Curious about gamers ages

[Brigz]

ORIGINAL: Nomad

ORIGINAL: Dave Briggs

Hey Nomad. Who is that in your avatar...Heddy Lamar? The most beautiful women ever were in the 40's and 50's.

Donna Reed.

Well...I wasn't too far off.

[Phatguy]

ORIGINAL: Dave Briggs

ORIGINAL: NefariousKoel

Gonna be 35 this month. [X(]

BTW...Happy Birthday!

Enjoy being young. The worst thing to happen when you get older is that young ladies start calling you "sir".[:(] I still can't get used to that.

Yeah..I get called sir all the time..The only thing that keeps me from being cranky is when I get ID'd when buying booze.......

[Zap]

ORIGINAL: Dave Briggs

I was just reading some threads where some gamers stated their age. It seems there are a LOT of wargamers in their forties, fifties, and above. I'm 60 and have been wargaming since I was about 11 or 12. That was back when there were only about eight Avalon Hill wargame titles available in the entire world. Not counting Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers, my first game was Tactics II followed quickly by Battle of the Bulge.

So if you don't think it's an invasion of privacy, how old are you and how long have you been wargaming?

Yes, there was a thread started, Oh, about 4 or 5 years ago with the same question. So five years older now that makes me 57. Been at it since I was twelve. My older brother and i played board games until the computer age. Have not returned to boardgaming.

[MikeBrough]

49 but feeling 10 years older after last night's alcohol-fuelled antics.

I played SPI's War of the Ring the year before I went off to university. Then I made the mistake of visiting a game shop in Edinburgh - and things went downhill from there. Damned if I know how I managed to fit in my degree round all my gaming.

My growing game collection followed me from job to job and home to home. Then I made the mistake of leaving them at my parents' house one year and my brother sold the lot - he needed the space for his medical books! I took that as a sign that I had to get into something more 'portable' and my love of computer gaming was born. A Commodore 64 in 1983 and then PCs from 1987 onwards.

[Larac]

43 years old and married 19 years on May 24th.

Lee

[Barthheart]

Just turned 45 in March. Been wargaming since I was about 13.... started with Luftwaffe.

[Yogi the Great]

ORIGINAL: bigred

ORIGINAL: Yogi the Great

59 - started at about 10 years old or so when my oldest brother wanted to play a board game he bought and was hard up to find somone to play against. I won and was hooked at that point. I purchased almost every Avalon Hill title after that for quite a few years.

Hence the signature below I often attach to my postings.

Did your brother keep playing?

Not for long. He had a friend and the two of them dabbeled in games for about two years. His friend's younger brother happened to be my best friend and the two of us tried his brother's Tactics II at the time, they also had D Day. But my friend also had little interest. After I purchased Afrika Korp, my Dad was nice enough to play it with me once, but I would be mostly on my own playing solitare for hours with each new game purchase. I don't want to fill this thread up with all the games I purchased, mostly AH, but also several other companies including SSG, Victory Games and a number of small game companies I can't even remember the names of. My first computer wargame was a Gettysburg game made for the Apple II on 5.25 inch discs.

[Halsey]

It's my avatar because I served with the unit 76-78.
Tabbed out and everything, after I got older, I became a Rigger so I could keep jumping.

I was getting too old to sleep on the ground.[:D]
That's for the young pups.[;)]

[captskillet]

54 going on 18....[;)]!

[Jevhaddah]

51 going on 15 here, started wargaming back in the 80's and still going strong..

Cheers

Jev

[Hertston]

45 and feeling it. [:(]

[Jeffrey H.]

48. Been playing wargames since I was 12.

[ilovestrategy]

ORIGINAL: Dave Briggs

Well...I wasn't too far off.

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Oh....My......God. Do Goddesses allow themselves to be posted here? [&o]
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[anarchyintheuk]

43, AH is responsible for my addiction. Started with Luftwaffe, Blitzkrieg, PanzerBlitz and PanzerLeader.

[rjh1971]

39 started playing boardgames when I was eleven, by the mid 80s I got my first computer games (for spectrum+) I thought it was a great idea I didn't have to set all counters and could save the game any tiem and keep on player later, of course those first games are prehistoric (Arnhem a bridge too far, Guadalcanal).
Then Great Naval Battles, Panzer General, Clash of Steel, WIR... were some of the first for pc I played.
I also played some of AH games, but those were difficult to find here, have Luftwaffe, PzGruppe Guderian, Eastern Front and another about tank battles in the east I can't remember its name right now.

[SlickWilhelm]

44, started wargaming in 1992 with a real classic: Gary Grigsby's Pacific War. That got me hooked. But I've also been a die hard flight/Sub/racing simmer for slightly longer, since the original Red Baron from Dynamix was released on the PC in 1990.

[SlickWilhelm]

ORIGINAL: Dave Briggs

ORIGINAL: Nomad

ORIGINAL: Dave Briggs

Hey Nomad. Who is that in your avatar...Heddy Lamar? The most beautiful women ever were in the 40's and 50's.

Donna Reed.

Well...I wasn't too far off.

That's Hedley!

[terje439]

32.
As to how long I have been playing wargames, I guess that is a matter of what you term a wargame [;)]
Started playing chess at age 5, but "serious" wargames I have only been playing for 15 years or so.

Terje

[sysrkm]

What a great question! Now I know that I am in good company and NOT the oldest guy on the team, like many of my hockey teams

I'm 52 and my first boardwargame was Foxbat & Phantom. In 1973, I think, a 9th grade math teacher, Mr. Bill Simpson, had an afterschool wargaming club that I think was a thinly veiled attempt at getting poorer math students to learn math. Anyway, from there I went to Starship Troopers and to Ogre and Ogre\GEV from SJG Microgames.

My first computer game was Trek 80 (?) played on a Radio Shack TRS80 pc. But the first REAL wargame was Star Fleet Orion (1978 or 79?) played probably on a Laser II which was an Apple II clone at the time.

First online game was probably M.U.L.E. played on my BBS (Eat Flaming Death BBS) back in 1991. I had 4 phone lines coming into it and MULE gave me fits with everyone trying to play.

But my first hexgrid based computer wargame played on a PC was probably Mech Brigade, which should have been subtitled "Wire guided missile." I really LOVED that game.

But the boardgame I probably liked the most until I figured out what Steve Cole was doing, that being just milking poor kids out of hard earned gaming money. I spent 7 years playing SFB, 5 years in one of the Alpha test groups.

Dang this question really brought back some memories... Again, GREAT question!

Regards all,

Rob

[Anraz]

35, the first contact with wargaming at age of 12.