Average Age?

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:06 pm

Shatterhand wrote:I am now 24. Posting here since I was 16. Goddamn, that's a long time.

Things changed a lot for sure....

wow...

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:23 pm

Shatterhand wrote:I am now 24. Posting here since I was 16. Goddamn, that's a long time.

You do realize that you were born in the same year as MSX basic, right!?

(if you´re not to become 25 this year already that is...)

That´s sick for an MSX-ophile.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:18 pm

Yes.

And I've begun learn it very young... as nerdy as it may sound, when I was starting learning to read back at 3-4 years old, I would always pick-up the MSX Basic books that came with the system to read. At some point I begun typing the programs....... and now I am working here as a full-time programmer, heh

Actually my mother always says how the MSX was an integral part of me learning to read so well while still at a such young age.

Logo my ass, MSX Basic is much more efficient for children

Pirate1019 · Post by **Pirate1019** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 8:31 pm

Shatterhand wrote:I am now 24. Posting here since I was 16. Goddamn, that's a long time.

Things changed a lot for sure....

Jesus, I'm gonna be just like you when I grow up. Except I started posting about a month before my 16th birthday.

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:06 pm

Why hasn't the average been calculated yet?

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:35 pm

22 here
11-2-84

malcolm · Post by **malcolm** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:39 pm

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:57 pm

35 now. Don't worry I'll be dead soon. This forum will outlive me as will this thread at this rate

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:03 pm

neorichieb1971 wrote:35 now. Don't worry I'll be dead soon. This forum will outlive me as will this thread at this rate

These kind of posts really DO get me worried.

Are you alright? Is there something we should know?

Nuke · Post by **Nuke** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:04 pm

22
29/11/1984

I've been lurking since 2001.

TKGB_Mental_Gear · Post by **TKGB_Mental_Gear** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:18 pm

21. A good age to die.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:19 pm

Super Laydock wrote:
neorichieb1971 wrote:35 now. Don't worry I'll be dead soon. This forum will outlive me as will this thread at this rate
These kind of posts really DO get me worried.

Are you alright? Is there something we should know?

Don't take everything so seriously

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:20 pm

The average age is 26.2.

Sonic R · Post by **Sonic R** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:44 am

My age is 31.
I am born in 1976.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:29 am

Pirate1019 wrote:I think Fighter17 is younger then both of us though. Whatever, we all clock in at way under the average.

Team 90's. 3 Misfits from our generation.

Whoa, Team 80's must be huge.

I'm glad to see 16 and 17 year olds who are into shmups. Spread the word amongst them!

Rob wrote:The average age is 26.2.

Whoa, i guess that makes me the average joe-shmupper

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:49 am

I think I posted my age. 32... quite a bit of mileage as well. Generation X is the best b/c we can fully appreciate the 80's, especially the bad 80's years (80, 81).

Pirate1019 · Post by **Pirate1019** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:03 am

neorichieb1971 wrote:35 now. Don't worry I'll be dead soon. This forum will outlive me as will this thread at this rate

Well, it'll probably go through another revision before that. Can somebody here that has been around longer then dirt tell me how many revisions this forum has gone through?

circuitface wrote:I'm glad to see 16 and 17 year olds who are into shmups. Spread the word amongst them!

Any of my friends that didn't fail math class can at least appreciate how awesome shmups are. Too bad none of them except maybe one have taken enough of an interest to actually purchase any.

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:03 am

I'm 28 as of July 2nd.
I feel neither young nor old, just 28

My 1st Shmup was Scramble (Konami) in summer 1986 at a small Luna Park Arcade Hall next to the beach. I was about 6 years old then and I remember begging my grandma for quarters to play over and over again; I just couldn't pass the 2nd level

At that time, I also remember an older girl (she must have around 25?) 1’ccing Rygar on another arcade cabinet! She was really good and I was thinking that this game was supposed to be played by older kids, which would explain her performance, but after trying Rygar my self 20 years later and getting killed at the 2nd level, I can see now that she was really good!

But the shoot em ups that got me hooked to the genre were Life Force (NES) in 1990 and Thunder Force III (Mega Drive) in 1991.
Truly awesome times, nostalgia can be a powerful thing.

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:10 am

I am 24.

One of my most vivid gaming memories was secretly playing Probotector on my first-gen Gameboy because my mom thought it was too brutal (and yes, Probotector is Contra but with robots instead of humans).

In 2007 my little brother can play GTA San Andreas during dinner shooting people with the shotgun and all my mother says is "please turn down the volume".

Times have changed!

bleem · Post by **bleem** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:39 pm

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 5:11 pm

I started posting at mk2 at the current shmups average age of 26. I am not quite 35 now.

Pa

Pirate1019 · Post by **Pirate1019** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:13 pm

Zaarock · Post by **Zaarock** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:25 pm

15, I pretty much got introduced to shmups by MAME, 19XX might have been the first one i played. Only console ive got is a PAL PS2... just need to get Homura and ill have everything worth getting for it ( might chip my older, sort of broken ps2 some day... )

Pirate1019 · Post by **Pirate1019** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:55 pm

Holy shit, you're a youngster. If you're 15 now and joined the forum in '05 then I think you've been the youngest person here for the last almost 3 years.

eight · Post by **eight** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:02 am

Hi, I'm 12.

...

Naah, I'm 22.

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 10:17 am

Zaarock wrote:15, I pretty much got introduced to shmups by MAME, 19XX might have been the first one i played. Only console ive got is a PAL PS2... just need to get Homura and ill have everything worth getting for it ( might chip my older, sort of broken ps2 some day... )

buy XII Stag

Zaarock · Post by **Zaarock** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:30 pm

P_HAT wrote:
Zaarock wrote:15, I pretty much got introduced to shmups by MAME, 19XX might have been the first one i played. Only console ive got is a PAL PS2... just need to get Homura and ill have everything worth getting for it ( might chip my older, sort of broken ps2 some day... )
buy XII Stag

already got it months ago, remember chatting about it on IRC. I think ill get taito legends 2; g-darius, darius gaiden and raystorm sounds like a nice combination :9

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 10:01 pm

Pirate1019 wrote:

LOL, nice

I started posting here (mk2) because I had just gotten DoDonPachi for Saturn and wanted to learn more about it and find more games like it. These days I still play plenty of shooters but I don't feel like there's much to talk about on the subject. Not for me anyway since I'm not especially good at them and definitely don't care too much about improvement. Occasionally if I get a shooter and I don't quite have the hang of it (Radirgy comes to mind) I'll read up on the main forum or strategy one but mostly I just leave the on topic pages for the on topic people.

So now you all have to deal with me over here in Off Topic

Pa

Erinu · Post by **Erinu** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:38 am

I'm 20 years old and I've been around these forums since early 2005.

Pirate1019 · Post by **Pirate1019** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:23 pm

PaCrappa, in all the years you've been posting here, have you ever forgotten to sign 'Pa' at the end of one of your posts?