Older Gamers
I've been playing video games since the Atari 2600. That might give you an idea of how old I am. Are there any other gamers over 30 playing this game?
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47 here and my friend that plays a lot is just a tad younger, we graduated high school together in 1988 and have been gaming since then!
I still have my Atari 2600, Colecovision, Commodore 64, and other older systems as well. Most are in storage and I focus on PC these days but many years were spent on those old ones.
Oh man. I spent many a day playing Donkey Kong Junior, Dig Dug, Mouse Trap and Popeye on the Colecovision. I think I had ever gaming console at some point except for the exotic ones like the Famicon, Jaguar and Dreamcast. I guess the Dreamcast wasn't that exotic.
I have a Jaguar with the CD drive too. Never got the Superfamicom but my friend had the Dreamcast. I still have my old Sega master system, Genesis, and Saturn, the NES, super Nintendo, and Nintendo 64, and the original Playstation too.
Many nights when we were in high school were filled with us playing Jumpman, Save new York, Mail-Order Monsters and M.U.L.E. on the C64. Incidentally those last 2 games are both EA games!
What I remember most about the Genesis was Rocky. That game was hard as hell. The only way I could beat Drago was getting a split decision. I would knock him down then stay away from him the rest of the match until the final round. I never had C64 but always wanted one. The closest I had was an Apple2E which was kind of a * machine. The games I had were lame. Wheel of Fortune and Oregon Trail I think. OT was fun.
In High School I played a lot of SNES. I liked games so much when the Sony Playstation first came out I bought it and called in sick to work to play it. haha
Well, my first console was a 2600 but the first one I played was my friend's Coleco. Then before my PS4, the last one I owned was a Sega CD. Yup. You youngsters can look that up, it was one of the stupidest consoles ever made - essentially a portable Genesis (or was it Dreamcast?) that could...wait for it...play CD's! It was greatly useful to me though, as I was on a tour in a new hotel room every night, so it served as both game console and stereo.
In middle and high school computer classes we had Vic 20s, C64s and Apple 2Es. I played a few Apple games like NORAD and Robot War after school but never liked programming on the Apple that much.
The Vic 20 had so little RAM. 4k expandable to 16k although it looked much like the C64, it's bigger, badder brother that of course had 64k RAM, a powerhouse! 😃
- I don't know if you guys have a 2nd and Charles store where you are, but they carry all of the classics. A lot of original unopened boxes, but mainly remade. As well as action figures, comics, etc. I will say this, some things better left in the past. I bought 'Monster Squad' and the one quote I remembered as a kid was the only cool thing in it. "Wolfmans got nards"
I'm 32 (turning 33 on Tuesday).
I have Atari, and I have played on the original XBOX. I use to play Socom 1 and 2 on PSP, and for PC I played the first Halo.
I'm not really much of a gamer.
- I had a zx81 and zx spectrum (any older Brits out there will know what I'm talking about.) Still remember spending hours punching in coding from mags dedicated to those consoles. My zx81 had a massive 16k expansion pack. i was always jealous of my next door neighbor cos they had the c64.Skipped a few years of gaming before being reintroduced to it through the Sega genesis and have owned every mainstream console since.
Well back in my day, you had to be pretty well off to have them there game systems. I always had to go out and play with rocks lol yes I am a little bit of the older grumpy man variety but I can get the job done 🙂 and not afraid to say it. I will be busting 50 in May and I play every day.
