Almost 46, exclusively played Gran Turismo on console and never did any gaming on PC. Already finding Fallout 4 addictive, hope my daytime withdrawls don't force me to give up my fulltime job....

Female, 38.

Console gamer from approx. Mid 80's to early 2000. PC gamer ever since.

Male 51 and started playing games back in 86 with a C64 then 1st pc late 80's

The thing that strikes me from those poll results is that Beth are clearly failing to cater to the 71-79 year old demographic. We have 60 year olds and 80 year olds, but no-one in their seventies.

Dare I assume that we'll see atomic zimmer frames in a forthcoming DLC? All fully moddable and upgradable of course. They'd make a great drop for legendary withered ghouls.

Male..68. that .50 cal sniper rifle JUST FEELS RIGHT!

Technically this just measures the users here on the official forum, rather than being indicative of the FO4 gamers as a whole. And the ones that saw your poll, and vote in such polls, at that.

If you were to try the same thing on Tumblr, I imagine the ages would be lower and mostly female, because the site demographic is different. (Also you'd probably get anon hate for only providing binary genders.)

The biggest real world demographic playing video games is 25 to 35. So, this kind of mirrors what pollsters found out.

Male, 20.

Male, 57. Played my first computer-based games on the University of Maine's IBM S/360 mainframe back in 1975 (Golf, Lunar Lander and later Star Trek). The "display" was a teletype printer connected via an acoustic-coupler 300 baud modem.

When that's your frame of reference, getting 100+ FPS on a 4K display just doesn't seem all that important

Sure, also getting caught in the rain?

Male, 48

Started with a Commodore Vic 20, around 1984.

Couldn't afford it back then.

First gaming experience was some console - for lack of a better word - you could hook up on your TVs aerial and play something like pong. Must have been the mid 70ies.

Female 44

I honestly did not think I'd enjoy this game very much when I picked it up. I bought it because I enjoy Distopian novels.

Quite possibly the best game I've bought since Skyrim.

I'm male (typically so, or so my wife tells me) 63 going on 20. It's a long story, but I started over in 1996...

I didn't own a pc until the year 2000, but starting in about 1979 or 80, I shoveled quarters by the handful into arcade games like "Joust" "Star Wars" "Missile command" and "Pole Position". I would've loved to have gotten a PC sooner, but I lived on the road (I worked with a circus through the 80's and early 90's) and with no permanent home it's hard to have larger, delicate items to drag all over the country.

30 + age range.

I'm 43, feel like 73 when I get up in the morning and my mother still accuses me of acting like a 4 year old.

Been playing games since I was about 6, didn't become my main hobby until the mid 90s. Played the classics like Donkey Kong, Pac-Man & Space Invaders in the arcades. My first home system was a "pong" after that; Atari 600XL, Commodore C64, Amiga CDTV, Amiga 1200, Playstation 1, 2, 3, 4, Xbox, Xbox 360 Nintendo N64 (regret that still) And various PCs since 1996.

I'm not much into yoga, but I do have half a brain.

Transman, 29

Female. Just turned 56.

this poll needs to include console and pc questions.

unsure about Beth's TOS for this forum, what about age groups below 18? I'm sure parents are buying their kids M rated games.

Male

age 74

born Pearl Harbor Day.

The world got over Pearl Harbor but it ain't done with me yet.

I bet you'd be surprised how many of us geezers are playing F4.

We've got the time to play all day if we choose.

Good idea poll updated with Platform question added.

I got my grandmother hooked on Skyrim and Mass Effect series and she is over 80 so you can't rule any age out now days.

Gaming grandmas aren't *too* uncommon...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/gamer-grandma-british-gas-rampage_n_4174860.html

Definitely not uncommon bekkilyn, I married one; hate to think what she'd do without her weekly D&D or Shadowrun tabletop sessions.