Who is OCUk's Oldest Gamer?

Azraeluk · 16 Dec 2011 at 10:44

36 here.

Started with surprise Christmas gift of a Dragon 32 when I was about 7, moved onto the BBC Model B then finally onto my mighty Elonex 286.

I still have the Beeb and Dragon 32 in the loft.

Only recent diversified into console gaming...a computer gamer at heart.

Its really my only vice in life so the Mrs doesn't mind to much

....she is a SWTOR widow at the moment tho.

Davepen · 16 Dec 2011 at 10:48

27 here, but here's an interesting idea...

When we are all old and grey, will we be having LAN parties in our nursing homes instead of playing bingo.....???

Sleepery · 16 Dec 2011 at 11:10

Davepen said:
27 here, but here's an interesting idea...

When we are all old and grey, will we be having LAN parties in our nursing homes instead of playing bingo.....???

I bloody well hope so! I'm not going into any home without a 10gigabit connection

Clav · 16 Dec 2011 at 11:16

32 here. First experience of gaming was on my uncles Atari 2600, but my own first machine was the ZX Spectrum 128k (still have it somewhere too!)

linktoinsanity · 16 Dec 2011 at 11:19

A nice young 24, almost 25 though... (still young compared to a lot of people on here

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andicole0 · 16 Dec 2011 at 11:22

npjnpj said:
56 in 2 days time.

56 years, 2 months and 27 days.

Andi.

Andrew_McP · 16 Dec 2011 at 11:24

48. First computer gaming, apart from Pong, was when I went to university and discovered the Space Invaders machine*. It's been pretty much downhill since there. :-)

I did have a gaming break between about 84 and 86 (we had a Spectrum at home but I hated all that faffing about with tapes), but then I shared a house with someone with a BBC Micro and Elite sucked me back in. Someone moved in with a PC later on, and then I discovered Railroad Tycoon and F-19 Stealth Bomber.

Missed out on the whole console evolution because none of my mates had kids, so it's been PC all the way for me until I recently bought a PS3 to see how the other half live (and drive GT5). It makes a great DVD player, but I have yet to be convinced by those evil game controller things. I want to play Uncharted, but not enough to learn spend hours overcoming my mouse and keyboard addiction.

*Actually I remember a machine at Skegness pleasure beach where you looked through a periscope and fired "light torpedoes" which ran up the seascape in front of you and sunk real model ships. Not sure if this counts as a computer game though. It probably had transistors in it somewhere. :-)

Andrew_McP · 16 Dec 2011 at 11:26

linktoinsanity said:
A nice young 24, almost 25 though... (still young compared to a lot of people on here )

I'm not sure some of you have got the hang of "OCuK's oldest gamer" yet. ;-)

w00dy85 · 16 Dec 2011 at 11:34

39 and my first computer was an Acorn Electron with the plus 1 module , I even had a acorn ink jet printer and I still have it all in my parents loft.

I use to play Elite and chuckie egg on mine

Sleepery · 16 Dec 2011 at 11:41

I remember while I still had a ZX81, a guy at school showing me Elite running on one of those. I was suitably stunned

roddypoddy · 16 Dec 2011 at 11:48

andicole0 said:
56 years, 2 months and 27 days.

Andi.

57 here,

goodl · 16 Dec 2011 at 11:53

40 Here, been gaming since I were a nipper on my ZX81,TI-99/4a,Spectrum,C64 with FDD,Atari ST,Amiga then PC its evolution baby

Quicken · 16 Dec 2011 at 12:00

39 and enjoying getting older!, as for the games the just get better!

The first game i was addicted to was "Jet set willy" mid 80's.

I can still remember the hypnotic music now!

LOL

kingy666 · 16 Dec 2011 at 12:26

This thread is making me feel young at 36 (37 next month). I started my gaming on a Philips G7000 videopac (awful thing with an awful controller)

Crimefighter · 16 Dec 2011 at 12:46

iv-tecman said:
Some of the younger gamers amongst us just don’t know how lucky they really are. PC gaming today is a doddle compared back in the days of DOS 486 gaming. Although, 1994 - 2003 were IMO the best days of PC gaming… Such great games back during those years. Still got some of my PC zone mags from that era.

Indeed...I have memories of trying to configure autoexec.bat files (and the other one, cant remember the name now), to give my computer enough RAM to run a game. Hazy memories of XMS vs EMS memory problems as well....I think X Wing was the main culprit for that issue.

Nostalgic, but I dont miss it thats for sure. :cool:

Tombstone · 16 Dec 2011 at 12:55

Thats also true in particular of the newer MMO folk, who exclaim loudly their dislike of having to pay £8 a month for an MMO, whereas the older folks amongst us remember not only paying the monthly MMO fee, but also the , sometimes several hundred quid each month, phone bill for the dialup connections to play the early online games. I'd often get a bill of upwards and over £100 PER month in order to play early online games, £8 a month is tuppence compared to that.

horseunderwater · 16 Dec 2011 at 12:59

I am only 51 started on an Atari console then moved on to a Dragon chuckie egg was king

FlyingPig · 16 Dec 2011 at 13:38

Crimefighter said:
Indeed...I have memories of trying to configure autoexec.bat files (and the other one, cant remember the name now), to give my computer enough RAM to run a game. Hazy memories of XMS vs EMS memory problems as well....I think X Wing was the main culprit for that issue.

Nostalgic, but I dont miss it thats for sure.

Config.sys

DisrupTor75 · 16 Dec 2011 at 13:48

Great thread, bringing back many happy memories.

seen a replica of this in a high street shop pre loaded with loads of games, forgot what they are calling it but it looks the same.

now THAT is a console

they don't make em as rugged as that thing was these days.

zer · 16 Dec 2011 at 13:50

43 here. Been gaming since Pac Man, Ms Pac Man, Asteroids, Defender @ Atari 2600...You get the picture...
Gamers in their 40s have lived and seen through the birth, the adolesence and now the maturity of Gaming.