Topic: Old school gamers over 35?

@Scrubicius I get invites to join discord...don't even know what it is or how it works. Same with slack. I don't even have social media...

@Severian I would see it more a VoIP App and a portal for gamers. I use it allot to link up with players for NES and SNES games or Switch games in general. Kinda popular now thx to the Corona situation.
Check it out it’s definitely not a Facebook type platform.

Slack is more a business tool like MS Teams.

@Scrubicius hahaha I was being sarcastic. But I still dont have time though.

36 - it started with dos 1987 .... prince of persia and lemings ^^ 1988 my first console, the sega master system <3 - then 1989 gameboy, 1990 the mega drive, 1991 game gear. 1993 the snes only because of donkey kong country 1,2,3 ....then mega cd, 32x, saturn, n64, dreamcast, gbc, gba, nds, 3ds, gamecube, xbox, xbox 360, wii, xbox one and now switch

Im 40 been a gamer since the good early 1980s when me and my siblings had the Atari and played a few of the arcade games at various places like malls and pizza places

@Krull
oldgamesonly1979
what a convenient thread

@Scrubicius Thanks for the invite but I'll also have to pass.

@Apportal I've been very inactive here the last few years. I never got a Switch, and the 3DS seems about dead here. But I look in sometimes to see what's of interest.

I am 43, and started off with Arcades and the Atari 2600. Probably remember pac man as the first game i played, but didn't feel like i became a gamer until the NES came out. Everything changed then

About to hit 40, still playing Mario lol

@NinChocolate hahaha, great story.

I remember begging my parents to rent an NES from our local grocery store. Too funny... getting games and systems to rent from the store while going grocery shopping! Those games mostly still rock too.

Don’t be ashamed. Mario’s awesome

@ KBrozov

I was teased my a store clerk at walmart for wanting to buy Mario galaxy when it first came out. I was 28 at the time. I said whatever dude go play call of duty if it makes you feel like a big man.

I don't care how old i get if mario games are still good when I'm 80 I'll still be playing them.

I never played the games in 3D All-Stars before, so just done them all for the 1st time & I'm 45, @Zeldafan79 .... I liked all 3, too!

Well just made 36 a couple of weeks ago...

I started kind of late on gaming as I believe I had a mega drive in 91 and a PC in 94 so my first gaming memories are with Sonic 1 (that I will defend to the grave and the reason why Sonic games were never about got go fast but about go fast after you learn all the shortcuts) and Prince of persia and Wolfenstein 3d.
After that I have only owned another console with the switch as I stayed mostly with the PC but I got in love with Nintendo nonetheless as I played SNES and n64 at friends and mostly by emulation

Why you whipper snappers with your mypods and your online gaming! In my day we played games on our box TV's and if we wanted to play two player we sat there in front of it together like real friends! Oh and what's all this i been hearing about DLC? We had that in my day too. We called it Dusty Lame Cartridges. Now scuse me while i go put in my favorite movie short circuit and fix me a bowl of Count chocula!

80's kids rule!😜

@Zeldafan79 no, 90's kids rule!

@Zeldafan79 @Apportal wish I grew up in the 80’s or 90’s. So much better than things are now. Also I would’ve loved to be there during the SNES days.

If we're all adults here, does that mean we can use language If so:

I'm 30 and grew up with the 16-bit era. I honestly don't think I missed much during the 8-bit era. It really didn't age well outside of a few select games. As I get older I interact with younger people who grew up with Xbox 360/PS3 and I can see why the industry is changing the way it is and why everyone wants instant gratification. I do understand that tech needs to advance and things change, but I miss the simplicity. The PS1/N64 era was during most of my childhood and I do miss it. 30 years and I have only met one game collector in person who doesn't work at a retro game store? I feel isolated in the game world. Sorry, just random thoughts.

I’m 48. Started out in late 70s with Adventure and Combat on 2600 then jumped to C64 for many years. Retired mid 80s but then in the early 90s I got into the NES and Gameboy. Never stopped since then until the birth of my first son in 2003 when I honestly thought I would never game again. I sold my entire collection, including a boxed Virtual Boy and Jaguar CD for about 30 quid each.
Got back into it again and have since built up a reasonably well stocked games room.
I mostly play homebrew carts on the Jaguar these days but I love stuff like Dark Souls, Uncharted, Horizon Zero Dawn as well as the many super indie titles on offer. I have every Nintendo console and handheld once again (bar the Virtual Boy- I opted to buy a Vextrex instead of rebuying one.)
Fav game of all time is Tempest 2000 by the genius that is Jeff Minter.