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How old are you ?

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First post, by Cthulhus

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To know you better, I want to know how old are you and when did you start playing PC's games ?

Me, I'm 25 years old and start playing PC with : The 7th Guest and Doom !! Before come on PC, I was on Atari ST1040 Ste!!!!

Reply 1 of 19, by MiniMax

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I am Oooooooooooold! Started out in 1979 I believe. I am not sure what I used first:

Startrek/Enterprise on a Commodore PET 2001

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Moonlander on a Texas Instruments TI-59

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Reply 2 of 19, by eL_PuSHeR

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I started using an almighty Amstrad PC2086 in 1988. 😁

Reply 4 of 19, by Predator

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im 28 and started with pc in year 1991 with a 286!

Don't be so hard
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Reply 5 of 19, by Guest

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I'm 19 and started with home computers since I was born (i can barely remeber the spectrum and I definetly don't remember my dad's Texas).
As regards PC, I started at the age of 5 with a borrowed XT with no hard drive, playing games like blockout and simcity.

Reply 6 of 19, by icemann

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I`m 23 and started gaming on the good old Atari 2600 + Commodore 64's at school. Years later I eventually nagged my parents into finally getting a PC.

Two stones, two crosses, the rest is just icing. - 7th Guest

Reply 7 of 19, by MMoudry

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Hi,
I am 23 years old and I started playing games at the age of 3 on Atari 800 XL. The first game I played was pacman and Ultima IV I belive.

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Reply 8 of 19, by iampiti

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I'm 23 too 😀.
I started playing games on a atari 2600 clone in 1991.
Two years later I got a 386 on which I played wolf3d.

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Reply 9 of 19, by teamster1975

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I'm 28, the first PC we had was an Amstrad 1512 and I was hooked on Starglider and Digger!
Before that we had a BBC Micro, brilliant machine! Even better when we got the floppy drive and ditched the cassette 🤣
Then there was the Intellivision and Astrosmash 😁

Reply 10 of 19, by virus !

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I'm 26 yo and started with an ibm ps1 in 1990. I Specialy spent time with games like sim city, populous and railroad tycoon...

great times..... nostalgy 😉

Reply 11 of 19, by galemir

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1979; owned OricNova64, C64-Floppy, Amiga600 and first 486 PC in 1994.
Ultima xxx was the name of the PC game 😁

Virtual machines take less space and more time 😉

Reply 12 of 19, by MabusRaeen

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I'm 25. Almost 26. Started gaming when I was 6... 7... not completely sure. A friend of mine had a Coleco Vision. I got completely hooked on the Smurfs, etc.

First PC didn't appear till 1989. I got hooked on Round 42.

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Reply 13 of 19, by MiniMax

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teamster1975 wrote:

I'm 28, the first PC we had was an Amstrad 1512 and I was hooked on Starglider and Digger!
Before that we had a BBC Micro, brilliant machine! Even better when we got the floppy drive and ditched the cassette 🤣

Seems like I was one generation ahead of your, teamster1975 😏
The first computer I owned was my Acorn Atom, the pre-decessor to the Beep. Next up was my Amstrad CPC-464 with a strange rigid 3", 180 KB diskette station.

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Reply 14 of 19, by firestorm225

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I'm 19. I started on a Commodore 64 that I got from one of my dad's friends who was just throwing it away. After that, I moved onto a 486.

Reply 15 of 19, by teamster1975

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MiniMax wrote:

Seems like I was one generation ahead of your, teamster1975

At least I'm not 30 yet 😜
Mind you, having a 4 month old son has sometimes made me feel 50! He's just starting to sleep through the night now 😁 😁 😁
No time for playing on the computer anymore though 😢

Reply 16 of 19, by ChaosFish

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I'm 18... too old 🙁

I first had a real computer at home when I were 9, but the first games I played were before that, I played Commander Keen 1 and 3, Prince of Persia 1 and 2 (I love those games), cartooners (best game ever) and some more. All those I played with my cousin, best times I had in my life.

Reply 17 of 19, by Jules13

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I'm 20 and I started with King's Quest 6 when we got our Tandy Sensation in 1992...hmm.. i think I was about 8 or 9

Reply 18 of 19, by MiniMax

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teamster1975 wrote:

Mind you, having a 4 month old son has sometimes made me feel 50! He's just starting to sleep through the night now 😁 😁 😁
No time for playing on the computer anymore though 😢

It works the other way around too. When he is 10, and want to play with you, your son will make you feel 10 years younger 😀

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Reply 19 of 19, by Cthulhus

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Thanks for your answers ! 😀