Am I the oldest player in the City?
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Ad Astra,
Posted on: 2010-04-02 13:25 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I remember when i first starting playing this game back in July 2004 I teamed with this Kin and her name was "yourgrandmother" (or something like that) and she told me she was in her mid 60's
My good global friend Professor Radburn (Defiant mainly) turned 60 two weeks ago....we're clubbing together and raising some Inf to get him a jet-powered zimmer frame.....
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Just turned 44. My two sons play. Married. Law enforcement professional. Home. Mortgage. 79,000 miles on the Taurus. Coach of my kids' sports teams.
Original gangster of video games (Asteroids, 1979, baby!)
Come to think of it, CoX is about the most exciting thing I do, next to investigating crime. Maybe that's why I love superheroes so much...
Collected comics since 1981.
WOW! It sure is a lot of geez,... ahem, mature players in this game! I'm glad that I'm a tender, supple age of 46!
I have to say, having such a mature community helps a lot. Back when i played WOW (forgive me) everyone was speaking in leet and whining. Even though I'm on the younger side (13), i consider myself more mature than the average 13 year old. I can't stand leet talk, it's more confusing than typing like a normal human being, and whining is just annoying. Of course, i don't call myself mature, just more mature than most people my age.
My mother plays. She is 63. That's a story.... Teaching a woman who has never learned how to type, never used a computer, and who has arthritis in her hands to play has been a challenge, but one I'm grateful for.
About 3 months ago she asked to play. She said she wanted to be a greater part of my brother's and my lives and understand what it was that we talked about so much. Now she plays almost every day and is completely addicted to this game. My husband is working on a computer so she will have her own and we three can all team up at the same time.
She's learned to use her powers, is working on learning to move better (currently we use autofollow), and with guidance can get missions from contacts. She only teams with me.
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You don't wanna' be startin' that old spat with me, I never lost a Speccy 'vs' Comma argument in my life!... Well I did once, but that resulted in me losing my temper and smacking the C64 owner (the smug git!) around the head with the Spectrum (it was quite weighty if I remember) The ensuing fight was then won by me, and I was only nine (he was 10). AAAAANND the ZX survived being used as a weapon, it still worked LOL!!
Turned 56 last October. I'm an ex-school teacher. Some of my former students are convinced I spend my summers in a coffin.
The Fifties were idyllic...
The Sixties were demented...
In the words of John Lennon, "The Seventies were a DRAG you know..."
Gaming in those days was done on boards, barefoot, and uphill both ways...
...and the "eff" word was considered base...not cool...
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I remember those days vaguely (Late 70's-early 90's where I discovered alcohol and pubs, and girls that drink pubs and everything went blank til 1997 when I got a job that required me to set an example)|
Originally Posted by Shuckins
Turned 56 last October. I'm an ex-school teacher. Some of my former students are convinced I spend my summers in a coffin.
The Fifties were idyllic... The Sixties were demented... In the words of John Lennon, "The Seventies were a DRAG you know..." Gaming in those days was done on boards, barefoot, and uphill both ways... ...and the "eff" word was considered base...not cool... |
Gaming, while primitive compared to today, was fun, and still is. I always pop into any Games Workshop shop to see whats on offer, or pick up a copy of White Dwarf to catch up on the shenanegans of Warhammer 40k. Although I fondly remember those long evenings round a mate's, rolling dice, arguing about stats and whatnot, I'm really glad MMO's are around, and that the comic book hero/villian genre is catered for with CoX. I would have thought that a few old gaming pals may have been MMO player, but alas they suffer from the 'ahh, it's a young man's game' syndrome and chose not to.
Still, may invite me dad round to get him involved, he has a facebook account so he's halfway there lol
Just turned 48 and I've been playing COX for 2 and half years.
Still a noob really.
I sometimes why it took me so long to join this game as I've been a comic fan since the age of 12.
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Up and Coming: , DragonStorm, Metalworks
Well, not to brag, but I've been around since the Mezoic.
So..................yeah.
Late to the aprty, as usual. 45 going on 7 (mentally), my partner is new gamer and is 38, and i group with several other guys in their 40s. We've long joked about making sure our nursing home has broadband (or whatever will be the equivalent in 30 years).
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41 here! And my wife is much older than me...and we both love playing and talking about our characters. I believe now im having more fun with the hero genre now than I did growing up reading and watching them. 
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Well, not to brag, but I've been around since the Mezoic.
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Ha. When I got my first Spectrum, it was a quantum leap forward from my first home computer, the ZX81:|
Originally Posted by Nite Wraith
Okay here's old.
And no it isn't a laptop without a screen  You used to play games on these, three colours, yellow, black and white. Games were on Cassette tape and would take on average 15 minutes to load and would make an awful noise while loading. You young'uns never had it so good!! |
That big blocky thing behind it is the 16kb memory pack you could buy to upgrade it. Out of the box, the ZX81 came with 1kb of memory.
And yes, we played games on it!
The thing to the right is the printer. It had a roll of silverish paper and the printer burned the text into the roll. You had to rip the paper off along a perforation strip like the rolls that come out of the checkouts at supermarkets when you'd printed enough lol.
Also had a Commodore Vic 20 and a C64, at different times, before moving up to 'proper' computers with a Commodore Amiga.
Eco, 40 in a month.
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You guys are pikers I wire-wrapped my first computer on a breadboard. It had an 8080, 1K of RAM, 1K of ROM, an 8250 serial port and a bunch of TTL parts. I had to assemble it with stone knives and bearskins. Oh, and 2.5 kilograms of platinum.
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Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
Ha. When I got my first Spectrum, it was a quantum leap forward from my first home computer, the ZX81:
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But on the upswing, your Captain met the love of his life. Until she died.
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Originally Posted by Rodion
You guys are pikers I wire-wrapped my first computer on a breadboard. It had an 8080, 1K of RAM, 1K of ROM, an 8250 serial port and a bunch of TTL parts. I had to assemble it with stone knives and bearskins. Oh, and 2.5 kilograms of platinum.
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48 here. I was roleplaying online on BBSes before there was much of an internet. Before that, tabletop RPGs where people rolled dice. I was around for white box D&D, Star Wars and Pong. Little did I know where all of that geek culture would end up. There are more WoW players than agricultural farmers in the US alone. Sci fi and fantasy movies are the hugest grossing films.
Man, did things get cool or what?
*snicker* Joor all old! Jk, I usually feel like the youngest one in the game, exluding the ones playing off of their parent(s)' account.
14 here! =D
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"Daredevil": This is an ipod with a piece of masking tape attached to it.
Deadpool: It is...Ah, but for a second there, you were really worried!
"Daredevil": Idiot.
I'm youngest here, but not the youngest. I'm 22.
48 here and the grey hair is in my beard. 
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Wow, guess this means i'm a wippersnapper type then ^.^
18 when I started... 23 now
I've left sooo many times now too but it allways calls back to me..
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I'm 36, hubby is 45. Our friends (in pretty much the same age span) all play, not to mention our 21-year-old goddaughter.
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Actually, they junk mailed me over a decade ago with an invitation to join. I don't know why.|
Originally Posted by Ad Astra
Well, I signed up for AARP today. Those of you old enough know that AARP has it timed for you to receive their invitaton on a particular birthday, and the mail from them has been arriving like clockwork over the past 3 months.
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Even better, I filled it out and mailed it back in with my $8, even though it said that you had to be 50 years old. I didn't lie about my birthday or anything. I figured they would send me a polite letter back saying I wasn't eligible to join. I didn't care whether they kept my $8 or not. It was only $8, and it was worth the humorous thought to me of making them feel stupid for sending me the invitation.
Well, surprise surprise, they actually processed the membership, and a few weeks later, I got my nifty new AARP card at the ripe "old" age of 23. I've been a member since. My goal is to someday be the longest standing member of AARP ever, and I think I stand a pretty good chance of it. If I live an average lifespan, I'll be a member for over 50 years.
I've only used the benefit once. I was checking into a hotel for a business trip, and they asked me if I was a member of AAA, because if so, I'd get a discount. Just in passing, I said, "No, but I'm a member of AARP, do you have a discount for that?" The guy looked at me weird, so I explained the story and showed him my membership card. He had a good laugh over it and told me, "Well, if you're a member, I've got to give you the discount!"
For what it's worth, the Modern Maturity magazine has some interesting articles in it. A few years ago, they had a great interview with Paul McCartney, of whom I am a big fan.
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
I am 60 years old, and have loved comics and superheroes since I read my first Superman comic during the Silver Age in the 1950s and watched George Reeves on TV. And in the 60s, I got to see comics evolve firsthand as Stan Lee brought "real" people into the mix. All in color. All for a dime.
Other than a lifelong love affair with comics (and Star Trek, Sci-Fi and Comic Book movies), I have lived a "regular" life. College-educated. Married. Good family life. Terrific white-collar job.
Anyone else out there like me? Or am I as odd as I sometimes think I am?