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Started gaming in 1970 with Afrika Korps, had a sub to S&T through high school, collected about 300 games by 1977 when I joined the USN and had a 20 year semi-hiatus till I retired from the military in 1998.

I kept into gaming by buying (but not being able to play) a board game or two a year, but what really kept me in the hobby was the personal computer and those grand old companies like SSI/SSG/EA/TalonSoft etc. Since 1998 I have continued to buy boardgames because I like to look at them, but really only play on the computer now, both full fledged wargames by Matrix and HPS and also using ADCII and Cyberboard to get some use for my boardgames (that way I can play them and keep them unpunched) [:D]

Have been fooling with WITP since it came out, played a PBEM for about a year, and getting ready to jump back into it when I decide I no longer need a life, which should be pretty soon.

joined the forum when I was 24...and I will be soon 27

I am 32,soon 33.

39.

First computer game was Civilization I. I've almost always been more or less of a hermit so I never did get into board games back before computers.

39 next month.

I'm 37 years old. Got WitiP for Christmas this year and so far, I'm enjoying it tremendously!

Started out with the AH Third Reich boardgame ('nuther X-mas present) back in the early '80's ... then moved on to Squad Leader, ASL, and assorted early comupter wargames ... (Anyone remember SSI's North Atlantic 1986 !

Found Spwaw (and I've been a real fanatic of that game!) and then CM .... and now WitP

Cheers,
Stephen.

WOW, I just checked and I NEVER posted in this thread before.... Although I could have sworn.
 
Wel, I just turned 30.
 
Got WITP from GF 2.1 for chrismas 3 years ago.
 
Nowadays GF 2.1 has moved on to bother someone else, and I am now fully into GF 2.2  [;)]
 
I have to admit that I hardly play WITP anymore nowadays, although I still lurk arround this very nice forum.
 

Just 38 though if I was using "Nikmod" for my age it would still be 34!

WOW waynec you are exactly one year older then my mom... i turned 25 on the 3rd of February[:D][:D] GF bought you WITP Willie??[:D] nice mine allowed me to play WITP on her Laptop when im at her place[:D]

I'm 42, starter wargaming with napoleonic minatures at the age of 12 (christ! 30 years at it[;)])

Turned 60 about a week ago.. Been playing wargames since a buddy introduced me to them in 1967. I have boxes and boxes in storage of old boardgames. Favorite became SPI's War in Europe (combination of War in the East and War in the West). Impatiently waiting for the new War in Russia. Very happy with the latest patches for War in the Pacific - the game has finally gained the maturity it badly needed.

Now if we could only edit the d*** thing while playing it to correct those sometimes problems which crop up and to repair the data when errors are found - or even when you don't agree with the data.

39 and onward to 40...
first "real" game: kampfgruppe from GG.
(played it on my lovely amiga 1000)
followed by carrier strike, pac war, war in the pacific, all three steel panther games, BoB and 12'o clock high... so i'm a little GG addict.
greetings
béla

41 since december. Started with vic-20, c64 and amiga. o.O was it 20Kb?

Ah the Vic-20....

long before there was F4F vs Zero.....there was Vic-20 vs. Atari 400.

[:D]

I will turn 68 next month. I have about 100 games for the PC, C64 and Atari on
my shelves but only have the PC now to play them. Naval games are my
favorite but I will play anything that is REALISTIC. NO fantasy or magic or monsters
are in any of my games. I also have the board game "Pacific War, The Struggle
Against Japan 1941-1945" made by VictoryGames Inc. on my shelve. Bought it
at a garage sale for $5. It has never been touched. All the pieces are in the original
state & condition. I almost got a chance to use it about 5 years ago when someone
tried to organize a large multiplayer game over the internet using around 12 players,
each taking a WW2 country-based part of the military structure. It never came off,
I am sadly to say....

JIM

ORIGINAL: FAdmiral

I will turn 68 next month. I have about 100 games for the PC, C64 and Atari on
my shelves but only have the PC now to play them. Naval games are my
favorite but I will play anything that is REALISTIC. NO fantasy or magic or monsters
are in any of my games. I also have the board game "Pacific War, The Struggle
Against Japan 1941-1945" made by VictoryGames Inc. on my shelve. Bought it
at a garage sale for $5. It has never been touched. All the pieces are in the original
state & condition. I almost got a chance to use it about 5 years ago when someone
tried to organize a large multiplayer game over the internet using around 12 players,
each taking a WW2 country-based part of the military structure. It never came off,
I am sadly to say....

JIM

I actually finished this game. Pretty good overall. The Japanese were trashed by the end of the war (surprise, surprise). The Allied fleet was hurting too and the US ground forces were in really sad shape.

Oh yeah, I played it solitare. A lobotomy works wonders. [:D]

ORIGINAL: FAdmiral

I will turn 68 next month. I have about 100 games for the PC, C64 and Atari on
my shelves but only have the PC now to play them. Naval games are my
favorite but I will play anything that is REALISTIC. NO fantasy or magic or monsters
are in any of my games. I also have the board game "Pacific War, The Struggle
Against Japan 1941-1945" made by VictoryGames Inc. on my shelve. Bought it
at a garage sale for $5. It has never been touched. All the pieces are in the original
state & condition. I almost got a chance to use it about 5 years ago when someone
tried to organize a large multiplayer game over the internet using around 12 players,
each taking a WW2 country-based part of the military structure. It never came off,
I am sadly to say....

JIM

You are our oldest member FAdmiral[&o] AFAIK . Glad to see you here!

I'm 33, soon it will be 34....

ORIGINAL: pauk
I'm 33, soon it will be 34....

Mental age of 2 though[:'(]

ORIGINAL: Speedy

ORIGINAL: pauk
I'm 33, soon it will be 34....

Mental age of 2 though[:'(]

That is still one year ahead of you[8D]
Sorry,i cannot resist.

[:'(][:D]