So any babyboomers playing?

[Myoyoy]

im an ol git 46 being playing games since Out Run on my spectrum!!

[gizmonomono]

Thank you Scubadave!!! It's nice to get recognized by the god of tankers LMAO!!!!

 

So is there anyone you wanna... tank?

[luisniko]

I am 36, with a 3 years old son, I cant wait to play games with him

but that will be complicated if he ask me

"dad, why you play as a girl in this game?"

 

I've been playing with this uncle.

[Furry_Monkey]

There were no games when I started out. I used to get in from school, fire up the B&W TV and write a game. I'd play it for the rest of the night and then turn off the computer and the game would be gone.

 

This was the start of my gaming, and quite a nice career...

 

 

Thank you Sir Clive.

Edited May 22, 2014 by Furry_Monkey

[djdest]

I'm 43, been playing electronic games and messing about on computers since the late 70's.

Through the years I had:

 

Atari 2600

Printztronic pong

ZX Spectrum

Amstrad CPC6128

Atari ST

Amiga A500

Mega drive

Super NES

etc

Edited May 22, 2014 by djdest

[Ai®a©ob®a]

There were no games when I started out. I used to get in from school, fire up the B&W TV and write a game. I'd play it for the rest of the night and then turn off the computer and the game would be gone.

 

This was the start of my gaming, and quite a nice career...

 

 

Thank you Sir Clive.

My very first game i owned was one of those "Laptops" kind of like the Leapfrog things they have today but it was a laptop that had games and learning stuff on there i spent hours on that thing.

 

I also liked to carry it around with me in public and pretend i had my very own laptop @ 6 and people even made comments about me being 6 with a laptop

[JC Hammer]

Technically babyboomers were born between 1946 and 1964 so you qualify if your at least 50 this year. I made it by a mile.

 

My first console.....

 

[Ai®a©ob®a]

I'm 43, been playing electronic games and messing about on computers since the late 70's.

Through the years I had:

 

Atari 2600

Printztronic pong

ZX Spectrum

Amstrad CPC6128

Atari ST

Amiga A500

Mega drive

Super NES

etc

If you guys like talking about old video consoles and games, Check out this thread i made a while back.

 

Blast From The Past Old Video Games

[BamaGoodfella]

There were no games when I started out. I used to get in from school, fire up the B&W TV and write a game. I'd play it for the rest of the night and then turn off the computer and the game would be gone.

 

This was the start of my gaming, and quite a nice career...

 

 

Thank you Sir Clive.

The current generation of gamers have no idea how rewarding and frustrating it was to code your own games back in the day LOL. I never used a Sinclair, but I remember writing line after line of code on a Commodore 64 and then spending hours debugging it to find that one place where I mistyped something. For all the folks that are my age, do you remember how long the load times were when you tried to run your programs from this? And to think that we complain about how long it takes GTA5 to load up now LMAO!

 

Edited May 22, 2014 by BamaGoodfella

[.R3b3L]

<------ former Vic-20 owner when they first came out. 41 years young! I remember getting my first expansion for it. It was 1k, and that was huge in them days lol

[ChristopheOG]

Been playing GTA since the very first game for the Sony PS1, stopped play for about 20 years after a PS2. My son gave me his old Xbox 360 after upgrading to the ONE and I'm hooked again, and share my Online with my youngest.

 

We love the cars and customising them, also a little fighter jet robbing.

 

Glad to hear it not just pre teenies playing this game!

 

I'm think of an old timers meet up?

 

I can remember loading game via the VIC 20!

Edited May 22, 2014 by Christophe69

[BamaGoodfella]

Been playing GTA since the very first game for the Sony PS1, stopped play for about 20 years after a PS2. My son gave me his old Xbox 360 after upgrading to the ONE and I'm hooked again, and share my Online with my youngest.

 

We love the cars and customising them, also a little fighter jet robbing.

 

Glad to hear it not just pre teenies playing this game!

 

I'm think of an old timers meet up?

 

I can remember loading game via the VIC 20!

An old timers meet up sounds pretty cool actually! I'm not active on the Xbox, but maybe some of the PS3 folks can organize a meet up in the future. All this nostalgia about the golden age of gaming is a nice break from the cash card, heists, & [insert random noun] appreciation threads LOL!

[Remote Six]

I remember playing Zork on a Commodore 64. My first console was a Calicovision. I went up the chain from there. I remember having a blast playing Pitfall and Space Shuttle on the 2600. I also remember playing Bionic Commando on the NES and thinking it was the pinnacle of all gaming LOL. I remember in the early 90s when I was in high school I had both a Genesis AND a SNES and I thought I was just cock of the walk. I remember playing The Third World War on SegaCD and deciding it was my favorite game of all time (and it still is along with SOS on the SNES).

 

Its kinda sad how kids today think they are a part of gaming history just because they played GTA3 on Xbox or PS2. We have been here from the very beginning and they dont know what they missed.

[ChristopheOG]

I'm crap at organising stuff like that but yeah an old timers meet up on both consoles would be cool!

 

Maybe someone with a bit more of a following can put something together?

 

I would be up for that!

 

Might have to dust down some old cars to bring along.

 

Anyone around this age group add me!

[djdest]

This thread is like an oasis amongst all the childish crap! I often wonder how well a dedicated forum for GTA online players would fare for adult/mature players. Somewhere the game could be discussed properly without all the pathetic rubbish

[Furry_Monkey]

For all the folks that are my age, do you remember how long the load times were when you tried to run your programs from this?

 

 

 

It did take ages loading games off tapes, but every cloud has a silver lining...

 

 

[lew3112]

I have an uncle who turned 80 last year. The family got him a digital camera as a special present because he's still quite outdoors'y. He took it back to where they bought it and bought a 360. He loves it, keeps his mind active and gives him something to do.

 

When people tell me games are just for kids, I always think about him and laugh. If you enjoy something it doesn't matter how old you are.

[Chronolemon]

I'm 23 and I frequently feel like an old guy.

[djdest]

I'm 23 and I frequently feel like an old guy.

 

Sounds like you're after a different forum

[Bigkel72uk]

I'm 42. Loved playing all gta games. My first gaming experience would have been pong and then on to zx81. You had to type the games program yourself out of a freaking magazine.

 

 

Bloody kids. Don't know the meaning of hard work.

 

Like reading the posts above so you don't write the same damn thing.

Edited May 22, 2014 by Bigkel72uk

[Furry_Monkey]

I'm 42. Loved playing all gta games. My first gaming experience would have been pong and then on to zx81. You had to type the games program yourself out of a freaking magazine.

 

 

Bloody kids. Don't know the meaning of hard work.

 

At least when you were typing in programs from something like "My Computer" (that's the one we used to get) on a ZX80 or ZX81 they were in BASIC, so you could make some sense of it and not get lost. When the Spectrum magazines starting posting games it needed a bloody hex editor, and you'd enter line after line of 32 or 64 character hex strings. You get 1 single byte wrong and the whole thing could collaps and you wouldn't have a clue where the problem was!

 

It actually made sense to learn assembly language in those days.

[TexasKilldozer]

I'll be 50 next month, and we were the first family in the neighborhood to have Pong. (My dad bought it to help with his tennis game, he got burned out on it pretty quick.) I'd say over half the gamers I meet online don't believe me when I tell them my age.

I've been on GTA online since the day it went online. I have two charcaters: Male, level 191 and female, level 101.

Incidentally, if any of you old fogeys are ever down for a game of golf, look me up on XBox Live (GamerTag: Texas Killdozer); if you're willing to throw down a $2500 bet, I'm willing to play!

Peace.

[Charlie The Tuna]

A bunch of great responses, thanks everyone I no longer feel like the old guy that is all alone. I think it is funny when people in their 20's and 30's think they are old, ahahahahahahha you haven't seen anything yet.

 

As far as quitting gaming because their girlfriends don't like it, well maybe you need a gaming girlfriend. They are out their, my niece who is in high school plays gta 5 a lot. In fact she is the only female character that I know that is actually a female. I think all the guys that play as women are.............well maybe this is not the right forum to express my views.

 

Did I mention there are a couple of seedy bars that I like to stop by and get out my baseball bat. Man, they have the ugliest women I have ever seen. Some of those women have a better mustache that I do.

 

Anyway thanks for all the comments, now it is off for a little hauling ass around los santos with my morning coffee. Maybe even a trip to the poor side of town for some good old fashioned a** kicking, I just love giving the gang members the finger until they pull their pistols and then its game on.

 

Oh yeah, I miss my mechanic. He should have never played with the radio station.

 

 

 

 

 

[Kampioen]

Sometimes I feel like I missed out on so much, being born in 1990. Never even seen an Atari in my life for instance. But then I think about the photorealistic virtual reality with brain wave input that all you old farts are going to miss out on and it's all good.

[Jobbo]

I'm 41. My stepson turned 20 this year. I didn't think when he was going on about GTA Vice City all those years ago that I'd end up playing the same game as him now (more than he does in fact).

 

Having spent too long playing Spectrum games as a teenager, I'm a definite retro gamer. I still play Speccie stuff now, which feels most incongruous on a modern flat-screen TV using a Mac wireless keyboard I've missed out half the generations of gaming since the 80s, really; never had a 16-bit ST, Amiga or console; then got back into gaming with the PS1, missed out on the PS2 and bought a PS3 when I got divorced. When you leap two generations ahead, the graphical improvements really stand out.

 

And I used to think console games were expensive, but I only spent £30 on GTA V and it's given me 6 months' entertainment already. I doubt £8-10 on a Spectrum game gave much more than a couple of weeks in reality. Though the icons of that era are still highly playable.

[DS Monkfish]

Sometimes I feel like I missed out on so much, being born in 1990. Never even seen an Atari in my life for instance. But then I think about the photorealistic virtual reality with brain wave input that all you old farts are going to miss out on and it's all good.

 

Why you little... c'mere! Ooh, me f*ckin' knees... grumble grumble grumble

[ChristopheOG]

Make sure you old skoolers drop your gt in the meet up section for and old boys meet up link up etc etc!

 

Spy hunter now that's a game!

 

Remember the tune from I think a film called precinct 13?

[Lc gta]

im an ol git 46 being playing games since Out Run on my spectrum!!

Even the Spectrum 128K verison was a multi-load. 40 something old git here..

[twannie1997]

Thanks, now I feel young again. Sweet 16 here. My grandpa (the only one I knew) died a few years ago because he ate too much pies (diabetes). So, yeah pretty boring family. My parents have never played video games (outside of when I got a PS2). First game: Gran Turismo 4

First GTA: San Andreas

[ChrisV]

39 and still kickin it in the LS every day