How old are Dom2 players?

Thilock_Dominus · #1 April 10th, 2004, 04:40 PM

I'm 26 years old. My first experience with Strategi games was on commodore 64 with the legendary game 'Defender of the Crown'

. *all hail Defender of the crown*

Caduceus · #2 April 10th, 2004, 11:02 PM

29, almost thirty.

I too remember playing Empire on my PC, but it was text X and Os moving across a landscape.

Also played Zork and Sword of Glass.

Then the light broke through and we got Bard's Tale I...

When we got Hercules (4 color) graphics), we were the bomb on the street

Wildcard

PrinzMegaherz · #3 April 10th, 2004, 11:47 PM

Do you know MUDS (mean ugly dirty sports). That was a great sports game.

Or Speedball 2. God I loved that game.
What happened to Bitmap Brothers?

HotNifeThruButr · #4 April 11th, 2004, 02:20 AM

I turned 14 in February, so I'm in the lonely little age group of 15-. I remember downloading Masters of Magic off an abandonware site once, and it KICKED ***! You gotta love them Adamantium hammerhands.

*puts on asbestos suit* I thought all the old games were supposed to be simple and crappy.

sergex · #5 April 11th, 2004, 04:19 AM

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I'm 26 years old. My first experience with Strategi games was on commodore 64 with the legendary game 'Defender of the Crown' . *all hail Defender of the crown*

Wow, I'm 28 and I think that's my first Strat game too (for the Amiga). There was another one too based on Japan.. Lords of the Rising Sun I think. Cinemaware was the best series of games!

Stormbinder · #6 April 11th, 2004, 08:54 AM

I am 28 and my first computer game was F19 in about 1988 I think. I was playing it on very bad rip-off of IBM PX XT, called "EC-1840". (it didn't had hardrive and come with monochrome Hercules-type display). These were the days...

Murph · #7 April 11th, 2004, 02:46 PM

I seem to be right in the middle of the most common age Groups (I'm 28), and I didn't even remember a lot of these games until people here reminded me of them. The one I've been expecting to see here was Temple of Apshai (or was it Legend of Apshai-dear god I feel old) for the C-64 (sweet commodore cartridge games), and Rule Babylon, a great old text-based kingdom sim.

I guess it's nice to know that I'm not alone in having been a hopeless gaming addict all my life.

Oh, and I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Warlords? Warlords 1 got me into hot-seat gaming, and for some obscure reason, even in this age of ADSL and multiplayer, it still bothers me when a turn-based game does not have hotseat. Without hotseat, how can you role-play AND wargame at the same time?