Off topic - Did you ever ride the Bobs in BelleVue, Manchester ?

31 here

first compters were a Commadore 64 and Amstrad CPC 646 - Dizzy was an awesome game(s)

then moved onto Amiga's - so many fond memories of those comps. i had a A600HD ( a 20MB HD was big back then) then got the A1200 which at the time was better than most PC's.

of course the 90's was when consoles were getting better with the MegaDrive and Super Nintendo. My first pc i owned was in 2001, was still using Amigas up until that point which ment i learnt about TES rather late. Morrowind opened the doors for me and havent looked back!

Born in 47.

1947, that is.

Turned 64 this past October.

Been gaming since I got my C-64 in mid-1982.

I am a 42 year old male...so yeah.

Mid forties here. Started off with a ZX80, worked as a programmer for a couple of decades and now write TTRPGs for a living.

We be here. Been computer gaming since the late 80s, even though it was at friend's houses back then.

<< 38 and loving Skyrim

I take the opposite attitude. I think it's great that so many of our younger people play video games too.

Almost identical to me. Amstrad CPC 464 (greenscreen!), followed by Amiga 600, followed by the PS1 and then a combination of PC's and xboxes. I'd love to see The Chaos Engine remade on xbox live!

33 by the way

I Turn 40 this year. And i'm enjoying games as much as did with C-64.

30+

I still have the reflexes to play mw3, but it's just a matter of time, hence my skyrim addiction

29 yo yet, 4 months to go

Early 40s here. Started out with Commodore C64, then moved onto a bunch of Amigas which I still miss OS specific features from. First windoze machine (I was late compared to my friends) was Win95 dualbooting with Linux. Have since dropped Linux, not sure why actually.

On C64 and Amiga I was more into the creative aspect than gaming. With PC came being creative with 3D rather than coding. Gaming started out with the "usual action games" but have since progressed into only more realism oriented games that are more slow in nature. Arma2, Elder Scrolls, Fallout Games, X series, and Civilization (mostly 4 still, despite I actually like some of the features in 5) are about the only games I play. Also heavily involved with modding and mission design (game design to some extent) in some of these, but never TES for some reason - maybe I should pick that up?

Yep another 'oldie' here at 35 lol I remember the good ole days of Atari 2600's (my first Console) and IBM 8088's (my first PC experience) with 128k of Ram and even TES 1 Arena on Floppy Disks, ahhh those were the days, the kids these days are SO spoilt, especially when it comes to games! Everything has to be perfect or they cry like little babies, if only they were around in the early days when there was even NO sound in games because not even Adlib Soundcards had been invented Yes no Sound or 3D Graphics Cards back then, heck I remember getting music to play for the first time on that IBM after I borrowed my mates Adlib Soundcard a few years down the track we were like WOW! Can you imagine todays kid gamers playing back then.... OMG! this game SuXorz coz it doesn't even have sound or 3d Graphics! Hahaha Hell we used to play games soley because they were fun, Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Frogger... just fun not complicated, no storyline no graphics... you played because it was enjoyable. People today can learn alot from us old timers

Skyrim is SO epic I can't stop playing it, whenever the TV is free I am on playing, just one more quest, or I just wanna see what is over that mountain! Its VERY addictive and my Wife doesn't think its great one bit because of it lol Is Skyrim perfect? No and no game is, I feel people like to play the tall poppy syndrome card when it comes to Skyrim, the better it is widely recieved the more people feel the need to put it down. Is Skyrim fun and addictive? Yes it is, and at 160 hours so far I would say very good value for money.

I'll be 51 in March...
Oh and Hello everyone

42... Pong was my brother and I's first game.... I seem to remember playing Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy in high school. Legend of Zelda with my 1st husband in 90? 91? something like that. I really didn't start playing again til 2010 though.

Feels 60 some mornings and 16 others. lol Hey if ya gotta problem lighting that smoke underwater, take up bike riding.. I prefer swimming but in this area errrrgh.. swim with the gators or pay $6 at a spring ( were someone is paid to watch for gators and ppl drowning of course) I do SO miss knowing their are sharks around...

I was 30, 30 years ago.

Early thirties. A quarter of a century of gaming, and I love gaming as much as ever.

It's not strange or rare. You'll find many gamers in our age group. Many in our generation have more or less grown up with comupters and games, myself included. I've seen games evolve from monochrome pixels to the massively immersive full blown 3D environments we have today.

Also: my old dad who's in his mid sixties now can be called a gamer aswell. All through my childhood we've always had Ataris, Commodores, Amigas, various stone-age Personal/Home Computers. I remember fondly how my dad got home all excited with his new "monster system", firing it up, having to wait more than half an hour for the system to load some basic pixelated game from a casette disk (<- not floppies but an actual casette disk), then having a blast with it with me as a toddler watching in full admiration. These days, as a pensionado, when he's not out playing golf or tennis or haning on the cautch watching movies, he's still gaming. And even though he can't keep up with fast paced (online) gameplay anymore like what you see in most shooters, RTS's and MMO's, he's still quite adept. The old man even plays games like Elder Scrolls, which I think is kinda cool.

I think gaming as a hobby transcends age boundaries. Hell, my (mostly online) gaming friends aren't in a particular age group either, they range between 14 to 70.

Yep! 38 & still remember the ZX81 LOL

35 years young and gaming since the Zx Spectrum and C64 days.

Anyone out there miss typing - Load "" into the Spetrum and waiting with fingers crossed for it to make it the loading screen. Ah the good ol days.

1977 here. Puts me right around my mid 30's.

Started with a C64 and an Apple IIe.

Yep. I remember playing Hamurabi.

Commodore 64, Fort Apocalypse, may as well put the kettle on then. And before that, Blue Meanies on the VIC 20. No amount of nostalgia and rose tinted glasses can make up for games on tape cassette.

lol My dad is 63 and I used to love it when I gave him FPS's like Quake, Quake II and even some WW2 shooters like Call Of Duty and he played them to bits He's getting to old for games like Skyrim I think but he still fires up the shooters! He used to play our Atari 2600 with me too, especially a cool game called Solar Storm which we played on paddles lol How far consoles have come, and people still sook about the PS3 and Xbox graphics, haha maybe they should go fire up an Atari or Commodore 64 and then see if they complain Yes I remember C64's with Tape drives too, talk about loading times, I used to go make a cup of coffee to come back and find Conan still loading lol

39, although I don't feel it. Only a few months before I'm 40.