Average Age?

Skyline · Post by **Skyline** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 4:00 pm

Actual age: 25

Age that I feel physically and mentally: 52

:3

charlie chong · Post by **charlie chong** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 4:36 pm

Lordstar wrote:
charlie chong wrote:i be 27

been here since 2003 when shapermc told me to get my bum in here. i was called prinsecharles then tho .. ive locked myself out of 3 accounts since then cos my internet access has been limited a lot in the last 4 years and i would always forget teh password/email i used to sign up
yeah when i first spoke to you on killercabs I did think. WOW now theres a guy who will looses his account PW and email addresses jk

when i first joined up to shmups all the grammar nazis accused me of being an alias of japhei/third strike because they said my lazy posting style was too similar to his to be a coincedence!

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:14 pm

evil_ash_xero · Post by **evil_ash_xero** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:00 pm

Milkgoat · Post by **Milkgoat** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:54 pm

I recently turned 19.

Patrik · Post by **Patrik** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:56 pm

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:49 pm

Kind of a stats freak so i couldn't resist compiling the data.

tspan - avg - stdev - median
2005 - 25.1 - 6.1 - 24.5 - chart
2007 - 24.3 - 6.0 - 23 - chart
Total - 24.7 - 6.0 - 23 - chart

People who posted twice in one year and/or in both years were counted properly.

That's as detailed as it's gonna get short of a full survey or having everyone's DOB.

RGC · Post by **RGC** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:56 pm

Post by **Shatterhand** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:02 pm

so the forum got YOUNGER as time passed by?

That's interesting....

hermosaguy · Post by **hermosaguy** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:30 am

Moleculoman · Post by **Moleculoman** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:54 am

I'm in the mode here.

23

ED-057 · Post by **ED-057** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:14 am

25. but my hair is turning gray.

Aquas · Post by **Aquas** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:23 am

The moral is when you're in your prime, you WANNA SHOOT THE CORE!

HARHARHAHR!

Necronopticous · Post by **Necronopticous** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:50 am

I guess I'm sort of reviving this again, but what the Hell.

23 here. 10/18/84

zukan · Post by **zukan** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:46 pm

I'll follow along, 20 here.

Erinu · Post by **Erinu** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:48 pm

Geezer · Post by **Geezer** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:03 pm

23. Too old to be young, too young to be old.

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:38 pm

26 yo!

ALREADY!

No_not_like_Quake · Post by **No_not_like_Quake** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:37 pm

I'm 30. I've been playing games since my uncle got an Intellivision.

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:44 pm

unsane wrote:Kind of a stats freak so i couldn't resist compiling the data.

tspan - avg - stdev - median
2005 - 25.1 - 6.1 - 24.5 - chart
2007 - 24.3 - 6.0 - 23 - chart
Total - 24.7 - 6.0 - 23 - chart

People who posted twice in one year and/or in both years were counted properly.

That's as detailed as it's gonna get short of a full survey or having everyone's DOB.

would it not be better to do everyones date of birth since were all having birthdays all the time!

heres mine 1981!

might be interesting to hear when we first got in to shmups if it was when we were 8 years old and it was XXXX game could trace a good year for shmups down to who posts here today.

im sorry im reading this back and im not sure if im making any sense do you understand what im on about?

Syndicate · Post by **Syndicate** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:51 am

Holy shit! People here are quite "old", I guess all the teens are tied into MMORPG's or FPS's. I'm such a rebel.

Age: 15

nlen83 · Post by **nlen83** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:01 am

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:07 am

Syndicate wrote;

Holy shit! People here are quite "old", I guess all the teens are tied into MMORPG's or FPS's. I'm such a rebel.

Age: 15

Its mainly because 2D shoot'em ups had their heyday from the 80s to about 1992, so the older generation of arcade goers would know them best. Having said that, 99% of those guys are gone. Very few of us left.

The average age here seems to be 24 though, so the explanation for that is errr.....? Maybe inquisitive guys who found 2D shooters on the net, or guys who found 2D shooters by way of mainstream releases like Ikaruga and Gradius V, or PS2 owners who bought Espgaluda and DDP DOJ. I'm not entirely sure, but it would be an idea for each person to not only post his age here, but also to post how he found the genre

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I guess all the teens are tied into MMORPG's or FPS's. I'm such a rebel.

I think you're absolutely right on that one

. The current teenagers are more likely to be into Call of Duty type FPS's.

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:44 am

Those that are 24 now still witnessed the peak of 8- and 16-bit eras, though (since they were active in 1990-1995, when the most good 2D games were still easily available).

chempop · Post by **chempop** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:46 am

26 years so far this life, most close friends consider me ancient though

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:24 am

DEL wrote:also to post how he found the genre

kinda: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=10847

UnscathedFlyingObject · Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:34 am

Lotsa olds people in here. Why does it feel like it's full of 13 year olds?

JJG · Post by **JJG** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:55 pm

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:05 pm

UnscathedFlyingObject wrote:Why does it feel like it's full of 13 year olds?

Because it's the internets.

My birth year is 1983.

How I got into the genre is kind of weird, since there was a HUGE hiatus. Way back in the day I used to play Zaxxon, Legendary Wings, Captain Skyhawk, 1942, and a couple others. I liked them, but they weren't by any means favorites. Once the 16-bit era came about, they completely fell off my radar aside from random plays of arcade games (like Aerofighters or something), but I didn't get to play at arcades very often at all. Then with the release of Ikaruga and the making of friends who were into the genre, things went downhill and now I'm a full-fledged shmup-addict =)

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:34 pm

Lordstar wrote:would it not be better to do everyones date of birth since were all having birthdays all the time!

Good idea. 01/1977.

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