixon's resignation.

How did I do?

 

[anaxagoras]

Bell bottoms first time around: 1966-1972
Nixon resigns: 1974
Kohoutek 1973-74
Computers in college: 1983

OK, College before the 80s and remembering the 70s means born in the late 50s. Had you been born much earlier, you would have noted the moon landing rather than the first shuttle and Kennedy's death rather than Nixon's resignation.

How did I do?

Close. You're a bit early, though. I think the computers part threw you a little bit. Yes, it was possible to write a college paper on a computer in 1983, but it was still very unusual. A PC and dot matrix printer cost around $3000 back then, which was more than a half-a-year's worth of in-state tuition. Only the technical types and rich kids could afford them at that time. (I was neither.) Computers for college weren't ubiquitous until the late '80s.

I watched Kohoutek from the window of my school bus on the way to fifth grade, wearing bell-bottom courdoroy jeans - which were still very much mainstream.

 

[Bill Odie]

The next generation, nearly 13 and I've played civ4 and call to power

 

[JH4EVER]

Boorn in the good ol' 80's

 

[mynystry]

78 here! i remember when i was a child and my brother b.72 installed Civ1 in the XT pc at home (hdd 8 mb) he didn't let me play coz say i could break the computer

since then i got obsessed with playing Civ2,Civ3 and now Civ4

 

[Aneurism]

1975 here. First played Civilizations in 1995.

 

[Lizzeh]

1980 here, just started playing Civ IV err..3 weeks ago

 

[LLXerxes]

January 13, 1995 I don't get how a ninth-grader has time to play Civ4.

We don't, we just hang around here to bother other people.

 

[jessiecat]

You're ooooooooold.

=D

Yay for '87.

Think that's old, sonny. Try 1946. When I first played civ 1 you were two.
That doesn't = D yet.

 

[dot]

I don't even feel old, I'm not even 30. ;-)

..., yet!

I've been born in the year of the three popes. Same month as the quoted poster only 12 days earlier.

 

[Vince-G]

I'd've reckoned there'd be a lot more from the 90s! I'm 16 myself.

 

[Padma]

Think that's old, sonny. Try 1946. When I first played civ 1 you were two.
That doesn't = D yet.

Wildfire just likes to try to get my goat.

And I kid him about being "a kid".

After all, those of us in the "over 30" crowd (especially those of us that are well over 30) tend to be a bit outnumbered on game sites. One of the things I like about CFC is that there is a reasonable number of "mature adults" to converse with.

 

[Mista]

It's fun reading history -- after living it. I was 56 when my youngest son came home from his honeymoon and called me to tell me that Civilization was out. Bought it that day and have been playing ever since --- all of the editions.

 

[MrFelony]

for all those young people who posted back in 2004 (11-12), how's puberty?

 

[rabidveggie]

Well I'm 19. The average gamer is apparently over 30 so we should be the ones outnumbered.

 

[MrFelony]

actually the average player is less that 30...

 

[sinucus]

'81 here... 26 as of post date

 

[Padma]

The "average" gamer is the *college-aged* male. That's roughly late teens and early twenties. Younger than that, and "Mom and Dad" can/will restrict playing time. Older than that, and you have to deal with a job, bills, possibly a spouse and new family, etc.

FWIW, I've played more Civ in the month since I got laid off than I did in the previous few years, put together.

 

[anaxagoras]

FWIW, I've played more Civ in the month since I got laid off than I did in the previous few years, put together.

I better hope I don't get laid off. I hate looking for work, and the temptation of Civ would make it almost impossible for me to get out there and pound the pavement.

 

[Tronicoz]

ohh . .. .. .. ., this topic is from 2004 ^^