How old were you in 1994 and did any one buy it on release d : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Sun May 05, 2013 9:07 am

im just curious cuz just found out that Arena which was released 1994 was the game that started it all

im just curios how olds people was at this point

I was 3 at this time and had no idea what a video game was untill i was 5-7

» Sun May 05, 2013 6:26 am

I was 11 and still about 5 years away from discovering TES.

» Sun May 05, 2013 1:17 am

I was -3 years old. Kinda hard to play games then.
I played Arena last year through DOSBox, so I never bought it.

» Sun May 05, 2013 8:05 am

I was 17. I didn't buy it. I didn't discover TES until the last days of Morrowind just before Oblivion's release.

» Sun May 05, 2013 7:42 am

My Microsoft Money ledger shows that I bought Arena at Hastings on 3/22/1994. Was that release day? Had to have been close. I still have the original packaging and its contents. Came on 3.5" HD floppy disks. I was 43 at the time.

-Decrepit-

» Sat May 04, 2013 11:18 pm

I was 11, and did not get into TES until I got Daggerfall in '96.

» Sun May 05, 2013 10:19 am

I was 1.

» Sun May 05, 2013 11:12 am

I was 34. I didn't enjoy TES until Redguard and fell in love the Morrowind. I'm one of the few Daggerfall unfans you'll find around here though. If my wife hadn't gotten me Redgaurd for christmas, I'd have dismissed TES after Daggerfall.

» Sun May 05, 2013 6:04 am

I was 13, and Arena was the first computer game I ever bought with my own money!

(I think I actually got it in 95 or 96, though. Can't really remember, exactly.)

Since then I've played all the main Elder Scrolls games except Daggerfall, which I just started this month! I've never played Redguard or Battlespire, though.

» Sun May 05, 2013 9:34 am

I was 0. I was born in March, the same month Arena was released. I don't know the specific day Arena was released on, so I don't know which was first.

» Sun May 05, 2013 3:06 pm

I was 8. I didn't buy Arena, but I'm 80% sure I played the demo. Back then my PC gaming pretty much consisted of Jazz Jackrabbit (which came on something like 20 floppy disks!) and Mega Race.

» Sun May 05, 2013 4:55 am

-1 :c

» Sun May 05, 2013 2:01 pm

I was 14 and had never heard of Arena. Didn't get into TES until Morrowind was released.

» Sun May 05, 2013 11:38 am

I was 4.
Saw morrowind when i was 15, didn't know what it was. Played Oblivion when i was 18 and learned the they were in the same series.

» Sun May 05, 2013 2:33 am

I was 11, but I didn't notice any Elder Scrolls games until about 1999 or so. Come to think of it, I hadn't even seen Wolf3D until fall 1994. I was quite proficient at Star Trek: 25th Anniversary though (the DOS one).

» Sun May 05, 2013 1:38 am

I was born that year. So fairly sure I wasn't playing from the womb.

» Sun May 05, 2013 1:12 pm

Same.

» Sun May 05, 2013 6:10 am

I would have been three or four, but I didn't get into TES until the mid-2000's.

» Sun May 05, 2013 7:49 am

I was 15 yo, but I was in the post-Soviet country, and was too poor for computers or computer games. Some of my peers were playing cassette-tape games on Commodore computers .

I only heard of Arena after I bought Morrowind and was reading about the TES series.

» Sun May 05, 2013 8:23 am

I was 2 years old probably, but I was too busy doing toddler stuff to play Arena.

» Sat May 04, 2013 11:22 pm

I was 2 years old when Arena was released. I got my first PC when I was maybe 7 (Windows 3.11, 16MHz, 33MHz in Turbo Mode) and first heard of Elder Scrolls when a friend of mine played Morrowind back in 2003 or something.

» Sun May 05, 2013 1:48 pm

I was 28, but I didn't play PC games back then. In fact, I really don't remember much of those years.

» Sun May 05, 2013 12:05 pm

I was two, so no. I liked computers at an early age, but never got into real games until I was much older, and it was long after that when I discovered Oblivion and TES.

» Sun May 05, 2013 9:05 am

I was 33 and yup... bought it on release day.

As a matter of fact, I've picked up every TES game on release day.

I feel special now.

» Sun May 05, 2013 11:43 am

I was 17, but totally ignored Arena back then. My favorite PC titles were space shooters and point click adventure titles (Wing Commander and Full Throttle, for example). I didn't jump into TES until much later with Morrowind.