I’m sure some of you gamers have been playing video games for more than 15 years; I have. For some of us, arcades were our babysitters. And yes, we’re still playing games today. I think it’s great. We fueled the industry in its early years and our passion (and competitive nature) continues to fuel it today. Along the way, some of us got married and had children, yet during quiet-time, still go online to play World of Warcraft, battle in Ghost Recon or race a Ferrari in the streets of New York.
We cut our teeth on Asteroids, Pacman, and Donkey Kong and we’re now playing The Orange Box, Crysis, Call of Duty 4, Assassin’s Creed, and Command & Conquer 3. I wonder what video games are going to feel and look like in 5 years from now. Don’t you?
well im 17 and even tho im young i was playin the segas, the first nintendo, i even played the amiga (i remember a dunebuggy game on there, and lemmings ftw!! :D) games today are so advanced and have come a long way in just 15 years, i cant wait to see what they are like when im 30 :P
Posted by: timsk | December 27, 2007 at 12:04 PM
I'm 23, been playing games since i can remember (anyone remember Digger, used to play it on a top of the line IBM XT Portable - about the size of a large luggage suitcase.. but had a carry handle).. been LANning since the days of 10base5... always had a pc to game on... had the sega megadrive II (also known as the genesis 2), PSX.. played Quakes 1, 2, 3 and 4.. problem these days?? I finish a game like crysis in 3. took me 6 hours to finish Soldier Of Fortune Payback..
Cant wait for a game that keeps me interested for a month, has the graphics i want, and have the system to run it!!! looking forward to the next 5 years...
Posted by: Grentarc | December 23, 2007 at 11:24 PM
I am 34 now. Started with Pong console around age 7 (i think) of course 2600, Intellevision, Colecovision, Nintendo, Sega etc....
Now an Unreal tournament addict, clan leader, mod/ map maker and only getting more involved as I get older. Nvidia is keeping gaming exciting with its' great mobo's and GPU's, see ya in another 34 yrs!
-sayunkle.com
Posted by: SayUNKLE | December 13, 2007 at 11:14 AM
I'm 42 and grew up on Binatone TV Consoles, Commodore Pet, BBC B, Spectrums, Vic 20, Commodore 64, Amiga and finally PCs which are now my day job too.
Currently playing UT3, Crysis and Call of Duty 4. Just nostalgically bought Lemmings, Worms and Sonic for PC, all for the grand sum of £10 the lot. Lemmings how addicitive!! :-)
Here's to the next 30 years.
Posted by: Scrag | December 13, 2007 at 07:49 AM
I'm almost 40 and still love to play a game....I remember programming games on my Vic 20 and loved the variety of games for my C-64! How many of you broke joysticks playing "Summer Games"? Or played the awesome "Bard's Tale"?
Posted by: :) Go old guys and gals! | December 12, 2007 at 04:50 PM
srry i finished orange box in 2 weeks ehh team fortress was haaard XD
Posted by: B.M.W! | December 11, 2007 at 02:35 AM
wohha all of you 20-70 ( ! )
im 12 and i finished many new game in 1 week like:
bioshock not demo
cod 4 not demo
gears of war not demo
nfs pro street (d*mn game) but not demo
guitar hero 3 not demo
halo 3 ! not demo (its hard to burn on xbox)
oh and ofcourse the great game crysis not demo!
im from israel and im downloading free full new games from ( www.fxp.co.il )!
Posted by: B.M.W! | December 11, 2007 at 02:32 AM
I am 24 and I think that no matter how young you are or how old you get, you can still learn something by taking the time to enjoy life and play a game from time to time. It just might be the thing that will teach you something that will be useful in life and who knows, maybe even be the thing that when your 70+ keeps you from dying old. =P
Posted by: Wx16 | December 10, 2007 at 08:39 PM
I'm a 24 and getting ready to married my high school sweetheart and he at age 25 still plays games. I googled "Gamers are getting old" to see just how long I had to put up with his addiction with games, and now I know it isn't going to go away. Oh well that what marriage is about right guess I'll just have to learn how to play.
Enjoy!
Posted by: Nikki | December 10, 2007 at 01:45 PM
I play Trackmania Nations and trackmania United, which isnt very popular here in the usa, however online with alot of older guys and gals .
In fact I`m in a clan FOF ScraPpy
"Fast Old Farts".
I`m 50
Posted by: ScraPpy | December 10, 2007 at 01:25 AM
It's multi-generational: At the age of 13 I played "Spacewar" at MIT on the PDP-1 sometime in the 1960's. My son is a video game developer.
Posted by: patsw | December 08, 2007 at 10:21 PM
I'm 64 and still playing fom the time I bought my fist game(PONG) a dot bouncing across the screen...now it's fear/call of duty/farcry/crysis/etc...they keepjust getting better n better,I'm ready for another 30 yrs of games...
Posted by: woodywoodbug | December 08, 2007 at 08:29 AM
I'm 45 and have been playing games since last 20 years. Just bought a ultimate gaming gig for myself !!!
Posted by: Garry | December 08, 2007 at 01:37 AM
I'm 54 and find no greater satisfaction than to actually complete a game without a cheat!
Hell yes!
Posted by: Dusty | December 07, 2007 at 12:29 AM
Finally I have the $ means to assemble the ultimate gaming rig (I'm 39). Gone are the days of pretending that the pixel I was controlling on my Atari 2600 was a person!!!!!!
Posted by: Christoff | December 04, 2007 at 04:52 PM
Im 70 and still trying to play the games well enough to finish one.
Posted by: ike300 | December 02, 2007 at 01:18 PM
I'm 47 and have been playing video gamed since 17. And will play till the day i die.
Posted by: ChiC | December 02, 2007 at 08:18 AM