PlayStation®3 General Discussion

[opiumgod]

well i`m only 39, but it all started round about `78-`79 for me, had one of those consoles that had about 6 or so  games like tennis & breakout on it,cant remember the name of it tho

[TouchingCloth]

I'm 47 I think, I do not own a Wii, I play every day when the wife has gone to bed. I'm often still on at 2 in the morning and later and still go to work later in the day, 7:30am.

I love fifa, FPS games and racing sims, check out my trophy stats top see the games I've played, plus there  were many more before trophies came about.

I am crap compared to others when I go head to head online, but I enjoy playing games. If I log on to MW2 and find myself getting battered more than usual, I log into a porn site instead and batter myself.

ps I have 2 kids and i don't let them on.

[Mulletino]

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JaySuthEFC wrote:
My nan and grandad 66,67 own a wii.

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Are you sure you didn't just missunderstand when they said they both had a wee in the lounge? 

OP - there are heaps of oldies at the Old Age PlayStationers who qualify as being "old gamers". Some of them also post here although the majority prefer not to incase they get mugged by the "yoof of today".

[thecabbage]

Yeah mulletino I can understand that.  Actually I wasn't looking for people's ages per se, I was looking for some perspective on the way gaming is going.  I find it incredible how much moaning goes on in the forums about what's in the store, Home, voice chat etc etc.  It tends to be disgruntled yoof who think they're entitled to the world, whereas most of us over 30 are just excited to be playing a console online, and by the concept that games and systems can be patched and augmented (and even expanded) by this high speed internet thingme....

[Leedsgooner]

As mentioned in my earlier post i am 48 but love playing online, i currently play WSC real 09 online & have built up a good number of friends by doing this

[savill]

I'm only 29 and have and will always love gaming, but my 54 year old Dad who bought me my first console (a NES) has also been playing ever since, he has just recently completed AC2 and is currently playing Uncharted 2, i hope i'm that good when i hit the 50's.

[chalky83]

My mate is a painter and decorator and had a job in an 'old folks home' not long ago, he said there was a woman in there in her 70's/80's who had a PS3 with a huge stack of games and she would stay up every night til 4 or 5 in the morning playing. Her family would bring her new games all the time.

[TescoValueGamer]

And I thought I was an old gamer at 38!

Like many of you, I was wowing at the likes of Manic Miner on the Speccy all those years ago (and I still have my 2 Speccies and a whole heap of CRASH mags dating back to Christmas 1984, being the Spectrum fanboy I am!).

It makes me laugh really, imagine us old gits in another decade's time. Will we be playing cribbage whilst sipping our Gold Label? Nope, we'll probably all still be online giving it to these young'uns

Oldschoolers, I salute you. All of you. Do feel free to add me.

[kingkerouac]

I'm 46.

Been gaming since the early days of the ZX81 mono gaming before the ZX Spectrum.

I think that gaming's early core audience has stuck with it, I know a lot of people my age who still game.

Nothing to be ashamed of.

[planet_lee]

I created a map of "Glider Rider" on the Spectrum on bog-standard graph paper, sent it in to "Your Sinclair" games mag & got it published in 1986.
I assumed they would 'spruce it up' a bit for the print copy, but they didn't.

They printed the half-arssed attempt I submitted.
Weird feeling pride & shame in the same instance.

Been gaming since I was given a "Grandstand" video games console with different versions of "pong" on it.
Never looked back since (due to me always looking forward).

Like Kingkerouac says, "Nothing to be ashamed of".

Especially since the leaders in the game dev. world are of our age (looks to the Darlings & the Housers & others).

The day I get tired of this medium, is the day I get tired of 'fun'.

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Ooops, forgot to add, 39~ body age, 12~ mental age.  (but who's counting ?)