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Title: What age where you born in?
Post by: TOMMYGUN on January 09, 2019, 02:10:54 pm
Most of us are 80's or 70's i guess, just wanted to know
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: Nephasth on January 09, 2019, 02:33:40 pm
I was born at age zero. But there is a fundamental problem with how people count age.
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: jdbailey1206 on January 09, 2019, 02:48:18 pm
I was born at age zero. But there is a fundamental problem with how people count age.

I work off the premise that I was nine months old when I was born...
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: opt2not on January 09, 2019, 02:48:22 pm
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06X5HYynP5E#)
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: DaOld Man on January 09, 2019, 02:50:22 pm
I dont see an option for 50's. Does this mean Im not born? That would explain a lot.
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: Mike A on January 09, 2019, 03:06:46 pm
Is that 1850's?
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: ark_ader on January 09, 2019, 03:13:09 pm
I was 9 months when I popped out.  If that helps.

I was born in the Space Age.  A year earlier when Neil did his walkabout.
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: Nephasth on January 09, 2019, 03:20:37 pm
I was born in the Space Age.  A year earlier when Neil did his walkabout.

Silver Screen Age*

That was all faked. ;)
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: jdbailey1206 on January 09, 2019, 04:13:45 pm
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/af409f44d07935203f844e4ea2550088/tumblr_nsrpvkWjqK1roqv59o1_500.png)

(https://66.media.tumblr.com/6bb135a70f0bb8b737e5f45d335c8b05/tumblr_oz0ongposr1roqv59o1_500.png)
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: ark_ader on January 09, 2019, 04:59:22 pm
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/af409f44d07935203f844e4ea2550088/tumblr_nsrpvkWjqK1roqv59o1_500.png)

(https://66.media.tumblr.com/6bb135a70f0bb8b737e5f45d335c8b05/tumblr_oz0ongposr1roqv59o1_500.png)

You already have more than that for 9/11 and your point is?  One is fiction the other is fact.  Both mind boggling in complexity.
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: Ond on January 10, 2019, 03:47:05 am
Good to know I'm not the oldest around here....  I was about 14 when Space Invaders came out..
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: schmerzkaufen on January 10, 2019, 06:09:40 am
Right at the end of the disco era and the rise of Space Invaders.
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: TOMMYGUN on January 10, 2019, 10:11:18 am
I was born in 84 the first video game i ever played was with my father in the Arcades and that was the brand new Final Fight i kicked my dads ass mashing the buttons and i was sold, we had to go, and i said i want this, my dad told me he would buy one for me but never did. I got a NES with Kung FU instead. I was happy
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: DaOld Man on January 10, 2019, 04:58:13 pm
Is that 1850's?

Hardy Har Har...
ummmm.. could be...
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: danny_galaga on January 10, 2019, 05:20:12 pm

Age of Aquarius baby  :afro:
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: Mike A on January 10, 2019, 05:22:44 pm
Hyborian age for me.
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: 05SRT4 on January 10, 2019, 06:10:30 pm
Didn't we already discuss this with Playboy magazines?
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: luizw81 on January 10, 2019, 10:17:00 pm
Born in 81.  I was a latchkey kid growing up in a rough neighborhood so I was basically raised by John Matrix, John Rambo, and my Nintendo. 

When I was 8 we moved across the street from my small towns mall.  So I spent most of my free time hanging out at the arcade...when i didn't have money I would just watch other kids play and shoot the breeze. Man i miss those days!

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Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: javeryh on January 14, 2019, 12:29:57 pm
1974.  Damn that seems ancient when I type it out.
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: Drnick on January 15, 2019, 05:23:24 pm
1974.  Damn that seems ancient when I type it out.

That does not make me feel any better being a year older :)  Although getting asked for ID when buying a beer in USA last september, Priceless
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: Ian on January 15, 2019, 05:55:22 pm
Born in 81.... Couldn't be happier. I got to experience the 80s in my own way, going to arcades and playing outside, and play pick up baseball, malls, Rotary dials... you know all that stuff that kids have no idea about today. All that pre-internet stuff.

I was fortunate to have a gamer for a dad. He introduced me to Atari 2600 and the Atari 400. I remember the arcades had a lot of different games, From Missile Command to the 4-player turtles. Not to mention the Hologram Time Traveler. I also was at a prime age to experience the Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat craze. So I can honestly say I have experienced in the wild most Arcade games from then till now.

What I missed completely is the 70s. And how Arcades were. I see clips from movies like the Original Dawn of the Dead and I go "What game is that?"
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: yotsuya on January 15, 2019, 06:04:34 pm
I was born in 73, but I’ve kind of learned the sweet spot would’ve been born in 69. That way, your teen years would have been the mid 80s and not the early 90s.
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: eds1275 on January 19, 2019, 03:46:18 pm
1982
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: saint on January 21, 2019, 01:38:47 pm
So... there's only one person in this thread who seems to be older than me. :p
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: jennifer on January 21, 2019, 02:30:07 pm
So... there's only one person in this thread who seems to be older than me. :p
This coming from a guy who walks around in a Pacman head?...Dude your younger than all of us put together. :dunno
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: Nephasth on January 21, 2019, 02:30:25 pm
So... there's only one person in this thread who seems to be older than me. :p

---steaming pile of meadow muffin---... We thought you died.
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: opt2not on January 21, 2019, 02:42:44 pm
Millennial = 0.  :lol

Yeah right.   I'm sure there are Millennials here, but are too scared to mark themselves down for fear of ridicule.  ;) Millennial is the new bad word now, replacing hipster, though they aren't exclusive to themselves.
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: yamatetsu on January 21, 2019, 06:26:46 pm
Couldn't resist.

(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=149895.0;attach=374726)
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: smass on January 21, 2019, 07:35:49 pm
1967 Summer of love baby!
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: Locke141 on January 21, 2019, 09:29:16 pm
It seems a version of this thread happens ever so often.

83 for me.
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: Drnick on January 22, 2019, 10:53:08 am
It seems a version of this thread happens ever so often.

83 for me.

Surprisingly the answers don't change that much either :)
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: saint on January 22, 2019, 08:36:59 pm
I got better.

So... there's only one person in this thread who seems to be older than me. :p

---steaming pile of meadow muffin---... We thought you died.
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: saint on January 22, 2019, 08:37:45 pm
Two. Two people in this thread older than me :p

1967 Summer of love baby!
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: saint on January 22, 2019, 08:38:17 pm
 :lol

So... there's only one person in this thread who seems to be older than me. :p
This coming from a guy who walks around in a Pacman head?...Dude your younger than all of us put together. :dunno
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: Gilrock on January 23, 2019, 10:37:39 am
Born 1966.  I remember a few of us riding bikes up to the 7-Eleven to play pinball and the excitement when Asteroids showed up.  Then in high school they opened up an arcade called Fun Spot and my favorite eating place Zero's pizza had a Wizard of War video game.  Several years ago I decided to buy the pinball machine that I remembered being my favorite in Fun Spot so I still own a fully functional Time Warp pin with banana flippers.  I bought a MAME cabinet premade from Hanaho games around 1999 and kept it many years till I gave it away to a friend for his kids.  I've got a full size virtual pinball machine but my build thread was on the HyperSpin website and got archived into non-existence.  I'm back working on finishing my full size virtual arcade machine.
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: DaOld Man on January 23, 2019, 07:27:23 pm
I got better.

So... there's only one person in this thread who seems to be older than me. :p

---steaming pile of meadow muffin---... We thought you died.

I gotta call your hand there Saint.
I got 1957, the year Chevy made a very bad a@@ automobile.
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: saint on January 24, 2019, 06:56:43 am
There are now 3 people in this thread older than me :)
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: jdbailey1206 on January 24, 2019, 10:13:02 am
I gotta call your hand there Saint.
I got 1958, the year Plymouth made a very bad a@@ automobile.

FTFY
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: edekoning on January 24, 2019, 04:27:54 pm
1978 was the year I invaded earth  ;D
Title: Re: What age where you born in?
Post by: Cakemeister on February 26, 2019, 05:30:29 pm
I loved the old vector games. Asteroids, Ripoff, Armor Attack. Then when this new whiz-bang game with all the buttons, called "Defender" came out, people seemed to gravitate to those. Maybe the vector monitors didn't hold up as well.

I grew up in the Golden Age of arcade games (pre video game crash).

I am older than Saint.