Though I listed that one last. It is my favorite title, I play quite a bit online against my brother-in-law. We’ve had every other year from 07-17. The Diamond Dynasty mode is one of my favorite game modes on any title. Get a PS4, I’d love to play you in a game!! My brother-in-law has a REALLY bad record against me, not sure why he keeps trying…
It is possible you were dating my sister. Tetris was the one game that eventually became acceptable* in exactly that MS-Dos version, and we played it TO DEATH. The skills translated to every other version of the game we came across, no matter the platform.
*I suspect because dad was playing it too. And Frac (3D Tetris) when that came along.
Got an NES when I was 2 and haven’t stopped gaming since. When I first joined this community I was shocked to learn how much older everyone was than me. Perhaps its a mobile gaming thing because I was used to being surrounded by 16-25 year olds on my internet. I once made a dirty underage joke and people were not happy.
“some of us have daughters, you know”
Yikes sorry d00ds.
Ha! 52 and I have 4 grand children. Yup started a wee bit early.
- My Dad bought Pong for the family in about 1976 or 1977, which was great until the next year when practically every one of my friends had an Atari 2600 and was playing pac-man and space invaders, but we couldn’t get one because Dad had spent so much on Pong.
On first computers, mine was an Ohio Superboard II. 4 k of RAM, 8 k of ROM, and I had to build (well, my dad did) the power supply.
24 so far…
However it is nice to see that people 40+ have passion for gaming. It makes me happy that games are not viewed as childish anymore and that they can entertain everyone no matter the age…
39 and gaming since Intelevision, Coleco, and my brothers Commadore 64 (shoutout to Hunt the Wumpus). I’m pleasantly surprised to see the community (at least on the forums) is a bit more “seasoned”. MPQ is my only mobile game and I started playing it casually as I was with my son recovering from appendix surgery. It has slowly grown to be a bit compulsive as I’m prone to be a completionist. And frankly, this game’s fun!
A few months shy of 34. We didn’t own one, but I remember or babysitter had any Apple II, at least I think that’s what it was. I know the NES was my first console though. Other then MPQ, I don’t play much these days though.
Well, I am in the upper echelon of age - 56 - and thoroughly enjoy video games. To paraphrase - you can have my controller when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
I’m 31. I’ve never had a console, I only found out what it was a couple of years ago; I did have a computer though- it was my brother’s, but I was allowed to play on it- played Pac-Man and Need for Speed for a few years. Than the computer became too old to be compatible to the newer games and I couldn’t play anything besides Solitare on it (my brother did get a shiny new one, but he moved out). Also, I had dial-up Internet up until when I was 18 or something; I finally convinced my parents to get some decent connection, since I needed to research stuff for school. I didn’t start playing any games until I got a company smartphone - started with hidden objects games, Jewel Quest, Solitare and Pokemon Go. I do like video games, but it’s one hell of an expensive hobby.
First computer was a Vic 20 (the predecesor to C64) which had the computing capability equivalent to a page of text (without expansions). My first console was the Phillips Videopac G700 (called something else in USA - Magnavox I think) - my Dad did some work for Phillips and was given one for free. It had the awesome Quest for the Rings (a computer game AND a board game at the same time) and Pickaxe Pete!
Interesting, puzzle quest is an old mans game it seems.
Wow…totally didn’t think the results would be skewed so heavily for the over 25 years group… OMG…we’re all just a bunch of old dorks (previously thought I was the only old dork playing this game…).
You’re 31 and you didn’t know what a console was? Like, you’d never heard of Nintendo? Or Playstation?
I don’t mean that to sound like a jerk, I’m just baffled at how that is even possible.
Thank goodness I’m not the only one in the last group!
You’re not. I’m 57.
Can I join the C64 club? My first ‘PC’ where you had to forward the audio cassettes before you could load the games on them 
- Can I change my answer to dog years?
I wasn’t much of a console gamer growing up, but since my dad worked for IBM, we had a computer in the house from a pretty young age. The only bad thing is it had OS/2 on it, and getting games to run under OS/2 was more art than science – there was always some memory setting to tweak or some line to add to the INI file to get things to work.
Really fascinated by these results. Shows how gaming is becoming more of an older generations pleasure rather than a kids past time.