General / Off-Topic What AGE Are Our Elite Dangerous Players ....
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63 here. Bought my first computer early 1985 "Atari ST" Elite one of the first games I bought. Coffin dodger? Retired for 4 yrs now. Only 41 eh? Enjoy the next 20 to 30 years you're going to work. 
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63 here. Bought my first computer early 1985 "Atari ST" Elite one of the first games I bought. Coffin dodger? Retired for 4 yrs now. Only 41 eh? Enjoy the next 20 to 30 years you're going to work.
I'm a thirtysomething who's been retired for twelve years.
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snap.. 41 here too. cut my teeth on the speccy 48k version and very limited time on bbc. Fell in love on the amiga version however
if you are serious then good work dude. i am v envious of you. My dream is still to retire at 60. according to my phone (opens phone and looks at front page) 6746 days, 15hrs 25 mins and... 18secs to go
I first got it on the speccy. I got the "Supreme Challenge" compilation, and to this day it remains the best ever game pack I have ever bought:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/zx-spectrum/supreme-challenge/cover-art/gameCoverId,310632/
Ace 2 was a bit crappy, but hell everything else was amazing. Someone should remake The Sentinel and Starglider post haste!
Hehe, I got the same compilation for C64.
47 this time round (November) played the very first ELITE on my younger step brothers Amstrad, good old tape loading, ten minutes of pure angst and worry praying it would complete BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE (if I could even knowing all I know now I'd go back and just live my 13-16 years old period over and over and not just because of elite it was just a fantastic period in my life before ACTUAL LIFE gave me a reality slap on the chops).
Looking back we were actually both pioneers in elite back then using the first every multi player system (two chairs swapping piloting duties)
also the for runner to inara and all the rest (note book and pen)
(note I will admit being 7yrs older and 7 stone bigger than my brother I did far more piloting than co piloting but as I visited only at weekends the little sod cancelled it all out by getting ELITE first [mad]).
Looking back we were actually both pioneers in elite back then using the first every multi player system (two chairs swapping piloting duties)
also the for runner to inara and all the rest (note book and pen)
(note I will admit being 7yrs older and 7 stone bigger than my brother I did far more piloting than co piloting
but as I visited only at weekends the little sod cancelled it all out by getting ELITE first [mad]).wow that is quite the pack i agree!!!. Starglider was superb, as was number 2.
I remember being dazzled by the musical intro to starglader, on my amiga it had SPEECH
a bit of random chat.... my mates dad worked at a dump and found a massive stash of starglider 2 tapes. He bought them home. Sadly it was just the audio track which was meant to go with the game, and not the game itself so not quite as exciting as the Atari 2600 ET find. still i kept it anyway... until i got my own copy with the game. Not sure why a load were binned
Maturity is not always gauged by age. We were all young(er) once. Though some of us may be challenged remembering.
Chief
I well intend to continue to play in the grave, For the pleasure and to kill the boredom
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Thinking about it: The last thing I want to see, is the re-buy screen.I well intend to continue to play in the grave, For the pleasure and to kill the boredom
As someone far wiser than I once said:
Growing old may be mandatory, but growing up is optional.
21 here, first experiened sci fi when i was 11 or so and my first sci fi game: X2: the threat
A mature person never judges another person's maturity on their age, looks, words or actions in one moment.
We were all new born once.
Starglider 2 came with a music tape from Dave Lowe!
[video=youtube;0u2HtSZokes]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u2HtSZokes[/video]
Remember refuelling on those powerlines? Both Stargliders did that.
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.... and growing old is much better than the alternative.
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41... and my mid-life crisis consists not of buying a sportscar, leaving my family and getting hair plugs, but rather eating very healthily, getting enough sleep, drinking very moderately and exercising very regularly.
Never felt better (and soon, will have never looked better). My mid-life crisis is the best thing that ever happened to me.
Never felt better (and soon, will have never looked better). My mid-life crisis is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Excellent initiative here
