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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 2:30:26 AM   
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54 going on 18...

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".

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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 3:12:46 AM   
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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 3:26:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey Nomad. Who is that in your avatar...Heddy Lamar? The most beautiful women ever were in the 40's and 50's.

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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 4:21:24 AM   
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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?

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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 4:25:06 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Halsey

54 going on 18...

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?

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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 4:56:38 AM   
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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.




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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 5:16:43 AM   
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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.

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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 5:23:55 AM   
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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 5:29:59 AM   
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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

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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 5:30:05 AM   
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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 6:12:48 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Nomad


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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.


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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 6:24:14 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Dave Briggs


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ORIGINAL: NefariousKoel

Gonna be 35 this month.



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.......

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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 6:54:24 AM   
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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.

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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 8:28:20 AM   
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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.

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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 12:43:34 PM   
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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 1:10:26 PM   
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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 1:26:18 PM   
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ORIGINAL: bigred


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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.


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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 6:27:48 PM   
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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 7:00:16 PM   
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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 7:29:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		51 going on 15 here, started wargaming back in the 80's and still going strong..

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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/9/2010 11:36:03 PM   
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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/10/2010 3:22:45 AM   
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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/10/2010 3:34:37 AM   
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Well...I wasn't too far off.



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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/10/2010 3:44:43 PM   
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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/10/2010 4:03:21 PM   
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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.

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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/10/2010 6:14:09 PM   
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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/10/2010 6:17:49 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Dave Briggs


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ORIGINAL: Nomad


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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.







That's Hedley!







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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/10/2010 6:43:45 PM   
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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.

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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/10/2010 8:14:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		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,

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RE: Curious about gamers ages - 5/10/2010 9:11:50 PM   
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