Just wanted to find out a little information about who I'm talking to.

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Since people always seem to want to know what the average age of an XS member is.. here is your permant place to check.

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How Old Are You, how old are our resident hackers?
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How Old Are You
0-10 [ 4 ] [2.17%]
11-13 [ 9 ] [4.89%]
14-17 [ 54 ] [29.35%]
18-25 [ 87 ] [47.28%]
26+ [ 29 ] [15.76%]
Total Votes: 183


How Old Are You? POLL, What do we have for an audience at XS?
How old are you?
24 and older [ 59 ] [27.44%]
23 [ 8 ] [3.72%]
22 [ 14 ] [6.51%]
21 [ 18 ] [8.37%]
20 [ 8 ] [3.72%]
19 [ 18 ] [8.37%]
18 [ 22 ] [10.23%]
17 [ 20 ] [9.30%]
16 [ 23 ] [10.70%]
15 and younger [ 25 ] [11.63%]
Total Votes: 215

Age Pole, j/w, even though no one will vote...
How old are you
under 12 [ 1 ] [1.25%]
13-15 [ 15 ] [18.75%]
16-18 [ 17 ] [21.25%]
19-22 [ 17 ] [21.25%]
23-30 [ 15 ] [18.75%]
30-40 [ 11 ] [13.75%]
OLD [ 4 ] [5.00%]
Total Votes: 80

How Old Are Ya Guys?, C'mon, all vote!
How Old Are Ya Guys?
Less than 13 [ 0 ] [0.00%]
14-15 [ 2 ] [4.76%]
16-17 [ 3 ] [7.14%]
18-20 [ 7 ] [16.67%]
21-25 [ 11 ] [26.19%]
26-30 [ 9 ] [21.43%]
31-40 [ 4 ] [9.52%]
41-50 [ 2 ] [4.76%]
51-60 [ 0 ] [0.00%]
61+ [ 4 ] [9.52%]
Total Votes: 42

How Are You Guys....
How old are you???
6-7 [ 1 ] [4.35%]
8-9 [ 1 ] [4.35%]
10-11 [ 2 ] [8.70%]
12-13 [ 3 ] [13.04%]
14+ [ 5 ] [21.74%]
Kiddie Diddler [ 4 ] [17.39%]
Apples [ 5 ] [21.74%]
No [ 1 ] [4.35%]
Yes [ 1 ] [4.35%]
Strawberry Milkshakes [ 0 ] [0.00%]
Total Votes: 23

C'mon, 98 views and only a few votes ...

You guys should be ashamed! How hard is it to drag the mouse to an age group? Or is it that thinking of your age is too stressful and hard?

lol who's 61+? never knew that unless someone messin around.

I'm 13 (14 in March)



How old did you HONESTLY think i was?

so am i

babies..... 27...

ok, are we being serious here? Just wanna make sure. Can't tell if you are or not. I wonder how old Yoda.. er I mean opjose is.. hehehe.. Knows everything he does, yes. Im 26. Been into computers since I was just out of diapers.

I am 462 years old.

He is, don't question it.. hehehe.. I have seen him say that in other posts as well... So, care to share the secret of eternal youth? I think I would have killed myself long before I ever got to be that old if it were possible. Car crash, plane crash, something would have done me in. Unless I were superman, hey, does superman live forever? Anyone else like Smallville on WB? That show kicks ass. Let's see how far off topic I can go with this.. .. oh wait, minors in the house.. go to your rooms little ones or else..

ok, that's better...

I am you guy's uncle

look at gacts pic, he doesnt look 462 years old

That's why I asked for his secret to eternal youth.. come on kiddie, catch up here...

I seriously doubt that 50% are 18-24.... look at all the posts where the person can't even search a forum, or read a few tuts. I honestly think the average age hovers around 13-16, and most were lying on the pole (for some reason, teens want to fake like they're old enough to buy alcahol =-).
Gackt uses necromancy to reanimate his corpse when he dies, and stays eternally young by bathing in the blood of virgins once a moon.
I'm going to be 21 this December, to get back on subject.

I have the fortane of youth as i an 30,000 years old,if you wish to buy my secret it will cost you about $10.00 US

20

Hey Dkoikadabra, I thought that was our little secret...

wth is that - Dkoikadabra??

Im 27 years young........that young part just makes me feel like im still hip and INTO it.

Just call me Grandpa. i can remember when the first IBM PC came out. Wait - i can remember when we got an Apple in my High School Library.

The days before Cisco. When all MS had was a word processor....

I can remember watching the Vietnam War on TV (waiting for Scooby Doo to come on I must admit)...

** sigh **

I feel 18 though!!!

G

Well let's see...

Back in my day, if you wanted to play a video game, you'd have to spend hours and hours and hours typing it out from the back of a magazine!

Well then - you must remember Avaoln Hill games!! Remember Squad-Leader? On the hexagon boards and the little cardboard tanks and the 300 rules you had to process (and random values obtained by throwing dice 10 0r 12 times) and keep track of every move?

Ahhh.... THAT was entertainment!!!

And I have to admit... I STILL watch Scooby Doo. How does Thelma do it? They always get the guy the guy!!! I never figure out who it is either....

"if it weren't for you damn kids.... the gold/diamond/whatever would be mine by now!!!!!

I was around before Pong. My school's computer dept. was a few typewriters, and if you were good, they let you work on an electric one. Cable tv just started and we could get all 13 channels, if it wasn't to windy outside.

Man, when the first PC was out, I was already well into copying games via cassette drive on my Atari 400. I remember going to copy parties where we had stacks of dual cassette players and spent hours swapping games on cassettes. Anyone remember Compute Magazine? Lots of hours of programming from those mags, just to make a simple frogger game. All those damn data statements!!!

10 Welcome to my data hell, goto 20
20 data 10,22,61,35,52,73,63,72,1,73,72

and on and on with those data statements, and one wrong # and the program didn't work.. that was hell if you had a typo in one of the data lines. I even modded my Atari 400 though, upgraded from 4K of memory to 48K and built an external keyboard with real keys, not those flat ones. You could actually use the keyboard on your lap. Made out of wood and plexiglass. Had a power switch on it also. Those were the days...

I thought u were that age bagel
I am 13 going on 14 and how old are u really GTac01?

QUOTE (Ace25 @ Nov 7 2002, 10:01 AM)

Man, when the first PC was out, I was already well into copying games via cassette drive on my Atari 400. I remember going to copy parties where we had stacks of dual cassette players and spent hours swapping games on cassettes. Anyone remember Compute Magazine? Lots of hours of programming from those mags, just to make a simple frogger game. All those damn data statements!!!

Ahhh yes.. Compute magazine. I remember spending hours typing out the programs for my VIC-20 computer, if anyone remembers that! In fact, I think I still have a whole bunch in storage.

Then there was the joy of printing them out on a NOISY dot matrix printer. Had to close the door to the room and go downstairs just to get away from the sound of it. SCRREEEEEEECHHHHHH ... SCRREEEEEECCCCCHH.

BUt then again, that was also the days of the Atari 2600, with its ONE-BUTTON joystick, a couple of paddles, and a button pad with tons of buttons for one game (can't remember at the moment).


PS. Scooby Doo rocks! I still watch it on Cartoon Network, though I don't care for the "scooby doo gang" version with the little kids

yeah - I am amazed when I see my daughter watching Scooby on Nick Jr. Makes me want to cry...

I used to have a 1-button joystick.

I am going to start another post - "What was the first computer game you ever played?"

look for it in General...

Ghazi

QUOTE (Al_Ghazi @ Nov 7 2002, 10:59 AM)

yeah - I am amazed when I see my daughter watching Scooby on Nick Jr. Makes me want to cry... I used to have a 1-button joystick. I am going to start another post - "What was the first computer game you ever played?" look for it in General... Ghazi

Ugh.. that one's going to make me think. I can remember on what SYSTEM the first game I ever played was one, but not the name of it.

Hmmmm...

What was the first COMPUTER game you ever played.


For me it was that bi-plane "pong" type game that was 2-player at the arcade. You flew around a 1D screen and could have a single shot in the air at any one time, but had to wait until it left the screen to "fire" again....

I guess the first REAL computer game I played was that text-based Cave Adventure compiled on COBOL.

G.

Check out the new post in General Chat...

Lemonade stand and Lode Runner on the C64. The good ol' days when computers came in the keyboard. They looking into the future... now they are called laptops

QUOTE (M3_DeL @ Nov 7 2002, 06:05 PM)

Lemonade stand and Lode Runner on the C64. The good ol' days when computers came in the keyboard. They looking into the future... now they are called laptops

Actually it says "senior member" not advanced...

Do you feel senior? if so you get a discount at Denny's

Ghazi

Ummm, probably Pong. Although Zork seems to come to mind.. the text based one of course. This was before graphics were invented. Hahaha

I think I out grew Scooby-doo, its a great cartoon, but seen em all. My fav cartoons now are Justice League and He-Man on Cartoon network, also X-Men Evolution on WB. Batman Beyond kicked major a$$, I am so bummed it was canceled. Same boat as Dark Angel, good shows gone over budget and met the axe.

Hmmm, my very FIRST computer was a commodore 64. It plugged into the back of the TV, and you loaded the carrtridges from the side. Space invaders rule!

/me is waiting for the first 14 year old to say Pentium was their first computer

C64 was my 3rd or 4th computer, Tandy CoCo, Atari 400, Apple II, C64, C128, XT PC, 286-P4. Not mentioning all the consoles I had, Colecovision, Intellivision, Atari 2600/5400/7200 and so on...

Actually, the C64 was the first computer I had that used floppys, I was so amazed by how fast they were compared to casettes. Can you imagine waiting 1-1/2 hours for 1 game to load from casette, the whole time making an aweful screeching noise. Then play the game, die, and have to reload to play again. I remember The Last Starfighter being like that on my Atari 400... moon patrol, pooyan, pitfall, Jame Bond Moonraker.. sooo many fun games back then..

I wonder if kids who are 8 years old now will look back on the XBOX with such fond memories? What will games look like 30 years from now? Fully 3D holographic running on a 100 terabit optical chip the size of a transistor?

Nah, there will be another whole "retro" revival again, and all games will be PONG in 635 billion colors

Damn the first home system I played was even before the Atari 2600... It was brown I remember had like 4-8 games that you could chose from with a selector switch...

Black and white of course.. pong was one of them I think...

pong here

was addicted

QUOTE (flagg @ Nov 7 2002, 01:10 PM)

Nah, there will be another whole "retro" revival again, and all games will be PONG in 635 billion colors

Well, they just released an updated version of "Defender" for the PS2.. I think it was IGN that had a little story about it.

While I do love the nostalgia of playing my old favorites, they still are exactly that. Example: I dont want to see space invaders 2004 on xbox. THe only game I would want re-done, would be Metroid baby! That we when she gets naked at the end, you could have live video action

Im pretty sure its the same, c64/128- but I remember something that I think was an addon for the 64, the vic20? it played tapes that were games, regular cassette tapes. I remember plugging them into a stereo and hearing the worse sound ever, a high pitched eeeeeeeeeeeee
lol

the best game on the c64 was "transformers"/"ghost busters" and probably "the way of the exploding fist", and I guess "law of the the west" was rad too.

C64/128 were not the same, although they really never made much for the 128 to support the extras it had. I think the 128 had a 1571 floppy drive, which was better than the 1531 the C64 had. Taxing my brain trying to remember all the hardware parts back then. The Vic20 was a PC a few years before C64, so it was not an addon. You are correct about the tapes, that is exactly what they sounded like when loading. High pitch eeeeeeeeee, pause, eeeeeeeee, pause.. for an hour for a 20K game. Ghostbusters was a pretty fun game on C64. Got pretty frustrating though if I remember right.

vic 20? i thought I was old.....

Never had a computer till only a few yeats ago but we did have pong on the atari when we were kids.

HAHA. Sinclar ZX Spectrum (or something like that). It looked like a calculator with oversized ruber keys. I think it had 16k of memory. You needed an interface the size of a pack of smokes to plug in a joystick and of course tapes were the data storage method.

Those were the days.

When I was young, videogames and computers didn't exist for me, I did nothing more than study music and how to play different instruments all day.

Im 15. Turn 16 on Jan 30.