There is no software code to restrict polling. Polls however, must be done before posting the original post. That means you can't go back later and add one.Greever said:
Poll: Average age of TheEscapist forumgoers...
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My first little baby
second child
(Which I still have)
And then we move to the Glorious Commodore Master Race
second child
(Which I still have)
And then we move to the Glorious Commodore Master Race
Twenty here and my first console was a NES when I was two, yes I have been gaming since that age.
I'm 39. eek!
First Computer (which I used to play and write games on):
By the way, very nice WANG you've got there... was it fast? I heard the WANG machines kept all their documents in RAM making them actually faster than a PC running Word 6.0 - at least that is what my brother maintained when he had a job in IT. Sure, the secretaries would lose all their days work between system saves to the disc, but they didn't seem to mind; only complaining when Microsoft PCs were brought in.
3D Monster Maze
First Computer (which I used to play and write games on):
By the way, very nice WANG you've got there... was it fast? I heard the WANG machines kept all their documents in RAM making them actually faster than a PC running Word 6.0 - at least that is what my brother maintained when he had a job in IT. Sure, the secretaries would lose all their days work between system saves to the disc, but they didn't seem to mind; only complaining when Microsoft PCs were brought in.
3D Monster Maze
Tell me about it. Makes me wonder what games are like for people who have only played from the PSone N64 generation onwards.Greever said:
Should be a law that people can only play games equivilent to their age
Like from 1-4 Commodore 64's, 4-6 Master Systems and NES, 6-8 SNES & Megadrive/Genesis etc.
Called a gaming education, you don't start learning math with differential equasions.
/rant
Omg an Acorn, I remember those. My dad used to fix them.The_root_of_all_evil said:second child
(Which I still have)
I'm just 24, first game on BBC Micro Computer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bbc_computer]. Seperate floppy disk drive and all that.
Console wise was Mastersystem, then Megadrive/Genesis(the smaller second gen one).
25, Commodore 64. First game was Donkey Kong. I was strictly a PC man until I finally caved and bought a Wii a few years ago.
I'm 15 and I had a SNES when I was, like, 6. I always played Donkey Kong and Mario Kart Racing.
(On a side note I always found the little snappy things in the dark DK leels to be really really scary. They're called Snaps or Kroks or something. Also the mine cart level was the best. And I got stuck on the Queen Bee boss fight)
(On a side note I always found the little snappy things in the dark DK leels to be really really scary. They're called Snaps or Kroks or something. Also the mine cart level was the best. And I got stuck on the Queen Bee boss fight)
I'm 15, and my first console, that I can remember, was an N64. I remember having one before that, but seeing as I was 3, I thought it was a bouncy ball, and threw it down the steps....it broke.
25 yrs old,
First gaming was done on my dad's Tulip XT, first game was Space War.
My brother later got an Atari 2600 and a Ninty Gameboy, which we shared.
The first console I could really call my own was a Playstation 2. And I only got it in 2002. Talk about late to the party, eh? But I've played loads of stuff at friends' and caught up through emulation.
Largest age group seems to be from 19 to 27 here from reading the posts here.
First gaming was done on my dad's Tulip XT, first game was Space War.
My brother later got an Atari 2600 and a Ninty Gameboy, which we shared.
The first console I could really call my own was a Playstation 2. And I only got it in 2002. Talk about late to the party, eh? But I've played loads of stuff at friends' and caught up through emulation.
Largest age group seems to be from 19 to 27 here from reading the posts here.
20.
First game is a tie between Duke Nukem/Breakout in MS-DOS, and failing miserably at the original Mario Bros.
My first actual memory of enjoying a game and grasping it was sometime when I was still in my single-digits, but I fondly remember moving into a new house, no furniture, and laying on the carpet with a tiny TV and my SNES playing Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.
Although when I became an alert gamer coherent enough to make sense of all the games I played, I have no idea.
Also, sorry older folks. If it makes any of you feel better, I have no clue what any of those experiences are like. NES was really my intro to gaming.
First game is a tie between Duke Nukem/Breakout in MS-DOS, and failing miserably at the original Mario Bros.
My first actual memory of enjoying a game and grasping it was sometime when I was still in my single-digits, but I fondly remember moving into a new house, no furniture, and laying on the carpet with a tiny TV and my SNES playing Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.
Although when I became an alert gamer coherent enough to make sense of all the games I played, I have no idea.
Also, sorry older folks. If it makes any of you feel better, I have no clue what any of those experiences are like. NES was really my intro to gaming.
Well I'm glad to learn I'm not the only "old dude" around here, I'm 39 by the way. As for the first system I had it was an atari 2600.
