how old are all the pc gamers?

Let's just say i'm closer to 30 than I am 20.

I've been gaming for over 20 years, bring back DOS!

Seeing some of the ages in this thread I feel old for a second and young the other, lol. Not hard to guess how old I am.

20, going on 21Cdscottie

same here

im 27 here. not going to stop gaming even when im 77 and telling kids when I remember when a gig of ram was huge.Jd1680a

I remember when 8MB was huge.

13 years and 68 days.

[QUOTE="Jd1680a"]im 27 here. not going to stop gaming even when im 77 and telling kids when I remember when a gig of ram was huge.zeus_gb

I remember when 8MB was huge.

Hehe, I remember 12" Floppy disks and punch cards. Of course that's only because my dad would bring them home with him from work.

yea im 14 now coming on 15armadore

Me to.

we had one of these when i was a kid...

and that's all i'm saying... :oops:

19.

I did the math, and including me, the average age of people who told their exact age in this thread is 20.7.

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[QUOTE="Jd1680a"]im 27 here. not going to stop gaming even when im 77 and telling kids when I remember when a gig of ram was huge.thanatose

I remember when 8MB was huge.

Hehe, I remember 12" Floppy disks and punch cards. Of course that's only because my dad would bring them home with him from work.

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[QUOTE="Jd1680a"]im 27 here. not going to stop gaming even when im 77 and telling kids when I remember when a gig of ram was huge.zeus_gb

I remember when 8MB was huge.

Hehe, I remember 12" Floppy disks and punch cards. Of course that's only because my dad would bring them home with him from work.

dont forget tapes/cassets. i used to load elite on the BBC from a tape. classic. floppy discs were so fast in comparison :P. good times those.

im 23, going on 6.

30

Wife's a few years younger, calls me an old head, the smart arse that she is, had to throw a big party last summer for it too just to make sure I didn't forget and everyone knew...

I am 40 in june, hows that for old, being playing games since I was 13 and I ain't gonna stop...

PC Spec: Q6600 Quad Core, 680i SLI, GForce 8800 GTX, 4GB Memory, 1TB Hard Drive Space, X-FI Fatal1ty Champion, 22" Mirai LCD Monitor, Razor Tarantula Keyboard, Razor Copperhead Blue Mouse, Creative Soundworks 7.1 Sound System, XBOX 360 Controller for PC Dual booted system, running XP and Vista and 206 Games and growing...

Consoles: Nintendo Wii, I love Zelda...

I turned 16 yesterday.

32.

i had to load my first computer game from a cassette (temple of apshai) and it took f...o...r...e...v...e...r. dilligent and committed gamers in those days. i remember waiting 15 minutes just to load the game and another several minutes to load a new level (so no complaining that a fragmented and dust-caked windows rig takes 45 seconds to start up!).

i used to be a console gamer, too. yep, that's right -- intellivision.

z

Oi I'm turning 67 tomorrow. What? WHAT?! Oh, yeah, I'm a PC game. Gamer, yeah.

"Damn kids and your music..."

20, going on 21Cdscottie

Me too.

34 here...what's really sad is seeing some of these posts of kids under 16 and then seeing their rig specs in the signature line. Most of you punks have a better rig than I do and I have a job! No bitterness here.Gooeykat

Well, "back in our day" (hehe) in the 1980's, I remember getting our first Dell PC(US Customer Service and the works, crazy talk nowadays), thankfully, my Dad was all about getting one for the family(little did he know I would dominate the thing :P ). He was all about PC Gaming too, knowing I was into Atari/Sega anyway, which meant lots of trips to CompUSA after Baseball/Soccer games for a game.

Funny thing is, I never would have realized just how crazy specs and systems would have gotten. Going back to our first Dell, it was a 12.5mghz CPU, 1mb RAM, no video card (although I beleive it was 4mb allocated memory for video) and the soundblaster was a addon card later down the road. My memory is a bit hazy, but it was something close to that and that was brand new in '87 I beleive. Christ, the Cold War was still going too ....hehe

17

There should be a requirement to go through puberty before coming here...

I'm 17. It's a little bit disconcerting how young the average gamer is. It just goes to show that the industry is still largely perceived as something for juvenilles. As much as I love videogames, they really need to mature, and no, blood, gore and curse words don't render a game mature. We need plots filled with some actual depth, original themes, and for goodness sake, an end to all these game cliches. Otherwise, the targeted demographic is going to remain at the youthful age of 17-34, which is really a shame, because I'd like to continue playing games for the rest of my life and maintain some social dignity.BlueBirdTS

Good points, but I remember saying that when I was 17 back in 1994 and really not much has changed. I tend to look at gaming now as a release from the stresses of the world, rather than an outlet for engaging in depth entertainment, with the rare exception of an RPG to come once and a blue moon.

[QUOTE="BlueBirdTS"]I'm 17. It's a little bit disconcerting how young the average gamer is. It just goes to show that the industry is still largely perceived as something for juvenilles. As much as I love videogames, they really need to mature, and no, blood, gore and curse words don't render a game mature. We need plots filled with some actual depth, original themes, and for goodness sake, an end to all these game cliches. Otherwise, the targeted demographic is going to remain at the youthful age of 17-34, which is really a shame, because I'd like to continue playing games for the rest of my life and maintain some social dignity.mismajor99

Good points, but I remember saying that when I was 17 back in 1994 and really not much has changed. I tend to look at gaming now as a release from the stresses of the world, rather than an outlet for engaging in depth entertainment, with the rare exception of an RPG to come once and a blue moon.

I have some hope. Games like Bioshock and the Half-Life series, while not perfect, are certainly a step in the right direction. Also, I suppose I should add that games can be really engaging not by relying on intricate plots, but also through good gameplay/game design. This is why I enjoy games like Portal, Rez, etc. Or maybe they just appeal to my quirky nature.:P

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[QUOTE="BlueBirdTS"]I'm 17. It's a little bit disconcerting how young the average gamer is. It just goes to show that the industry is still largely perceived as something for juvenilles. As much as I love videogames, they really need to mature, and no, blood, gore and curse words don't render a game mature. We need plots filled with some actual depth, original themes, and for goodness sake, an end to all these game cliches. Otherwise, the targeted demographic is going to remain at the youthful age of 17-34, which is really a shame, because I'd like to continue playing games for the rest of my life and maintain some social dignity.BlueBirdTS

Good points, but I remember saying that when I was 17 back in 1994 and really not much has changed. I tend to look at gaming now as a release from the stresses of the world, rather than an outlet for engaging in depth entertainment, with the rare exception of an RPG to come once and a blue moon.

I have some hope. Games like Bioshock and the Half-Life series, while not perfect, are certainly a step in the right direction. Also, I suppose I should add that games can be really engaging not by relying on intricate plots, but also through good gameplay/game design. This is why I enjoy games like Portal, Rez, etc. Or maybe they just appeal to my quirky nature.:P

Actually, I'd say Bioshock is a step in the wrong direction. I hate when people use the words "dumbed down", but that's pretty much what happened to shock-"series".

33...and I was wiser when I was younger.

See, past a point, you regress...I am well advance on that regression! Yar! :P