Am I the Oldest git playing skyrim? : V - Skyrim

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 12:48 pm

Hating to use it and actually fearing it is different. I also hate using the phone for calling and i'm just 17 years old.

But my grandma seriously FEARS the phone, she can't make herself to even touch the phone.

Perhaps she has it worse than me, but I feel an almost magnetic repulsion when it comes to the phone. I got my first mobile this year when websites started insisting on texting verification codes; otherwise, I never use it.

51. I went to a military academy for high school, and they were one of the first schools in the country to give their students access to a mainframe, an HP3000. I wrote my first computer program in 1976, which was Pong...text based Pong, played on a thermal dot-matrix TTY. It wasn't really a game, per se. It just made you think what you were doing had a consequence. It didn't really...

I wanted to play with our military's mainframes, too, but they wouldn't let me near them. I think they were some bizarro old ICL equipment that I still know nothing about. I have no idea what sort of games they could play, but I've little doubt they existed; probably some version of ADVENT, I should imagine...

Hmm, 68 here. First game was something called Akalabeth by some teenager named Richard Garriott. On an Apple II+. Attitude towards gaming, my sig should say it all, that is if I got it in right.

I love your sig, that sums things up perfectly. :laugh:

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:54 pm

lol, i am 59 and will turn 60 in May.

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:36 am

I think http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/user/76969-rohugh/ is 3,249 years old.

Hahaha, you are close(ish).

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 2:35 pm

Most of our wives secretly believe we'll grow out of our video gaming "phase." I say we let them continue thinking that and we bury this thread deep.

Ha ha point taken

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 5:19 pm

My first addiction was Bard's Tale on the C-64. I am resisting the urge to throw money away on the retro:

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx

<--a few heartbeats from turning 41

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:46 am

What people are forgetting, is that the 60 year olds are all High Elves and live for almost a thousand years.

Hmm ... you may be onto something. 62 and playing an Altmer.

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:16 am

Jeez, and I was thinking to mayself, "Lorca, why are you arguing with kids. Look at yourself, you're 38!!". I guess I'm the kid after all looking at those other old timers, lol. Nice to see folks from all walks of life and ages here.

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 12:45 pm

I love this thread. Makes me feel like a spring chicken at 27 years old.

. Anyways, you older guys and gals are inspiring. I plan on playing great video games until I am 100 or older!

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:15 pm

I'm really surprised after reading this thread... I never expected so many people around the 50-60s playing..

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 1:22 pm

67. Do you suppose we will make it to Elder Scrolls VI?

Wow... That's something I'd never even have to consider. I live in a bubble...

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 6:27 pm

I'm 62 and having a blast :celebration:

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 2:37 am

Wizardry on the apple 2, was the first game I ever completed.

It was eventually released on PC, where I played the first 3 or 4 in the series. The original was my favorite, but a close second was where you played the villain of the series (Werdna - "Andrew" spelled backwards) and had to fight your way out of the dungeon where the "goodies" had trapped you.

Wizardry's simple line-drawings of the room's wall and floor outlines with no texture inspired me to program my own "similar" game that actually copied glorious CGA 4-color textures onto a similar First-person view blank framework - back in the '80s. It looked really neat even compared to a lot of released games at the time (such as the early D&D games like "Azure Bonds"), and you could stroll around through various "environments" made of the 4 different textures I did, but it took over a minute to redraw the screen with each step....totally unacceptable even back then. Shortly after that Arena was released, and looked similar but ran smoothly, making it pointless for me to finish my own project. When I see what they're pulling now with real-time animations, it makes my jaw drop. Artistic skills that were "adequate" for blocky figures on a 320X200 pixel display were glaringly inadequate for high-resolution graphics, so I quit writing games.

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:05 am

Why is it that I find It hard to imagine my grandpa to playing TES, then going to a forum to write "LoL OMG PWNZ"? 18 yo here, BTW.

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 12:49 pm

Another one that hatched in !952. Started with the Vic 20, They"ll Have to pry the mouse out of my hand.

P.S. "I want the construction set." NOW!

You realize that makes us born in the year of Dragon, right?

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 6:33 am

Love this game liked the others OBL,Mor, but love this..Iam 59yrs old next July anyone you know Older>??

Well, let's see here.
I'm a few weeks shy of 48, my sisters are 52 & 55, my brother is 57, and both my Father and Stepmother are 79.
We all play. :foodndrink:

If people would stop thinking of video games as toys, perhaps more would see them as just another source of entertainment.
My parents, siblings and I have been thoroughly enjoying this latest source of TES entertainment.

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 5:43 pm

If people would stop thinking of video games as toys, perhaps more would see them as just another source of entertainment.
My parents, siblings and I have been thoroughly enjoying this latest source of TES entertainment.

:foodndrink: I raise a glass to that, games are no different to movies or music. All are forms of entertainment.

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:12 am

44, female and addicted since nearly 15 years or more ...

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:21 am

13

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:30 pm

Compared to me? You can say that... I'm 19. XD

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 2:39 am

my friends grandad is 75......he plays ALOT

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:42 am

Wow... I'm 14. Seems I got many good years before me. :wink_smile:

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 2:03 pm

31, I missed my 20's so I'm enjoying them now.

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 2:39 pm

67. Do you suppose we will make it to Elder Scrolls VI?

HAHA!

And all the sad sacks on here think THEY have something to whine about!

I think you'll be just fine.

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:37 pm

Surprising and absolutely wonderful to see the huge amount of posters in this thread above 50.

Right on guys and gals!

Curious to the first poster, who may be a tad forgetful, who posts their age a second time because they forgot they already posted it :whistling:

just giving you all a hard time :teehee:

<-- this guy is 45 and currently owns 2 PS3s (2nd PS3 is for travelling), XBOX360. Maybe buying a nice upper-end graphic Alienware laptop for when I travel because the high powered work laptop doesn't quite cut it for today's games.

Gamer and immature for life. Oh yeah, I also still surf regularly in the cold waters of Oregon with someone who is 57.

» Fri Dec 09, 2011 2:57 pm

Closing fast on 58. Of course I went through all the early DOS and Apple II classics, Duke Nukem being the standby time-killer back when I used to do a lot of air travel and had a laptop grafted on.

Oblivion got me back to PC gaming after an early 00's hiatus on PSOne and PS2. Built two rigs just to improve Oblivion performance, and played that through a few times, heavily modded, pyffi and esp cleaning included. I'm fixing to jump into Skyrim once the CS comes out. Still using my old 1280x1024 CRT from 2001, which I've modded to go full HD (1920x1080). And one of the seeming few who prefers gamepads on the PC; I use a PS2 controller and Xpadder for all games except old Duke.

Do it all to keep the old noggin limber, at least that's what I tell myself. I do my penance on a physics forum, where brain work is mandatory, so not a total slacker.