Gamers Ages

[shinobu]

OK, this may be more painful for some than others, but just wondering what we have here in terms of gamers ages. I may be the "senior officer" here with 55 years (and a birthday next month [:(] ) Anyone else remember playing Pax Imperia?

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[Footslogger]

Were those DOS games? What year did they come out about?

[lordxorn]

I am 33, and Pax Imperia was something that I heard thrown around when the MOOs came out. So it was like Pax Imperia was the moo of that age.

PAX IMPERIA INFO

[impact]

I am 28 - always wanted to play Pax Imperia, but never got my hands on it back then.

[Sarissofoi]

I played Pax Imperia.
Good game. Not great but playable and fun. Dont remember much though.

[Deto]

25, nearing on 26. Knew about Pax Imperia, but kinda never looked anywhere else when I first touched MoO

[drillerman]

I have played them all!!!!!!!!
 
Starting on the Sega Mega Drive with Star control, then buying an Atari STE and playing games like Supremacy and Midwinter to name but a couple. Then onto PC!!
SE2,3,4,5. Stars, Ascendancy, MoO1,2,3. Reach for the Stars, Breach, Imperium Galactica 1,2. Haegmonia, etc etc etc etc. Emperor of the fading suns.
The list is endless. Got my first PC in 1992, A 386DX 33mhz, 2 meg RAM, and 512K Matrox Graphics card running DOS5. This was cutting edge and cost me over £1000 at the time!!!
Does anyone who used DOS remember making their own autoexec.bat and config.sys files to eek out as much memory as they could to run the games. I used to have Floppy discs dedicated to it. The best I ever got was running FALCON 3 and managing 642K .... Does anyone here know what I am talking about? I used to have more fun configuring the system than playing the games. 

[Webbco]

I just turned 25 and I tried installing Pax Imperia on my PC but they didn't get on...

Just had a bit of a flashback, I'm from the UK and my friend had a REALLY addictive starship game for his Spectrum (not sure whether the Spectrum sold anywhere else other than the UK). In the game you chose a spaceship from a list, each having different abilities, weapons etc and then battle it out. Does anyone have any idea wht that game was called??!

[tgb]

ORIGINAL: shinobu

OK, this may be more painful for some than others, but just wondering what we have here in terms of gamers ages. I may be the "senior officer" here with 55 years (and a birthday next month [:(] ) Anyone else remember playing Pax Imperia?

Next?

Got you beat by 2 years (57), and, yes, I remember PI.

[drillerman]

I am just a youngster, so don't dis me bro! (is that what they say?)[8D]
I am 44, 45 end of March. But you know what they say, "you're only as old as the woman you feel". Uh oh that makes me 72 then. (JOKE) Don't tell the wife![;)]
 
Can someone at Matrix get this B****y game released, I am fed up hanging around these forums waiting for the next tidbit of news!!!!!!![:@][:'(]

[Anguille]

38 years old

I am still playing Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain...never had the chance to play the first one.

[JosEPhII]

Turned 58 Saturday. Broke out EoFS last night. Boy have I forgotten how to play!

Was given a CD with Pax on it years ago, but the CD was cracked and it wouldn't install.

So far I'm the "old man". :p

JosEPh

[rich12545]

64 and I never played that game.

[martok]

I'm 33. I'd heard of Pax Imperia, but I didn't really start getting into 4x games until after I started playing BOTF (which I received for my birthday). From everything I've heard, it sounds like that was my loss....

[Tycow]

24 here.

[Hussar712]

18 here

looks like im the youngest so far.

[shinobu]

I think it's pretty obvious we have a diverse and pretty experienced crew waiting to grab this game when it comes out. Should be exciting... I can't wait! [:)]

[Aurelian]

I played Computer Bismark on an Apple, and Battle for Normandy, (I think that was it), when it was on a cassette tape.

First game I ever bought Cosmic Balance, I think..........

[Husker50]

58 in 1 and 1/2 months. First 4x Space game Planet Miners for the TRS-80 in 1976.

[rich12545]

ORIGINAL: Aurelian

I played Computer Bismark on an Apple, and Battle for Normandy, (I think that was it), when it was on a cassette tape.

First game I ever bought Cosmic Balance, I think..........

Yeah, Bismarck and a crappy Napoleon were the first wargames by SSI way back when. First wargames on disk. For the apple II+. $60 in 1980 dollars. In today's dollars probably $150. This is why I never complain about game prices.