Age Group Playing AT

[TomBombadil711]

41

[hazxan]

ORIGINAL: redmarkus4

48 but I look 26. I think it's all the hours in front of my PC; they've really help be build up those shoulders!

yay!!! And don't forget those healthy rays your monitor is blasting out!!!!

Oh yeah........46.

AT seems to be fulfilling a real need of the 40-somethings[:)][:)]

[hazxan]

ORIGINAL: kevinkin

when the ice cream truck went by the Arty and tanks would always disappear.

Didn't Hitler have the same problem????? Or maybe that was just a bad dream?

[JAMiAM]

ORIGINAL: NotaGrog
AT seems to be fulfilling a real need of the 40-somethings[:)][:)]

Haha! Buying a good computer game is the best way I can think of to take the edge off the "middle-age crazies". I tell you it's a hell of a lot cheaper than buying a Corvette, or engaging the amorous services of a wanton mistress. Not that I would have any first-hand knowledge of such things...[:D]

[SMK-at-work]

So you can't multi-task huh?

There are cooler cars around than Corvettes....[;)][8D]

[von altair]

39 here and I played strategy games all my life

[EricSilver_MatrixForum]

36 years old.

[ravinhood]

51 here and I never liked Led Zepplin. More of a Moody Blues fan here.
 
It's sad to see no 12-13 year olds posting here. That's what we need more of not you old codgers.

[Xenomath]

interesting age distribution

25 years over here

[SSFSX17]

I'm only 22

[ShadowB]

ORIGINAL: ravinhood

51 here and I never liked Led Zepplin. More of a Moody Blues fan here.

It's sad to see no 12-13 year olds posting here. That's what we need more of not you old codgers.

Games like these classify as 'boring' for the vast majority of 13-year-olds. [:'(]

[Westheim]

Not only games like these. Out of 15 boys in my class I was the only one to play things like Civilization II. (Yeah, and the girls played with horses and books anyway.) Ts, these kids ... if it doesn't explode it ain't cool. [8|] So, am I boring ...? (scratches head)

[jadam12]

Yep, even though I have found matrix games and started playing these games after I finished high school, back then I was playing with paradox strategy games while my classmates with need for speed, sims and football simulators...

[ravinhood]

Well, to me it's just showing that wargames aren't getting saturated into the younger peoples view. Matrixgames should send things to grade schools and jr. highs to promote history learnin say the 6th and 7th grades to introduce them to wargames. This is another reason I crusade for retail store boxed games, kids just don't do searches for Matrixgames or probably even wargaming sites. They need to SEE the product in stores and in their classrooms. Perhaps Matrixgames could make some deal with 6th and 7th grade classes to post some advertisement on their bulletin boards and emphasis their FREE games they have for download?? Afterall once you've played SPWAW you're hooked.

[kevinkins]

Some stats:
 
57 people gave ages
Mean: 41
MAX: 72
MIN: 18
40% of the people are in their 40's
19% are less than 30
18% are 50 and over
23% are in the dirty 30's
 
Kevin
 
PS I may be wrong, but I think everyone was male.

[yoggi75]

Guess I lower the mean value a bit.

I'm 32

[larizona55]

45 here.

Kind of funny because I did a review of AT for ACG and took some flak for referencing those Marx WWII Battleground plastic playsets from the 60s. The comment was that readers wouldn't be old enough to know what I was talking about.

Well, if those answering this are representative of AT players, I guess that many of us not only know about those Marx playsets, but also owned them...[;)]

Larry

[vondee]

Wow - the Marx WWII Battleground set! My friend had that and it was awesome. My folks couldn't afford it - I got the generic army men in a clear plastic bag with the stapled cardboard at the top. I think they were in some awful colors like green and orange - the guys mixed together in the same bag. The Marx set had all this great stuff like tanks, barbed wire, pill boxes, etc. I haven't thought about that set in 35+ years.

Oh, I'm playing AT and I'm 47.

[JWW]

The toy soldiers.  I remember seeing a plastic bag full of tiny toy soldiers in the dime store and talking my mom into buying them for me.  These were smaller than the regular size, about one inch tall.  I eventually collected 300 or so of them, WWII, Civil War, cowboys and Indians, etc.  I would divide them up and have huge battles and campaigns.  You could do a lot in a small space with those little soldiers and some dominoes.  Eventually I began playing on our coffee table, and then one day I saw Avalon Hill's Kriegspiel in the local toy store.  Oh, I'm 54.     

[Zakhal]

Im 29 and have always played wargames. Not sure what got me into it. When I was younger I read world history through twice (plus every book abt ww2 in the library) just to get to know all the wars.