Author Topic: How old are you? (Read 9447 times)

crashwg · « **on:** May 11, 2004, 12:07:16 am »

First off, if this has already been brought up let me know, I'll delete this if it was. I didn't find anything with the search, so I'm going to assume that it wasn't...

I've been thinking a lot lately about how I wasn't realy too much into arcade games as a kid/teen as I was only like 5 at the peak of the arcade craze. I'm actually just now catching up on all I missed. Example: I had never heard of Robotron untill about a week ago!

Anyways, I guess the point is that I kinda feel like the oddball in this community not being a true arcade "freak" (no offense), and looking to see if there are more people on the boards with simillar... uh, backgrounds I guess.

spidermonkey · « **Reply #1 on:** May 11, 2004, 12:16:00 am »

Just turned 35 on April 15th.

Ken Layton · « **Reply #2 on:** May 11, 2004, 12:57:46 am »

I'm 48 and I grew up playing the electromechanical Williams "Ringer" game in the miniature golf arcades.

Matt, GoC · « **Reply #3 on:** May 11, 2004, 01:12:10 am »

23. And still no life. I'm goin' for the high score

!

SNAAAKE · « **Reply #4 on:** May 11, 2004, 04:07:47 am »

hulkster · « **Reply #5 on:** May 11, 2004, 07:16:33 am »

22.....23 in August......getting married in 1 month and 8 days.

Magnet_Eye · « **Reply #6 on:** May 11, 2004, 07:32:01 am »

33 going on 34...was like uh..10 when i got hooked into arcade way back in 1980 man! WOW! Actually, first game i played when i was like 5. some weird race driving game, that had a plastic car with a scrolling background. not a video game, but was the beginning of the "arcade" games.

So, i grew up WITH arcade games, computers and other strange technologies.

Whoopie!

PS- though i am going on 34, no one thinks i am older than 25 or 26...i am lucky in that way. my girlfriend is 20.

maraxle · « **Reply #7 on:** May 11, 2004, 07:43:53 am »

26. My brothers are 10 & 11 years older than me, so when I was 4 or 5 they'd bring me with them to the pool halls and such to help them pick up girls. "Aww, is that your little brother? He's so cute." "Sure is. Here you go, buddy, take some quarters and go play some Pac-Man while I talk to this nice girl here."

DaveMMR · « **Reply #8 on:** May 11, 2004, 08:24:16 am »

I'm 28. The video games I cut my teeth on: Donkey Kong, Mousetrap, and Smurfs Adventure for the Colecovision.

fredster · « **Reply #9 on:** May 11, 2004, 09:46:31 am »

43 - Broke in on space invaders and asteroids.

patrickl · « **Reply #10 on:** May 11, 2004, 10:01:58 am »

35 (a month and a day older than Spidermonkey

)

This should be a poll

Spaced Invader · « **Reply #11 on:** May 11, 2004, 10:31:13 am »

Quote from: Magnet_Eye on May 11, 2004, 07:32:01 am

33 going on 34...was like uh..10 when i got hooked into arcade way back in 1980 man! WOW! Actually, first game i played when i was like 5. some weird race driving game, that had a plastic car with a scrolling background. not a video game, but was the beginning of the "arcade" games.

So, i grew up WITH arcade games, computers and other strange technologies.

Whoopie!

PS- though i am going on 34, no one thinks i am older than 25 or 26...i am lucky in that way. my girlfriend is 20.

Thought it was just me...36..look mid 20's (GF 22).

flampoo · « **Reply #12 on:** May 11, 2004, 10:43:43 am »

24. The first games I can remember playing were Double Dragon, Bad Dudes and Gauntlet at the Roller Dome. I think I was like 10 years old when the obsession began.

hulkster · « **Reply #13 on:** May 11, 2004, 11:14:09 am »

roller dome! oh yeah! birthday parties and hokie pokies....i hated the actual skating around crap, i did that for like 10 min. then skated over to the arcade games and played Escape from the Planet of Robot Monsters....i thought that game was so cool. it still is, too bad the controls dont work that well with mame

Harry Potter · « **Reply #14 on:** May 11, 2004, 11:50:30 am »

Be 27 on the 13th. And still the only steady thing in my life is the arcade cab. Sad

Sad

Got hooked on Pitfall 2 in the former Czechoslovakia a the age of 7.

Daniel270 · « **Reply #15 on:** May 11, 2004, 01:21:37 pm »

I'm 32 (wife is 23)....

never had a truly successful arcade in the little town where I grew up.... one would open, then go out of business less than 3 months later.. but, I always played when I had the chance... DK, Asteroids, Lunar Lander, Major Havoc, Pac-Man, Ms Pac...

Before MAME, wife's exposure to video games was her NES console, then my PS1 and PS2....

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #16 on:** May 11, 2004, 01:43:18 pm »

Quote from: Magnet_Eye on May 11, 2004, 07:32:01 am

33 going on 34...was like uh..10 when i got hooked into arcade way back in 1980 man! WOW! Actually, first game i played when i was like 5. some weird race driving game, that had a plastic car with a scrolling background. not a video game, but was the beginning of the "arcade" games.

I remember playing that same type of game when I was about 5 too. It was in a holiday resort in Ireland where Atari had a large presence. Growing up there, I guess we were a little behind the times as far as arcade games went (I'm sure there were plenty of arcades at the beaches on the Irish coast, but not where I'm from).
Arcades didn't hit my town until the days of Double Dragon and Shinobi. Though I remember a bar in town had a Space Invaders cocktail years before that.

I'm 26 now.

walls83 · « **Reply #17 on:** May 11, 2004, 02:03:43 pm »

29 and my wife is 23.

GGKoul · « **Reply #18 on:** May 11, 2004, 02:55:43 pm »

30 - Christmas Baby and my Wife is 27.

Santoro · « **Reply #19 on:** May 11, 2004, 04:05:33 pm »

38. Almost 39

Snarbald · « **Reply #20 on:** May 11, 2004, 04:16:08 pm »

22. There used to be a Little Ceasar's a block away from my mom's house that had about 30 or so games. I must have spent about a million dollars on the ninja turtles game.

Mr. Dude · « **Reply #21 on:** May 11, 2004, 04:18:23 pm »

I'm 24... From what my dad tells me I started playing atari at 2 1/2 yrs old. He said that one of his friends from work came over one day and saw me playing and was like "aahh isn't that cute, I'll play along with him but I'll go easy on him cause he's just a little guy." Well, I guess I put the smack down on him and he was totally amazed.

zaphod · « **Reply #22 on:** May 11, 2004, 04:34:30 pm »

Almost 37, with a bride-to-be of 34.

I've learned not to underestimate today's very young children on my cabinet. I've had eight year olds go through spanking us adults one after another with the fighting games, games they've never even played before. I only have to show a young child once where the coin and start buttons are and they never, ever forget. Adults, on the other hand, ...

jam92102 · « **Reply #23 on:** May 11, 2004, 08:01:50 pm »

I'm 24 wife's 26. She's a craddle robber!

mmmPeanutButter · « **Reply #24 on:** May 11, 2004, 09:12:56 pm »

25... big on Coleco when I was a kid too.

I'm now trying to explain to my girlfriend (25) that when I get into my thirties, I will have to break up with her for a woman in her early 20's... casue everybody else is doing it!! Way to go

microwrx · « **Reply #25 on:** May 11, 2004, 10:06:55 pm »

32, my wife is 35 next month.

GadgetGeek · « **Reply #26 on:** May 11, 2004, 10:43:03 pm »

38 pushing 39. Wife is 39 (barely). Got to enjoy the 4 months when she is older than me (I know, technically she is always older than me)

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #27 on:** May 11, 2004, 11:29:55 pm »

Quote from: Magnet_Eye on May 11, 2004, 07:32:01 am

Actually, first game i played when i was like 5. some weird race driving game, that had a plastic car with a scrolling background. not a video game, but was the beginning of the "arcade" games.

Definitely the first of the "rail shooters"

NiN^_^NiN · « **Reply #28 on:** May 12, 2004, 07:15:57 am »

Only car game i had was liek the front of a car and u moved this car back n forth which was really a platic car and they had cars projected on the screen so u just had to dodge them.

it had steering wheel and gear.

was a good thing its what made me buy my first REAL arcade cabinet called SPEED RACE

was the first car scrolling game ever and its 30yo right now

quite a cool game altho the car noise is annoying hehe

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #29 on:** May 12, 2004, 08:48:10 am »

I watched the old Dawn of the Dead last night and that game is in there! There's a sequence in the movie where the survivors are enjoying the shopping mall 70's style and it shows a bunch of arcade games, mostly early light-gun games but the projection race game is there with a big Atari logo on the dashboard. Exactly as I remembered from the ill-spent days of my youth.

There's photos near the bottom of this page from 'Arcade At The Movies':
http://www.mameworld.net/movies/

MameMaster! · « **Reply #30 on:** May 20, 2004, 04:53:55 pm »

Whoo Hoo!...I'm 35 too!

MameMaster!

SuckerFish · « **Reply #31 on:** May 20, 2004, 07:01:59 pm »

going on 26 wife going on 28
remeber playing radio shack pong when young when i was 5 - 6 i broke in on donkey kong in arcades and love colecovison, nintendo and tandy computers

RayB · « **Reply #32 on:** May 20, 2004, 09:14:32 pm »

Age?! -- A lady never tells! Well I'm no lady (I'm a dude of course) so I guess I have to tell: Going on 34.

First quarter I ever put through a slot I think was into Astro Blaster. I did AMAZING, and my heart rate was up and I got so worked up I had the shakes. Amazing effect it had on me.

Apollo · « **Reply #33 on:** May 20, 2004, 10:57:03 pm »

35. I used to spend my lunch money on Space Invaders on the way to school and then Galaxian and Scramble boy did we think those games were cool when they came out ( and still do! LOL ).

greywolf22 · « **Reply #34 on:** May 21, 2004, 12:42:51 am »

31 here...will be 32 in August

Knoxximus · « **Reply #35 on:** May 21, 2004, 01:46:12 am »

Just turned 31 end of April. I remember my mom holding me up with one arm to place Space Hawk (I think that was the name...kinda looked like you were in the Death Star Trench from the Millenium Falcon's point of view

) at the Sears Video Arcade (remember those?). I remember hogging the controls at the Atari 2600, Intellivision (I STILL don't get that damn Footbal game...and those ridged side buttons HURT!) and eventually NES kiosks in Sears and Woolworth's. I remember being friends with a complete azzhole just because he had a library of some 80 Atari games.

Man, what I used to do to get my game on

RetroJames · « **Reply #36 on:** May 21, 2004, 07:17:03 am »

35 - I got to see all the late 70s and 80s classics as they came out. Defender was the fav...it ate my brain.

Zathras · « **Reply #37 on:** May 21, 2004, 09:34:42 am »

Stingray · « **Reply #38 on:** May 21, 2004, 11:50:03 am »

Looks like most of use are in our 30's. Makes sense, we were all kids when the arcade craze peaked, now we all want one in our house.

I'm 34.

-S

missioncontrol · « **Reply #39 on:** May 21, 2004, 03:05:27 pm »

31 going on 32...Funny I was just wondering today the average age of the people in this forum, because I've mentioned my plans to alot of friends on my arcade ideas and they all like the idea but just don't seem enthused on taking on a project like that themselves...


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Author Topic: How old are you? (Read 9447 times)

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