Poll: How Old Are You?

Star Gazer · Post by **Star Gazer** » Tue May 15, 2007 6:46 pm

Hey! ...I need a new category for '60+ '...!!

Dr. Nil · Post by **Dr. Nil** » Tue May 15, 2007 7:15 pm

A mere 33 (until midnight)

(Graduated from Lave Academy in 1987 on an Amstrad 464)

reills · Post by **reills** » Tue May 15, 2007 7:23 pm

Heck, I knew the Dead Sea Scrolls when they just had a touch of a cold!

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Tue May 15, 2007 8:01 pm

If "old" would mean "wise" I guess I wouldn't ~~waste~~ spend my time with this game and this bb.

Frame · Post by **Frame** » Tue May 15, 2007 8:03 pm

all work and no fun makes old men a naughty boy

Thats why we do this i think...

33 and a 1/4 summer have i seen

Bringer of torture · Post by **Bringer of torture** » Tue May 15, 2007 8:11 pm

Nicely grouped into those who were teens when Elite first appeared. Im 29 so a little young back in the day but I still juked my way up to dangerous on the 128k speccy version.

Arexack_Heretic · Post by **Arexack_Heretic** » Tue May 15, 2007 8:13 pm

heh. same here, but on a hacked C=64 version.

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Wed May 16, 2007 11:47 am

It would be interesting to know if there are any differences in what brought people to Elite/Oolite, especially with the wide variety of age groups.

(I'm 33.5, by the way).

It's interesting that there are people of 50 and over playing Elite/Oolite? What are your primary interests in the game and what was your original introduction to the game?

Speaking for me, I was 14 or so when I first discovered Elite. Star Wars was my introduction to sci-fi, and Elite was my second big hobby related to space. I'd always been interested in space, from looking at stars to drawing space ships and rockets and stuff. Elite caught my imagination thanks to its free-roaming nature, and I could pretend I was really there making money in the spacelanes.

What about the rest of you?

Star Gazer · Post by **Star Gazer** » Wed May 16, 2007 1:21 pm

I was already 37 when Elite first appeared, and it was on the ZX Spectrum that I first played it. Depite the 7 minute tape loading time, and the horrors of the Lenslok(!) protection system, I was completely hooked immediately.

Right from learning how to enter a space station; finding and flying onto the axis of rotation, then synchronising with the rotation, I was enraptured. I learnt to fly as a teenager, and had dreamt of going into space since the age of 8. By the time I was 35, I knew that it was always going to be a dream, so Elite was the nearest it was ever going to be!

I played Final Frontier nearly as avidly on my Amiga nearly ten years later, but its flight model left a lot to be desired.

I'd almost forgotten the buzz until I found a copy of Oolite_v1.06 on a MacWorld CD nearly 3 years ago. It made me smile just when the screen with 'Press Space, Commander' came up!

Oolite has come an awful long way over those 3 years, and yes, I still get a huge buzz off flying against the various hostiles in the game. Sure, I enjoy trading well and turning a great profit, but it's the flying and the combat that really gets my juices flowing.

My (ex)girl-friend reckoned I was pretty sad to still be playing computer games at my age, but, w.t.f. ...I hate TV soaps...

Corbeau · Post by **Corbeau** » Wed May 16, 2007 3:48 pm

Star Gazer wrote:
My (ex)girl-friend reckoned I was pretty sad to still be playing computer games at my age, but, w.t.f. ...I hate TV soaps...

Are you saying that the person who actually watches TV soaps called playing computer games silly?

Corbeau · Post by **Corbeau** » Wed May 16, 2007 3:50 pm

Arexack_Heretic wrote:
I'd call it Gaussian
not quite, the run-up is too high.
drop-off after the peak is linear.

Hey, don't get me started

Considering the amount of data and taking into account the margin of error, it can still be a perfect Gaussian!

Dr. Nil · Post by **Dr. Nil** » Wed May 16, 2007 4:23 pm

...34

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Wed May 16, 2007 5:29 pm

Star Gazer wrote:
Hey! ...I need a new category for '60+ '...!!

We are not worthy Oh Great One!

I'll just settle for being a youngster at 57.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Wed May 16, 2007 8:42 pm

Selezen wrote:
It would be interesting to know if there are any differences in what brought people to Elite/Oolite, especially with the wide variety of age groups.

I was around 16 and on a C64 when I first came to Elite. From the beginning I just was taken away by the vector graphics. And it was fast! And it was open-ended! It just felt real, completely different to any other game. (There was another game at the time using vector graphics, I forgot the title. You were stranded on a planet and had to rush through tunnels under the surface to get some gadgets to help you to get off that planet again. It just wasn't that good, and after a relatively short while I just was through it.)

I still remember how excited I was when I stumbled across my first mission screen, the Constrictor hunt. I had played this game for hours and hours, slowly making my way through trading and bounty hunting, and now suddenly, completely out of the blue, something entirely new and unexpected happened, taking it to a whole new level again!

This was a bloody awesome game!

And the fascination is still there with Oolite! (Taken to the again new level of having the possibility to set up my own suprises for other players by scripting OXPs!)

What a great game this is!!!

(Oh, and I am 39 now.)

Star Gazer · Post by **Star Gazer** » Wed May 16, 2007 9:28 pm

Corbeau wrote:
Star Gazer wrote:
My (ex)girl-friend reckoned I was pretty sad to still be playing computer games at my age, but, w.t.f. ...I hate TV soaps...
Are you saying that the person who actually watches TV soaps called playing computer games silly?

...no comment...

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