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[Funnykid22]

tman7919, on February 03 2013 - 10:15 AM, said:

Dammit I'm the only one...

if you meant 0-13 then no

edit: .97% club woohoo!

Edited by Funnykid22, October 11 2013 - 07:22 PM.

[caduceus26]

I'll never tell but here are a few things from my time here so far:

• The first computer I worked with had less computing power than I have in my wristwatch. It took twenty-two minutes to count to 1 million.
  
• As a very young programmer I wrote my first computer program in Assembly Language.
  
• I had most of the IBM Green Card memorized.  BTW, the cards weren't always "green".
  
• I know what an IBM 5081 card is.
  
• I have wired boards for Unit Record Equipment.
  
• I know what EDOS, MVS, DOS, and CP/M is

Just to throw ya'll off I also know what the ENIAC, EDSAC, and EDVAC are (were).

Edited by caduceus26, October 11 2013 - 09:01 PM.

[Dinre]

caduceus26, on October 11 2013 - 09:01 PM, said:

I'll never tell but here are a few things from my time here so far:

• The first computer I worked with had less computing power than I have in my wristwatch. It took twenty-two minutes to count to 1 million.
  
• As a very young programmer I wrote my first computer program in Assembly Language.
  
• I had most of the IBM Green Card memorized.  BTW, the cards weren't always "green".
  
• I know what an IBM 5081 card is.
  
• I have wired boards for Unit Record Equipment.
  
• I know what EDOS, MVS, DOS, and CP/M is

Just to throw ya'll off I also know what the ENIAC, EDSAC, and EDVAC are (were).

From that list, I would say you probably have at least one story about carrying boxes of punch cards and then wanting to die when you dropped one or somehow got the order messed up.  =p

[caduceus26]

Dinre, on October 13 2013 - 02:53 PM, said:

caduceus26, on October 11 2013 - 09:01 PM, said:

I'll never tell but here are a few things from my time here so far:

• The first computer I worked with had less computing power than I have in my wristwatch. It took twenty-two minutes to count to 1 million.
  
• As a very young programmer I wrote my first computer program in Assembly Language.
  
• I had most of the IBM Green Card memorized.  BTW, the cards weren't always "green".
  
• I know what an IBM 5081 card is.
  
• I have wired boards for Unit Record Equipment.
  
• I know what EDOS, MVS, DOS, and CP/M is

Just to throw ya'll off I also know what the ENIAC, EDSAC, and EDVAC are (were).

From that list, I would say you probably have at least one story about carrying boxes of punch cards and then wanting to die when you dropped one or somehow got the order messed up.  =p

[nlspeed]

Heh, looking at the poll, I find the results to be very surprising. I'm eighteen, and I would have expected to be either the average or just a bit above it. But I'm not!

[Hawk_of_Diamonds]

About the age group i would expect to see playing this game all the young wipper snappers out there that grew up up with the fancy cartoons of mechs and gear heads alike.

[nlspeed]

Hawk_of_Diamonds, on October 21 2013 - 01:22 PM, said:

About the age group i would expect to see playing this game all the young wipper snappers out there that grew up up with the fancy cartoons of mechs and gear heads alike.

Nay my dear sir, I daresay, I most certainly have not grown up with mechs or other metallic walkers, oh no! I do not feel overmany attachment to them - indeed, nary a thing! - nor have I besought games including them, nor do I bequeath more or less love unto this game for including them!

Although, I must be fair; henceforth, I do have a more amicable relationship with my two-legged grey-specked compagnions. Thus is the power of Hawken, I must admit.

There, how's that for a Dutch guy_ The only reason why I'd want to have grown up in an English speaking nation is to be able to speak like that more proficiently.

[Hawk_of_Diamonds]

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Nay my dear sir, I daresay, I most certainly have not grown up with mechs or other metallic walkers, oh no! I do not feel overmany attachment to them - indeed, nary a thing! - nor have I besought games including them, nor do I bequeath more or less love unto this game for including them!

Although, I must be fair; henceforth, I do have a more amicable relationship with my two-legged grey-specked compagnions. Thus is the power of Hawken, I must admit.

There, how's that for a Dutch guy_ The only reason why I'd want to have grown up in an English speaking nation is to be able to speak like that more proficiently.

Very well written.
Yes Hawken does hold an allure that far surpasses most. For to say mere power it has would not be fair, For Hawken is in a class of it its own among the class that is Mechanized Warfare. Those who are lured by the experience of previous style games will be all but so quick to forget them. They are but mere blemishes on the road of the Glory that is HAWKEN.

[Azrael39]

I became a gamer because of PONG, ATARI, PAC Man, NINTENDO.  I've seen it all, and been there and done that for the entire video game history of mankind.  When I was a teenager I was unbeatable.  Now that i'm older, I don't have the same tools to compete as I used to.  But that's okay it's all good fun.  And when I top the leaderboards in a weird mech like a Grenadier I feel very satisfied.

[GrumpyNZ]

lol ancient 53 here but have been an avid gamer for years thanks to CS 1.1 days and Owning Internet Cafes in NZ ... even my daughters play still.....

[Odinous]

27 here in few days..

[Vilyria]

The_Eldritch_Abomination, on February 02 2013 - 05:17 PM, said:

Over 9000.

[Paladin851]

62........Started with the Rainbow six series back in 1998.

[DirtyDaigo]

23 yrs old, just right.

[Opicron]

Before, I felt like an old fuzzy bunny.. Now I know I'm not the only one .

Edit: Ok, thats odd, if you type F A R T it gets replaced by fuzzy bunny by the forum.

Edited by Opicron, March 13 2014 - 07:31 AM.

[shosca]

All i'm going to say is i used to be a very good boulder dash player on c64....

http://en.wikipedia....ki/Boulder_Dash

edit: omg say goodbye to work: http://boulderdash.krissz.hu/

Edited by shosca, March 13 2014 - 07:46 AM.

[Granddaddypurp]

Wow I hope when I'm 35 I'm not playing video games anymore. If you do then ur a sad loser an it should be a time to move on be productive in your life. But if you are productive an you have a career or a good paying job then ur fine an you have the right to do what ever you want.

[hoghead]

Well then your saying its time to move out of my moms basement find a job and maybe meet a girl_ sigh!

[Aregon]

666.

[Fleez]

Hee,

Depending on the source, the average age of a video gamer is somewhere between 30 to 37, and is slowly rising as more of us players get older... (I'm happy to report I am above-average, hitting the big 5-0 this year )

caduceus26, on October 11 2013 - 09:01 PM, said:

• As a very young programmer I wrote my first computer program in Assembly Language.

The first game I ever wrote was for the Z80 chip, in Z80 Assembly...

caduceus26, on October 11 2013 - 09:01 PM, said:

• I know what EDOS, MVS, DOS, and CP/M is

I've been paid $$$ to work on old CP/M machines before, since I already had experience, (not enough $$$ though   )

Dinre, on October 13 2013 - 02:53 PM, said:

From that list, I would say you probably have at least one story about carrying boxes of punch cards and then wanting to die when you dropped one or somehow got the order messed up.  =p

I pre-date cards... paper-punch tape was prefered anyways (and 9-track tapes). Besides, we only made the engineering students use (drop) punch cards

Actually, I usually joke, I have worked on every computer in the Boston Computer Museum except one (So only got to play the second video game made too )