Who, where, and what (old gamers)?

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Dont change the t shirt whatever you do you may regret it for the rest of your life !!!

By the way ive been with the same lady for 28 yrs.

What am i missing here?[/QUOTE]


What you are missing is.........a second p.c.

 

[64K]

Agree with you but she always knew that I like to play games.

That's the way it works. She liked you enough to be your girlfriend and move in with you and now her mission is to change you. Her frame of mind is that you just need to be tweaked a little to be a perfect boyfriend.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Well, I'm 47, and love gaming more than I ever did. It keeps my mind a lot more active than watching television, especially strategy genre. FPS are good for reflexes, and hand-eye coordination. I've known a few older gamers in their 60's a few years ago, but have no idea if they still play.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

My 1st gaming machine was a Sportsvision 1000 in 1978 .

i still have it and will upload a pic of it that i took earlier

It was shit and brilliant all at the same time.
Me and my brothers played it for hours and hours

Sorry 1975 !!
It played squash tennis and football.

The most exotic option was to alter the speed fast or slow and the angle the ball bounced.

Three of us shared it as a xmas present cos it was expensive

 

[Ikaruga]

I'm in my fifth X too, and I play a lot of games. I play a little almost every day. Mostly Doom or Quake with friends, but I like pretty much anything what is "fun" for me. I obviously do suck big time vs the young players who play pickups every day, but I still "bite" most of the pub players in any given game without any kind of concentration or focusing.

Last year, I was reading many scientific studies about age and reaction times, and those were quite surprising, especially one of those involving former fighter jet pilots who were performing almost as good as young/active pilots. The study concluded that the elderly pilots are indeed a very little bit slower, but they made much less mistakes and the paper argued that they are slower because they make sure that their choice of action is the right one, and if they would just drop out a random reaction only caring about the time, it wouldn't be much slower at all compared to the younger people.


This was about a year ago, and perhaps science advanced since and this is all obsolete now, but I remember we were talking about this on IRC with my mates, and we even did some reaction test were I was doing quite “ok” (despite I play on an old Samsung TV which already has about 40ms input lag… well “ok” maybe an exaggeration since I’m indeed much slower than how it was in my ‘20s, but there were still young people who did worse than me), so…. I recommend you do not worry about your age when it comes to fast paced fps games, let those youngsters worry about you



edit: I found it: http://www.humanbenchmark.com/users/4390033

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Ladies and Gents

The Sportsvision 1000

 

[TheMailMan78]

36 here. Started playing a Atari 2600 when I was 3. Kid by most of yalls standards but I am already being called an old man by some. Oldest guy I personally knew who played games was 67. He loved Quake 1. As he got a little older arthritis started to bother him when he gripped the mouse for to long so he had to quit. So as a new hobby he took up long range precision shooting. He got some single shot free floating barrels to die for now. One of them cost more than my damn house!

 

[FireFox]

What you are missing is.........a second p.c
that could no be possible becasue I have 3 Machines and one 2000€ Gaming laptop that I gave her but she never used it.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Man you are in a pickle.

All of life has to be a compromise
. My wife gradually got the point when i used to use MS flight sim. I would take off from Cardiff in a 747 gain altitude, then set autopilot for New York.

I would then go to work driving a digger for 8 hours come home and land the jumbo at JFK.

it wasnt the picture that annoyed her i used to leave the sound on as well !!

By the way at the moment i am having to watch Mary Poppins with her, like i said.....compromise.

 

[peche]

well, just a Kid over here…. 25!

But I'm playing on PC, SNES, N64 and Gamecube since a child!

I started playing SNES, N64 and then I meet computer gaming in to 97, then I switched to nintendo with the Gamecube, I loved it, back 2002 I decided to switch back to PC gaming, got a intel e8400, 4/8GB of ram.. 250HDD and my first Ggiabyte mobo and my first GPU! Crappy 6200AGP from Asus…Died and was replaced with an XFX, I got back PC because of Halflife, I played it on my cousin PC at 1999/2000… the game shocked me so much so I decided to get a computer and play it as many times I wanted,

my PC gaming friends are mostly the same age range… the oldest one it's like 29 / 31 and the younger one its 21, there is a older gamer friend which many years ago owned a gaming place near my school(met him there when I was 13/15 years old, he was 47), he must be like 60, I bet he still plays Counter-Strike, starcraft, quake, Doom and other oldies, he move on to Panama/Colombia due Work so I lost contact with him,

thanks for the post @Frag Maniac , I bring me back so many memories about lan parties and lan playing at some random gaming sp0ts,

Regards,

 

[FireFox]

That's the way it works. She liked you enough to be your girlfriend and move in with you and now her mission is to change you. Her frame of mind is that you just need to be tweaked a little to be a perfect boyfriend.

My god

 

[Steevo]

I am 34 and plan on being the old man that slaps nurses asses and plays games until I die, quite a few game systems including watching the N64 come to fruition, I think was the revolution for many gamers, how fast it changed what we expected of games.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I think most would agree that we have already seen the peak of evolution for gaming.

Im not saying that weve seen the best that technology can offer i think the step changes will be fewer and further between.

Unless anyone thinks otherwise ?

 

[natr0n]

Gonna be 34 this month. I never really had any friends into PC stuff growing up so I learned on my own.
Played everything from Atari to PS2 my last console.
These days I play emulators.

Also,I am kind of surprised for my age I can stay competitive in BF4, Currently world rank 12 in TDM.

 

[Frag_Maniac]

I am very independent minded and have had enough of control freak GFs. It's one thing I refuse to tolerate in a relationship. Still looking for someone I can reach equal ground with.

I say there's a 3rd option there.

Changing T Shirt would be giving in
Changing GFs would be giving up

Option 3, explain to her that hypocrisy is not fair. If you're OK with her watching YT for hours on end, she should be OK with your gaming.

The bottom line is, every relationship needs understanding and equal ground to survive. Otherwise one ends up driving the other crazy, or worse, both!

I think most would agree that we have already seen the peak of evolution for gaming.

Im not saying that weve seen the best that technology can offer i think the step changes will be fewer and further between.

Unless anyone thinks otherwise ?

There's still monstrous hurdles to overcome.

1. PCs need unified memory and low level API

While that is harder to do on PC having a myriad of components to choose from and two competing GPU vendors, it should have happened already. Too much competition within the industry can thwart it's technological growth.

While I'm looking forward to Pascal and Dx12, it remains to be seen how well they'll be utilized on the development side.

2. Display tech in general, both monitors and TVs, needs less in fighting. Just like PC, too much competition within is also what's thwarting display evolution, and why we are still stuck on LCD.

3. Console manufacturers and big game publishers need to stop treating PC like the bastard child. Too many PC ports are given rushed development, inadequate testing, and even sabotaged for platform parity.

I'm all for staggered development vs simultaneous releases. Simultaneously releasing all platforms only increases the chance of bugs and inadequate optimization on the PC version, and platform parity gimping.

 

[qubit]

My 1st gaming machine was a Sportsvision 1000 in 1978 .

i still have it and will upload a pic of it that i took earlier

It was shit and brilliant all at the same time.
Me and my brothers played it for hours and hours

Sorry 1975 !!
It played squash tennis and football.

The most exotic option was to alter the speed fast or slow and the angle the ball bounced.

Three of us shared it as a xmas present cos it was expensive

A vintage console is awesome. Does it still work?

I still have a 1979 Radofin console with 10 games, selectable by 10 buttons. It's got two joytsticks with the usual up and down batton movement that all the games are based on. Oh and the motion of the square "ball" and battons motion is perfectly fluid too as it's vsynced to the UK PAL TV standard of 50Hz.

It still works too.

 

[stinger608]

A vintage console is awesome. Does it still work?

I still have a 1979 Radofin console with 10 games, selectable by 10 buttons. It's got two joytsticks with the usual up and down batton movement that all the games are based on. Oh and the motion of the square "ball" and battons motion is perfectly fluid too as it's vsynced to the UK PAL TV standard of 50Hz.

It still works too.

Very cool @qubit !!! You really really should throw up a couple of pictures bro!

 

[qubit]

Thanks matey, I will!

 

[stinger608]

Thanks matey, I will!

Awesome man! It is VERY worthy of posting in this thread as well man:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-nostalgic-hardware-club.108251/

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

The red button ( to serve) is snapped inside and needs a dab of glue. Other than that i m pretty sure shes a runner.

Getting nostalgic now. This was the time of power shortages and blackouts in the UK.
The Cold War was lingering on.....

On the plus side The Sex Pistols and The Clash were just about to take it to another level.

PUNKS NOT DEAD

 

[FireFox]

Option 3, explain to her that hypocrisy is not fair. If you're OK with her watching YT for hours on end, she should be OK with your gaming.

The bottom line is, every relationship needs understanding and equal ground to survive. Otherwise one ends up driving the other crazy, or worse, both!

+1
last night we were talking about me playing games and she said ok but don't forget that i am here too...

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Me and wife are both bonkers....... compromise and being faithful thats the key and wear whatever you want !!! (try not to let her catch you in her underwear too often though)

I shout at my kids to make them turn the music UP

 

[qubit]

Awesome man! It is VERY worthy of posting in this thread as well man:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-nostalgic-hardware-club.108251/

Here it is!

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-nostalgic-hardware-club.108251/page-119#post-3216220

 

[yogurt_21]

only 30 myself though I have many older friends and family who still game. Once a kid always a kid kind of thing. Just got given a wii by my wife's grandmother (68) and yes it was theirs and up until they got too busy with work they were using it regularly. HAve alot of freinds who were 14-16 years old when the NES came out, they all still game. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this will only get more common as time goes on. To be perfectly honest, I really expected to have "moved on" by now. Instead I find myself continuing to game along side perhaps more "adult" hobbies. When film came out it was described as the ultimate art as it combined all the best parts of all the others, music, painting, photography, literature/poetry, etc. I think gaming can pretty much take over that mantle as it adds interaction. Now that it is being described at the industry level rather than the hobbyist level I thing it will be something more of us continue to enjoy all the way until death.

 

[Snarkcheese]

Am 60 now. Second set of stepsons started me on Runescape, then Minecraft.
I started gaming when working in a standup arcade, back in the day...just after pacman was invented. Well, actually, I did play pong with a neighbor, when it came out, but I avoided that game.
As I recall the thousands of hours of cribbage, gin, and pinochle that my parent's played, and their parents, too, I keep in perspective that if they had this genre of gaming to play back in their era they'd have roped me in to play partners with them.