Average age of video game players is now 29? hmm

Adex_Xeda · Post by **Adex_Xeda** » January 8, 2004, 8:11 pm

I bumped into a surprising article about game players.

http://www.theeagle.com/businesstechnol ... atplay.htm

Sylvos · Post by **Sylvos** » January 8, 2004, 8:40 pm

well atari started in our generation.
makes sense

MooZilla · Post by **MooZilla** » January 8, 2004, 8:44 pm

Nintendo started my generation.

Sirensa · Post by **Sirensa** » January 8, 2004, 8:54 pm

My generation had PONG!

I win

Seebs · Post by **Seebs** » January 8, 2004, 9:01 pm

Mine had Kick the Can.

I'll be dead soon

Sirensa · Post by **Sirensa** » January 8, 2004, 9:06 pm

lol Kick the Can owned!!

We used to totally play that - and Ghost in the Graveyard!

RUN RUN RUN!

Was great since we had woods for the backyard and it was really creepy for us kids at night in the dark

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 8, 2004, 9:08 pm

Not surprising at all.

We polled Sovereign and the average age of the guild was right around 29.

Start EQ at age 16 and you've got a healthy 15-20 years of the exact same thing ahead of you!

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Sirensa wrote:lol Kick the Can owned!!

We used to totally play that - and Ghost in the Graveyard!

RUN RUN RUN!

Was great since we had woods for the backyard and it was really creepy for us kids at night in the dark

Flashlight Tag. We'd play till someone broke a toe on a spinklerhead or something then that would end the night.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 8, 2004, 9:13 pm

Chidoro · Post by **Chidoro** » January 8, 2004, 11:55 pm

Seebs wrote:Mine had Kick the Can.

I'll be dead soon

Ditto. Pretty sure my left foot has been in a grave for at least 2 years now. Probably why it feels all numb and such

Kyria · Post by **Kyria** » January 9, 2004, 12:10 am

We played Ghost in the Graveyard when I was younger and went camping/boating a lot... playing it in the lake was loads of fun.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » January 9, 2004, 12:16 am

Bottle rocket wars were great too

My son listens to what my Mom talks about me doing growing up, and gets pissed about what he's missed. I used to get stiches at least once a year. We never watched TV, and there weren't any video games. Guns, fireworks, railroad tracks, and about 600 acres of woods across the street kept us occupied

My grampa used to use dynamite to take out tree stumps, right in Madison WI no less. It would shake the whole neighborhood, imagine doing that now.

Xzion · Post by **Xzion** » January 9, 2004, 12:32 am

damn im a youngin, reg nintendo came out when i was 4-6ish
my 15-17 year gameing career started in those days...damn you loose some recollection of time after that many years

Deneve · Post by **Deneve** » January 9, 2004, 1:09 am

Aabidano wrote:My grampa used to use dynamite to take out tree stumps, right in Madison WI no less. It would shake the whole neighborhood, imagine doing that now.

friend of mine does that with people from his CAP squadron...only in hudson and they pick a old tractor to blow to hell...

Leeroie · Post by **Leeroie** » January 9, 2004, 1:32 am

I remember playin Nintendo with Krimson and his sister, and seeing those 2 exploit the 100 free man. That was when I knew, it was my destiny to be a gamer..... well, not really.

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » January 9, 2004, 2:47 am

We used to just huck boxes of Saturn Missles at each other...

And I do remember Pong, even though Sirensa is MUCH older than I.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » January 9, 2004, 12:06 pm

My greatest Christmas present ever was the Atari 2600.

greatest ever.

Seebs · Post by **Seebs** » January 9, 2004, 12:17 pm

Since this topic is going all over the place, I'll build on Vornowes:

My greatest CHristmas present was not even my present:

it was when the neighbor girl Jackie Becker, who had a crush on me, got an easy bake oven for Christmas.

Ol' Seeber was in cupcake heaven for about two months. When the cupcakes ran out, my interest waned and her courtship was over.

Glad she learned that tough lesson at age 6.

Taly · Post by **Taly** » January 9, 2004, 12:20 pm

I have to say atari 2600 and 5200 are still fun to play, I have both plus a playstation and Xbox. But old Artari still rules.

Tenuvil · Post by **Tenuvil** » January 9, 2004, 12:31 pm

First, when I was 15 a "computer" was something that took up a floor of an office building and had no graphics. I'm officially older than dirt.

Second, if you remember the Atari 2600 fondly (as I do), get one of these.

Spang · Post by **Spang** » January 9, 2004, 12:32 pm

they're trying to have a video game discussion outside of the video game forum.

Please, Aranuil, don't hurt em!

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » January 9, 2004, 12:41 pm

Voronwë wrote:My greatest Christmas present ever was the Atari 2600.

greatest ever.

Do you remember when the Atari 2600 actually cost about $130 and the games were about $30 a pop? What would that translate into the dollars of today? Brings back a lot of memories from being a kid seeing one of those games.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » January 9, 2004, 12:42 pm

Kilmoll i remember finding $50 of my parents and i was really not considering telling them about it because Berzerker cost $40 and that way i could buy it.

i was a good kid and broke down and told them =(

the next week my grandmother bought me the game!

Gurm · Post by **Gurm** » January 9, 2004, 12:49 pm

My first was a Lambda 8300.

Dups. · Post by **Dups.** » January 9, 2004, 12:58 pm

How did you guys play Ghost in the Graveyard?

My sister and I were just talking about how nobody we know knows about this game. We would explain it to people we asked and they were like "Nope, never played that".

The way we used to play is we would turn off all the lights in our basement. Then one person would go hide. He was "IT". Everyone else would try and find him without getting tagged. Once you spotted the person that was IT you screamed "Ghost in the graveyard" Then everyone had to go back to home back before IT tagged anyone.

Post by **Sylvus** » January 9, 2004, 1:08 pm

Dups. wrote:The way we used to play is we would turn off all the lights in our basement. Then one person would go hide. He was "IT". Everyone else would try and find him without getting tagged. Once you spotted the person that was IT you screamed "Ghost in the graveyard" Then everyone had to go back to home back before IT tagged anyone.

Oh we totally used to play that game, though I think we had a different name for it that I can't quite remember. We'd close all the curtains, turn off all the lights in the house and play the exact same way.

Syenye Squirrellyelf · January 9, 2004, 1:18 pm

we used to play that too, but we didn't call it "ghost in the graveyard." i forget what we called it, but we used to make my youngest cousin IT then turn out the lights and leave and let her stumble around for a while.

Sirensa · Post by **Sirensa** » January 9, 2004, 1:35 pm

Dups. wrote:The way we used to play is we would turn off all the lights in our basement. Then one person would go hide. He was "IT". Everyone else would try and find him without getting tagged. Once you spotted the person that was IT you screamed "Ghost in the graveyard" Then everyone had to go back to home back before IT tagged anyone.

Similar to how we played. We would start in the middle of the cul-de-sac, when it was dark out, then whomever was IT would go run and hide in my parent's backyard somewhere. Then we'd set out hunting for the IT person (the ghost), you'd scream "Ghost in the graveyard, RUN RUN RUN!" and everyone would try to run back to the center of the cul-de-sac before the IT guy tagged anyone.

Was way fun.

Sylvos · Post by **Sylvos** » January 9, 2004, 1:44 pm

Sirensa forgets to mention that they rode Dinosaurs while doing this.
You know, back in the day.

Dups. · Post by **Dups.** » January 9, 2004, 1:47 pm

Sylvos wrote:Sirensa forgets to mention that they rode Dinosaurs while doing this.
You know, back in the day.

zing

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 9, 2004, 1:48 pm

Voronwë wrote:My greatest Christmas present ever was the Atari 2600.

greatest ever.

I got a lot of use out of my Atari 2600! Best multiplayer game ever was Warlords on the Atari 2600.

Defend your fortress! 4 player game. woo!

Post by **Sylvus** » January 9, 2004, 1:50 pm

Sirensa wrote:
Dups. wrote:The way we used to play is we would turn off all the lights in our basement. Then one person would go hide. He was "IT". Everyone else would try and find him without getting tagged. Once you spotted the person that was IT you screamed "Ghost in the graveyard" Then everyone had to go back to home back before IT tagged anyone.
Similar to how we played. We would start in the middle of the cul-de-sac, when it was dark out, then whomever was IT would go run and hide in my parent's backyard somewhere. Then we'd set out hunting for the IT person (the ghost), you'd scream "Ghost in the graveyard, RUN RUN RUN!" and everyone would try to run back to the center of the cul-de-sac before the IT guy tagged anyone.

Was way fun.

Ooh, I think we called the outdoor version "Bloody Murder". I suppose that it wasn't right of us to scream "Blooooooody Murrrrrrderrr!!!!!" at the top of our lungs.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » January 9, 2004, 3:45 pm

we played nerf football.

basically we usually ran one of 4 plays:

fumble rooskie
flee-flicker
statue of liberty
or
just go out

id call flee flicker every play if i was an NFL O-Coordinator

Seebs · Post by **Seebs** » January 9, 2004, 4:29 pm

Worst thing about football, tackle of two hand touch, was running the ball and someone faster than you coming from behind and doing the two hand push .. which sent you sailing and caused many injuries.

Was pushed into a Chicken Wire fence once. caused a fight. Was ugly.

Arundel Pajo · Post by **Arundel Pajo** » January 9, 2004, 8:55 pm

In my closet, I still have my very first video game system ever. It was called a Fairchild. It had Pong-style paddles and ran off of these cartiges that looked for all the world like 8-tracks. Every game was some sort of clever variant off of Pong.

"Tank Battle" - each little white line shoots the ball at the other little white line.

"Tennis" - Pong with different scoring rules.

"Spitfire" - Kinda like Pong turned 90º so that you looked like your little white line was flying.

...and then it had tic-tac-toe.

I also have my old Apple //e with the upgraded color monitor. Still have a few games for that, too:

Neuromancer
Wasteland
Bard's Tale 1, 2, and 3
Zork
Dragon Wars
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Montezuma's Revenge

Krimson Klaw · Post by **Krimson Klaw** » January 9, 2004, 11:40 pm

Seebs wrote:Worst thing about football, tackle of two hand touch, was running the ball and someone faster than you coming from behind and doing the two hand push .. which sent you sailing and caused many injuries.

Was pushed into a Chicken Wire fence once. caused a fight. Was ugly.

I had a friend get pushed into a square wooden pole, hit the corner of it, split his bottom lip from top down to where it connects at the gumline. And he had some big ass lips.

MooZilla · Post by **MooZilla** » January 9, 2004, 11:55 pm

:cringe smiley:

Pherr the Dorf · Post by **Pherr the Dorf** » January 10, 2004, 12:03 am

Had pong (call me methuselah) but Intellivision > atari

Lohrno · Post by **Lohrno** » January 10, 2004, 12:05 am

Bah! In my day, we rolled hoops of wood with sticks!

-=Lohrno

MooZilla · Post by **MooZilla** » January 10, 2004, 12:06 am

*Immitates 'ol granny voice* When I was a kid I had to walk 8 miles in the snow...Without shoes!

Kyria · Post by **Kyria** » January 10, 2004, 12:13 am

MooZilla please fix the typo on your sig (elese=else)!!

MooZilla · Post by **MooZilla** » January 10, 2004, 12:20 am

Oops...I have the gramatical skills of a 12 year old when it comes to spelling. :-/

*~*stragi*~* · Post by ***~*stragi*~*** » January 10, 2004, 8:09 am

Seebs wrote:Mine had Kick the Can.

I'll be dead soon

hahahahaha

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » January 10, 2004, 8:38 am

Intellivision does indeed kick ass!

B-52 Bomber was severe ownage with the voice add-on!

"Bombs Awaaaaayyyyy"

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » January 10, 2004, 11:20 am

"That was oooonnnn target!"

Other Intellivision pwnage: Burger Time, Tron, Dungeons & Dragons