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TomBombadil711 -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/13/2007 11:34:30 PM)
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hazxan -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/14/2007 2:01:35 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: redmarkus4 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[:)][:)]

hazxan -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/14/2007 2:04:37 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: kevinkin 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?

JAMiAM -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/14/2007 2:56:33 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: NotaGrog 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...[:D]

SMK-at-work -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/14/2007 3:05:02 AM)
So you can't multi-task huh? There are cooler cars around than Corvettes....[;)][8D] [image]local://upfiles/994/3C00C445532547378BB5975440D6D4A9.jpg[/image]

von altair -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/14/2007 7:43:17 AM)
39 here and I played strategy games all my life :)

EricSilver_MatrixForum -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/15/2007 5:12:38 AM)
36 years old. ;)

ravinhood -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/15/2007 10:41:02 AM)
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.

Xenomath -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/15/2007 3:19:57 PM)
interesting age distribution 25 years over here

SSFSX17 -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/16/2007 12:53:28 AM)
I'm only 22

ShadowB -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/16/2007 2:45:44 AM)
quote: 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. [:'(]

Westheim -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/16/2007 12:52:59 PM)
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. [8\|] So, am I boring ...? (scratches head)

jadam12 -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/16/2007 12:54:54 PM)
Yep, even though I have found matrix games and started playing these games after I finished high school, back then I was playing with paradox strategy games while my classmates with need for speed, sims and football simulators...

ravinhood -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/16/2007 2:34:02 PM)
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. ;)

kevinkins -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/16/2007 6:54:10 PM)
Some stats: 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.

yoggi75 -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/17/2007 7:10:41 PM)
Guess I lower the mean value a bit. I'm 32

larizona55 -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/18/2007 4:22:35 AM)
45 here. 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

vondee -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/19/2007 4:58:50 AM)
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.

jwarrenw13 -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/19/2007 6:28:52 AM)
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.

Zakhal -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/19/2007 8:56:16 AM)
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.

laska2k8 -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/19/2007 1:58:22 PM)
I'm 43 + 3 years old son my first wargamer was a carpet as a map (big) and a bunch of plastic soldiers (mostly cowboys, indians...) max

all5n -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/19/2007 9:58:22 PM)
34

Tattico -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/21/2007 10:50:49 PM)
40 here!

miral -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/21/2007 11:14:38 PM)
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!

kevinkins -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/21/2007 11:40:55 PM)
The mean remains at 41.26 with 66 people contributing to the database. Are any females (no jokes please) playing this simulation? Kevin

Magpius -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/22/2007 12:30:51 AM)
Now comes the next profile question for the statistician. Which country? me - Australia (GMT +10)

yoggi75 -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/22/2007 1:56:03 AM)
Swedish

ravinhood -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/22/2007 3:06:05 AM)
Texican - Yes I know he said country, but, us folks down here in Texas still feel we are a country and the south is gonna rise again and this time LEE won't be in charge. ;)

Zap -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/22/2007 3:12:11 AM)
55 -USA

rhinobones -> RE: Age Group Playing AT (12/22/2007 6:09:57 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ravinhood 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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