55, and I remember pong. I had a long dry spell (over 20 years) of no gaming until I got talked into trying Oblivion a couple of years ago.

I'm glad my (65 year old) friend twisted my arm and gave me a copy of ES IV! It was hard getting into it at first, I was so lost! And then, something clicked and I started to "get it". I eventually bought a worthy gaming PC, Oblivion GOTY, and spent many hours learning how to download and install mods.

I think Bethesda has ruined me for other games. I've played Morrowind and Fallout 3. Enjoyed those, but ended up trading in Dragon Age Origins (didn't like it) at Gamestop to get Skyrim at a discount.

Skyrim is a blast.

Yea theres a memory..me to.... go east i spent as much time trying to get out the room..LOL than i do doing a dung...I remember having to put poison in the dogs food in order to move on..on the ZX spectrum.with rubber keys...jusus where did the time go..

! What was that flash....thats your life Matey....thank you GOD thank you so bloody much..!!..lol

I started gaming in the arcades in the early 80's. (81 I believe it was.....damn memory.)

Most of my advlt life was plagued with addiction so I didn't get cleaned up and into gaming again til I was 33. Bought an Xbox. Tried Morrowind, hated it. Tried it again some time later, fell in love with it. So much so I built a PC specifically for Morrowind. I haven't looked back.

I've got an Xbox S and a PS3 as well.

40 years old too, and I agree with your comment.

I am in my upper 40s and I'm female. That makes me the real loner here!

I'm 28 years young...though you guys have made my day

Remember that the Doctor Who series is even older than I am! And video games were already well established when I finally got into them aged 12, back in 1981; I do recall a lad up our street getting Pong a few years earlier, but I have to confess that I hated it.

Waaaa? Implying your the only older female?

I assure that is not so. Look at the lovely summer. She's older as well, and a proud gamer.

No, I'm a "mature" female too!

lol...Xastard...

I imagine it does Blaise. I tried to share gaming with my wife but she couldn't get into it. She would sooner watch reality TV, talent shows (DWTS), and celebrity chef cook-offs. So at 8:00 at night she goes her way and I go mine.

No, not really. Let's see...1962, 2011.... so 49 and female.

Only 26 here, nice to see that even later in years some people don't betray the kid inside them!

On second thought that sounds a bit wrong but you get my point.

I'm 56 and have been playing RPGs since The Bard's Tale came out, computing since '81. Still love the Wizardry series. I'll go back to Wiz 8 when I get bored with this.

For you youngsters, try justifiing paying $500 for hard drive for an old TRS 64kb computer. 180k on each side. Big improvement over loading with a cassette player.

32 here. I'll never stop playing games.

Actually, I remember when Pong first came out. I was in college at the time, at Lehigh U. (engineering school), and we couldn't wait to find out what made it "tick". When the guy came to service it, there was a crowd of at least 20 engineering students huddled around to peek inside. Much to our dismay, the whole thing was run by an electric motor with wheels, belts, and a few other mechanical devices to generate the timing, and a simple picture tube to display it. "Real" electronic video games with microprocessors were still another year or two away.

The OP has me beat by a couple of years at best, and I'm not playing Skyrim because I suspect that my Internet connection is older than he is. Quite simply, I don't have internet access from my gaming computer, and I'm not going to drag the PC down two flights of steps to connect via slow dial-up (and wait 6-24 hours for it to do the mandatory file updates) just to play a video game, then repeat that every couple of weeks when Steam decides to re-verify the installation. I guess I'll just have to keep "tweaking" Morrowind and playing that until Bethesda finally releases either a GoTY edition of SR without Steam, or it gets so old that they make it available for free d/l like they did with DF.

Spyder Dea - 180K per side was a "floppy disc", not a Hard Disc. I recall early '70s HD's being 5 and 10 Megabytes and costing in the $10,000 and up range, while the original PC quickly went from an optional 10Mb HD (for under $2000 extra) to 20Mb. Also, at one time 180K per side was "huge"; I recall single-sided 8" floppy discs that held 100k. The newer and smaller 5-1/4" discs held 160K-180K, and soon became available double-sided (360K), which were the "standard" for most PC computing throughout the mid/late '80s and early '90s. The hard-shelled "mini-floppys" were 3-1/4", and held 700K originally (800K on Mac), and eventually topped out as 1.44Mb "high density" discs before 1990.

Floppy: add another zero for the enormous 5MB hard drive, almost! I couldn't persuade my parents to get me a floppy disc unit, its controller and so on, but I'm not sure they could've afforded it anyway, so I was stuck with my old cassette player and its wrinkly tapes. And to think what those figures translate into in today's money... :ahhh:

When I started the forums I couldn't help thinking that everybody was going to be 17-20 years old.
It didn't take long to find out that there are many old curmudgeons playing Elder Scrolls.

I'm 52 and don't have any gray hair...it's chrome !

Now all you kids get off my lawn !

According to the Entertainment Software Association's annual statistics, the age of gamers has been steadily increasing for many years. The current stats can be seen here:

http://www.theesa.com/facts/index.asp

It's important to keep in mind that the ESA report is only a slice of the actual global industry. However, similar reports by global institutions such as financial firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers have noted the same thing.

Meanwhile, we still have most games rated as being for younger audiences, at least in Western countries, and popular perception continues to be very inaccurate regardingg the actual state of the market.

Wow some of you are nearly 70 and still gaming...

I'm only 29 and hope to still be gaming when I am 70. Wonder what games will look like then

18... and i feel like the end is near :cryvaultboy:

Will be 62 next month. Love the fantasy role play games. Love the mage! Makes an otherwise dull existence, more fun and interesting. It's all fun (and I've earned it!)

Thinking about the old 8-bit games of my youth, I'm often astonished what they look like now... nostalgia is nice, but I'd rather not go back to 128x192 in four washed-out colours, thanks!

59. I played Arena (and reviewed it) when it first came out. There have been a few occasions when I remarked that, only to have younger players look with awe on that comment. Made me wish I had a titanium-reinforced cane with depleted uranium core, to mind them of the present with a little blunt trauma where the moon don't shine. :whistling:

40 here
we got one gamer @ 69 awesome!! can we break 70?
anyone over 70??