How old are cheapassgamers?

[Mishimaryu]

How old are you people?

[magilacudy]

Do you mean individually or combined as a group? :)

I just turned 22. BTW... I made a thread like this a while ago, and someone made one before that.

[Mishimaryu]

oh lol sorry about this post then..

[bignick]

24

[PapiChullo]

20

[YoshiFan1]

21

[RedvsBlue]

21

[thatstoobad]

20

[punqsux]

21 (im noticing a trend)

[CaseyRyback]

time to break that trend

18. On a side note my birthday is in 99 days (helpful fact from PTI as the summer olympics start on my Birthday)

[Alpha2]

30

[BlueWingX]

I'm 26.
Phew, I'm not the oldest! (No offense, Alpha2) :)

[nachzeher]

19 -> 20 real soon

[MisterRaven]

I'm eighteen.

[nachzeher]

d'oh, accidental double post.

[optimolife]

24

[rvdrock]

22, 23 in less than a month

[TheRaven]

I will be 25 in a few days :(

[floormat]

26
married
3 daughters
make ice cream for a living

or is that to much info ¿

[Mr Peanut]

I'm 18.

I feel like a young'n here.

[The Successful Dropout]

21

[suprsaiyanMAX]

21...soon to be 22

[ryosnk]

The young age of 26 (ATARI - NES -SMS - STAR WARS Generation) :D

[punqsux]

The young age of 26 (NES -SMS Generation) :D

you must have gotten a late start, i had an atari until i was 5, when i got a nintendo, in 88

[tubtub]

21

[Ledhed]

I'm 18.

I feel like a young'n here.

Don't feel bad. I'm 18 for at least 3 more weeks. Then I can finally play my Halo Xbox my girl bought me. I don't even technically own an Xbox yet, and I already have 6 games for it. Pathetic much?

Edit: I noticed everyone was throwing in how long they've been playing, so I might as well too. When I was 5, my Dad came home with an NES and Super Mario Bros. We stayed up trying to beat the 1st Bowser stage. I fell asleep, but my Dad was relentless. I woke up the next morning to find him sleeping on the couch in front of the NES. I woke him up, and he told me he beat Bowser! I sat in awe of his gaming prowess. Been gaming ever since.

[fullhavok]

29 with a 13 year old & 9 week old. (yeah - yeah had my 1st son at the good old age of 16.) i was playing with other things, not just my NES at that age. :lol: the good thing is my oldest son & i are real close, just a few week's ago i bought us 2 xbox's & linked them up. been playing Halo & Slpinter cell, for days nows. he put his gamecube away in the closet & i did the same with the PS2. i can't belive we waitied this long for xbox.


p.s. yes i've been with with my wife for ever :D , & yes , i went to school & got a great job (so did my wife) & have taken care of them since day one. i'm very proud of my wife & myself, if i do say so. i think we are a great couple & parents. so just in case any one has issue with young parents. .. but remeber boy's & girls think before you ..you know.
we are in a very low number group. it's tuffer then hell being a young parent.

wow. sorry for that long as* speech..o my god..i sound like my father!!!! :shock:
AHHHHHHH.. have to go play Halo, :wink:

[Indonesia]

I am 34 with 2 kids. Looks like I am the oldest here :(

[nachzeher]

I am 34 with 2 kids. Looks like I am the oldest here :(

Just curious about your choice for a username, any chance you're from there?

[froinlaven]

I'm 20, but isn't it alarming how many 20+ year olds there are along with all of the "my mom won't let me buy any more video games cause I'm wasting my allowance" type posts out there? :shock: Maybe I'm just imagining things.

[bfg9k]

I am 34 with 2 kids. Looks like I am the oldest here :(

Also 34. Over 25 years of gaming experience ;)

[Whambamm]

19, old enough to smoke, not old enough to legally kill a man.

I have no idea where that just came from...I think it's a quote from...something

[AtmaWeapon]

17

...no one here younger than me?

[Ledhed]

19, old enough to smoke, not old enough to legally kill a man.

Is there an age where murder becomes legal? Why was I not informed?

[Whambamm]

19, old enough to smoke, not old enough to legally kill a man.

Is there an age where murder becomes legal? Why was I not informed?

I cannot think of where I heard something along those lines and it's driving me crazy

[Spruce]

19, old enough to smoke, not old enough to legally kill a man.

Is there an age where murder becomes legal? Why was I not informed?

I cannot think of where I heard something along those lines and it's driving me crazy

sounds familiar to me as well, from a movie perhaps...though maybe not 19...
seems to refer to an age limit to enlisting (17 with guardian consent BTW)...I could be wrong though...

anyhow...25 years old....22 years o' gamin'...

and yes...I am an ellipsis whore...

[spoo]

24 but look like I am 16. I still get ID for smokes :(
No kids (thank god). I have been a gamer for 19 years.

[batman2million]

19

[rimsforsale]

22

[rimsforsale]

The young age of 26 (NES -SMS Generation) :D

you must have gotten a late start, i had an atari until i was 5, when i got a nintendo, in 88

good for you, but did you forget that video games + systems use to be hella expencive? i went through hell to get an atari. and more hell to get a famicom. and gave up so hella much for my supa famicom.

[KrazyKefka]

I'll be 24 in 5 days as of this post. (on May 11th)

[eurenix]

24, balding, and still being carded on a regular basis.

[JakeT81588]

wow you guys are old! ha... just kidding.. im fifteen tho, one of the youngins

[The Successful Dropout]

I'm 20, but isn't it alarming how many 20+ year olds there are along with all of the "my mom won't let me buy any more video games cause I'm wasting my allowance" type posts out there? :shock: Maybe I'm just imagining things.

i noticed the same thing....i also pictured myself being the oldest on this site for some reason...(im 21)...

[EggViper]

17

[danh920]

25

[bob_the_goon]

29, which makes me one of the oldest so far.

[The Successful Dropout]

im new to being a cager....but....cant you include poll charts or whatever its called? so it'll display the average age and all....

[moiety]

Another 21. :)

[Mr. Anderson]

I'm 14....and just to put em out there, CaptainObliviousXI (or is it IX?) is 15, and XboxMaster is 12.....or 13. I forget.

[ZarathosNY]

Hey, I guess so far I'm the oldest posted. I'm 37 with a ten and a half month old daughter. My first gaming system was, tank battle. I think that was what it was called. All it played was a tank game, and the controls were built into the system. You had two handles for each player with a fire button on one of the handles.

[shadd01]

im 21, just old enough to drunk!
--Shadd

[chosen1s]

27 in a few days

[jeffreyjrose]

19

[asaraa]

35, w/ three kids

[waxHead]

26

[CTLesq]

31, no kids, and I curse my parents to this day for not getting me an Atari.

Amusingly I am finding myself playing the "classic" Atari, Collecco Vision games now.

CTL

[jeugder]

25 years old yo!

jeug

[Wet Ninja]

22

I got the NES for Christmas back in '86, when I was 5, and I've been gaming ever since. In a backwards fashion, I got an Atari after I had the NES.

[MrBadExample]

37 and glad I'm not the only one over 30 on here

[Dante Devil]

33, 34 in July. I guess that makes me the oldest.
Married 10 years. 2 kids. And my daughter kicks my ass in Soul Calibur! and she is only 7!!! :D

[wubb]

Edit: I noticed everyone was throwing in how long they've been playing, so I might as well too. When I was 5, my Dad came home with an NES and Super Mario Bros. We stayed up trying to beat the 1st Bowser stage. I fell asleep, but my Dad was relentless. I woke up the next morning to find him sleeping on the couch in front of the NES. I woke him up, and he told me he beat Bowser! I sat in awe of his gaming prowess. Been gaming ever since.

:) I loved that story.

[Wlogan31]

Turned 20 about a month ago

[GameDude]

23 biznatches.

[The_Continental]

24, been gaming for 20 years. Just bought a house... startin' to feel OLD.

[Dante Devil]

Edit: I noticed everyone was throwing in how long they've been playing, so I might as well too. When I was 5, my Dad came home with an NES and Super Mario Bros. We stayed up trying to beat the 1st Bowser stage. I fell asleep, but my Dad was relentless. I woke up the next morning to find him sleeping on the couch in front of the NES. I woke him up, and he told me he beat Bowser! I sat in awe of his gaming prowess. Been gaming ever since.

:) I loved that story.

Damn I thought I was the oldest. I guess I need to read through all of the posts.

Any way I do think that the above qoute is great. It reminds me of my little girl. I mean, when I played ICO and beat the queen she was cheering me on. I know videogames get a lot of crap, but in my case they have brought me and my kids closer. My kids are like my own private cheering section. They hoot and hollar when I do well, and are supportive when the odds are against me. I guess the best moment I can recall was playing NINJA GAIDEN, and I had just beaten the last boss. I screamed to my kids that I had beaten NG! They came running downstairs to watch the final cutscene. I remember my daughter saying, "You're the best!" God I love having kids. :D

[encendido5]

24, been gaming since the days of the intellivision, so yeah, it's definitely been a long time.

[Grave_Addiction]

Edit: I noticed everyone was throwing in how long they've been playing, so I might as well too. When I was 5, my Dad came home with an NES and Super Mario Bros. We stayed up trying to beat the 1st Bowser stage. I fell asleep, but my Dad was relentless. I woke up the next morning to find him sleeping on the couch in front of the NES. I woke him up, and he told me he beat Bowser! I sat in awe of his gaming prowess. Been gaming ever since.

:) I loved that story.


HAHAHAHA! The look of your avatar made it even better! It seemed that you were so happy, you could cry! :D

Oh BTW, I'm 22 and have been playing games ever since I could sit up.

[markadius]

26, cut my teeth on the Atari 2600
:D

[TiKi2]

21 been gaming since atari 2600


I think the Miami people should get together and play some Halo

[basketkase543]

20

[Qbe]

I'm also in the "37 with 2 kids" club. Started on the "Telstar" system in the late 70s (3 variations of Pong), graduated to the Atari 2600, PC only from '82 to '02 when I finally got a Playstation and it's been downhill ever since.

[Javery]

I can't believe I'm 29 already...

[donssword]

38 years old -- 39 in the fall -- one foot in the grave kiddies. Old enough to be your dad.

Started gaming on a teletype connected to a mainframe via a large clunky "cradle modem" that your phone receiver laid on top of -- back in the day when all phone receivers were designed the same way. My father ran a main frame computer center, and we had access from home.

Games were generally text based, though there were some games with primative ASCII graphics which were turned based. ASCII artwork printed to strips of green and white computer paper (from a later model teletype) were all the rage -- large ASCII posters of the Mona Lisa and Spock adorned my walls. The cool games of the day included Star Trek, Mugato, and the original text based Adventure. I still have some of the old print outs of my gaming sessions.

I remember the day the teletype was replaced with the CRT -- a dummy keyboard and monitor that was in a powder blue all-in-one metalic casing. The screen was black with blue phosphorus type.

My Dad still games at the age of 70, though he prefers flight simulators and solitare. We have one of the older model teletypes in a storage shed -- it smells of metal and oil, like a machine shop, hust as it did back in the day. It always made a deep humming sound when it was on, and quite a clatter when it printed -- it sat in our basement, where I would hide away for hours fighting Klingons, or just trying to figure out what the hell I was supposed do do with that damn rod with the star on it's end.

My 2 kids have no idea what a PS2 is -- call me selfish.

[SneakyPenguin]

16, one of the youngins. i actually prefer the old school though.

[Mr_hockey66]

goodol 22 for me!

[Squirms]

Just turned 27, married for 6 years, a 4 year old son and a girl on the way. Been playing since the Atari when my parents got it and about 50 games for me for Christmas. Currently turning my kid onto gaming. He loves Mario Golf, Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, and Ninja Gaiden. My wife thinks he's too young to become a gaming potato, but I'm gonna prove her wrong.

[SneakyPenguin]

a four year old kid on ninja gaiden :shock:
wow, you sure are desensitizing him young

ikik :lol: its good your starting him early. this is the new generation of gamers.

[TurlissX4]

19 been here sicne this launch of this site even tho i dont post much in forums.... :)

[waxHead]

my gaming started when my dad brought home an Atari 400 back in '83 or '84. I was instantly hooked on Star Raiders and River Raid, played those endlessly. the NES was a Christmas present when it was released in '86, and it still works after all these years ;)

[jorgegiron]

27

[Danimal]

I'm another 37 year old with 2 kids. In three weeks, I'll be a 38 year old with 2 kids. Been gaming since Pong. I work crazy long hours to pay my mortgage and support my family, so gametime is much, much shorter than it used to be. That's why I've got a backed up pile of games waiting to be played. Well, that and all the cheap deals I've been stockpiling from this site. :)

[guyver2077]

20 and counting

[evilmax17]

19

[jeffreyjrose]

I find it interesting that many of us are around the 18-22 age category. Reminds me of a certain system that came out about then and revitalized the gaming industry...

[chickenhawk]

28, married with a bun in the oven. Available gaming time is about to diminish, yet I keep buying!!

[donssword]

28, married with a bun in the oven. Available gaming time is about to diminish, yet I keep buying!!

Not true. After the kid comes, your wife will be going to bed between 8 and 9 PM. And once your kid starts to sleep thru the night, you will find that 10 PM - 2 AM is the golden gaming hour. Just try and be diligent and do your best to get at least 5-6 hours sleep per night. 1:30 AM is my preferred cut-off, but it is easy to be lazy and pull 3 AMers. But 3+ AM bedtimes work against you in the long run because sooner or later your body will need to catch that sleep it missed. Better to pace yourself to a regular bedtime.

Also, get used to being a super cheap ass, cause baby needs new shoes more than you need that hot off the press game.

[BITADE]

23 one boy almost 2

[bfg9k]

33, 34 in July. I guess that makes me the oldest.
Married 10 years. 2 kids. And my daughter kicks my ass in Soul Calibur! and she is only 7!!! :D

Did you even read the thread? ;) As previously posted I am already 34 and I think the oldest is 38. :)

[chickenhawk]

28, married with a bun in the oven. Available gaming time is about to diminish, yet I keep buying!!

Not true. After the kid comes, your wife will be going to bed between 8 and 9 PM. And once your kid starts to sleep thru the night, you will find that 10 PM - 2 AM is the golden gaming hour. Just try and be diligent and do your best to get at least 5-6 hours sleep per night. 1:30 AM is my preferred cut-off, but it is easy to be lazy and pull 3 AMers. But 3+ AM bedtimes work against you in the long run because sooner or later your body will need to catch that sleep it missed. Better to pace yourself to a regular bedtime.

Also, get used to being a super cheap ass, cause baby needs new shoes more than you need that hot off the press game.

You make excellent points!! I have already become a super cheapass in preparation for the new little one. I won't buy a game for more than $15 with very few exceptions.

[WildWop]

Here's the count so far:

Rugrats, Youngins and other Riff-Raff [1-21]: 24
Gods on earth [22]: 6
Geezers, Elderly, and other denture-wearers [23+]: 30

[bjschre]

20

[dracula]

27, started with atari in 1981 and played on that for till I got NES in 87 then got turbografx in 89ish, i gave up games in college (1994) immediately after getting a snes. In 1998 I got a playstation, and just this year I picked up a ps2 and a gc and a N64(all of them were super cheap). the most I ever payed for a system was a psone(they were expensive at one time) but the rest were all pretty cheap(actually the atari and the nes were probably expensive, but i didnt buy those, my parents did)

best deal, hmm i will have to think about that, but I found some great deals at garage sales.

wildwop wrote:
Here's the count so far:

Rugrats, Youngins and other Riff-Raff [1-21]: 24
Gods on earth [22]: 6
Geezers, Elderly, and other denture-wearers [23+]: 31

wow that is an, umm interesting bracket you made there heh

[snotknocker]

I'm 40. However I spent 15 years in a drug induced coma, so mentally I'm 25

[WildWop]

Rugrats, Youngins and other Riff-Raff [1-21]: 25
Gods on earth [22]: 6
Geezers, Elderly, and other denture-wearers [23+]: 32

[x0thedeadzone0x]

14 ½. i just scream riff-raff.

[Rodimus]

22, and the first game I think I ever played was either Donkey Kong or Rocky on Colecovision. I was about 3 so I don't know exactlly.

[dtcarson]

31.
First console, Atari 2600. Used to love getting dropped at the arcade while my mom did the grocery shopping. [Back when arcades had more than racing, fighting, or gun games. And everything cost a quarter.] I was so excited that day I put my dollar in the change machine, and I got the Red Token, which you could turn in for 5 bucks in tokens. I smiled all day.
Atari 2600-> Atari 7800 [my next door neighbour had a 5200. Got Defender for a birthday [from my grandmother!] and stayed up all night playing. First all nighter : )]. NES for a while, then didn't game much [at least on new consoles, and other interests--work, biking, comics, girls, extracurricular activities] till high school [or was it college?!?], when I got a Genesis thanks to a friend and Shining Force. Then the Sega CD and the monstrosity known as the 32x, then the PS1 thanks to Vandal Hearts; sometime after that a brief fling with the Saturn, then last Christmas the PS2.

Now married, a 19 month old son, and real life intrudes on gaming as much as I'd like to. But I still try to play at least an average of 1-2 hours a night, after babybutt goes to bed and we've done all the household things.

[Gameboy415]

21 as of Tax Day. WOO!

*chugs a Miller High Life

[Missingdata]

17 year old, turn 18 after America's birthday (july 5)

[Jakeryansdad]

21. 1 boy who is 2 and is starting to try and play games with me! 1 annoying as hell girlfriend. Started Gaming in 1985-86 years, with the Coleco. I really started collecting during the SNES era though. Been a hardcore gamer ever since. Fondest childhood gaming memory - When my mom (I come from a broken home, so my mom and siblings were all I had) woke me up to tell me that she had found the secret 100 rupees in the top right corner of Legend Of Zelda!

[antichameleon]

I'll just copy Danimal's post and edit it, since it is almost exactly my story:

I'm another 37 year old with 2 kids. ON MONDAY, I'll be a 38 year old with 2 kids. Been gaming since Pong. I work crazy long hours to pay my mortgage and support my family, so gametime is much, much shorter than it used to be. That's why I've got a backed up pile of games waiting to be played. Well, that and all the cheap deals I've been stockpiling from this site.


...I echo the thoughts expressed earlier about gaming and bonding with your kids. My father and brothers played console games with me growing up. My 7 and 5 year olds love video and computer games, but I am very careful about exposing them to games with violent and other mature content.

[robdees]

27 tomorrow...way to old to still be playing videogames. :)

[WildWop]

Diaper wearers [1-21]: 29
Sexual Tyrannosaurus [22]: 7
Diapers revisited [23+]: 35

[froinlaven]

Diaper wearers [1-21]: 29
Sexual Tyrannosaurus [22]: 7
Diapers revisited [23+]: 35

Sexual Tyrannosaurus? As in extinct? :wink:

[meteors]

24 right here!

[chickenhawk]

27 tomorrow...way to old to still be playing videogames. :)

You're never too old to play video games IMO!!

[Jive3D]

Twenty-Four

[vrs1650]

27

[Hereticked]

24

But I feel like I'm 60 :oldman:

[WildWop]

Still in the womb [1-21]: 29
Oozing machismo [22]: 7
Dried up [23+]: 39

[notoriousxbox]

29

1st game played was Donkey Kong on Coleco Vision

Have a 6 yr old daughter and she has already started down the path of gaming.

Couple gaming moments with my daughetr was the day I bought Ninja Gaiden and I chopped a guys head off. She saw it an was amazed. Then she started to get mad that I didnt cut all the bad guys heads off.

Rainbow Six 3 my wife hearing my daughter say Tango Down when i would kill people and wifey trying to figure out what the hell my daughter was talking about.

[Ericnmel99]

24

[scargums]

im 21, working on a science degree at ohio state and will be applying to grad school in a few months. started gaming in 87 or so with my beloved NES for my 5th birthday and i just cant seem to stop!

[thecolonel2323]

21

My first system was an nes that I got very little play time on because my parents were constantly playing it!

[BigBen]

27, first video game system was Pong, as in the huge console that only played one game. My parents picked it up at a garage sale.

[Santorum X]

24, going on 25 at the end of this month. Gaming since '89 with the NES. Took a 6 year break from gaming in high school and first couple of years in college. Got back into gaming when I bought a PS1 5 months before PS2 came out. Not the hardest-core of gamers, but I play a bit; enough to kick people's ass in NBA 2K series.

[GSJaia]

32 and counting. Starting gaming 26 years ago and counting. :)

[CaptainObviousXl]

I'm 14....and just to put em out there, CaptainObliviousXI (or is it IX?) is 15, and XboxMaster is 12.....or 13. I forget.
yea im 15
but i was playing nes when i was a baby, no lie. Couldnt even talk.
One time i was at my uncles house and i was playing zelda, i was like 2 or 3, i accidentaly deleted his file, you should have seen how mad at me he was, i didnt know i could remember back that far tho. I ghess when it comes to video games you never forget its like the first time you ride a bike. :?
edit: 600th post

[dtcarson]

My son, who was 19 months yesterday, goes over to the entertainment center, grabs my PS2 controller, holds it right, and begins twirling the analog sticks while looking up at the tv. Unfortunately I don't have any games that would be suitable for him. He also comes to the sofa, grabs one of the remotes, turns around, aims it at the tv, and starts pushing buttons. Really cute, except when I'm watching something, then it's somewhat annoying.

[TomCloud9]

24 and in video game year I am 12

[judyjudyjudy]

22

[godhatesjustyou]

just turned 16 on sunday. i'll finally be able to get a job.

[ZForce915]

23 going on 24 (june 19th)

[wubb]

Edit: I noticed everyone was throwing in how long they've been playing, so I might as well too. When I was 5, my Dad came home with an NES and Super Mario Bros. We stayed up trying to beat the 1st Bowser stage. I fell asleep, but my Dad was relentless. I woke up the next morning to find him sleeping on the couch in front of the NES. I woke him up, and he told me he beat Bowser! I sat in awe of his gaming prowess. Been gaming ever since.

:) I loved that story.


HAHAHAHA! The look of your avatar made it even better! It seemed that you were so happy, you could cry! :D

Oh BTW, I'm 22 and have been playing games ever since I could sit up.

:lol: Part of the reason I like my avatar is the fact that it kind of looks like my posts are always making the poor penguin sad - or maybe he's just ashamed to be associated with my thoughts...

[FaintDeftone]

I'm 20

[JackSuper]

14 here, got my feet wet with the good ol'.. er.. Playstation!

[daphatty]

21 as of Tax Day. WOO!

*chugs a Miller High Life

First thing he does legally is drink shitty beer. :roll:

28. Been pimpin games back when hand held football and the portable pacman arcade cab was the shit!

[WildWop]

I had one of those PacMan portables, as well as... Stargate.. I think... some game with a ship going sideways that if you went into a white square you'd warp somewhere else?

Update:

What's 8 bit? [1-20]: 34
Played it all and came back for more [22]: 8
You can play games with an abacus right? [23+]: 47

[xzafixz]

just turned 19

[Steggy]

I turn 17 on the 26th. Im young :(

[seebelow]

25, and the first console game I ever played was Pitfall on the 2600... good times...

[CaptainObviousXl]

first game ive ever played was the original duke nuke em

[swetooth9]

15, ima youngblood...started w/ the good old nes w/ duck hunt and mario...i wish i still had it :(

then got a snes, a gamboy, a ps1, a gameboy color, a n64, a ps2, and gba...i wish i still had my snes and nes though...