Who's over 40

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Thanks photon. 👍 I went and looked at what I'd voted in that thread, and I need to re-vote. I'm in the next category up now. :p

A little over 2years until I can post in this thread...oops, I just did. :dunce:
 
Between being massively busy in my professional career and family responsibilities at home, not to mention a move to iRacing which sort of killed ANY console based sim racing for me, I don't really play GT5 much anymore. But I attained all gold/level 40 ages ago and until about a year ago, I ran a private league where 2+ hour races were the norm.

I'll still log on about once a month, or when I can find the time, and just do a few laps. I'll be turning 42 tomorrow. :cheers:
 
Gravitron
Thanks photon. 👍 I went and looked at what I'd voted in that thread, and I need to re-vote. I'm in the next category up now. :p

A little over 2years until I can post in this thread...oops, I just did. :dunce:
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Cote Dazur
Thank you Photon, 14% over 37, not bad. I was expecting a little more.
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My pleasure, guys. :) 👍

Funny how in a few more years, some of the members in that thread would be ten years older . . . and many of them will be joining the 40+ gang here. GTPlanet is truly a home for gamers - from the originals to the newest recruits. Time has skewed the poll statistics, but it is still a living record. ;)
 
I am 47. I will be playing GTx online until the paramedics come and pry my cold dead hands off of my wheel.
 
kent2406
41 here! Still own my Atari from childhood!
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Sweet :) I wanted one back then, had to settle for getting the 2600 Flashback a few years ago, which was pretty cool. Enjoyed playing Adventure (and beating it really easily, funny it seemed so hard when I was like 12 years old ;)
 
I turn 52 this January and refuse to grow up. I've been playing FM4 though the last 4 months and I am anxiously awaiting for my copy of Horizon. I'll be glad when Kaz and crew figure out what to do so I can play GT again...Have Fun, life goes by quickly...
 
41 hitting the turn to 42 my problem being a 6'8" kid ...... I can't fit into real race cars:ouch: lol so built my own sim rig back in the sega days. Recently retired it for a PlaySeat with a G27 wheel and still had to modify it a little. It would be nice to find a clean driving racing lobby .due to the lack of those been spending a lot of time playing Need For Speed Shift2, but truly miss GT5 but to add to the fun I've bought a second PS3 and built another cockpit in the same room so when i have other "kids" over for play dates we can race head to head or together in lobbies.:dopey:.best part after all the "adult" beverages are gone and the sun is peeking over the horizon how many playmates say "I have to get me one of those" 👍 WTG to all who realize the fun in dreaming and driving! lol
 
Gravitron
Thanks photon. 👍 I went and looked at what I'd voted in that thread, and I need to re-vote. I'm in the next category up now. :p

A little over 2years until I can post in this thread...oops, I just did. :dunce:
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Be off with you, boy! :trouble:

41 and no sign of stopping yet.... I used to dream about games looking and playing this good. :sly:
 
Everybody seems to say that. As they get older, of course.
Time keeps speeding up, and the only way we can beat it is to speed up ourselves. Hence the lure of racing.

This discussion, though (the fact that there are so many 'older' players, inherited through gamers who began and never gave up) brings to light also that driving/racing games seem to attract not only a younger audience, as do other FPS and RPG games, but also a more mature audience (as well as holding on to the veteran players - who may have played, or may still do play, RPG and FPS genres.)

I would think 90% of the games I have are racing/driving games, the rest mostly virtual sports or boardgames.

Do the other racing/driving games attract as much of a mature audience as GT5? I'm not sure - but if I were to classify GT5 in terms of maturity, then I would look at it - because of the huge non-game-oriented content as a mature game or even go so far as to call it a hobby - in fact the series as a whole - but GT5 more so than the others.
GT5 contains a wealth of information, and hands-on car-craft (whether tuning, photography, or detailing, for the serious car enthusiast, and a great game built in for the videogamer in us all.
To find so many 40+s, then, seems to be more realistic, than unusual. And this is why the car-conscious 'kids' in here that are still in their teens, seem so adult, when they talk cars, even though many of them have never felt a real moving car under their thighs, unless as a passenger. Cars are an adult object. We built a game around them.
Here's to GT6. :cheers:

And yes, I saw the 'other' game on the shelves, today, the one that was promised to appear soon on the horizon. It has. :lol:
 
49. No signs of quitting yet either. I've been playing (and still have) this series since GT1. I enjoy reading the interesting facts behind the various cars as much as I do putting them through their paces. I owned the real life versions of a few of these cars ('70 Challenger, C4 'vette, GTO, Chevelle), so it's cool to drive these rides again.
 
52 Years young and proud to be......... still going. I've only played GT since
GT3, which I played with my son. He turns 31 tomorrow. I have about 20 games or so, but really only have played GT3, GT4, TT, ToCA2 ,ToCA3, GT5 Prologue, and now I am completely obsessed with everything GT5.

I designed, and now build my own Racing Stations. I've sold a fair number of them too. Here is a couple of Pics. My TV is 6" Larger in my "Griffin Den" than the one in the Living room. Don't care much for watching TV. GT5 is interactive.

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At Grand Touring Garage with Polyphony Digital scanning the Trans-Cammer into GT5.
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I am the big Longhaired guy behind Kaz's Interpreter.
 
Jaywalker
@ Swerv: A bit of info on your last pic? :)
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I've occasionally worked as Contract Labor at Grand Touring Garage. I was invited to watch PD's Modeling Crew scan the Trans-Cammer into GT5. We hung out with them for about 8 hours or so. Great, very polite folks. Amazing to watch the entire process of gathering data to put a car into Gran Turismo 5.

The next November we went down to SEMA(2010) and hung out with them some more Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. We got to spend Wednesday evening from about 8PM until 2 AM, with all the past winners of the Gran Turismo Awards for GT, in the GT Awards VIP Lounge. My girlfriend and I got to race GT5 about a month before it released. My first laps on GT5 were with Kazunori Yamauchi standing behind me along with Phil from Grand Touring Garage and Art and Craig Morrison on the other shoulder.
 

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