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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/13/2007 11:34:30 PM   
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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/14/2007 2:01:35 AM   
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48 but I look 26. I think it's all the hours in front of my PC; they've really help be build up those shoulders!


yay!!! And don't forget those healthy rays your monitor is blasting out!!!!

Oh yeah........46.

AT seems to be fulfilling a real need of the 40-somethings

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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/14/2007 2:04:37 AM   
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when the ice cream truck went by the Arty and tanks would always disappear.


Didn't Hitler have the same problem????? Or maybe that was just a bad dream?

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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/14/2007 2:56:33 AM   
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AT seems to be fulfilling a real need of the 40-somethings

Haha! Buying a good computer game is the best way I can think of to take the edge off the "middle-age crazies". I tell you it's a hell of a lot cheaper than buying a Corvette, or engaging the amorous services of a wanton mistress. Not that I would have any first-hand knowledge of such things...

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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/14/2007 3:05:02 AM   
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There are cooler cars around than Corvettes....




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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/14/2007 7:43:17 AM   
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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/15/2007 5:12:38 AM   
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;)

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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/15/2007 10:41:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		51 here and I never liked Led Zepplin. More of a Moody Blues fan here.

It's sad to see no 12-13 year olds posting here. That's what we need more of not you old codgers.

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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/15/2007 3:19:57 PM   
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25 years over here

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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/16/2007 12:53:28 AM   
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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/16/2007 2:45:44 AM   
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ORIGINAL: ravinhood

51 here and I never liked Led Zepplin. More of a Moody Blues fan here.

It's sad to see no 12-13 year olds posting here. That's what we need more of not you old codgers.

Games like these classify as 'boring' for the vast majority of 13-year-olds.

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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/16/2007 12:52:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		Not only games like these. Out of 15 boys in my class I was the only one to play things like Civilization II. (Yeah, and the girls played with horses and books anyway.) Ts, these kids ... if it doesn't explode it ain't cool. So, am I boring ...? (scratches head)

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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/16/2007 12:54:54 PM   
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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/16/2007 2:34:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well, to me it's just showing that wargames aren't getting saturated into the younger peoples view. Matrixgames should send things to grade schools and jr. highs to promote history learnin say the 6th and 7th grades to introduce them to wargames. This is another reason I crusade for retail store boxed games, kids just don't do searches for Matrixgames or probably even wargaming sites. They need to SEE the product in stores and in their classrooms. Perhaps Matrixgames could make some deal with 6th and 7th grade classes to post some advertisement on their bulletin boards and emphasis their FREE games they have for download?? Afterall once you've played SPWAW you're hooked. ;)

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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/16/2007 6:54:10 PM   
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57 people gave ages
Mean: 41
MAX: 72
MIN: 18
40% of the people are in their 40's
19% are less than 30
18% are 50 and over
23% are in the dirty 30's

Kevin

PS I may be wrong, but I think everyone was male.

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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/17/2007 7:10:41 PM   
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I'm 32

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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/18/2007 4:22:35 AM   
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Kind of funny because I did a review of AT for ACG and took some flak for referencing those Marx WWII Battleground plastic playsets from the 60s. The comment was that readers wouldn't be old enough to know what I was talking about.

Well, if those answering this are representative of AT players, I guess that many of us not only know about those Marx playsets, but also owned them...

Larry


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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/19/2007 4:58:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		Wow - the Marx WWII Battleground set! My friend had that and it was awesome. My folks couldn't afford it - I got the generic army men in a clear plastic bag with the stapled cardboard at the top. I think they were in some awful colors like green and orange - the guys mixed together in the same bag. The Marx set had all this great stuff like tanks, barbed wire, pill boxes, etc. I haven't thought about that set in 35+ years.

Oh, I'm playing AT and I'm 47.


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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/19/2007 6:28:52 AM   
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Status: offline 		The toy soldiers.  I remember seeing a plastic bag full of tiny toy soldiers in the dime store and talking my mom into buying them for me.  These were smaller than the regular size, about one inch tall.  I eventually collected 300 or so of them, WWII, Civil War, cowboys and Indians, etc.  I would divide them up and have huge battles and campaigns.  You could do a lot in a small space with those little soldiers and some dominoes.  Eventually I began playing on our coffee table, and then one day I saw Avalon Hill's Kriegspiel in the local toy store.  Oh, I'm 54.     

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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/19/2007 8:56:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		Im 29 and have always played wargames. Not sure what got me into it. When I was younger I read world history through twice (plus every book abt ww2 in the library) just to get to know all the wars.


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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/19/2007 1:58:22 PM   
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my first wargamer was a carpet as a map (big) and a bunch of plastic soldiers (mostly cowboys, indians...)

max

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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/19/2007 9:58:22 PM   
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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/21/2007 10:50:49 PM   
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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/21/2007 11:14:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		60. First wargame was AH Gettysbury, then Tactics II. People should not be surprised about high average age. The baby boom generation was largest in history of US, and we started modern wargaming on a large scale, so it stands to reason that we went from board to computer games. Also, AT is very reminiscent of the AH, SPI type games so its popularity among older gamers makes sense too.

And don't think that this kind of classic wargaming will die out due to real-time and sims and shooting gallery crap. Tastes change with age. As some of the kids playing these fast as you can bang bang you're dead games get older, learn about history and learn that mental problem solving is more pleasurable than hand-eycordination, they will switch to Matrix type games.

And here'e too the young ones on this forum who are already mature enough to know this!

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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/21/2007 11:40:55 PM   
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Are any females (no jokes please) playing this simulation?

Kevin

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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/22/2007 12:30:51 AM   
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Which country?
me - Australia (GMT +10)

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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/22/2007 1:56:03 AM   
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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/22/2007 3:06:05 AM   
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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/22/2007 3:12:11 AM   
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RE: Age Group Playing AT - 12/22/2007 6:09:57 AM   
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but, us folks down here in Texas . . .


As I understand it, this part of the country is actually called South Oklahoma.

Also, had a friend from Dallas who would say "You can tell a Texan a mile away. Get up close, and you can't tell a Texan a damn thing"!

Could this be true?

Regards, RhinoBones

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