Who is OCUk's Oldest Gamer?

izzy eckerslike said:
Looks like I'm claiming the title so far :D

June 1946 makes me 65, started with spectrum, then Amiga, then Cyrix PC.
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At last ... someone who is nearly as old as me!

The time has finally come for me to admit my true age, and I would like to claim the title!

I was born in 1940 and I am currently 71.

I started off (I think) with a Sinclair ZX81, then a BBC Micro and straight from there to PC 'clones'.

My main interests still revolve around computers, which I have been 'building' for myself, family and friends for many years now and still continue to do so, having just completed a Sandy Bridge system for my own use.
 
1964 - 48 in June.

It was all about the arcades until I could save and scrimp for my first machine. C300A I think.
 
37.. started with an Atari 400 when I was 7 (played a couple of consoles before that - philips and atari - that but they belonged to uncles or friends of the family, not in my house).

Fully intend to carry on gaming and coding, so we'll have a rematch of this thread in 60 years and see who's still in the running then.
 
Montala said:
The time has finally come for me to admit my true age, and I would like to claim the title!

I was born in 1940 and I am currently 71.

I started off (I think) with a Sinclair ZX81, then a BBC Micro and straight from there to PC 'clones'.

My main interests still revolve around computers, which I have been 'building' for myself, family and friends for many years now and still continue to do so, having just completed a Sandy Bridge system for my own use.
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Hats off to you, good sir.
 
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Im turning 38 in October.
I owned a Nintendo Family Computer and addicted to:
Mario brothers, Rambo, Pacman, space invaders. Until now I play pacman on my PC.

 
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sniffy said:
Boots as in the pharmacy? Please tell me they used to sell games in pharmacies.
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It was in Boots I got my Spectrum and a Boots own brand cassette player/recorder. Later changed the cassette player to a Sanyo one as the Boots one had problems with the "high speed" loaders when they were brought out. Bit hazy if "high speed" is actually the correct term but they were meant to be a piracy deterrent.
 
Montala said:
I started off (I think) with a Sinclair ZX81, then a BBC Micro and straight from there to PC 'clones'.
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That does sound authentically old, not many people remember the original IBM pc and the other types besides that were using CPM was it or there was giant DEC machines. As big as a music organ and Im not sure what the hell it did. Also WANG and 10 inch floppy disks? I kid you not.
The bios reverse engineering hack and mass production of PC parts has advanced computing more then anything or we'd all be split up and proprietary still

Forget tape drives, how about someone who first used computers with punch cards to program them. No screen just a print out :o

When I was a wee kid we didnt have any tapes so I'd type 10,000 lines of code to get space invaders on my machine and be careful not to press the break key for a week or you'd lose it. Hence Im self taught touch typist by 7 :)
 
I'm 18 so I've had about 12 years of gaming.
Although, my grandad is 75 and still enjoys a bit o' combat flight sim! Not to mention our days playing Time Splitters 2 together :p
 
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