Pretty sure you were in Austin however.I wrote and played games, using paper tape feeds, back in the 70's.
The PDP-8 allowed the 8x8 Star Trek to be expanded to a 64x64 universe on an 8" floppy. I wrote my own.
I am an Eisenhower Administration build, rejected from the factory. Started flying, and firing automatic weapons before JFK went to Dallas. Avoid Dallas.
I am also a dog.
Just hit 49 today, so yeah, one of the oldish ducks. Never played '84, I grew up in the Chris Roberts Space Game franchise but switched to ED because it was closer to what I envisioned as a proper spaceship game.
My brother (20-ish) doesn't actually play any longer despite having gotten me hooked... :/I'll predicate by saying I have no hard evidence for this, only anecdotal. That said, the demographic of the player base does seem to be older. The game style is generally pretty old-school as well (too much for me). The mechanics are quite unsophisticated and repetitive for 2019. I'm not sure if it's designed that way because the players are older....or the players are older because the mechanics are unlikely to appeal to many younger gamers.
Anyway, I digress. The average player age must be over 40.
The mechanics are quite unsophisticated and repetitive for 2019. I'm not sure if it's designed that way because the players are older....or the players are older because the mechanics are unlikely to appeal to many younger gamers.
Aaah, a like minded soul - I still remember my Machine Code debugging sessions on my BBC Master, all while my "peers" were having fun outside, fools.That predates me. I typed my games in Commodore Basic from the back of a magazine, at first with no option to save! Eventually I could save them to tape, then disk, then better disk. I also learned to write my own games, including some of my own 6502 assembly subroutines for performance. Sure beat "dating" and going to dances and all that nonsense my classmates were doing at the time, LOL.
Watch who you're calling old ya young whippersnapper (53 yoa and been gaming since Pong)That's a very good question! I thought myself as old (40s) due to the majority of players I interact with on my platform, but then I came to this forum and slowly realized that I'm probably "young" by comparison. If I were a PC gamer still, I probably never would have used "Old Duck" as a name, since I kinda expect PC gamers to be old (sorry), whereas console gamers are often the younger millennials and Gen-Z, at least that's been my experience.
So I guess from my frame-of-reference, "old" is 50+ and young is 30s and below... Anyone in their 40s is "just right", unless they use C64 to say that EBL is acceptable
That predates me. I typed my games in Commodore Basic from the back of a magazine, at first with no option to save! Eventually I could save them to tape, then disk, then better disk. I also learned to write my own games, including some of my own 6502 assembly subroutines for performance. Sure beat "dating" and going to dances and all that nonsense my classmates were doing at the time, LOL.
52 is not old - at least not once you reach it, it suddenly becomes very young