Who's over 40

[GTP_geoff]

Yes that then we had pole position, we all thought that was the ****.

It was the ****!!!!

I'll join your club in November.

 

[HoneyBadger]

Im over 45 ...

 

[BFBulletMagnet]

It was the ****!!!!

I'll join your club in November.

What do you mean WAS? It still is!!! Nothing like feeling retro and playin pole position.

 

[thelvynau]

What do you mean WAS? It still is!!! Nothing like feeling retro and playin pole position.

Pole position was a favourite and another on the c64 was pit stop 2.

 

[TAZ71]

I'm 41 and I've been playing GT since GT1, also started with a Spectrum 16K, that sometimes now when I hear people complain about loading times....I just remember and
I hope I can still play for many years to come, at least until I can still hold my wheel and press the pedals.

Congratulations to us all, for keeping our inside child alive and kicking, this will keep us young, and healthy.

 

[axletramp]

44 and still fighting the girls off*.

Never going to grow up. Never will.

*in.my.mind.

 

[Jaywalker]

44 and still fighting the girls off*.

Never going to grow up. Never will.

*in.my.mind.

Way to go! 👍

 

[MBOBB1969]

Pole position was a favourite and another on the c64 was pit stop 2.

Nice avatar. I own 1 of those except mine is blue.
Also have a white 97 LT1 ram air car.
Love them both.

 

[cjmpe]

I'm 46 - been playing just shy of 2 years

 

[runfast1]

Im 44, hey everyone on this thread!

 

[thelvynau]

Nice avatar. I own 1 of those except mine is blue.
Also have a white 97 LT1 ram air car.
Love them both.

They arent very common over here would like to own one.

 

[VspyVspy]

41 here and having been playing games since the Atari console and Commodore 64 (Load "*")

No use going through childhood if you can't act childish every now and then!

 

[DaSixSixOne]

42 here and been playing since Prologue but I've been a car addict ever since I got my first matchbox. It was the '78 Pontiac Trans Am with the big bird on the hood, lol.

 

[Rytchayrd]

Turned 40 in Aug. and been playing Turismo scince the first one came out for ps one. By "playing" I mean addicted to.

 

[Lissa]

I've been a car addict ever since I got my first matchbox. It was the '78 Pontiac Trans Am with the big bird on the hood, lol.

I had hundreds of Dinky and Corgi cars when I was a nipper. My favourite was the Corgi Lamborghini Miura, the first car I ever saw as a child and wanted. That was in 1970, and I was 9!

I've just recently bought myself a 1/18th scale Miura which has pride of place on my bookcase. That's one good thing about being older, with your children grown up and gone...you can treat yourself to totally unnecesary things without feeling guilty!

 

[axletramp]

So in another 30 years you'll work your way up to the real thing, one scale at a time!

 

[Skuh]

I think we (the aforementioned) probably appreciate the beauty of the PS3 more because of what we had as youngsters. I couldn't have imagined what a PS3 could do back when playing a ZX Spectrum (was it 16k memory?) or an Atari console

Just popped in to poke fun at the old guys. Just joking, though I am only a young wippersnapper here I guess at 38.

I agree, I think we appreciate what we have more because of what we grew up with. I disagree on the couldn't imagine though.
When I was 13 years old a game came out called Test drive on the Atari ST (been playing games since '79). When I played this game I did imagine the future. I vividly remember wishing you could play this game on a wheel (they were already out in arcades). The when the little graphic came up with a H Gate box, I nearly died. Imagine playing this game with this cockpit view on a steering wheel with a H gate box.
Finally 25 years later I am sitting in front of my windscreen size (ish ) tv, with a G27, and GT5. I am that 13 yo kid still.

 

[thelvynau]

Just popped in to poke fun at the old guys. Just joking, though I am only a young wippersnapper here I guess at 38.

I agree, I think we appreciate what we have more because of what we grew up with. I disagree on the couldn't imagine though.
When I was 13 years old a game came out called Test drive on the Atari ST (been playing games since '79). When I played this game I did imagine the future. I vividly remember wishing you could play this game on a wheel (they were already out in arcades). The when the little graphic came up with a H Gate box, I nearly died. Imagine playing this game with this cockpit view on a steering wheel with a H gate box.
Finally 25 years later I am sitting in front of my windscreen size (ish ) tv, with a G27, and GT5. I am that 13 yo kid still.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLLn7PE_THs">YouTube Link</a>

I loved the original test drive played it on my c64 well ahead of its time.

 

[wrxsilver]

43 in 5 days. :-)

 

[Bfc_1882]

I was 40 in July, my first gaming experience would have been a binatone tv system that just played stick tennis and football, then it was onto the spectrum 48k and never looked back since, only problem these days is keeping the wife on side to get as much gaming time in as possible lol

 

[tpark103]

Not quite 40 yet but getting close!!

 

[photonrider]

Oy! You bunch of bratty little whippersnappers . . . over forty? What the hell's that, forty? Life began at forty for me - and I've been enjoying life for over a decade now; being over fifty

But! Serious discussion - why this phenomenon? Old guys playing video games? (When I say 'old' of course, I'm looking at it from the comparative viewpoint of much younger folk - teenages with their hands glued to their controllers)
But there is the clue.
We were teenagers once - with those damn controllers. Actually - we didn't even have controllers. Just keys. Ponging around. The space bar was the all-time weapons button. Then a mouse - MG! A wonderful new thing! The SNES pad was Star Trek. Pole position?! OMFG. Never mind. Images that will never leave our heads. A rush we can still remember.
And meanwhile, we - the pioneers at the cutting edge of this video game revolution, were growing old, too, older, wider, smarter, and some of us went on to invent and innovate the hell out of the video game industry - many of the top performers in the industry are over forty. And top players, too.
We are the first of the oldest generation of video game players.
Some of us grew older and stopped playing. Some of us, like some of the younger folk here eventually will, never stopped playing.
There are some players on this Forum, (and there are multiple threads, in which one will find them, that cover this age issue from different vantage points,) who are over 70, and still kicking some heavy video-gaming ass. I can only hope I'll be as young-at-heart, and as proficient as they are when I get there.

Regards to all.

Harry.

 

[roflcoptor]

Some of us grew older and stopped playing. Some of us, like some of the younger folk here eventually will, never stopped playing.

As the George Bernard Shaw quote goes... "We do not cease to play because we grow old. We grow old because we cease to play."

 

[Ridgeline]

As the George Bernard Shaw quote goes... "We do not cease to play because we grow old. We grow old because we cease to play."

It's nice to see the folks at the retirement home are in such good spirits!

Just kidding guys! I'm closing in on 30 this year, and was starting to feel like I may not even be "allowed" to play GT6 when it comes out... It's awesome to know you guys keep rocking it out!

New plan: I will teach my 4-year-old how to drive in GT8.

 

[Shoe67]

New plan: I will teach my 4-year-old how to drive in GT8.

Your kid will be 38 years old before GT8

 

[HBR-Roadhog]

Add another one to the list, I'll be 52 in a few days.

 

[Turtle Racer]

Your kid will be 38 years old before GT8

 

[MBOBB1969]

Great and there still coming. Man thats a whole lot of old folks.
Me included.

 

[Dragonwhisky]

Add 1 more to your list of old peoples. Almost 49 here.

 

[speedrcr]

dang missing the mark, 38 myself. can I qualify as a "junior" member