played with my dad.

wakeyomega

W
65 next birthday. Hadn't played any games for thirty plus years, PC's were for Excel and other boring stuff. Re-discovered Elite (had a BBC Model B / original Elite back in the day - in fact still have it!)

I'm now kitted up with quad PC, Saitek X52 and a headset. My Grandson sits with me while I play. Love it (except when I get rammed :) )

I see I'm currently one of the 76 'over 60's' (at the time of the poll). I think what gives my age away is the fact that I play 'by the rules' and keep it clean, which probably means I'll lose a lot of ships!!

Pat
 

lysan

lysan
kile said:
Reading this thread and the age poll made me realize why this forum lacks the angry and spiteful trolls you see on so many other forums on the net. I guess one does tend to learn a thing or two with age after all... I'm "only" 40, btw.
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Maybe we are just to tired LOL ;)
 

GonzTheMalificent

GonzTheMalificent
I played Elite alongside my best mate at school on his Dad's BBC B back in the heady early days of Thatcherism.

His Dad started off all "When are you teenagers going to go out and chase girls, you nerdy weirdo's"

After about a week of getting involved over our shoulders it was

"What's that top screen right, Dad?"

"Don't know son, kill it."

Happy days! - He's gone now, alas, but in the Elite Dangerous cockpit in the sky..........
 

gravedodger

gravedodger
I believe I read somewhere, sometime that some scientific boffins or the likes recommend mental stimulation to help ward of senility as you get older ... what a fantastic reason to keep gaming for as long as possible ;)

So ....

Playing Elite Dangerous keeps you young! ... Scientific Fact :D
 

Oss133

Oss133
I am 51. I play a lot of games. Deal with it.

I played the original with a friend on his BBC Model B when the game first came out. I have loved computer games ever since.

My son seems to love it too. Kids, eh?
 

Sioux

Sioux
I'm a dad myself, 44 years old and with 3 children. I've been gaming for over 30 years now.

When I was 12 I played games on a pc my dad build (he's an engineer). The year is 1982. First I had to load the game with an audiotape from a cassetteplayer (you young people ever seen one of those? That's really old) to the pc-memory. It transferred the data with squeeking noises and it took well over 20 minutes before I could even start the game. And these where games like space-invaders etc. Nothing compaired to what we have now.

It was when I was 12 that I had a vision of a game; a flightsim where you could sit in a cockpit of a fighterplane, look around like in real life and do combat missions. I asked my dad if he could program something like that for me, but no, of course not, lol. And now, just over 30 years later I'm playing this game. Sitting in my cockpit. Looking around with my track-ir. Doing combat missions. It is truly amazing. It is.
 

Ruskodisco

Ruskodisco
Sioux said:
It was when I was 12 that I had a vision of a game; a flightsim where you could sit in a cockpit of a fighterplane, look around like in real life and do combat missions. I asked my dad if he could program something like that for me, but no, of course not, lol. And now, just over 30 years later I'm playing this game. Sitting in my cockpit. Looking around with my track-ir. Doing combat missions. It is truly amazing. It is.
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don't forget walking in your ships with seamless planetary landings that you can explore on foot(maybe even cities;)) and co-piloting with your friends.
not only that add to the fact that they want to make this game go on for a decade or more.....
well lets just say we live in a amazing time.
 
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