any older players out there?

[rainichan]

Pfft lucky you I'm almost fully grey at 41 and I started getting them when I was 15...

Most are on the side of my head at my temples, all the whispy hair there haha. Husband says he doesn't notice them but I think he's pulling my leg.

Granted for me going grey at 15 as a woman was not great... especially when people were always like "hey did you know you have grey hair?" The only thing that kept me slightly sane was hair dye but with how long I keep my hair, I would buy 2 bottles or more of the box dye or spending over 40 dollars a month for it to be done professionally got expensive.

I have really long hair too so if I ever go to dye it... god I shudder to think how bad it'll be in cost. My hair is currently long enough for me to sit on, comes down to about my lower thigh now.

I remember playing games in DoS format. Typing /win to boot your computer. If you had a 1 gig harddrive you were on top. AoL on a dial up lan line was the top social media platform. Oh and my old Windows 486 computer. Good golly those were the days!

My family's first computer was a 486 Windows? What was that?! DOS was it and navigating that to play games (until my dad's friend hooked us up with Magellan, lord that makes me feel extra old) was a pain. But after we made our foray into Windows with 98? Perfection. AOL with its dial up and the agonizing NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO you'd have when people would call... that's unlocking some core memories right there.

You have to figure, the first major arcade games came out back in 1980. For a long time the notion has been that older people don't play games or even know what them Marios are, but at this point it's perfectly within reason to expect people in their early 50s to have come up on the early games and have been playing them for 40 years. In short, yeah, there's a metric assload of them around even if they aren't saying anything to identify themselves.

My dad got me my NES when I was 4. I think he played it more than me. He carried me through Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers and the absolute HYPE on his face when he beat the first 4 levels was great. After that he loved when Christmas rolled around and I asked for (and they could get) a new system for me because damn he loved seeing the way the graphics looked. Seeing the intro movie for FFX (both the piece with To Zanarkand and then the fmv where Otherworld played) he was floored, and then got even moreso seeing FFXIII in action. He definitely played Pong and all when he was younger lol.

[DixieBellOCE]

Mid 30s, starting to feel the burnout on todays MMO's.

People love the 'gimme reward now' gameplay that nearly every game has at the moment, finding it hard to enjoy games that dont have some long term goals

[DixieBellOCE]

Most are on the side of my head at my temples, all the whispy hair there haha. Husband says he doesn't notice them but I think he's pulling my leg.



I have really long hair too so if I ever go to dye it... god I shudder to think how bad it'll be in cost. My hair is currently long enough for me to sit on, comes down to about my lower thigh now.



My family's first computer was a 486 Windows? What was that?! DOS was it and navigating that to play games (until my dad's friend hooked us up with Magellan, lord that makes me feel extra old) was a pain. But after we made our foray into Windows with 98? Perfection. AOL with its dial up and the agonizing NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO you'd have when people would call... that's unlocking some core memories right there.



My dad got me my NES when I was 4. I think he played it more than me. He carried me through Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers and the absolute HYPE on his face when he beat the first 4 levels was great. After that he loved when Christmas rolled around and I asked for (and they could get) a new system for me because damn he loved seeing the way the graphics looked. Seeing the intro movie for FFX (both the piece with To Zanarkand and then the fmv where Otherworld played) he was floored, and then got even moreso seeing FFXIII in action. He definitely played Pong and all when he was younger lol.

I remember my dad beating Alex the Kid on the old SM2 before i did, was kinda shattered
Always competitive household when it came to games XD

[UkcsAlias]

36. Have been gaming since i was 8.

FFXIV is the first MMO for me and FFX was the first FF game for me.

And some other details:
Most played genre: FPS
First game i played: Tetris (probably not the official one on that though)
First multiplayer game: Red faction.
Most played game: team fortress 2 (4000h)
Favorite side activity for games: Level design (hammer does not track the time spent in it, but is easily 2000h for tf2 and css)

[PirateRyanG]

34 here.

First MMO was FFXI (which took an age to be released in Europe)

I know 34 isn't all that old, but I am struggling to keep up with the youngspeak in game. "that's good bruh" and "man, you were leet"

[Myrany]

Mid 30s, starting to feel the burnout on todays MMO's.

People love the 'gimme reward now' gameplay that nearly every game has at the moment, finding it hard to enjoy games that dont have some long term goals

You could give LOTRO a go. It is possible to unlock the entire game without ever spending a cent on it. The grind to do it is enormous but it is possible. There is a long term goal for you.

[Aarin]

Yup... 30+ here an closing in on only 40 young!!!

[george357]

am 65 and still playing game is a lot of fun to play.

[Blood_Blossoms]

what are we talking or we here am almost 30 and been playing from 1.0 but yeah, I know people in there 50s to 70s who play

[MistyMew]

older player here!

Will casually play games until my final days, Im sure of that.