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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Texasmame on August 30, 2006, 10:09:43 pm
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I'm in the thirtysomething crowd, as I would guess most are here.
Be honest, ;)
John in TX
p.s - I have another poll running in CONSOLES, too - what are your two favorite classic consoles!
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35 here...another interesting poll. :)
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24 here. It'll be interesting to see how this turns out after a few dozen more replies. We might be in for a surprise...
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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.
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so this poll will confirm what we expect-that this forum is full of sad has beens like me and young fools with nothing better to do :cheers:
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32 physical years going on 17 mental years.
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35 years old here. I am just to stupid to figure out that I am getting old.
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Voted truthfully, however will not disclose age here...
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36. and this time i see you have a few more choices ;D
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Everyone beware...Texas is with the CIA, NSA, FBI, and many other 3 leter organizations. He is collecting data to put in our perminant files. You can tell because of the very scary moose eating shark in the background of his avitar. He's putting the lock down on all of us. Run while you still can... Must Break freeeeeee.
Oh, I am at the very young and parinoid age of 35.
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Hello all,
35 Here, wife is 43. I have her hooked on Bust-a-Move and Hatris. I am mad at her, because she beat me last night on our daily Bust-a-Move challenge.
Zud
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Erm..thir...oh...erm..........bugger ???
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26 here, mentally about 16.:)
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Will be 27 in a few days. Young enough to not remember disco, old enough to know what "Flock of Seagulls" hair is.
My g/f is 21 (22 in dec). She gets lost with all my references to stuff in the 80s and all the games on the MAME machine I refurbed.
I'm wondering what the "cutoff line" in age for people to really know what an arcade used to look like; a bunch of games with joysticks, spinners, and buttons. Not all gun/dance pad/motion sensor/misc prop games.
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young fools with nothing better to do
Ouch, you nailed it. I'm 22.
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I be 27!
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36
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I was 29 two days ago and that was cool. 30 seems strange so far. :)
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I was 29 two days ago and that was cool. 30 seems strange so far. :)
It's that Hippie Love Flower...
;D
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36 here. Amazing how many of us fall into the 36-39 category.
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I'm wondering what the "cutoff line" in age for people to really know what an arcade used to look like; a bunch of games with joysticks, spinners, and buttons. Not all gun/dance pad/motion sensor/misc prop games.
Arcades make me cry now. I was at a few in OC, MD, and most are just complete crap. However, one near the pier did have few classics.. Ms. Pac-man, Tron, DK Jr, Tetris, Galaga, and a broken Dragon's Lair. However, there's nothing in between those and Time Crisis 4. No MK, no Killer Instinct, no Final Fight... I had to search just to find games with joysticks.
Anyway, enough of the off-topic rant. I'm here at 25.
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Weird numbers.
Does everyone die when they hit 40? Or only their interest in retro gaming?
Hope I'm not next! :P
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. ;)
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Arcades make me cry now. I was at a few in OC, MD, and most are just complete crap. However, one near the pier did have few classics.
let's just say that my fondest memories of the ocean city boardwalk are of acres of pinball machines, punctuated by the occasional "computer space" or "pong". it was a paradise! (fishing from the end of the pier under the floodlights after midnight was another truly unique experience...)
i guess that puts me in randyT's class :)
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Weird numbers.
Does everyone die when they hit 40? Or only their interest in retro gaming?
Hope I'm not next! :P
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. ;)
I bet if this poll is taken in 5-10 years, everyone will be in their 40s. I think it was just the timing of the video game revolution personally. People in their 40s now were probably old enough in the 80s to do more interesting things like drink and chase women. ;D
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oops... meant to edit previous post... must be getting old...
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33
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33
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31 here... but only for a few more days. Ack! I'm old!
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Young whippersnappers! :laugh2:
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36 .......But I don't feel a day over 35
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I'm not saying anything, I just voted...
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i just turned 18 this year, but i started looking around these forum kinda where the poll begins... heheh, id be surprized there would even be a local US arcade in a decade.
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Weird numbers.
Does everyone die when they hit 40? Or only their interest in retro gaming?
Hope I'm not next! :P
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. ;)
Or they're sleeping!!! :laugh2:
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43 here....
Even remember the days when Pong was in the game rooms....
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Or they're sleeping!!! :laugh2:
z z zz z z.....unkkk..wha? Somebody say something? .<cough>......zzz z zzz z zzzz..........
:)
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36
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42
I just type slower now.
I remember when we used to have to walk to the arcade uphill both ways in 2 feet of snow. ;D
Did I mention I live in Florida.
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33.875-ish give or take a month or so.
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Texas, can you change the poll so we can we pick our 3 favorite ages?
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34
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Just turned 30 and my forehead seems to be getting bigger
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I may be getting old (38) but I do have a big willy. Where is the poll for that?
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I may be getting old (38) but I do have a big willy. Where is the poll for that?
Nobody would answer that one accurately, so there would need to be visual verification and NOBODY wants to see that (I hope....)
RandyT
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41. Cool thing is come January I'll be the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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38 here and thanks for all the fish!
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I think your profile display for everyone should show your age in terms of your year of birth before PONG or after PONG
EG 6BP
I dunno :dizzy:
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kinda like before candy bc?
im an old timer clockin in at 18. but dont let that fool you im wise beyond my years yet immature in a dashing sort of way. make sense so far? good.
i like polls since thats where the hot girls are.
wait how is 42 the answer to everything? i know from the movie but i dont get it? ;)and is it really everything? like how old will you be in next year or what number comes after 41? or the age i will die at or how about the amount of times people will call me crazy in this topic? ;)
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wait how is 42 the answer to everything? i know from the movie but i dont get it? ;)
I cried a little when I read that. :'(
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Texas, can you change the poll so we can we pick our 3 favorite ages?
;D
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Quote from: SithMaster on Today at 09:14:06 PM
wait how is 42 the answer to everything? i know from the movie but i dont get it?
I cried a little when I read that.
this is what happens when im left to my own devices for too long. chaos and sorrow insue.
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I'm 15
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24 on the 7th ;)
:angry: :applaud: :badmood: :banghead: :cry: :blah: :notworthy: :censored: :dizzy: :cheers: :troll: :hissy: :lame: :laugh2: :soapbox: :spam: :tool: :timebomb:
SinceI missed out on the post about the smiley guys ;)
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41.
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32 here
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25
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41
Some of us have consoles older than half the posters in this thread. :)
And I achieved my first videogame world record a quater century ago.
Darren
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Some of us have consoles older than half the posters in this thread. :)
And I achieved my first videogame world record a quater century ago.
Darren
you've got my curiosity now, which record and when/where?
edit: i did the slightly creepy thing of googling you:
http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=22&p=13369
nice work :)
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39 here.
Interesting that 50% of pollers are 32-39. I didn't expect such a tight grouping. And I also expected a lot more Pong and Space Invaders geezers in here.
-pmc
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Some of us have consoles older than half the posters in this thread. :)
And I achieved my first videogame world record a quater century ago.
Darren
you've got my curiosity now, which record and when/where?
edit: i did the slightly creepy thing of googling you:
http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=22&p=13369
nice work :)
Ooooh. Star Trek. Great game, sucky monitor. :P
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just turned 15.
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Some of us have consoles older than half the posters in this thread. :)
40, and I've got BYOAC projects older than about 40% of the posters here.
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35 here, but I don't feel a day under 50, so I got that going for me
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I am 34... with nothing witty to add.
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41
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woohoo...26 here. old enough to remember when they use to put the hard as a rock piece of "chewing gum" in the baseball card packs.
ahhh yes, i remember those days. sneaking a dollar from the 'rents dresser, running down to the liquor store, buying a pack of cards at $.40 and then playing some galaga
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42. I started college the year Tron and Joust came out. Spent more time on Gyruss than in the study lounge. Finished with a lousy GPA, but I could make it to Earth routinely, so I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
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i remember those days. sneaking a dollar from the 'rents dresser, running down to the liquor store, buying a pack of cards at $.40 and then playing some galaga
Galaga used to be a card game? Wow, you really are old!
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wait i thought the first card game was magic? wait when the dune one come out?
how would that be played someone moves their cards at you or throws them at you and you have to try and ..................
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Spent more time on Gyruss than in the study lounge. Finished with a lousy GPA, but I could make it to Earth routinely, so I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
Tempest had a huge impact on my Physics grades. ;)
I knew another guy who pretty nearly got kicked out of school because of the impact of a student union arcade.
-pmc
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34
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28
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35 here :)
I remember going into a Arcade and playing Karate Champ and then going back some time later to play again only to see this 'Cartoon' game next to it Dragon's Lair.
I was like WOW :o And it has remained in my mind ever since. Space Ace is what I love (and own) But I love the old '85 Atari games :applaud:
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38 since August 6th
My first arcade memory is Space Invaders 8)
Oh, I forgot: I have to add 3 years for being married and 4 more years for the two kids ;D
Just kidding: 38 !!! ::)
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38
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I remember going into a Arcade and playing Karate Champ..
Oh yeah? I remember when you played "Karate Champ" by trying to kick the other guy in the oysters to make him miss the ball with his paddle. :laugh2:
(I also thought DL and SA was amazing...I knew a guy who had a DL in his house. Used to play it for hours while drinking flavored brandy on ice.....wasn't really my drink, but it was his and he had the DL machine :) )
RandyT
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I'm old enough to remember playing the circus game (obviously the mind is going cuz I can't remember the name of the game...it was like circus atari) and thinking Dragster was one of the coolest games ever.
Mentally I'm around 13...which is why I get along with the kids so well...and speaking of kids...it made me happy to hear my childrens friend begging me to hook up the Atari 2600....ahhh those were the days.
Oh yeah...I'm 38.
Xam
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First game was the fake wood finish control panel pong game in my Uncle's basement. He had a honking huge wood ladden B&W TV and I played there for HOURS.
Still have Tron and Galaga as my all-time favorite uprights though.
Oooo Oooo and A-Team/Knight Rider. Was a huge fan. So geeked they're putting them back on cable. Although, I did watch some KR a few days ago, and man was it cheeeeezy. How did the Hof survive that I'll never know.
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23, and all three of the arcade machines I own are older than I am. Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, and Dig-Dug.
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39, but still 12 inside.
Long live the kid inside all of us. :cheers:
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a very interesting age distribution going on here... (sorry, just took a 400 level stats course last semester)
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41
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Wow there seems to have been an infusion of 40-somethings. For a long while I was one of only a few it seemed.
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I knew a guy who had a DL in his house. Used to play it for hours while drinking flavored brandy on ice.....wasn't really my drink, but it was his and he had the DL machine :) )
Did you call him Michael or Mr. Jackson?
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They print my age on the back of every Rolling Rock bottle.
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38
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Wow there seems to have been an infusion of 40-somethings. For a long while I was one of only a few it seemed.
you still are. people just felt sorry for you and lied about their age ;D
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That explains it. :badmood:
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That explains it. :badmood:
Damn you're old... You're at least 3 or 4 years older than me!
;D
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DAMNED KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN.
It's cliche'd by now and I use it too much, but it fits
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I am 29 years old. The first home console we had was the orginal Mattel INTELLIVISION. We got it when it came out in 1979. I was just 2 years old. My dad and brother played it. I started playing it when I was four in about 1982. We played Nightstalker and I think it was called B17 Bomber. It had this voice thing attachment on there. Then in like 1983 we got the INTELLIVISION 2. My favorite game on there was Burgertime. Then we got the NES in 1985, Super NES in 1991, N64 in 1996, Gamecube and Xbox in 1999. Now I have a Xbox 360. We would go to the Arcades all the time growing up though. Man we had some fun times!
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Wow, I'm in the old guy over the hill cat. I figured there'd be more guys 40 and over, uness all the 35-39 are really 39 ;-) I mean I was a teen in the hayday of the arcades, and was starting it's downward tumble when I turned 20 in 1985.
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*bump*
After it's off page 1 again, I'll lock the voting.
Thanx to all for the participation! :applaud:
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Count me among the old farts. I am an ancient 46.
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*bump*
After it's off page 1 again, I'll lock the voting.
Thanx to all for the participation! :applaud:
Why lock it? Let 'er go. You can even request voters to post so it bumps it. :applaud:
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Could request a sticky!
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43 here. I got a month til I have to change stats.
:applaud: GO BIRDS!! :applaud:
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39.....
For a few more weeks anyway.
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Hi all,
I'm a noob here but an old one, weighing in at 47 i can still vividly remember playing Pong at the local country pub (south australia) in the early 1973 era. This game was great, with carefull manipulation of the paddles you could get the ball (dot) to ricochet back and forth while leaving the machine to go get drink refills, then returning to pickup on your game play where you left off. Later came the addition of an Asteroid cocktail (a little more challenging at the time) and a new 8-ball table that had non ripped felt and was actually "level". Early 1979-ish and space invaders hit the local food cafe'. This game DOMINATED and i can still remember standing in line (sometimes for hours) just waiting for my turn to "have a go". This also took the pressure off the old "well thrashed" 50's 60's pin table KINGS & QUEENS (which accepted 5c coins at the time - ahh the good ol' days). Due to the public demand SPACE INVADERS created, around 1981-ish the shop took delivery of 4 more new machines GALAXIAN PACMAN (cocktail) PHEONIX and PLEIDES (at last color & real game play) i played these last 4 machines extensively till the mid 80's when "real life" put a stop to my gaming life and i had to contend with a new family. There was another game there and for the life of me i can't remember what it was called, it was a circular maze mounted on the wall about 2 feet in diameter with plexi on the front and a steering wheel mounted in the centre, you would put a 2c coin in the top and navigate the maze by turning the wheel left & right, with a bit of practice you could play this thing for hours as your coin would come out the bottom. Anyway's i'm starting to ramble here, just thought i'd share a few memories from when these machines were all "Shiny & Brand New".
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Due to the public demand SPACE INVADERS created, around 1981-ish the shop took delivery of 4 more new machines GALAXIAN PACMAN (cocktail) PHEONIX and PLEIDES (at last color & real game play) i played these last 4 machines extensively till the mid 80's ".
Hmmm I was 11 at that time (In Sydney) now 37. Occasionally the smell wafting from a 'Milk Bar' reminds me of those days. As you say waiting for Hours for your go. I never mastered the Galaga and Crazy Kong special cheat moves I saw others do while I was waiting.
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31. Been playing arcade games for a quater of a century, had a gaming machine since the old Atari VCS 'woodie' back in 1981 and have been using mame since mame 030. Started converting cabs about 5 years ago thanks to the help of fellow BYOACers.
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Don't go to the next page!
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Don't go to the next page!
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At some point, everybody that's going to answer will have already done it.
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...old enough to wish I was a teenager again ;)
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I thought 24-27 would have been in the lead by now. I hope no one done the old i will be 28 in a month or so trick and went for the higher age catagory that would ruin it .
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I've had a woodie since 1977!
(I'm supposed to call the Viagra guys after 4 hours, right?)
;D
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I thought 24-27 would have been in the lead by now.
It would've been about 9 years ago, but never again.
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You need to find a better way to fight a significant other. really.
and if you have a viagra erection for more than 4 hours you call your friends to boast and show off. really havok i thought youd know that. wait your telling us right now so thats okay i guess.
really since 1977?
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36 over here and from the Netherlands. I remember playing 1942 and Kung Fu Master a lot. Also "In the Hunt", great game!
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Happily in the majority :)
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Just turned 31, i figured out that i have more fun in building controls that in playng. MAybe I'm getting older.
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People say I am very much 'in touch' with my inner 8 year old.
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*bump* for newbies.
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I think the poll makes perfect sense. I'm on the young end for people who lived through the "classic game" period. I'm 27, born in '79. I was 5 at the end of the classic period, but those were the same games, and many of the sequals and games based off those games, that I played in the arcades, pizza shops and roller rinks.
The guys in their upper 30s were tweens and teens who had the paper routes to support their gaming habits, and really were old enough to rock those games.
I was lucky enough to have parents who were happy to be rid of us by dropping us at the arcade while they ran errands. God bless you mom and dad! :angel:
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34 Here :cheers:
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25 Here.
Never really had a full blown arcade near me growing up, but the local roller rink had like 20 machines.
I remember when they got their first driving cab. We'd wait for hours to get a go at it.
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32 here.
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32.
Memories: I was in the mid to late 80s era local arcade and convenience store scene.
When I was barely old enough to remember much, I'd be in what seemed like huge arcades packed with games I could never afford to play to my fill. This would include space invaders although it was kind of unexciting to me. Dig Dug was there and I'd play that more often but it was still kind of dull to me, too cartoonish. I'd try games like Gyruss but they were a bit out of my league for that age. I think my first favourite game I liked to keep putting money in was Roc n Rope, though I could have sworn it was called Rope Man in that arcade. I accidentally found it in mame as roc n rope.
The four beeps with the stop lights in the attract mode of pole position will always remind me of 7-eleven slurpees and vice versa. I just moved to an apartment complex near a 7 eleven that always had 2 arcade games constantly rotating on a monthly basis and that's where I acquired most of today's MAME nostalgia. Pole position was installed when I moved there and every time I was in the store I'd hear the 4 beeps, they were very frequent and must have driven the girls at the cash register nuts.
Also in that store is where I discovered spy hunter, paper boy, IKARI, Karnov, Gauntlet, Xenophobe, Arkanoid, Double Dragon, Rampage, Rush n attack, Exciting Hour, Cheyene, Kung Fu Master
In a fish & chip store in that same little zone of stores, also had 2 rotating monthly games. There I discovered Commando, 1942, Xain'd Sleena, Tiger Heli, played some galaga already nostalgia by then for me
In a full arcade a short bike ride away is where I found Twin Cobra as a brand new installed game and loved it from day 1, became mesmerized by the already simplistic yet strangely enigmatic Tron, and the rest of the games I would have already been exposed to.
In a dept store entranceway in a mall, I saw Karate Champ and a kid there showed me how to win most rounds before I ever put a quarter in: Walk up to the guy, press left joystick up and right joystick down to jump over opponent, then push both joysticks toward each other to back kick and knock him down.
WIthin the next few years when I moved again, the arcade in the local mall introduced me to Guerrilla War, Contra, R-Type, Shinobi, Bubble Bobble (gay as that is to mention), Space shuttle/station pinball and Banzai Run Pinball, XYbots, Bad Dudes, Rolling Thunder, Ninja Gaiden, Golden Axe, Robocop
That was the end of my era. Beyond that point I started noticing that when I'd walk into an arcade I'd see 8 street fighters beside each other or 8 sit down racing games networked together, and I'd walk through the place finding nothing of interest, probably see 2 or 3 machines in the very back that MAY be powered up, if so they'd have all yellowed screens or the joysticks wouldn't work reliably in certain directions, that would be Galaga, Pacman, sometimes a centipede. Then I turned to Mame.
Started discovering many games I never knew about back in 98 and NOW they are nostalgia to me (Rastan). WHen I build the cab this year and fully start playing, It'll all come back to me. it's been a dormant hobby for years.
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22 here.
Most of the arcades were gone here in the Netherlands so I grew up on DOS games and Nintendo.
The only arcade I sometimes played at was a small one at Ameland, a small island where I often went on vacation, I can't really remember the names of them but most of them were those big driving cabinets, fight games and a few with guns.
The rest was pinball and in the back some slot machines.
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41 - grew up when arcade machines and arcades really started hitting their strides.
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26 here
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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. :P
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37 going on 21 ;D
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! ;D woohoo
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41 for a few more months.
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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?
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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. ;D
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.
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Another old fart at 44. My brain tells me I'm still 19 - but my body tells me otherwise.
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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
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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...
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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.
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DK-31 in APE years even! hhahahahha
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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??
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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?
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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!
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Good luck on the guessing guys. $5 bucks to the winner. Off of your PP carving... ;)
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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". ??? :dunno i guess it doesnt help that i am only 5'2" & 115 lb.
oh and nope not 25. sorry.
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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?
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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
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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?
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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. ;D
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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...
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What? I thought I was guessing low.
J/K! *ducks and runs*
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In my defense, I was going STRICTLY off the teenage kid. ;D
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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.
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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
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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... :cheers:
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I told Melissa to come on and give the prize to haruman for missing by one.
What do I win? :laugh:
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What do I win? :laugh:
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... :cheers:
I was born on friday the 13th. ;)
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I was born on friday the 13th. ;)
Oh how cool!
... 24th, for me.
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34 here. Glad I missed the guess-the-lady's age contest, although I would have been low & safe. ;D
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20 in a month, I'm actually in the minority, thats surprising.
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28, and surprisingly (for me) on the younger half of the bell curve :o
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34 for another month, then I become middle aged ::)
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55 and still counting. Hope, I am not the only one. :)
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Weird numbers.
Does everyone die when they hit 40? Or only their interest in retro gaming?
Hope I'm not next! :P
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.
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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 :cry: water colored :cry: memories.
Sorry gotta go, I think my mom's calling, must be time for dinner and "Family Ties"
Later,
Brian
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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.
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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 :D
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Turned 40 on the 9th. :'(
But as Groucho Marx said.
"You're only as young as the woman you feel."
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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.
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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
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As of Yesterday I'm 33...Where's my cane... :dizzy:
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I'm 28, but I only just voted, and when the poll was first posted I was 27.
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I think it is neat that we have a distribution that matches the bell curve. Maybe theres something to those statistics after all.
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I just turned 26 earlier this month.
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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.
Lucky Cockroach.
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Lucky Cockroach.
No luck involved... just money. ;)
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Lucky Cockroach.
No luck involved... just money. ;)
<raises eyebros> Not quite the difference, but when I was 32, my girlfriend (the ex with the child, now) was just18. Thing is, the young ones you often gotta teach....sometimes just how to kiss. I prefer salty females (ya, go an joke).
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Like pirates salty, or sweaty salty?
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Please, I'd have to go beyond the parental rating of the forum - but, depending, both.