How old are you?

[Sprucemoose]

29.  Loved Galaga growing up and then got addicted to arknoid, still my fav.  Wife says not to tell her age...lol

[Luxury]

Just turned 26 this week.  
No clue what my first arcade was.  

[Bumblebounces]

I am 36.  My favorite games were Galaga, Gorf, and Ms. PacMan.

Those were the daze...

[REBIRTH]

I am 36...  Not sure what my first game was.  It may have been Atari football - the black and white one with the X's and O's that was a cocktail table at a local pizza place.  My first love was Defender though.  Andy's Luncheonette in Massapequa (my hometown) - I must have spent $100's on that machine over the years.

[AmericanDemon]

23, be 24 in August.  My first real experience with Arcade games was at a near by gas station it was called G-Qwik.

My dad gave me a quarter to play Kung Fu.  I hated it.  Then I looked over and saw Double Dragon.  He said it would be too hard but gave me a quarter to play.  It was sooooo coool.  He apparently thought so too, cuz he popped in another quarter and played alongside me.

That became a tradition to play Double Dragon together until they replaced it with a Narc cabinet.  ---daisies--- anyway.  

[GGKoul]

My GodFather ran a Arcade.  And I remember playing 2 player Galaga on a cocktail cab with my brother on the other end for hours.  Also played Donkey Kong Jr & Mr. Do for mega $$$ which was in the hockey arena.

Also loved playing the old Williams Baseball game.  Where you selected Fastball, Curveball and slider pitch and the other player hit the ball for points.... Can't remember the name...

-GGKoul

[crashwg]

  Well this thread din't realy help much... I was hoping to feel more "a part of the crowd" but now I feel even more alienated.  Granted, there were a couple responses within a few years of me (21) but none that totally missed the arcade scene and are now catching up.

[exian]

Just turned 34, my wife is 26 and my daughter is 6 Months old and I live in Perth Western Australia.

[brained]

27 and wife 24.
My first xperience was in a roller skating place with Pacman and a cocktail Galaga.

L8'r it was atari's combat... :|
Then video games was everything 4 me... don't have much time to play now, but, I still love Video Games

[sjgrover]

36.  Every quarter I could scrounge up went for Asteroids, Lunar Lander and Defender.  My wife is 35 and didn't play arcade games at all - I'm trying to correct that deficiency now.

[NiN^_^NiN]

Well this thread din't realy help much... I was hoping to feel more "a part of the crowd" but now I feel even more alienated.  Granted, there were a couple responses within a few years of me (21) but none that totally missed the arcade scene and are now catching up.

Hey dude i'm 20 and i'm only catching up

I only ever played 2 arcade games first was super sprint at  rollerskate place as a kid played maybe 3 times and then a "bad dudes vs dragon ninja" at a vide store played that only 3 times.

I'm basiclly missed the arcade scene all together now i have 2 mame cabs and a very rare cabinet i haven't had time to work on (both mame cabs havent been finished yet not at a playable level either) so your not alone

[nighthawk2099]

me and wife are both 32.

[CCM]

I'm 32, wife is 35...

[Teknique]

27

[AtariYoungin]

Looks like im the youngest...16

[EndTwist]

Not quite AtariYoungin

[chinabox]

Just turned 22.

Got hooked up Super Off-Road, WWF SuperStars, Windjammers, and more recently, the Virtua Cop/Time Crisis series

[Minwah]

25

Games I remember playing were mainly Sega's mid-late 80's 'classics' - Space Harrier, OutRun, Super Hang On, Power Drift, Thunderblade, Afterburner etc.  I loved all of those and these were some of the only dedicated machines I played on (arcades I went to were cheap and had mainly Jamma cabs).

I did also play on ealier games, although the golden era classics had disappeared by this point

[Xenepp]

23 on the 23rd!! Fiencee 26  

Life story time..

Got my first taste of videos with "Video Pong". Me and my trust paddle at the tender age of 5. Then at 6-7 Super Mario bros came into my life via my friend and I was hooked. Thankfully, my parents decided I should have a computer instead and got me my Atari ST. Many PD shooters and a little STOS coding later and I got my Sega Mega-CD which was the beginning of the end for any creative coding I could have learned but hey-ho  

My first arcade...hmm.. think it was TMNT. I remember just being able to see over the controls  

My folks weren't keen on me wasting their cash on "silly" games so it took till I was about 9 before I got to play a real arcade game. Been into them ever since and now have a few mates that work down the arcades (simply from playing games and sharing an interest in old games)

I have had more JAMMA games and (foolishly) sold them on again than I care to think about, and now want something to stick in my workshop to impress my buddies with and entertain me when I'm sick of work  

First found out about MAME over on Dave's Videogame Classics around the time it first opened (I really can't remember what the original emu site was called) and I still check the now Vintage Gaming Network every day.

Oh, and in more important news, I'm getting married in Sept 2006  

[drunkatuw]

Oh, and in more important news, I'm getting married in Sept 2006  

I thought I was having a long engagement because I'm not getting married until July 2005...but you've got me beat by over a year!

BTW, congrats... and I'm 24 and fiance is 22.

[dtu]

29 girlfriend 24

Galaga, centipede, and BombJack on cocktail.

Also had Atari 2600 growing up. Don't own a modern console or play PC games other than MAME.
Planning a cocktail cabinet to build. As I'm Aussie debating whether to go with the Aussie design or the US design cocktail.

Love this site.

[danny_galaga]

29 girlfriend 24

Galaga, centipede, and BombJack on cocktail.

Also had Atari 2600 growing up. Don't own a modern console or play PC games other than MAME.
Planning a cocktail cabinet to build. As I'm Aussie debating whether to go with the Aussie design or the US design cocktail.

Love this site.

Go for the

[Ed ONeill]

35 (a month and a day older than Spidermonkey )

This should be a poll

Well patrick you got me beat by a day (I think I did the math correctly )

I'm 35.... March  15th

Signed
Ed

[IceCold]

I just turned 15  

[DaveJ-UK]

19, 20 in December.

First system I remember really getting into was my beloved NES which I was given when I was ~5 by my grandparents. It came with a 3 in 1 cart: Mario, Tetris and World Cup. All awesome games.

Had an Atari ST I think it was but it seemed a bit crappy compared to the NES. And a 486 my dad broguth home one day. me n my bro used to play DOS doom on with no sound and no mouse!

Since then I've had just about every console within a week of release from the SNES through to the latest batch of 3D junk.

I've been into electronics since about that age, ripping apart just about anything I could get my hands on.

PS I hope all your women know youre posting their age in a public forum

[Jam161]

Im 19 I never played in an arcade so I guess Im trying to catch up

[CthulhuLuke]

FREAKIN YOUNG WHIPPER SNAPPERS!!   haha, naaah I'm 19, going on 20 in December.  I've been playing video games since I could hold a controller basically, we had an Atari 2600 with all sorts of goodies on there.  When I was 3 or so, War had to be one of my favorites, although when your that young, telling the difference between the different tank rounds was near impossible.  We got a Sega Master System the christmas I turned 4, and I picked up a copy of Miracle Warriors, one of the few role playing games for the Sega Master System.  http://freespace.virgin.net/james.groom/MWarr/Mwarr.htm
I was so young when I played that my mind hadn't developed well enough to understand mazes you couldn't see, like I understood there was a beginning and an end, and there was a path you had to take, but I couldn't do it in my head, I had to get a pen and paper to get past even the easiest maps.
I honestly can't remember the first arcade games I played way back, but I remember a local candy store had like 12 cabinets in the backroom, and we would always go there and play some weird games he had like Toki.

[Aceldamor]

Fiance and I are 26.....

[gdilly]

almost 24 - makes you kind of wonder just how much money you put int those machines when you were a kid.  $100?, $500? $1000?

What suprises me more is that my parents GAVE me the money to spend playing games,  God bless them.

[mugwump]

35.

I have very fond memories of the glory days in the early 80s when arcade games were everywhere.  We had three dedicated arcades within biking distance of my house as well as games at every corner store, restaurant, etc.  The last dedicated arcade in the old neighborhood converted into a Starbucks almost 10 years ago.  If that isn't a sad statement I don't know what is.

[J_K_M_A_N]

me and wife are both 32.

Same here.

J_K_M_A_N

[SNAAAKE]

Turned 19 the other day

[Santoro]

Reviving an old thread from the dead because I wanted to know how old the newbies are.

[duffjr]

21...came here looking for info about marble madness II.  i own raiden II, and i hate the game.  my buttons get jammed and the joystick hardly moves.  i don't know what to do.

[shmokes]

replace the joystick and buttons.

[duffjr]

what tools do i need?  i got some glue, a scissors, and a screwdriver.  can i buy the buttons and joysticks at the store, or do i need to order it online?

[mccoy178]

I'm 27.  My gaming experience can all be tied to Christmas.  First was the Atari 2600, then the incredible jump to the NES.  The gameboy also made life good.  The local fair always had cool games one week a year.  Man, Dragon's Lair and Street Fighter memories.  Dragon's Lair being,"I can't believe this is the most expensive game.  It lasted all of thirty seconds, and I don't even know what the heck just happened."

[Zero_Hour]

Just hit 36 the beginning of this month.

First arcade games I can remember playing were PONG, Stuntcycle, and some very cool pinball machines (can't name one of them though)
MY true obsession came courtesy of the Atari Video Computer System or VCS (what is this 2600 people speak of?) and by the time Galaxian, Asteroids, and Donkey Kong rolled around I was pretty much destined to be labled 'Underachiever' by my middle and high school teachers. Luckily my love for arcade games led to a love of computers, and ultimately led to a career in technology.

Thank you Nolan Bushnel!

[testicle187]

I am 21 years old and grew up on anything commodore, be it Amiga or 64.  My dad used to take me to "computer meetings," which were basically huge pirating affairs where we would take boxes of Amiga 2000 games and blank low density floppies and x-copy those ---daisies---.  I really miss the days of booting a computer with the floppies, instead of using hard drives...

[More Cowbell]

So why is it that so many people who are into game emulation also have mail order brides? 
I'm 36 today! Happy birthday to me.
I remember playing Atari Football and was big into Track and Field and Hyper Sports. So many quarters at the bowling alley just to get that gopher to appear on the pole vault.