Poll: Average age of TheEscapist forumgoers...

[Greever]

32 and counting, my first console wasn't a console at all. I bought a WANG "laptop" used for 100$ to play MUDs on.

I wish I still had it... It weighed about 30 lbs and would have made an excellent battering ram if you ever needed to break into a burning building.

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Forget netbooks, I want a 30lbs WANG!!!

And the polls should work fine, I have no restrictions set and am using firefox. I think I may possibly be restricted from "polling"?

 

[TheUnionForever]

First game system, Atari 2600.

Same here. I have a feeling that "Winter Olympics" probably wouldn't hold my attention like it used to.

After the novelty wore off, having a thirty pound wang could get pretty alienating.

 

[Flux07]

16, segamega machine... i think it was called that...

 

[Sewblon]

I am 18 years old. My first system was the Super Nintendo. My first game was Super Mario World.

 

[Greever]

Wow... this thread is making me feel ancient. :-|

 

[bluemistake2]

14. and a ps1 and my first game was pepsi man for some reason

 

[wilsonscrazybed]

20. First Console

Spoiler: console

commodore 64 . Wilson... does that Laptop have a type writer built into it?

no, but it does have a printer...

 

[Fightgarr]

18. First console was an NES. But before that I was playing DOS games on the computer: Commander Keen, Lemmings etc.

 

[.Ricks.]

17, my first game system was the SNES with castlevania IV. Back then my parents were the ones addicted to video games I just got pulled in and i'm glad they did!

 

[goater24]

I'm 25 and my first computer was a zx spectrum +. It could barely run smash tv and paper boy but was fantastic. My first console was a SEGA mastersystem (the second gen version with sonic the hedgehog built in) which was a pity because I really enjoyed alex the kid.

 

[Azhrarn-101]

28, first platform: the then just released IBM 80286 computer, with all of 640KB of memory.
Running DOS 3.0 i think.

End result, once a PC gamer, still a PC gamer.

 

[Fanboy]

21. First and favourite even to this day console is the N64, though I am more of a PC gamer, and started playing DOS games when I was 6. One of the earliest games I can remember playing was the 1989 PC version of TMNT.

 

[N-Sef]

I'm currently 22 and my first console was a Sega Master System. Great memories of that era, I still crank it out to play some Space Harrier or relive the memories of Phantasy Star.

 

[santaandy]

26, nes.

 

[KaZZaP]

19, nes

 

[Twilight_guy]

19.
Just today I thought about about how old the people on this board are I surmised the average was early twenties. For what I see, I was pretty close with my guess. (I guessed based a trend for discussions posts rather then pointless posts, but a lack of even more mature posts that people with families would have.)

First system was Gameboy color(Gamecube was first console). Although my brother has a SNES and my grandmother had a NES.

 

[Neosage]

15 baby! and first console was PS ONE/ Gameboy Colour (can't remember which) Colin mcrae rally/Crash bandicoot WARPED! or Pokémon silver.

 

[Greever]

grandmother had a NES.

Thanks for reinforcing that "older than dirt" feeling for some of us... lol

 

[dalek sec]

23 Years old and my first console was a NES.