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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 10:04 pm
by LittleBear
34.
First played Elite in 1984 on a mate's BBC B. But I didn't set off from Lave properly until almost 6 months later. My Dad was a High School Physics teacher, who (after seeing Elite) decided that he had to "borrow" a school BBC B for *ahem* "teaching purposes."
Naturally he had to test at home all the Educational Science Programmes that were being released by MicroPower, Acornsoft etc, before trying them out on his pupils. The fact that this allowed him to play a space trading game with his son was of course, entirley co-incidental.
Then left Lave in 1985 aged 13 (BBC B Disk Version!).
BTW: Isn't the age range an almost perfect "normal distribution curve"? Turn the poll on its side and draw a line of best fit!
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 10:49 am
by Bringer of torture
LittleBear wrote:
BTW: Isn't the age range an almost perfect "normal distribution curve"? Turn the poll on its side and draw a line of best fit!
Regarding this sort of statement. Please see my signature for the quote from General Sherman.
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 11:04 am
by United Blobs
Bringer of torture wrote:LittleBear wrote:
BTW: Isn't the age range an almost perfect "normal distribution curve"? Turn the poll on its side and draw a line of best fit!
Regarding this sort of statement. Please see my signature for the quote from General Sherman.
I think you've got the
wrong guy...
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 11:14 am
by Bringer of torture
United Blobs wrote:Bringer of torture wrote:LittleBear wrote:
BTW: Isn't the age range an almost perfect "normal distribution curve"? Turn the poll on its side and draw a line of best fit!
Regarding this sort of statement. Please see my signature for the quote from General Sherman.
I think you've got the
wrong guy...
Interesting. Sherman did say that regarding battle casualty figures in the newspapers. Possible he lifted it from Twain I suppose. I doubt the comment about if he was to shoot all the journalists he was sure there would be news from hell by dinnertime was Twains though.
Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 8:39 am
by Gareth3377
First played Elite back in 85 on the good old Elk and have been hooked ever since.
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 9:03 am
by another_commander
35.
Started Elite on a ZX Spectrum and spent an absurd amount of hours on it. Made it to deadly and then somehow life started getting more serious, so I had to stop. Some years after I discovered EliteGL (an OGL port of TNK) and I was really happy that I had a nice version of my fav game for the PC (Elite Plus was an insult to Elite IMHO and the world would be a better place without it). A few years after TNK was pulled from the Internet, I found Oolite and that was it, really. I'm back in childhood and I feel great about it.
Enough being mellow, though, excuse me while I go kill some pirates/thargs/whatever.
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 9:27 am
by Wolfwood
34.
Started Elite with C-64, then went to Amiga and after a very long break I found Oolite.
Of course, FFE had its spin somewhere in there as well.
1984
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:09 pm
by DeepSpace
Played Elite on my Electron in 1984! Oh my god I played it for 6 hours straight - unheard of at that time. Hooked ever since. I thought I'd never need to play another game ever again.
yeah right.
1984?...Deep Purple got back together in 1984...
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:12 pm
by drdenim
no one 5-9, eh? haha
me...I'm 20...I remember waaaaaaaay back in the good ol' days of a week or two ago when I installed the autopackage Oolite on the Ubuntu side of my computer...I was browsing Synaptic package manager looking for a good looking game after having watched several hours of Space Battleship Yamato season one and Oolite caught my eye (prolly because I still had space on the brains)...I've been playing Oolite ever since...
end{nostalgia}
Re: 1984?...Deep Purple got back together in 1984...
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:33 am
by Captain Hesperus
Not physically, but mentally........
Captain Hesperus
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:03 am
by TGHC
Oy that's my line, I'll get my dad on to you!
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:05 am
by Captain Hesperus
TGHC wrote:Oy that's my line, I'll get my dad on to you!
Oh, yeah?? well, my dad's Superman....
Captain Hesperus
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:41 am
by TGHC
Well I bet my dad's got a bigger dog than your dad.
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 4:03 pm
by Makandal
Sh.t, I am so old...
43
I played Elite on Spectrum or Oric for the first time. Probably around 84.
Oups I forgot...
This is a lognormal distribution curve, the curve is assymetric because of a funny fact called death.
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:26 pm
by drdenim
Makandal wrote:
This is a lognormal distribution curve, the curve is assymetric because of a funny fact called death.
not to mention that the category 50+ is slightly larger in range than any of the others and is naturally biased...