I'm 31 in three weeks....

Eh? Who's talking about programming? I played games on a C64 for many, many years as a kid, as did millions of others who were born around the same time. Hence C64 generation.

See. How can you call yourself that generation when you didn't spend hours in the school holidays programming? To say you you did no programming or copying pages of BASIC just demonstrates why you aren't the Spectrum C64 generation. It was more than just playing games.
 
No it isn't. You telling me you were programming BASIC at 3-7 years old?

If you got the speccy mags there was some basic games you could make with programming by copying it basically. Tried but meh i was always too bored after 10 mins.

Not that it couldnt be done when ur like 6 or somit on a specy. It was just copy and paste basically. Learning it properly hmm not so much tho but i kinda wish i did at that age.

Tho speccys and c64s and the likes were never really that popular for programming on. No one at school or friends in the streets near me did anything like that. It was gaming pure and simple on double dragon, dizzy, sabatour2, etc.
 
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See. How can you call yourself that generation when you didn't spend hours in the school holidays programming? To say you you did no programming or copying pages of BASIC just demonstrates why you aren't the Spectrum C64 generation. It was more than just playing games.

Ok, so how come the "Playstation Generation" is generally known as people born in the 90's onwards? Doesn't mean they spent hours developing games for the ps1 in the school holidays.

C64 may have been a computer but it was sold to many millions of homes as a gaming device. Most kids just played games on it.

A generation is defined by an age group i.e. when you were born. Someone born in 1995 is of the "Playstation Generation" but they may never have owned or played on a game console in their life.
 
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Come on guys, no need to be picky or borderline elitist. While I spent an inordinate amount of time as a kid learning BASIC, I don't think that was necessary to call myself "8 bit generation". The people I knew with C64s definitely weren't learning programming; they were too busy playing R-Type, Last Ninja 2 and IK+

I was insanely jealous at the C64's sound chip whenever I went over to my cousin's place.

Damn, happy days. Wish I was 8 years old again.
 
See. How can you call yourself that generation when you didn't spend hours in the school holidays programming? To say you you did no programming or copying pages of BASIC just demonstrates why you aren't the Spectrum C64 generation. It was more than just playing games.

Don't argue with them as they won't give up their nerd pride. Just be happy that you're correct in what you say.
 
i'm 46 in july, still pc gaming, new rig again this year, new monitor 27" next month

your only as old as the gf or wife you're next 2, so i feel very young also in my 20's :)
 
As long as there's pinball that works on a computer, ill be around, beats standing up on one of my real machines as i get older.....

For everything else, everybodys golf:)
 
31 is too old for anything electrical, you should smoke a long pipe and polish your slippers. Leave the fiddy stuff to the whipper snappers

speccy mags there was some basic games you could make with programming by copying it basically. Tried but meh i was always too bored after 10 mins.

Thats how I type 50wpm. Space Invaders? That'll be 10,000 lines of code and dont press the reset key by accident

You telling me you were programming BASIC at 3-7 years old?
Depends what you call programming, but changing a colour code or altering the keys was done via basic edit
 
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I'm 43 ;) First computer was a ZX80 (white) that I built from a kit, remember typing for ages to play my first game, yes kids you had to type 'em in yourself on the keyboard!!!
 
I wish i was a bit more geek than i am because i would love to mod old computers like amiga or spectrum and gut it out and stick some new tech in there like a raspberry pi in there and make it a pc but could use all the keys and functions of the old speccy. As they were cool.
 
OP needs to snap out of the stigma of gaming being for young people only, and just humor anyone who thinks that. The industry is still young, and is still growing with all of its 1st generation of gamers still on board since 1972. You are never to young to play video games, its as simple as that!
 
No it isn't. You telling me you were programming BASIC at 3-7 years old?

I'm 31 and I actually was (well, at 7+). I still have my horribly damaged Spectrum BASIC book. I know it was a +3 so that's later generation...and I was damn envious of all my friends with their +2s and 'proper' tape decks :/

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I did actually have another machine before the spectrum but I can't remember what it was. I don't think I did any coding on it though. Just played some winter olympics style games and probably broke the joysticks by waggling them too hard.
 
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31 here also, 32 in a few months. I'll be gaming until they prise my mouse out of my cold dead hand :D

Commodore 64 generation, although recently found out what my very first gaming console was, a Philips Videopac 7000. Those were the days :D

Oh and one of my favorite quotes:

"Growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional" :D

i had a C16, C64 and my dad had a videopac 7000, had hours of fun with that

also 32 this year :(
 
I take your battered book and raise you a couple of games

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Nice :D

I don't have my spectrum here. I think it's still in my father's loft somewhere. From memory the video output was fairly knackered also :/

I never had that many games growing as we were quite poor for a number of years. I had tons of demo tapes from Your Sinclair and Crash and such though. And aside from that I mostly wrote my own (really really terrible) games in BASIC and later failed at learning my way around assembly.
 
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