What's everyone's age group? "The Majority Rules Game"!

im going for the misclick train of thought now

 

One of the best sayings I've heard is, "You don't stop having fun because you grow old, you grow old because you stop having fun." Who cares if that fun takes the form of enjoying computer games when other people think you ought to be knitting blankets or tending the roses 'at your age'? And it's definitely high time people stopped treating female gamers as some sort of rare breed, there are plenty of us about these days!

I'm old enough to remember the Amiga vs. Atari 'war' - we were on the Atari side, and one of the Ultima games back in the late 80s was how my husband got me into gaming when I was stuck at home and a bit depressed. Our son got his first PC games when he was 18 months old and learned to use a mouse very quickly - these days you can't keep him away from a computer.

 

We are only moments away from 4:02 AM Thailand Time and it's time .....

We're back again! coming out of the stretch and headed for the finish line for race #1 Gabriel Nightshadow 45-49 vs Time Lord 35-39 race ending 4:02 AM Thailand Time
In the lead is 40-44 followed by 30-34 followed by 45-49 ahead by a nose for a win against "35-39", 25-29 followed by 50-54 followed by 55-59 and in the tail 60-64,65-69, then comes 10-14 and 15-20 and at the back 20-24 and 70-74.....

Gabriel Nightshadow defeats Time Lord by a nose 21/20... bet pays one Prosperity Tool to "The Winner, Gabriel Nighshadow!"
What an exciting race!
~Time Lord~

 

Thanks everyone for your nice words - I don't feel quite so silly now lol. Roger36, yes my first 'computer' was indeed a ZX81. I gave it away, but rather regret doing that now.

Karrolanth, I love that saying "You don't stop having fun because you grow old, you grow old because you stop having fun". I think I'm going to print it out and stick it above my computer desk when I move house, hopefully later this month if all goes according to plan. I do wish my husband had enjoyed gaming but, on the other hand, at least I got to keep the computer all to myself - until he discovered eBay; then it was a slightly different story!

 

OK, who's up for a second race?

"Prosperity Tool Wager"
~Time Lord~

 

In our last race, we both bet that from a starting time a 24 hour race began between 2 different age groups. we started at 4:03 AM yesterday and just now finished
With me loosing

 

Nevermind Time Lord In my view we are all winners!! each and everyone of us backed the same horse at short odds, and by certain peoples estimates we cant lose "fingers crossed" thats after 5 pints of thruttocks ball banger red premium !

 

Just got back from my day trip. Boy, was that a close one! Better luck next time, buddy

Very pleased with the poll results so far! Nice to see almost every age group represented

 

Iona, you are an inspiration. There are obviously many of us *cough* over uhhh let's say 25 now and it is great to see someone even more over 25 still playing. But, truth be told, one of the fiercest guilds I have ever run into, one that harvested by the ton, crafted awesome stuff and showed it off very well in PvE was different than what I expected to find. We all knew they had great communication, worked as a team and genuinely cared about each other. One day, one of their high officers admitted to me why they worked together so well. They were all in a retirement home together! A couple dozen of them had taken to gaming as way to stay mentally active. The youngest was 68. They were incredible, and the nicest people you could ever hope to meet. I'm glad you are here.

And Timelord, still loving this thread! Thanks.

 

That is an AWESOME story. Wow

 

Totally agree!

 

Hi,
I met players in Ultima Online in a similar age as you - and these where some of the best and most reliable friends you could have in game.

65 mb at that time would have been very massive, since my own Amstrad 286 also with Windows 2 had 1 MB (640 kB). I later upgraded this box to a total of 4 MB (?) with some kind of memory card and replaced the 40 MB disk with a 100 MB disk which did cost more than 1000 German Mark. Incredible the developement of hardware since then.
And even in that time we had games, which were fun to play and did fit on one, two or some more floppy disks of 720 KB, since not every customer had a HD floppy drive.
Today: Patches of 8 GByte are not totally uncommon any more.
*Salute*
Olahorand

 

Whoever is 70-74 and still interested in Ultima and this game, I salute thee

 

I've always jokingly said when I'm old and no longer can tap then I take a "Zivi" (community service workers) who must do it then for me and a projector as a monitor : D
I would have never thought it in a retirement home is possible to play online games.

 

Olahorand, you are quite right - it couldn't have been 65 MB of ram. Now I really think about it, I think it was the HD that had the 65 mb and the memory was actually 4 MB. It wasn't new when I had it, so had possibly been upgraded from 1 MB. I've never been much good with figures and my memory was playing tricks. Whatever, I had a lot of fun with that old machine and it taught me a lot .

 

Thank you, Time Lord



So, who will be the next person to wager against Time Lord?

 

We would have to have more ponies to and keep the "race/thread" alive

 

I noticed you left off Darkstarr's age group.

(just kidding!)

 

You mean immortal?

 

Errr...exactly!