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Halsey -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 2:30:26 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Yogi the Great quote: ORIGINAL: Halsey 54 going on 18...[:D] Been gaming since 1968. Started on miniatures, then board gaming, and onto PC's in the 90's. Actually met Gary Gygax at Gen Con back in 1973. Anyone ever heard of that late great visonary? [;)] Actually, I attended the very first gen con held at the small American Legion building in Lake Geneva Wisconsin. Gen Con would then move to UW Parkside which I attended a couple of years and then on to Milwuakee before making the last move to Indiana. I also would go to Gygax's game store in downtown Lake Geneva. Then of course he made it big with Dungeons and Dragons. I was a wargamer though, not a fantasy game fanatic. I tried all the genres, wargamming was the most satisfying though. We probably crossed paths then. I was really into British Colonial Miniatures back then.[;)] I remember sneaking into a bar downtown at night, I was underage at the time. Then a friend and I went to a movie theatre and saw "Fritz the Cat".[:D]

Nomad -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 3:12:46 AM)
63 last year. Started in 1969 with an introduction to Napoleonic Miniatures followed right after with the orginal WiR( Called War in the East ) that was played on a 4 piece map. I think my first computer war game was tigers in the Snow, that was a hybrid game. It was for the TRS-80, came on cassette tape and had a game board and cardboard pieces. The computer took care of sighting rules and combat. I have played many a board wargame in the past, from a number of different companies and some home designs.

Brigz -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 3:26:50 AM)
Hey Nomad. Who is that in your avatar...Heddy Lamar? The most beautiful women ever were in the 40's and 50's.

bigred -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 4:21:24 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Yogi the Great 59 - started at about 10 years old or so when my oldest brother wanted to play a board game he bought and was hard up to find somone to play against. I won and was hooked at that point. I purchased almost every Avalon Hill title after that for quite a few years. Hence the signature below I often attach to my postings. Did your brother keep playing?

bigred -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 4:25:06 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Halsey 54 going on 18...[:D] Been gaming since 1968. Started on miniatures, then board gaming, and onto PC's in the 90's. Actually met Gary Gygax at Gen Con back in 1973. Anyone ever heard of that late great visonary? [;)] I did not meet Gygax at Gencon but I did sneek into the playboy club resort at Lake Geneva when I was 19. But I want to know why you picked 1st rangers as your avatar?

martok -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 4:56:38 AM)
I'm 33, going on 12. [:'(] Depending on what you define as wargames, I've been wargaming since I was either 16 (when I discovered Risk and BattleTech) or 24 (when I discovered Axis & Allies and Twilight Imperium). That being said, I'm probably more a general strategy gamer than a true wargamer, but I enjoy both kinds of games.

Nomad -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 5:16:43 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Dave Briggs Hey Nomad. Who is that in your avatar...Heddy Lamar? The most beautiful women ever were in the 40's and 50's. Donna Reed.

vonRocko -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 5:23:55 AM)
46! Started with Kriegspiel, Blitzkrieg, Afrika Korp, Waterloo and Battle of the Bulge.[:'(]

D.Ilse -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 5:29:59 AM)
almost 30, been PC wargaming since DOS/WIN 3.1 that I remember really well..before that Flight Sims of WWII were my thing...Panzer general, Steel Panthers, I remember very well..Iron Storm on the Sega Saturn, kinda like PG, but with the choice of US,Germany or Japan with alternate historical paths...first game I clearly remember buying myself at Waldensoft was Close Combat 2. although I had gotten CC1 before that, which I even remember PCgamer(I think) writing up a early review of as PC's ASL. I thought CC1 was great...then CC2 blew me away..sadly the rest, 3-5 pretty much sucked bitter lemons in comparison. Also did Tabletop(esp ASL and several others) since 14 or so. Starting modeling in 1/72 aircraft at 11 or 12(Airfix's Arado 196A-3 was my first serious kit I built), and 1/35 armour at 16 with DML's Jagdtiger being my first

Titanwarrior89 -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 5:30:05 AM)
60 years old. Started wargaming in 78'. my first game I bought was squad leader but the first one I learned was the Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich.

Brigz -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 6:12:48 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Nomad quote: ORIGINAL: Dave Briggs Hey Nomad. Who is that in your avatar...Heddy Lamar? The most beautiful women ever were in the 40's and 50's. Donna Reed. Well...I wasn't too far off. [image]http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3199/lamarr.jpg[/image]

Phatguy -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 6:24:14 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Dave Briggs quote: ORIGINAL: NefariousKoel Gonna be 35 this month. [X(] BTW...Happy Birthday! Enjoy being young. The worst thing to happen when you get older is that young ladies start calling you "sir".[:(] I still can't get used to that. Yeah..I get called sir all the time..The only thing that keeps me from being cranky is when I get ID'd when buying booze.......

Zap -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 6:54:24 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Dave Briggs I was just reading some threads where some gamers stated their age. It seems there are a LOT of wargamers in their forties, fifties, and above. I'm 60 and have been wargaming since I was about 11 or 12. That was back when there were only about eight Avalon Hill wargame titles available in the entire world. Not counting Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers, my first game was Tactics II followed quickly by Battle of the Bulge. So if you don't think it's an invasion of privacy, how old are you and how long have you been wargaming? Yes, there was a thread started, Oh, about 4 or 5 years ago with the same question. So five years older now that makes me 57. Been at it since I was twelve. My older brother and i played board games until the computer age. Have not returned to boardgaming.

MikeBrough -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 8:28:20 AM)
49 but feeling 10 years older after last night's alcohol-fuelled antics. I played SPI's War of the Ring the year before I went off to university. Then I made the mistake of visiting a game shop in Edinburgh - and things went downhill from there. Damned if I know how I managed to fit in my degree round all my gaming. My growing game collection followed me from job to job and home to home. Then I made the mistake of leaving them at my parents' house one year and my brother sold the lot - he needed the space for his medical books! I took that as a sign that I had to get into something more 'portable' and my love of computer gaming was born. A Commodore 64 in 1983 and then PCs from 1987 onwards.

Larac -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 12:43:34 PM)
43 years old and married 19 years on May 24th. Lee

Barthheart -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 1:10:26 PM)
Just turned 45 in March. Been wargaming since I was about 13.... started with Luftwaffe.

Yogi the Great -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 1:26:18 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: bigred quote: ORIGINAL: Yogi the Great 59 - started at about 10 years old or so when my oldest brother wanted to play a board game he bought and was hard up to find somone to play against. I won and was hooked at that point. I purchased almost every Avalon Hill title after that for quite a few years. Hence the signature below I often attach to my postings. Did your brother keep playing? Not for long. He had a friend and the two of them dabbeled in games for about two years. His friend's younger brother happened to be my best friend and the two of us tried his brother's Tactics II at the time, they also had D Day. But my friend also had little interest. After I purchased Afrika Korp, my Dad was nice enough to play it with me once, but I would be mostly on my own playing solitare for hours with each new game purchase. I don't want to fill this thread up with all the games I purchased, mostly AH, but also several other companies including SSG, Victory Games and a number of small game companies I can't even remember the names of. My first computer wargame was a Gettysburg game made for the Apple II on 5.25 inch discs.

Halsey -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 6:27:48 PM)
It's my avatar because I served with the unit 76-78. Tabbed out and everything, after I got older, I became a Rigger so I could keep jumping. I was getting too old to sleep on the ground.[:D] That's for the young pups.[;)]

captskillet -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 7:00:16 PM)
54 going on 18....[;)]!

Jevhaddah -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 7:29:48 PM)
51 going on 15 here, started wargaming back in the 80's and still going strong.. Cheers Jev

Hertston -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/9/2010 11:36:03 PM)
45 and feeling it. [:(]

Jeffrey H. -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/10/2010 3:22:45 AM)
48. Been playing wargames since I was 12.

ilovestrategy -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/10/2010 3:34:37 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Dave Briggs Well...I wasn't too far off. [image]http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3199/lamarr.jpg[/image] Oh....My......God. Do Goddesses allow themselves to be posted here? [&o] [&o][&o]

anarchyintheuk -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/10/2010 3:44:43 PM)
43, AH is responsible for my addiction. Started with Luftwaffe, Blitzkrieg, PanzerBlitz and PanzerLeader.

rjh1971 -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/10/2010 4:03:21 PM)
39 started playing boardgames when I was eleven, by the mid 80s I got my first computer games (for spectrum+) I thought it was a great idea I didn't have to set all counters and could save the game any tiem and keep on player later, of course those first games are prehistoric (Arnhem a bridge too far, Guadalcanal). Then Great Naval Battles, Panzer General, Clash of Steel, WIR... were some of the first for pc I played. I also played some of AH games, but those were difficult to find here, have Luftwaffe, PzGruppe Guderian, Eastern Front and another about tank battles in the east I can't remember its name right now.

SlickWilhelm -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/10/2010 6:14:09 PM)
44, started wargaming in 1992 with a real classic: Gary Grigsby's Pacific War. That got me hooked. But I've also been a die hard flight/Sub/racing simmer for slightly longer, since the original Red Baron from Dynamix was released on the PC in 1990.

SlickWilhelm -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/10/2010 6:17:49 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Dave Briggs quote: ORIGINAL: Nomad quote: ORIGINAL: Dave Briggs Hey Nomad. Who is that in your avatar...Heddy Lamar? The most beautiful women ever were in the 40's and 50's. Donna Reed. Well...I wasn't too far off. [image]http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3199/lamarr.jpg[/image] That's Hedley! [image]local://upfiles/25901/0DAEC840C33744DD9356A27230742286.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/10/2010 6:43:45 PM)
32. As to how long I have been playing wargames, I guess that is a matter of what you term a wargame [;)] Started playing chess at age 5, but "serious" wargames I have only been playing for 15 years or so. Terje

sysrkm -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/10/2010 8:14:38 PM)
What a great question! Now I know that I am in good company and NOT the oldest guy on the team, like many of my hockey teams I'm 52 and my first boardwargame was Foxbat & Phantom. In 1973, I think, a 9th grade math teacher, Mr. Bill Simpson, had an afterschool wargaming club that I think was a thinly veiled attempt at getting poorer math students to learn math. Anyway, from there I went to Starship Troopers and to Ogre and Ogre\GEV from SJG Microgames. My first computer game was Trek 80 (?) played on a Radio Shack TRS80 pc. But the first REAL wargame was Star Fleet Orion (1978 or 79?) played probably on a Laser II which was an Apple II clone at the time. First online game was probably M.U.L.E. played on my BBS (Eat Flaming Death BBS) back in 1991. I had 4 phone lines coming into it and MULE gave me fits with everyone trying to play. But my first hexgrid based computer wargame played on a PC was probably Mech Brigade, which should have been subtitled "Wire guided missile." I really LOVED that game. But the boardgame I probably liked the most until I figured out what Steve Cole was doing, that being just milking poor kids out of hard earned gaming money. I spent 7 years playing SFB, 5 years in one of the Alpha test groups. Dang this question really brought back some memories... Again, GREAT question! Regards all, Rob

Anraz -> RE: Curious about gamers ages (5/10/2010 9:11:50 PM)
35, the first contact with wargaming at age of 12.

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