EggXpert

I'll be 48 in May...Started with Pong and owned an original Sega Genesis with a 32X add-on. Playing 2142 almost exclusively now at our DD-DevilDogs BF2142 server. Stop by and get fragged if you'd like...we run a clean server IP 72.232.187.117:16567

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29 and been and Everquest'r for the past 7 years :)

 Have been a console junkie since I was a kid, and with a past time like this I can't help but still feel like a kid some days.

I glad for it too, despite my 5 yr old leaning on my arm and my 1 yr old bashing on the key's while sitting on my lap, I can still geek-out to my game(s).

Soon to be 38.

Good to see other gamers in the same age bracket.

I've been a gamer since the Atari 2600.  The Mattel Intellivision was the first console I owned and my first computer game was Jumpman on the C64.  I don't get to play nearly as much as I used to and I do mix my gaming between PC and console (currently have a Wii), but I figure I'll be gaming until they pry the keyboard and mouse out of my cold dead hands.

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Gamings cool for all ages.  I am 24 and have been married 3 years.  My wife's not much of a gamer but she'll get into it every once in a while for games like Need For Speed and Zelda.

I am 47.  I have gamed along long time and still love it!!  I play alot of first person shooters mostly.

RuM:

19, I'm surprised to see most members are quite older than me. I've been a gamer since the release of Doom II, and played Counter-Strike from it's 6th or 7th Beta release when I was 12, till Source came when I was 18. Right now CS:S is getting way to monotonous and beating Half-Life 2 and Far Cry for the 342th time doesn't seem to appealing anymore :-P.

I'm 25.  Growing up, I always eagerly jumped at any opportunity to play on friends' consoles, but never owned one myself because the parents were against them.  I think the first game I played was centipede on my neighbor's atari. Does anyone remember that one?  Then we had a few outdated family PCs that my brothers and I would desparately scour games for, but nothing up to date or ground breaking for the time...  We played Lemmings, Wolfenstein 3D, Links golf, Prince of Persia---Ohhh and the Qbasic games like Gorilla and Nibbles.  007 Goldeneye certainly caught my attention, but then I tapered off for a few years until finally, I obtained a fairly up-to-date Dell Dimension 8300 (P4 3.0ghz w/Nvidia 5200 gfx card) for school--and my roommates put the original Half Life and Counter-Strike games on there and I regained some interest again.

But it wasn't until a few months later, in late 2004, when Half-Life 2 came out that I became truly converted (and admittedly addicted).  I love that game and all of it's subsequent releases.  I can't wait for HL2: Episode 2 to come out, as well as Portal and Team Fortress 2.  Since then I've slowly been infected with the upgrade bug, more and more.  It's so fun!  I'd say a fair 20-30% of my meager college student income goes to upgrading my computer to play better games.  Ha! I hardly even use my computer for school anymore...  I'm really just a noob, but I like to think that I fit in, even with my aging system.  I no longer take much interest in consoles, however, and spend most of my time on newegg, just thinking about my next upgrade...  Latest developments--> Day of Defeat: Source and LAN parties.  This past year I've definitely risen to a whole new level of l33t nerdness.  Last week we fit roughly 16 guys into my small apt. for a DODs LAN party.  It's a great time.  Now my roommate and I are sort of starting a clan--I used to make fun of clans...

Oh well.

RuM, maybe have you tried DODs yet?  It's worth a try--and changes from the CS:S pace a lot, imho.

dante:

I'm freakin old. (30.5)   I've always wondered what the average age of most gamers are out there.  Is gaming something that's mostly stuck with my generation or am I just old and immature?

 

Old?? You're a youngster. I'm 50 years young and still gaming (since the original Pong box for tv). Currently addicted to World of Warcraft, but also a longtime resident of There.com and just picked up a copy of Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. One can never be TOO OLD to PLAY!!
 

43 here in a couple of weeks.  I love games!  I still remember getting Atari when it first came out...played pong and pitfall...I also was an avid arcade gamer too, I loved donkey kong and pacman after a few drinks

My 17 y/o son will laugh at me when I start playing games...I like WOW, but I am too cheap to have 2 subscriptions going at the same time so I play guild wars and he plays the other!  It keeps  your brain and your reflexes sharp!

 for those talking about balancing kids and gaming, well it is all about moderation...there is always mommy or daddy time :)

 

17 here and my first games were on the nes :D

I'm 29 years young :)

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38

19 in June, still into some games now and then :)

Heck, I don't think so. I believe there exists a game for everybody out there. From the young to the old.

15 Learners soon =P

I'm right at 16½.

I'll be playing PC games till the day I die. 

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"Get off my lawn!" 

21 years old

 

I play all sorts of games.

 

First game played, probably Number Munchers or Oregon Trail on the school's PCs.

Or maybe it was that puzzle game on the old Apple IIe

 I keep all my game boxes

It really doesn't suprise me the ages here though.  I come from a more mature-minded gaming community, we have younger players, and we have older players.  The "Mature" part keeps alot of the young gamers out (They think everyone there is an old fart and we're not worthy of them gracing us with their presence.  Oh well too bad for us )

 

I caught my Grandfather gaming this Easter with the family and having a blast.

Whoah, not that many younger guys in here. I am 16 i built my first pc when i turned 10 and have built many ever since.

I'm 20, and come to be a gamer for life, even how sad that sounds, but it's good fun entertainment.

Got that right, Dukman.  I remember when I was overjoyed to play on the expanded graphics of the Commodore Amiga versus the old Commodores and the Atari's I was used to.  Then BBS online access ruled my life until graphics became the norm, now look at us!  Myself = PC freak, and I still have the original NES (2), SNES, N64, and PS1/2 (don't deal much more with Micro$oft's Xbox).  Somewhere in storage I still have (I think) an original Radio Shack Tandy 1000 w/diskettes.  Will I be doing it at 50+ myself?  Yeppers, better believe it.