Age 22. I didn't buy it release day (that I know of). In fact, I had never hear of it before picking up the box in the store. I remember it had the female fighter in bikini armor (and three other characters the didn't...um...stick out as much). When I read the back I was sold. Me and my roommates played for months on end.

I was just born.

I was 14. My parents just recently purchased a PC from a surplus liquidator for me and my sister's use that March. It was a Zenith 286 that still had a metal stamp that said "Property of the US Navy" on it, so I kept to playing my game on my famicom. It would take some PC game mag which came with a CD that had the DF Betony demo on it that I bought in a secondhand bookstore plus a newer PC five years later to discover TES... Arena I only started taking an interest after it became free...

Did I mention I live halfway across the globe from the US?

I was age 1 in april 1994
so no I did not buy it on release day
but I'm sure at least one person bought it on release day

I was 44 in '94. I bought Daggerfall maybe afew months year after it's release. Sometime after that I saw Arena a bargin bin and was intrigued buy the cover art but didn't buy it as I was still busy with Daggerfall.

I was 37 - just finished Betrayal at Krondor and was in the local shop looking for a another RPG-type game. I think I bought it later in the year, not at release. I also picked up Jagged alliance, as it looked interesting and I needed to try out my spiffy 1X CD-ROM upgrade (~$499.00 at the time - Ouch!!)

I wasn't quite 1 yet, so I certainly wasn't playing TES. In fact I didn't even know the series existed until the year I received Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories for Christmas (I forgot when that was lol). I had wanted to create my own video game using characters I had been developing for years, and I found the perfect surname for them, Oblivion (from Castle Oblivion in CoM).

Anywho when I found out there was already a game named "Oblivion" I was furious due to it;
A:) coming out first and
B:) most likely not living up to the standards I had for a game of that namesake.

I can gladly say today I was wrong lol

Being an embryo in 1994, I was too poor due to not being out of the womb.

I wasn't going to be born for another year or so.

There was a time when the very thought of a Gheart was unfathomable. Such an idea didn't exist, nor could it exist since it never existed. But then, one day...Gheart was born the Fire Nation attacked.

I was one, and I was discovering the inner sanctum of my mind, discerning the transmundane as well as pooping myself for my own amusemant. I did not play TES until a while after Oblivion was released.

Good, I am not the eldest then.

I was 32 back in 1994, about half way through a Phys Chem type Phd. I can still see my wiffe jumping everytime the wolves would howl or the Trolls "eeped" back to life.

A great game. The Computer we had to buy cost $2000, a 486 dx 25, and we had to rewrite the dos load file. A great game and gaming era.

I was 20 when Arena came out in '94 but I don't know when exactly I bought it. All I know is that it was a pretty new release when I did. I'm also unsure of how much of a delay there was between when it was released in the US and when it was released in Australia.

I still have the original manual and 3.5" floppy disks, but I seem to have lost the box at some point since then.

I would have been 1 year old. And 18 years later I have finally gotten around to playing and beating the game. Heck I'm closing in on 20, just barely managed to finish it in my teens. (If nineteen counts. )

I was -24 days old.

I was born over two years later, and I didn't start playing TES until a couple months before Skyrim came out. My friend said he had played Oblivion for about 60 hours and was done with it, so he gave me his copy. I started playing and realized that this was the type of game I had always dreamed of playing. I've now played all of the games from the series (though I've only beaten Oblivion and Skyrim) and I can happily say that they are all works of art.

I was three at the time arena was released and a few years away from discovering the elder scrolls. that would be daggerfall when I watched my uncle play it. Been a fan ever since, even though I didn't play one until morrowind.

-3 years old at the time. Still not actually played Arena, I've only went as far back as Daggerfall.

12 in 94, still havent played Arena, ever. Played Daggerfall in 97-98 I think.... Morrowind was what got ES to be my favorite series though to be honest.

I was 41 in 1994. But I didn't begin to play video games until American McGee's Alice came out years later, in 2000. And I didn't play an Elder Scrolls game until Morrowind came out two years after that.

I was four. I had never heard of TES until I read a review for Oblivion in a PS3 magazine in when it came out in 2007. I still think Bethesda never really succeeded in marketing the series until Skyrim. Loads of people bought Oblivion, but barely any of them got out of the tutorial sewer before getting bored and trading the game in.

Oblivion had an awful tutorial.

Both Oblivion and Morrowind did. I think once you get rolling, they're all sort of similar though (more or less).

That would be a showcase of abnormally low patience. At most it takes a few minutes to get through and it even leads you through it as it is a linear path with NPC's guiding you along most of the way fighting for you. Even the most boring game I have played had deserved and gotten more of my time than it took me to first complete that tutorial.

I think a lot of people tend to make more out of the starting dungeons of each game than there is to them. I just recently started playing Daggerfall for example and was expecting hours of scraping for my life before getting out after exploring many levels of the dungeon from the stories I had heard of it. What turned out to be the case however was that it even took me shorter than it took me to get through the Arena starting dungeon.

I was about 1 year old.

I think I was born the day Arena came out.

I was 16 years old, and got very interested in Arena after reading two magazine reviews, and those also made me very interested in the idea of playing a large "fantasy world simulator". However, I never really got into Arena for some reason and was rather disappointed in the game to not live up to my expectations. So it wasn't until Daggerfall I got truly hooked on the TES series, which I felt it improved over Arena a lot.

Heh, a few years ago my father bought himself a PS3, and I was quick to give him a PS3 copy of Oblivion, and he never got out of the sewer. Instead he got stuck when he encountered the locked door. I guess I should give him my strategy guide too