if you're in your thirties and forties an play Skyrim... : V - Skyrim

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 5:16 am

43 years oldie. Here's a picture of me taken 32 years ago unboxing my Atari 2600. My favourite game was Adventure - the story of a knee with an arrow in it who slayed dragons and plundered dungeons

http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/xx55/IIJOSEPHXII/atari.jpg

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:02 am

43 years oldie. Here's a picture of me taken 32 years ago unboxing my Atari 2600. My favourite game was Adventure - the story of a knee with an arrow in it who slayed dragons and plundered dungeons

http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/xx55/IIJOSEPHXII/atari.jpg

Is that the game where you control a dot [or a square, can't remember] and bring stuff around? Dragons were more like chickens lol

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 3:01 am

Yay, a club I join

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Consumers spent $25.1 billion on video games, hardware and accessories in 2010.
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Seventy-two percent of American households play computer or video games.
The average game player is 37 years old and has been playing games for 12 years.
The average age of the most frequent game purchaser is 41 years old.
Forty-two percent of all game players are women. In fact, women over the age of 18 represent a significantly greater portion of the game-playing population (37 percent) than boys age 17 or younger (13 percent).
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And some day game devs will acknowledge the facts and design games for us: Clear on screen text in big fonts, large simple buttons... Oh wait a minute....

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:57 pm

Turning 39 in March ...

Yikes, looks like I'm the oldest one here in terms of joining the forums ... :thumbsup:

Beat me by four months. Technically I was here in 2004, but since the Skyrim hype and revamp i lost my old account.

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:37 am

Is that the game where you control a dot [or a square, can't remember] and bring stuff around? Dragons were more like chickens lol

There's a good retrospective of the game here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGqZ5eFEdDU

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:36 am

With M rated titles it's the norm for the 30+ crowd to outweight the teens and twenty-somethings in the fan base. There are plenty of forum members in their 50s and 60s here, and a smattering above that.

Call of Duty.

nuff said

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:14 am

Yes

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:43 am

soon to be 30 not there yet for a couple more mounths

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 2:05 am

Just under 40 here. Been playing games since the Atari 2600 was created and computer games on my Texas Instruments Ti-99 computer. Of course, back then you had to type in the computer game programs yourself found printed in computer magazines.

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:26 am

30 here, Skyrim is the one for me, grew up on dungeon/quest games and the era of fighting fantasy books, games workshop, hero quest, battle cards etc.. those were great days and Skyrim takes me back.

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:39 am

I'm 30, currently taking a break from Skyrim, after +300 hours, but I'll be back.

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:38 pm

I'm so old, I was around when there really were dragons....

It all started with DOOM.

I really only play the grand Bethesda games, though....(and Mass Effect)....there's just something about the style and atmosphere of Elder Scrolls and the Fallout games that set them apart.

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 11:46 pm

I will be 50 in 17 days... :celebrate:

...so that's a big "YEP" from me...

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:31 am

Doom ! what a great game and the first Wolfenstein, the first Warcraft, these were all pure gold.

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 2:11 am

I'm under the impression that the majority of the people on these forums are 30 or older. I won't be 30 for another 12 years though.

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 3:52 am

42 in March. Been playing crpg's when back when I had trouble getting the 20Mb file of a game to fit on my 120Mb Hard drive back in the DOS days.

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:59 am

42 plus one day :rock:

on!

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 4:41 am

At 67 am I the oldest?

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 11:27 pm

41

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 8:40 am

46 here. I actually wonder if there are many kids playing Skyrim. As far as I know many play COD.

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 4:20 am

At 67 am I the oldest?

You're the coolest!

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 8:30 am

Aye.

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:49 pm

Yup... 44 here. Just about anyone who has played ALL TES games is going to be 40 or pushing it, unless they're a glutton for retro.

» Thu Jun 07, 2012 5:20 am

43 here.

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:19 pm

I'm so glad there are so many advlts playing this game, cheers for you guys ^^