Retro Gamers Age

[PretentiousHipster]

I'm 28. I did grow up with an SNES and N64, but am slowly experiencing retro gaming through playstation, sega, and especially PC. I did find a sega genesis package at a flea market for $50 CAD, but the only interesting game in the package was sonic 2. Gotta get the other ones eventually.

[prfsnl_gmr]

I’m 39. Been playin’ the games ever since honeys was wearin’ Sassoon.

[marurun]

Been really admiring Bone's epic necropost.

[samsonlonghair]

I am 36.

I'm strangely happy that you bumped this old thread, bone. Was it your birthday or something?

I'm thirty-four. I played Oregon trail on Apple ][e in elementary school. NES was the first console I played at my cousin's house. Sega Genesis was the first console that was really mine. My family also got a Playstation when that came out, which later wound up in my bedroom a couple years later, but I still prefered Sega Genesis.

By the time the PS2 came out, I started to realize that modern gaming wasn't for me. I bought up a Nintendo and a bunch of cartridges for a pittance, then I did the same with Super Nintendo. I also bought myself a whole bunch of Sega Genesis games that I didn't own when I was a child. At the time I was buying up all these retro games, I was poor and retro games were cheap. I never expected that retro games would become expensive in the future. So now I own a bunch of old retro games, but I can't really afford to keep buying new ones anymore. C'est la vie.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Ha, no birthday here. The 2010 Together Retro inspired me to trawl through old threads.

[Ziggy]

Ha, no birthday here. The 2010 Together Retro inspired me to trawl through old threads.

It's still blowing my mind that there's threads on this forum that we were talking about stuff when it was new and that stuff is now considered retro!

Do you think that will happen again? That in 10 years we'll be looking back at our Switch thread and admiring how those games turned retro?

I for one hope that this forum is around long enough that I can ask you guys for advice on Medicare when it comes time for me to get it!

[Markies]

I turned 38 last week.

The big 4-0 is coming for me...

[SpaceBooger]

I was reading this and was feeling real old.... Then I realized if I world have posted when this thread was originally created I would have said 35 years. That didn't sound too... yeah I was still old in 2011.

[Blu]

Man, I'll be 34 this year.

I really enjoyed growing up in the 90's. I got the tail end of the NES in the late 80's when I was a really little kid. Then hit middle school and was able to play N64, PlayStation, and Dreamcast in various friends households. That and experience prime Blizzard Entertainment. Playing Warcraft II, Starcraft, and Diablo via LAN was awesome. I feel like the PlayStation 2 / GameCube / Xbox generation were the last that I really really was down a rabbit hole with. It's hard to believe those consoles are going to be 20 years old this decade. Is this what getting old feels like?


Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy my Switch and PS4. But the Xbox One has been the letdown of the generation for me.

[pook99]

I'm 40, started with Atari 2600 but I think NES is when I really fell in love with gaming. I dont think there was ever a point in my life when I was not playing retro games, when I was 18 (ps1 era) I was working at funcoland and hardcore collecting for 8 and 16 bit systems. My interest in retro games waned slightly for a few years and xbox 360's indie/arcade scene completely turned me back on to them. I've been far more of a retro gamer ever since, but I do enjoy newer releases as well