POLL: How old are you?

[canardo]

26 here

[clockwork]

36 quickly approaching 37 here. When I started playing MMOs years ago, at 29, I heard the average gamer age was somewhere around 25-30. Now they say the average gamer is in the 30s. Go figure. 

[Solocade2008]

37 going on 21 

I just recently discovered the art of MAME cabinet building. I knew MAME and roms were around and I had been using the x-arcade joystick to play them, but something was missing. My favorites are the old fighter games and I could not perform some of the moves using the joystick because it kept shifting around on my desk. I also like to stand while I play. It's too embarassing to visit arcades at my age so I had only memories.

But then stumbled upon this site and feel in love all over again!  woohoo

[Tailgunner]

41 for a few more months.

[Naru]

I'm 32.
Being in the arcades back
in the 80's was heaven for me.
I seriously want to fill my home
with arcade machines.
In 32 years, hanging in the old arcades
was the pinnacle of my life.
That's sounds kinda' sad doesn't it?

[Texasmame]

I'm 32.
Being in the arcades back
in the 80's was heaven for me.
I seriously want to fill my home
with arcade machines.
In 32 years, hanging in the old arcades
was the pinnacle of my life.
That's sounds kinda' sad doesn't it?

No, not really. 

I still look at the time I was 10 to 13 (80 to 83) as the best years of my life.  Plenty of money, what with my paper route and all (heh); no worries; I had an Atari 2600 with 31 games; no "real world" concerns - just a pocket full of quarters or hours in front of my VCS was all it took to make me very happy.  

In the three years I collected, 50 or so games shuttled their way in and out of my basement arcade.  The memories all of it brought back were priceless.  I'll always look back on my collecting days with great joy and be eternally grateful to my wife for allowing all that silliness to take up what was supposed to be her beautiful, finished basement retreat. 

Go for it.

[CC6264]

Another old fart at 44. My brain tells me I'm still 19 - but my body tells me otherwise.

[Gaston77]

I am 29 YO. Mental age is 29-16(amount of years ago when Streetfighter 2 came out) = 13. And I will be stuck at 13 mental years. Hail to videogames, they keep us young at heart!!!!

To quote some wise words that Bono sings; "Time won't take the boy out of this man!"
DAMN RIGHT

[yalborap]

I'm one of the young guys at the age of 16.  At one time I thought I was the youngest.  I may not be the youngest but I'm damn close.  I spend much of my time at my cabinet and even more time tweaking it.  No help from mommy ether other the ocasinal can you hold this for a second.

I've probably been beaten already, but I'm personally 15. I'm not much of an oldschool obsessive, though, so generally just emulation via consoles is enough to satisfy me. I'll be honest, there are many a time I wish I could get into it as much as you guys do, but sadly I just wasn't born early enough.

Now then, to actually read through the bloody thread...

[diverdown]

32

Just for curiosity I klov'ed the first game I remember playing.

Arkanoid.   WOW I played it when it was new......... Ahh the days of jumping the caravan park managers back fence, stealing ( I mean borrowing) the bucket of 20c coins taken from the parks BBQs and returning them back to the arkanoid machine in the games room.


And before you start a caravan park is a trailer park but we actually went there to stay while on holiday. Not live there like MnM


hmmm  maybe it was a subliminal thing but i found myself FORCED to buy a spinner as soon as I got my 1st cab.

[Donkey_Kong]

DK-31 in APE years even! hhahahahha

 

[Melissa Jones]

ok before i tell you how old i am i would like to know how old you all think that i am.... no one ever gets it right, lets see how you guys do.  you have all seen pictures of me, so how old do i look??

[HaRuMaN]

ok before i tell you how old i am i would like to know how old you all think that i am.... no one ever gets it right, lets see how you guys do.  you have all seen pictures of me, so how old do i look??

I would say...  25.  Am I close?

[Donkey_Kong]

ok before i tell you how old i am i would like to know how old you all think that i am.... no one ever gets it right, lets see how you guys do.  you have all seen pictures of me, so how old do i look??

Well they have a bit of a hint right above your head but maybe they would believe that I'm robbing the cradle or something. Or, like when people think that I am your dad Melissa. That is the best. Or, at the Drive-up window of the bank when they give out three suckers, 1 for each of the boys and one for you. Oooh you hate it when they do that!

 

Good luck on the guessing guys. $5 bucks to the winner. Off of your PP carving...

[Melissa Jones]

yeah i have been carded for the dumbest things.... like the arcade at a casino a few years ago, the sign by the door said "must be 12 years old if not with a parent".   i guess it doesnt help that i am only 5'2" & 115 lb.

oh and nope not 25. sorry.

[clockwork]

You look very young, but since you seem to be suggesting you're a lot older that you get taken for, I'm going to guess you're older than DK. 32?

[Donkey_Kong]

I'm 32.
Being in the arcades back
in the 80's was heaven for me.
I seriously want to fill my home
with arcade machines.
In 32 years, hanging in the old arcades
was the pinnacle of my life.
That's sounds kinda' sad doesn't it?

Not really what-so-ever is that sad, in fact I BELIEVE we are all in the same boat here!

Brem too high...haruman too low

[HaRuMaN]

Brem too high...haruman too low

I'd rather be too low than too high, lol.  Ok.  I'll guess my age.  28.  Am I right?

[shardian]

I believe I saw a picture over on your site that showed you have a teenage son, so I will say 32...please forgive me.

[Donkey_Kong]

I told Melissa to come on and give the prize to haruman for missing by one.

She is 29. I pity the fools that went over. JK  Most think she is 12 when they see her in person. Well maybe like 14 now a days. When my 13 year old calls her mom in public she gets dirty dirty looks from the grammas sometimes.

Whad ya do? We started young...We are having fun with our kids though cause it is like there is almost virtually no generation gap. It is nuts. We all went to a GREEN DAY show like a year ago...was fricken great. Got a 30 seat box and a bunch of friends from our last life showed up to join the party.

EDIT: Melissa wants pics...Here is our family...

[clockwork]

What? I thought I was guessing low.

J/K! *ducks and runs*

[shardian]

In my defense, I was going STRICTLY off the teenage kid. 

[Melissa Jones]

yep, i will be 30 in may. and yes i do have a 13 year old and 11 year old. i was really young when i had them.

jason is that the only family pic that we have?? i think everyone was in a bad mood except you in that picture.

[Donkey_Kong]

yep, i will be 30 in may. and yes i do have a 13 year old and 11 year old. i was really young when i had them.

jason is that the only family pic that we have?? i think everyone was in a bad mood except you in that picture.

Oops!  Imagine that! Well try here then. I just posted a family album where we are all wearing smiles...

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=62248.0

[HaRuMaN]

yep, i will be 30 in may. and yes i do have a 13 year old and 11 year old. i was really young when i had them.

jason is that the only family pic that we have?? i think everyone was in a bad mood except you in that picture.

When in May?  I'll be 29 in May...   

[HaRuMaN]

I told Melissa to come on and give the prize to haruman for missing by one.

What do I win? 

[Melissa Jones]

What do I win? 

i think donkey kong was saying something about a carving.....

Good luck on the guessing guys. $5 bucks to the winner. Off of your PP carving...

When in May?  I'll be 29 in May...   

I was born on friday the 13th. 

[HaRuMaN]

I was born on friday the 13th. 

Oh how cool!

...  24th, for me.

[Chris G]

34 here.   Glad I missed the guess-the-lady's age contest, although I would have been low & safe.   

[Unholyknight]

20 in a month, I'm actually in the minority, thats surprising.

[Mattiekrome]

28, and surprisingly (for me) on the younger half of the bell curve 

[mailman3028]

34 for another month, then I become middle aged

[newbee]

55 and still counting. Hope, I am not the only one. 

[markt]

Weird numbers. 

Does everyone die when they hit 40?  Or only their interest in retro gaming?

Hope I'm not next!   


RandyT

*edit*  More likely is the probability that the older folks are less likely to accurately report their age, or they don't take part in the poll.

OLDER FOLKS?? Looky here you whippersnapper!!(LOL)
I am 40, and I did report my age correctly.
I'm not dead (yet, if I keep buying new games my wive might kill me though), nor have I lost my interest in retro games.

[bfauska]

Voting on the first day of this post would have bumped me down a whole notch, day 2 notsomuch, but since I missed day one (and the following 6 months), I have to admit to 28.

Pizza parlors, 7-11, Plaid Pantry (garbage pail kids and little 10 cent boxes of candy), the arcade next to the food court in the mall, weekend trips to little towns on the beach (and their accompanying boardwalks), and mom and dad handing me rolls of quarters in Vegas so they could go play their machines and I could play mine. Memories... misty  water colored  memories.

Sorry gotta go, I think my mom's calling, must be time for dinner and "Family Ties"

Later,
Brian

[MYX]

Ahh for me, if I get a whiff of an apple or watermelon jolly rancher that's it man, I get a flood of memories. I used to get the like 6 inch JRs at MR. J's (the local 7-11 type place) and play what ever was there. My parents forced us to go to church (something I could have cared less about at that point in my life, I like it now, but that's not the point is it) Anyway, the church was acrossed the street from Mr. J's too, so we would get dropped off and when they left, we used our offering money to get a Jolly rancher and play a few games of Time Soldiers. 3 quarters was all we had so had to make those games go as far as they could, so it was some serious gaming let me tell you. I have to give kudos where it is due. My brother rocked at Time Soldiers. I was usually out pretty quick, but he could play for a long time. Haven't played that in a long time.

[mwatson]

20 here -  the town next to me used to have a vintage game store that sold old arcade cabs and pinball machines (among other retro game room merchandise). I grew up playing a lot of the arcade classics on an old BBC Microcomputer. I've been playing an assortment of emulators for the past few years on my PC and Xbox, but mamedox wasn't enough for the old classics. I'm a few weekends away from being all finished with my first cab build 

[(+_+)]

Turned 40 on the 9th. 

But as Groucho Marx said.
"You're only as young as the woman you feel."

[Chris G]

But as Groucho Marx said.
"You're only as young as the woman you feel."

That would put my 42 year old boss at about 19.

[Hawk Daddy]

I'm 19, I've always loved the arcade games.  I like the consoles but I'd always prefer a stand up machine.  And Finally I have one, or a couple.

Hawk