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

[Manga4life]

Just trying to gage how old the average person is on this forum. I'm guessing that the average person here is probably in their late 20's to early 30's since most of the discussion that takes place is about the NES, but I figured it would be cool to find out.

For the record, I'm 32.

[SpaceFlea]

A supple 29.

[kupomogli]

I'm 29.

[armonigann]

logged in just say im 34..

[fluid_matrix]

Yer all young'ens. 38 here.

[treismac]

34 years old.

[ProjectCamaro]

Turned 30 this year.

[recorderdude]

18 in 3 days.

[123►Genei-Jin]

36 here

[swlovinist]

37 here

[o.pwuaioc]

Turned 27 today (well, yesterday).

[LaughingMAN.S9]

Veintiocho

[Rickstilwell1]

I'm 25 now, but will be 26 next month.

[Darkwing]

27.8 years old.

[Emperor Megas]

I'm 38 now.

[Aussie2B]

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.

[dbm11085]

27 here.

[SpaceHarrier]

I'm 33 years old, and yes, I started with the NES. Well, actually I think the first game I played was on the Atari 2600, but the first system I owned was the NES.

[Rickstilwell1]

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.

If I hadn't been forced to move I'd still have all my pre-NES stuff and be playing it, and I wouldn't have sold the majority of my collection either. Someday I think I will get back into it again, but do it much more slowly. For pre-Nes systems I think I'd rather have multicarts and flash carts only to save space though. When it comes to amassing real cartridges even complete in box for Atari and such it becomes really difficult to sell them off for even a fraction of what you have to pay to get specific titles when you want them. And that is usually because those older collectors either A) already completed their collection or B) did the opposite and quit.

Lately I've just been trying to save up as much money as I can and just collect $2 music cds and free online mp3s while I wait for the funds to pile up. Then maybe by Christmas I can get back in the game and buy my favorites back.

I've actually had a much easier time accessing games by playing portable systems lately. Legit gaming on 3DS and rom booting on PSP and Nintendo DS when I want some old school. I just don't have as much time to sit in front of the TV at home, but I can whip out a handheld system on the bus or laying in bed before or after a nap. Getting used to this has kind of been helping me cut back on my urge to buy games and other electronic gadgets. I just tell myself at the store "I don't even have time to use that yet."

[Tron 2.0]

40,yes time really flies fast :p

[wiggyx]

Turned 27 today (well, yesterday).

Happy birthday!

35 here.

[GREEN00]

23, I'm a wee babe. My first console was the Genesis bundled with 6-Pak, but I only got really interested in games starting with Gamecube.

[Pikkon]

31 here

And like most started with the nes but the snes is my fav,I do miss the early 90's.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

36

... and I have to lengthen the post in order to post it.

[fergojisan]

I am 43, but I am a classic gamer, not a retro gamer. In my opinion, Bit.Trip Runner is a retro game; 2600 Pitfall is a classic game.

GET OFF MY GODDAM LAWN

[Xander]

I'm 27, started with the NES in 1989

[TheRetroVideoGameAddict]

I'm 32/m/Massachusetts.

Also, this is my first post here on the forums and it's so nice to meet you all! Happy gaming!

[Polygon]

I'm 32 and I'm glad to see I'm not among the oldest here.

[Graham Mitchell]

I'm 34 and I started with a nes and a sega master system. But I remember playing Atari 2600 and 5200 at friends' houses when I was younger.

The first game to really get my attention was moon patrol on the c64. It still holds up as a pretty decent port.

[Cornelius]

The the earth has made 35 laps around the sun since my birth.
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[Lady Jaye]

I am 43, but I am a classic gamer, not a retro gamer. In my opinion, Bit.Trip Runner is a retro game; 2600 Pitfall is a classic game.

GET OFF MY GODDAM LAWN

Ferg wins with a well-argued distinction between retro and classic gaming.

I'm 37 years old (actually will be attending my 20th anniversary high school reunion tonight).

[Smashed Brother]

I'll be 35 in two months, and next year I'll be 36

[Atarileaf]

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.

[wiggyx]

I'm 34 and I started with a nes and a sega master system. But I remember playing Atari 2600 and 5200 at friends' houses when I was younger.

The first game to really get my attention was moon patrol on the c64. It still holds up as a pretty decent port.

Wow, your back story is nearly identical to mine except that I got into moon patrol playing in the arcade, standing on a milk crate :)

[Daltone]

I'm 27 and joined in 2003.. yikes!

[T2KFreeker]

37. NES was the whipper snapper console for me. Had the 2600 and Intellivision back in the day and when I graduated to the "8 Bit" generation, I had the Commodore 64. We got a NES later, but it was actually a Famicom with a converter to play US games. We thought it was UGLY! Oh, and never liked the SNES either really, sorry. Was a Turbografx/PC Engine/Genesis guy.

[Solo_Skywalker]

26. I like it here, you guys make me feel young. :)

[mailman187666]

turned 31 this month. First concole was the 2600 when I was around 3. My mother bought me a little red step stool so I could reach the arcade controls around that age as well to play Pac-man and donkey kong. I joined here in my mid 20s.

[Collector_Gaming]

i just turned 29 a few days ago

Lets see here if my quick calculations are correct then then the average age here is 32 years old!

[Tupin]

I'm going to make all of you feel really old. Guess what was the "big" game that came out the month I was born?

EarthBound.

[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! :D ). 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. ROFL

[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.

[BricatSegaFan]

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.

Didn't Rog just turn 61? I'd say he's the holds the title of village elder.

[Aussie2B]

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.

Strange that you singled out Atarileaf's post. He wasn't the first 43-year-old to post in this topic, and there have been a few people who posted even higher ages. :?

But yeah, Rogmeister is the oldest regular as far as I know. If anybody else is older, then they probably haven't made their age known.

[Tron 2.0]

Strange that you singled out Atarileaf's post. He wasn't the first 43-year-old to post in this topic, and there have been a few people who posted even higher ages. :?

But yeah, Rogmeister is the oldest regular as far as I know. If anybody else is older, then they probably haven't made their age known.
Got me then i guess.I usually see the more younger members post here often compared to the veterans.I was looking through this thread rather quickly and i failed to notice,there are a few others here in the 40's as well.

[GamerTheGreek]

29 yrs old

[counterfeit3w]

26 here.

I grew up playing either arcades (as my parents played pool, had a few drinks, etc...) or SNES. I remember my parents (they are young, mom is 41, dad is 42 and stepmom is 40) leaving the SNES on for days to trying to complete Zelda. I also remember getting so mad at my Dad during Street Fighter II, used to get caught in a corner and get my tail whipped every time. Maybe that is why I hate fighting games to this day.

I used to have the original Zelda LTTP cart that had the saved game file when I was a kid. Unfortunately that cart, along with all of my original systems were boxed up and lost.

[Bloodreign]

I'm 210 years old....

Nah, I'm actually 175 years old...

Not really, truth is I'm 37 (38 in less than 6 months) and started my gaming back in the Atari 2600 days with games like Laser Blast, Video Pinball, Bowling, Pitfall, and the likes. I vaguely remembered my uncle owning an Odyssey II, which he lost in a house fire some 20 years ago, don't think he ever let me play it though.

[fergojisan]

The first time I felt old relating to video games was in 2000. One of my coworkers and I were talking about video games in general, and he was saying how Donkey Kong changed things for him in regards to video games, because it was so awesome. I readily agreed, as it was one of the first arcade games that I played that I really tried to get better so I could see the 3rd and 4th screens for myself. He was talking about Donkey Kong COUNTRY. Fuck.

[Collector_Gaming]

Didn't Rog just turn 61? I'd say he's the holds the title of village elder.

He is our video game shaman/elder.

We learn from his wisdom! ^_^

[RARusk]

The first game I learned how to master was "Sea Wolf" in the arcades back when I was nine. This was in 1976 so, if you do the math, this makes me 46 years old.

[brainerdrainer]

27 here

[Gamevet]

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.

Ahem.....

[RoxieGamer]

22 yrold Female

[Mark1983]

29 here. Grew up with an original Game Boy, then slowly graduated to the NES, SNES and finally Genesis.

[Griking]

44 here.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

I'm 26.