How old are you???

yea, my lil bro is 13 and hes way sharper than this fake... though i do enjoy the line of questioning... only because i love talking about me :D

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Well I say you are only as old or young as you feel, no what digits are added to your life per year. Much can be done to make you better and what you shouldn't do is feel to much pressure from mainstream society to be what they want you to be.

I'm 28 (born in 77), and I'm 29 end of december. I'll be playing games and doing all the other stuff I like in life, til I fall into my grave.

Rhino, Majin and co. You might be younger but you've missed a hell of a lot of good games. Just remember if you to play and learn the history of games, only then will you really appreciate what we have to play now. Either way regardless of age you still have my respect for being gamers and being here.

Well I'll add my two cents as it were. I'm 28, another oldie I suppose, although I'd prefer veteran gamer.

My first system was Binatone Pong, state of the art at the time, and then I moved onto Acorns Electrons, Atari ST's then onto consoles.

I still enjoy gaming as much now as I did then, I just think it gets stereotyped as being for kids by people who grew up without games in their life at a young age.

As they say "You don't stop playing games because you get old, you get old because you stop playing games"

I’m also certain we have a fake in our midst, don’t really care if they get banned, it’s kind of funny in a way!

being an older game is ace!! (30) i can afford all the games & games console i want!, & 32" HDTV with surround sound system!?! check!, & no waiting till christmas for your parents to get you the wrong thing.....ahhhh it's bliss.

Well, the IP checks out, though an expert faker could fudge that.

I don't know about other people but I've been playing games since I was about 6. I played a lot of games on my trusty gameboy (original edition). And everyone's should've played all the classics (seeing as about 1/2 of them have been re-released loads of times). But tbh they really don't match up to the standards of todays games. I played Zelda: ALTTP (original SNES version) and I had to consult a walkthrough so many times, I don't see how you were supposed to work this stuff out on your own. Retro Games I like: Breakout and Parachute (on my iPod), Space Invaders, Galaga, Old Mario Games (plus Doki Doki Panic!) Old Sonic Games (not so much), Kirby and I enjoyed a game I found called Rampart (until it got boring). There's probably a load more I still haven't played, so why don't you tell me some of your faves?

the most important part of gaming past that i think most people your age have missed is the now nearly forgotten adventure game. Specially since most younger people who may have had an original nes probably didnt get any pc games at the same age.

Basically you want to try out anything lucas artas circa 1988-1995 ish i woudl guestimate.

my recomendations in order of prefferance:
1)Day of the tenticle
2)Sam and mac hit the road
3)Full throttle
4)Grim Fandango
5)All the monkey island games (can even get the newest one for ps2 i believe but i dunno how it plays)

any many others... the dig... indiana jones and th einfernal machine....
The great adventure games where the best for telling a fantastic story and makign the player feel apart of what was going on without any overly complicated controls.

a nearly dead art sadly... thank goodness for psychonauts as a proof of concept... shame it didnt sell more :/

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Then he goes on to quote graphical point and click games, like some sort of youngster.

You want to be talking about The Hobbit or Valhalla or The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy if you want proper adventure games. You know, ones with text you had to type.

The games that youngsters have missed out on are the true classics from the golden age of computer games - you know the C64 and Speccy era. Jet Set Willy, Elite, Batman, The Sentinel, Star Paws, Paradroid, The Last Ninja, Uridium, Barbarian, IK+, Dambusters, Gunship, Hunter's Moon, Lazy Jones, Jack the Nipper, Wizball, Chiller, Lords of Midnight, Driller, Suicide Express, Ghostbusters, Paralax, Dropzone.

That lot is just of the top of my head, I could go on.

Most of the people who develop games in the UK and Europe will have grown up on that lot and the Amiga/ST era games. Those games are the heritage of the games industry, the ones that caused people to get into writing games, not just playing them.

your cave paintings may have laid the foundation but when siteing the "hight" of gaming i preffer to go with renesance period stuff. It's one thing to apreciate the past for what it lead to... but just cause soemthign came first doenst mean it was best. ;)

besides, he was looking for games we recomend he play... sure the old texties where great for what they where... but i dotn think i could ever see myself going back and playing any of them now. DotT still holds up very nicely... specialy if you get it with the audio intact.
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I forgot to mention all the random acorn games I played at my fist school (how could I forget Lemmings and Zool). I also played this weird adventure game called Granny's Garden (you can look it up on Wikipedia). You had to find magical items and complete some sort of quest (I never did, sadly). I also have about 200 or so odd retro games from generations NES/Master System - PSOne/N64 stored on my xbox hdd, that I try out when I'm bored. I played an adeventure game called "King's Quest" and it interested me, but I think it's one of those games where you need to work out exactly what you need to do and do it in the exactly right order (with no second chances or spare lives). I just found it too challenging and slow paced (and that was with an acceleration button on the emulator that let me run the game at about 3 X real speed!). But thanks for all the recommendations. It's just a shame I'm too busy trying to get employment at the moment, before I leave for my Gap Year.

Two words. Scott Adams.

my first game was mario on the SNES,what a game to start of with and since then i have just loved Nintendo. on this forum i am probably one of the younger members,but here-in lies its advantages.

spong is a great site,with great writters,good community and an source of information.

long live spong.

You mention some of the classic INFOCOM games, but neglect ZORK: The Great Underground Empire? Blasphemy!

Kill troll with sword.

And no graphics could deal with the most awesome description: "A lean and hungry gentleman..."

No indeed it doesn't, but the longer list of games I gave all have something that you can't get now. If it's not the huge expanse of Elite, that Frontier never re-captured, or the mind-bending, chess-like game play in The Sentinel it's the sheer fun of Wizball or the perfect atmosphere of Batman.

Back then, games were more of a wild frontier that had no limits. Games were reasonably quick to develop, by teams of less than ten (more often only one) and cheap to buy. This gave developers more scope to play and have fun with their games.

Instead of that, we now have 100+ people working for three years to give us the safest, most middle of the road gaming "product" they can produce.

We laud Katamari and Loco Roco for being simple, fun games. Back then that's all there were.

Mind you, most of them were s**t back then too!


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