How old are cheapassgamers?

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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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
 
[quote name='Ledhed']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.[/quote]

:) I loved that story.
 
[quote name='wubb'][quote name='Ledhed']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.[/quote]

:) I loved that story.[/quote]

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
 
[quote name='wubb'][quote name='Ledhed']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.[/quote]

:) I loved that story.[/quote]


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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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 ;)
 
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. :)
 
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...
 
[quote name='chickenhawk']28, married with a bun in the oven. Available gaming time is about to diminish, yet I keep buying!![/quote]

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.
 
[quote name='serro821']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[/quote]

Did you even read the thread? ;) As previously posted I am already 34 and I think the oldest is 38. :)
 
[quote name='donssword'][quote name='chickenhawk']28, married with a bun in the oven. Available gaming time is about to diminish, yet I keep buying!![/quote]

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.[/quote]

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