How old are the "retro" gamers here? Or how old is everyone, really?

[Casati]

I'm older than everyone else here. I didn't feel old a decade ago when I started joining online forums, was about the same age as many of you, but time flies.

[ApolloBoy]

I'm 23 and I started out with the NES and Game Gear.

[Dire 51]

38, and my first console was a dedicated Pong unit, followed by an Atari VCS. The NES was the console that made gaming my hobby of choice, though.

[AceAerosmith]

42 and still enjoying games.

[7th lutz]

I am in my mid 30's.

[VG_Maniac]

I'll be turning 30 in July.

[Aussie2B]

I refer to older games as "retro games" around here mostly just because it's called the "Retrogaming Roundtable". :P And I know some collectors are bothered by the term "classic" being applied to anything after the crash. You could say you play "old" games, as opposed to modern games, but then who makes the call on what's "old"? Some people still consider Dreamcast or N64 "modern". It's pretty much impossible to find terminology that everybody will agreed on.

[Kyle15]

22! Started gaming with Genesis in 1994.

[Videogamerdaryll]

45
My first video game cart was 2600 Video Pinball...didn't have a 2600 yet..

started off with ...Parents Pong,2600,.....Traded bike for 2600 system,then got one for Christmas....

Friends house Coleco Telstar Arcade,Atari STUNT CYCLE ..they had a ton of stuff..

Uncle Intellevision ...

Friend ... HUGE Floor Model TV..Colecovision..

Later Rich family next door had a VECTREX and I was in AWE..

That's why I own a Vectrex today and won't sell it..

[marlowe221]

31 years old here.

/more words

[sloan]

Looks like I'm older than most. 47.

[Sailorneorune]

29 here. Started with Atari 2600 and NES, grew up with SNES and Genesis (and Sega Channel! ). I still have my consoles from NES forward (including a Master System with jacked-up controller port - anyone know how to fix that?).

The 20-year-old at work who grew up with Ocarina of Time is making me feel old as we speak.

[RPG_Fanatic]

41 here. I started with the 2600 that my family got one christmas in the late 70's but fell in love with video games with the NES I got in high school (which I still have).

[bigbacon]

31, started with Atari 2600 and IBM XT for computer games.

[buzz_n64]

29, turning 30 in less than 4 months. I began my gaming by playing my brother's Atari 5200 and then later got my own NES. I also used to play my brother's Pong clone system.

[Gamevet]

I turned 45 in January.

My first videogame was Kee Games "Tank", that I'd played at the local roller rink when I was 7 or 8. It really didn't dawn on me that it was my first videogame until many years later. My family won a free pong clone for visiting a Condo in Washington, so that was my first home console experience. We'd later get a Sears Tele-games console (Atari VCS) in 77 or 78, with Combat as the pack-in game. We would only have one game for that console, until Space Invaders came out for it and the following year we got Missile Command and Asteroids. I would later purchase my first game, Pac-Man (and later Haunted House), with money I had gotten for my birthday. We only had about 8 or so titles for the console, and I would later claim ownership to it, since I was the one member of the family that kept buying games for the system. On a funny side-note: my parents bought the VCS, thinking it would keep me from spending money in the arcades.....yeah, right!


The first gaming system I would purchase with my own money (1985), was the C-64. I continued to play it well into the late 80s', until I'd bought an Amiga. I didn't buy the NES until @ 1988, because of how many games I had available on the C-64. I probably wouldn't have bought the NES, if not for Super Mario Bros. and Punchout!!!!

[dgdgagdae]

I'm 39, and I'll turn 40 next month. We had an Intellivision when I was young, but I grew up mostly with a Commodore 64.

[Bazoo]

I won't say exactly, but early 20's. Technically I grew up with NES, SNES, and gameboy. Learned to emulate when I was around 10. Recently I have gained a lot of respect of old computer games/Atari/Intellivision/Arcade games, those can be VERY fun.

[Bubble_Man]

I'm 29 and have a little over 7 months before my 20s are gone forever. Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tron 2.0]

I'm 43 as well although at this point I'm defintely closer to 44. Won't be long before I qualify for Grey Power.

You are the oldest member ive seen here then,for a moment i thought i was ! I been playing video games since the early 80's.Still it makes me feel old non the less with most being in there 20's or 30's here.