How old are u?

Dominous Nemo · December 1, 2000, 22:44

Just out of curiosity I wonder how old are the people that play this game? I am 24. Am I an old fart that like’s to play a kid game or is this normal?

Grumbold · December 1, 2000, 22:51

You're a youngster!

I got hooked at school when all we had were Tandys, Sinclair Z80's and one Apple II. Man you used to be able to do a lot with 16k of memory before VGA was introduced. Shame the AI is often still as dodgy. I'm now 34 and know plenty of people older than me who game regularly. Computers are a godsend for ex-tabletop wargamers and boardgamers who are no longer able to spend a week face-to-face playing a single game. Clicking 'save' is so much easier than recording the position of all those counters heh heh.

Dauphin · December 1, 2000, 22:59

Civ games are not kids games as it takes time and thought and can be pursued leisurely (like chess). Real Time games that require little thought or attention but lots of frantic work are for the kiddies(like playground games).

Narck · December 1, 2000, 23:04

you'd be surprised as to the average age of civ players.

We have a list in the apolyton forum of about 250 Apolytoners with their ages... and the average age is about 25

which also happens to be my age.

December 1, 2000, 23:08

And I'm just a bit older at 26 years, 2 days. But technically, I don't qualify for this thread, since I haven't got CtP2 yet. I play C:CtP, though.

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jkadabomb · December 2, 2000, 00:32

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jkadabomb · December 2, 2000, 00:34

YEEKS!!!!!! Typo I am 15, I played Civ 2 since I was 11 and playd C:CTP when I was 13.

Lee Johnson · December 2, 2000, 00:41

I'll be 38 in just over three weeks.

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PrinceBimz · December 2, 2000, 00:43

I am 31 and I have been playing games since I was very young. I started with an Atari 2600 then I moved on from there. Also I have many friends that are my age and they all play games also

MrFun · December 2, 2000, 01:34

I am 23 and a undergraduate university student going for a BA in History - guess where my interest in Civ and CTP games came from?

(eventually I will obtain a PhD in History to become a university professor in - surprise - history)

Tilemacho · December 2, 2000, 09:15

I am 23 and I study Medicine in Heraklion Crete!

Paulypav · December 2, 2000, 10:34

I am 24 and have returned to school to become a history teacher. I've been playing Civ games since I was in high school.

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marcuspeddle · December 2, 2000, 11:32

I turned 30 a few months ago. When I was in Canada I felt a bit embarrassed about walking into a computer game store. It seemed childish or something. Now that I live in Korea, however, where everyone from 10 to mid-30s is a Starcraft maniac, I don't feel it's odd for an 'older' person to play computer games. Especially strategy type games which require lots of thought and skill. Before he left for Taiwan, my 50-something year old co-worker and I played Civ2 on the university's LAN. After hours, of course.

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red_jon · December 2, 2000, 11:33

I'm 16, started playing Civ games several years ago.

But then my mental age has always been about 652 years older than my actual age.

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Colonel Kraken · December 2, 2000, 12:05

I'm 28.

I got hooked on the Mac version of the original Civ when I started college in 1990. I've been playing Civ games ever since . . . and love it!

(Although it shows I'm a "Settler", I've been perusing Apolyton for a long time, I just don't comment very often.)
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John-SJ · December 2, 2000, 12:40

Man, nothin' but a bunch of kids here!

I'm 47, a software engineer, and I've been playing Civ games since the original.

John-SJ

Jonny · December 2, 2000, 12:48

I'm only 12. Belive it or not, I got Civ2 when I was 9.

rwz · December 2, 2000, 15:12

I'm 38 and been playing Civ2, then SMAC, now Ctp2! I play after the wife and kids go to bed till about 2 or 3am.

JamesJKirk · December 2, 2000, 17:18

Well I guess I'm not that bad, I just turned 19, and I used to play Civ1 wayyyyy back in junior high

dainbramaged13 · December 2, 2000, 18:18

im 13, and i got civ2 when i was 10-11 i cant remember. I DID understand it very well. i got ctp for my 12th birthday. btw, i object to the feeling that rts is a kiddie genre. there are some very good rts games.

Triumphus Romanus · December 2, 2000, 18:34

Im 35, new to turn-based civ games, and happy to see so many "youngsters" in here. Just when I thought all you guys did was Ecstasy and Quake3 :-)

Stratesford · December 2, 2000, 18:35

im 20, i think...

Stratesford · December 2, 2000, 18:37

yeah, ecstacy... Old ravers use acid or shrooms or pcp... Have you guys ever tried shrooms and civ at the same time?

CorpusScorpius · December 2, 2000, 19:22

I just turned 32 last month. I have been playing arcade/console/cpu Games since the Early 80's. I became really hooked on Civ II/Smac/Smacx & now Ctp II

Chris Horscroft · December 2, 2000, 20:26

29. Got the original Civ on my 386 just in time to (almost) ruin my final university exams. Had to leave the country to break the addiction.

Darkknight · December 2, 2000, 21:18

I'm only 15 and the first TBS game i played must have been Lords Of Conquest when i was seven on this old on this old green Digital radiation machine then 2 years later we got a 486 VGA and started playing civilisation when i was 8-9 and loved it then the next year went over to Colonisation which really addicted me then got civ2 when i was 11 SMAC 2-3 months after it came out but i didn't think it was that good.I didn't get C-CTP
but i'm going to get CTP2 in 7 days

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Dominous Nemo · December 2, 2000, 22:49

Wow! Looks like we have a pretty good mix of ppl playing this game. I feel better knowing that I'm not some freak that has an under-developed mind ;-)

Thanx

Pintello · December 2, 2000, 23:56

Hi All,

I'm 31. I have been playing Civ games since Civ 1 on my old 286. I have a bit of a better machine now. Nice to know I am not the only 30 something that likes this game. TBS games are the only ones that seem to hold my intrest. Everything else just seems so dull. But then I used to play a lot of Chess with me dad when I was still in elementry.

Timothy Pintello

ajbera · December 3, 2000, 01:01

I'm 32. I picked up Civ2 about a year after it was released. It was my first foray into empire-building TBS and I've been hooked ever since.

Alex7500 · December 3, 2000, 01:41

19+. I played my first CIV game (Civilization Deluxe Edition) on my Amiga 1200.