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garethporlest18 · Jun 05, 2007, 07:58 AM // 07:58

Gonna be 20 next month.

Etta · Jun 05, 2007, 08:04 AM // 08:04

I'm so old, I remember when Guild Wars was on Dos as a text adventure.

I'm in my late 20.

NeHoMaR · Jun 05, 2007, 09:07 AM // 09:07

I started with this; I still have it, from 1986:

Note the controller has just one button, and no, it isn't wireless, it's just picture edition, hahahaha!

So, today games (including GW) are all amazing more me!

Dead of Night · Jun 05, 2007, 09:43 AM // 09:43

Nearly 52! so entering 2nd childhood...

Hengis · Jun 05, 2007, 09:54 AM // 09:54

Wow - I thought I was one of the few 40+ Guild Wars players being 44 next month, but it seems there are a lot of us in this bracket!

Along with many of the other oldies here, I started playing PC games back at the beginning of the 1980s. My first computer was a Sinclair Spectrum 48K.

I taught myself BASIC on that machine and even wrote a few simple games for it.

My first PC was an 80286 with a whole 256K of RAM! It cost me around £400 (getting on for $800 US) to upgrade that to 1 meg of RAM so that it would play the original Wing Commander. Anyone else remember having to create game specific boot disks? :-) The joys of HIMEM.SYS, EMS, XMS, and trying to get work out early Adlib and Soundblaster IRQs :-)

arcanemacabre · Jun 05, 2007, 10:12 AM // 10:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by NeHoMaR

I started with this; I still have it, from 1986:

Note the controller has just one button, and no, it isn't wireless, it's just picture edition, hahahaha!

So, today games (including GW) are all amazing more me!

Whoa... this was my baby, my brother has it now, but at least it's still in the family, and works great still (don't make 'em like they used to!):

Although I'd have to say my first video game experience had to be the old Coleco handheld games that used the LED lights, primarily the football one. That was back in the early 80's. I have literally been a gamer since then. I didn't even know what school was yet.

Spazzer · Jun 05, 2007, 12:10 PM // 12:10

22 until September.

Akuma · Jun 05, 2007, 12:21 PM // 12:21

I'm 14.

10 or so years ago (quite recently turned 14), I would refuse to touch any games or computers because Windows was ugly, and they didn't look fun. How wrong I was.

yesitsrob · Jun 05, 2007, 12:25 PM // 12:25

21 iirc.

12 characters

Mace Gridlock · Jun 05, 2007, 12:41 PM // 12:41

35 and like most older vets been gamming since pong and havn't stopped.
Sons almost 10 and he also is a gammer.

yeah_hi · Jun 05, 2007, 12:41 PM // 12:41

26-29 group here. Fondly remember the Ataris of the mid-80s! First computer was a Dragon32, the CPU ran at a quite dizzying 0.8MHz!

Playing the ASCII-based 'Quest' on the Dragon32 (at the tender age of 5) was also my first taste of RPGing - Guild Wars is sure a long way on from that!

I'm among the youngest in my alliance btw...

Wtf Its A Monk · Jun 05, 2007, 01:12 PM // 13:12

17 almost 18 so i just put 18

Komes I · Jun 05, 2007, 01:15 PM // 13:15

I am 14 years old and I love it!

Aphrodate · Jun 05, 2007, 01:49 PM // 13:49

I'm 27 and my husband is 29. Both of us play GW and we will keep playing till we die. I can't wait to retire then I'll have 12 hours a day to play and not just 12 hours a day on weekends!

Quozz · Jun 05, 2007, 03:03 PM // 15:03

Turned 41 this year. Nice to see there are more of us old timers than I first thought. Actually I don't think we have anyone under the age of 30 in our guild right now. Apparently the need for more frequent bio-breaks is a huge turn off for younger people wanting to join our guild

First computer game experience was Ultima III on an old Apple. Then got hooked on that text based game (Can't remember the actual name... something about caves) that was common on Mainframes. Never looked back after that.

clawofcrimson · Jun 05, 2007, 03:47 PM // 15:47

^ ya I am actually suprised to see so many above colleg age.

MSecorsky · Jun 05, 2007, 05:25 PM // 17:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Perkunas

"Pinball Wizard II" here. Dumped a LOT of quarters into pinball machines, back when the dinosaurs walked the world. Probably even "bought" a couple of "Space Invaders" machines along the way. "Pong" anyone? Still have around 50 Atari games in the closet as well as the console.

Will probably be buried with game controler in hand.

Pong! Ah, I remember when we got Pong... I also remember playing Ultima off of a 5 1/4 floppy on our Commodore 64 with it's bog ol' 20 Meg hard drive.

My age? The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.

rg6199 · Jun 05, 2007, 05:46 PM // 17:46

33 here, and just to let you older guys know, we are not alone. i am an officer of a guild with 90+ members, and the #1 req. to join is being age 30 or over.

Guild Terror · Jun 05, 2007, 07:40 PM // 19:40

became 17 on june 2nd

Divine Freak · Jun 05, 2007, 08:01 PM // 20:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hengis Stone

Anyone else remember having to create game specific boot disks? :-) The joys of HIMEM.SYS, EMS, XMS, and trying to get work out early Adlib and Soundblaster IRQs :-)

Those were the fun days. No idiot proof Windows to tell you that folders are hidden for their protection and to give you error messages everytime you do something

And how come nobody has mentioned Zaxxon yet, that game rules

Oh yah, I'm 24. Been into computers n stuff ever since I was old enough to be fascinated with all the flashing lights