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    Seeing all of the age groups come together is awesome. I was told to grow up, sell everything for a profit and that playing games is childish. For a second I thought I was doing something wrong and maybe it was time to grow up.....then I realized their opinion sucked ass. I'll happily collect and play games till I'm in a grave

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    36 here. The NES is the reason I am here today.

    I also must say that Digital Press was magical when I discovered it 10 or so years ago. I learned a lot and expanded my collecting, which was rather Nintendo centric at the time, having played the NES and SNES almost exclusively during my formative years.
    For some reason, I don't come on DP as often as I used to, even though I am still collecting and playing videogames as much as ever (having a young son interested in the medium keeps things even more fun/fresh).
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    31 myself, 32 in a couple months. I started with my Uncle's VCS and then my own when I was three or so. Grand Prix was the first video game I ever played and I still have that specific physical cartridge from all those years ago. I believe I was given an NES during Christmas of 1988 so that would make me seven at the time. I never got out of early gaming because early gaming never got out of being fun.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aussie2B View Post
    Most of our older members have disappeared. I remember when I first joined several years ago, I felt like I was a young'un compared to most of the regulars (I was in my early 20s back then). Now I'm 30 and I feel as if I'm among the oldest members, although apparently I'm not out of those who have posted in this topic.

    I remember back when I first joined there were a lot of regulars who were still very big on playing and collecting pre-crash consoles, but I guess as those people left, yeah, NES is about as early as most of our current regulars go. I have to admit that I'm included in that, seeing as I own and play very little of systems that came before the NES.
    Same here. I remember when first joining I was on the upper end of the younger spectrum - just some dope trying to figure out basic repairs and region mods for a JVC X'Eye... well in that case, it looks like my time around here has at least been successful.

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    26. I like it here, you guys make me feel young.
    Stick around, that'll change.

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    I would later purchase my first game, Pac-Man (and later Haunted House), with money I had gotten for my birthday.
    That makes me laugh as I distinctly remember buying Haunted House at a Sears when I was four or five years old (a few years after the crash) and desperately wanting Keystone Kapers upon visits to different stores. I don't know if it was because I grew up in the backyard of so many game companies of the era but I remember VCS / 2600 games retaining decent prices in stores, especially Activision and Imagic titles. Same thing with joysticks. Then again, I also remember that my copy of E.T. was the cart and manual in a plastic bag from among a ton of them piled in a bin in the entrance to a Kay Bee Toys. Dunno if they were returns or liquidated stock that went unboxed to save money or what.

    Pretty awesome to see so many familiar names post in this thread!

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    34 here :/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trebuken View Post
    It seems that (with a couple exceptions) retrogamers do not live to be 50. I guess I should start selling my collection over the next decade.

    It seems that gaming started just before Generation X and most people older than that have not been turned onto it (except those couple exceptions).
    I think this isn't so much a question of outgrowing games (although it is the case for some people) than the fact that people born in the mid 1960s (therefore closing in to 50) are the first true generation of gamers, since they were in their teens when the first consoles came out. I believe that the older you are when first exposed to videogames, the less likely you are to adopt the gaming culture, unless it really suits your personality, of course.

    For instance, my parents, who are 59 and 61, are absolutely not gamers. They just don't care for it, despite playing some Ms. Pac-Man back in the day on my Coleco Gemini when I'd be sleeping and a few other titles (my mom really likes Myst). This being said, even the rest of my family isn't really a good point of comparison, since no one is really a gamer aside from me. Not even my cousins who grew up with the NES and Genesis -- they're not so much gamers than geeks in other spheres of interest (one of them is more of an otaku than a gamer).
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    28, here. I got started on gaming when my much-older brother got an NES for Christmas in '88. We played Super Baldwin Brothers and The Legend of a Guy Named Zelda for months upon months until he gave me his NES upon his high school graduation.

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    43 years old here. I remember when the Intellivision was considered next gen and the C64 was a powerhouse computer.

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    I'm 36.

    Got started on the Atari 2600 and it's competitors - but really started to hone my skills with the Atari 5200.

    Then the NES came out and by then I was in full stride. After the NES came out I got into the Genesis which I went total crazy hardcore on and is my favorite console by far to this day.

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    Turning 23 in a month.

    First game I ever played was Mario Bros/ Duck Hunt, and the first system I owned was the Go Ape Super Nintendo with Donkey Kong
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    I'm the youngest retro gamer/game collector I've seen at the age of 14 but i really enjoy the retro games

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    Started on the 2600, but it's the NES that I love the most.

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    I am 35 years old and the Atari 400 was my first system. My Dad won it at a company picnic in the really early 80's and we loved it. I still own it to this day.

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    29 years old and started with the NES in 1989.

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    Quote Originally Posted by patrick_710 View Post
    I'm the youngest retro gamer/game collector I've seen at the age of 14 but i really enjoy the retro games
    I'm 19 and I started collecting when I was about your age too, 5-6 years ago. I grew up on the Genesis, Game Gear, and the NES and always loved retro games. My friends are more in-tune to the N64/Dreamcast/PS1 (Which I did own and enjoy) but I like everything post-crash really, though I'm not into video games nearly as much as I used to be.

    Not sure if 19 really counts though when all of the people you know say you act about 30 years older...
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    Just turned 42 a couple of months ago. Like to consider myself one of the 'older' guys from years past on these boards.

    First system was a 2600 many moons ago, I was 7 or 8.
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    26,younger than lots of you i guess.

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    41 this past May

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    Well, I figured as much. I must be one of the youngest members. My first system was the Game Boy Color, and I've been hooked ever since then on retro collecting and gaming. I'm 15.

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