Who is the old'est Captain Here ?

[Lane]

" He He"
Check out my post over at Subsim. com SH3 forum Last night the topic " I've been playing Games since 1979 " It was on page 3 when I looked a short time
ago but as fast as they post it may move down?
Look on the last post page 5 ;D
Wish I could move the clock back twenty or thirty years but we all will be there sometime if your luck holds out
Lane Ps going on patrol 2 out St Nazaire with U-46 tonight and crew sure is easy to get out to open sea

[Dominico Baggio]

Ive been playing since about 1985 ish, on Atari 2600 with such great games as river raid, spyhunter, galaxian, space invaders ect. Then the Commodore 64, then Amiga 500 i think it was. Then pcs. My first was an olivetti probably about 7 years ago. This is my first home built pc and im never going to buy one again, built this in 2002 and it still runs all gams, except for doom. (only changed the graphics card in it for £100)

[Venge]

Hmm, not sure of the actualy dates. My brother and I worked in a business together way back when, and we bought some sort of Mac. One where the monitor was teh pc as well. No hard drive, it all ran off of 3.5 floppy you put in it. Cost us about 5 grand too... That was a long time ago, I would hazard a guess at early 80s I think. Did not have many games for it though. I think there was a Wizardy something or other for it. No moving graphics I dont think, just screen shots of where ever you went. hard to remember exactly.
Down teh track some I bought an Atari 1040st and had a slew of games with that. Next was a 386, then a 486 and so on up the line. I remember people were quite impressed with me getting 8 megs of ram with my 486. Figured I was some sort of hard core gamer .... lol
Then again, at $60 a meg back then it was a lot or ram!

[Lane]

Did you guys read my Profile over at Subsim forum?
That I posted last night? reference to" I've been playing
Games since 1979 " Actually I got my first pc a little
compact at Wal Mart in approx 92 Was all one unit.
It would run MS flight sim frame rates real slow.
I think I got AOD about the same time ;D
Let's play SH3 ;D I have to go do my final exercise
walk 30 min at Wal Mart . then come home check SH3
forums then start patrol 2 Sometimes I play till 3 or 4am. You guys can do that when you retire
Later
Lane ;D

[Madmike]

Well certainly not me lol .

I only started playing online about a year ago with another game .
I do not like FPS that much and just installed SH2 about October last year. Play in a clan called ADV.
Then I read about SH3 coming so got sorted with my machine to run this game.
I find it is very good .
I have only found 2 other New Zealanders playing online one being Venge a member of this forum.
As I work Shifts and have time in week usually I play more often.
Maybe run into some of you guys in multiplayer SH3 since the patch has fixed the ready problem.
So much to learn with avatars and banners etc.

C u all around sometime

[GenLee]

Playing since Spectrum times:)
Mostly offline, Crimson skies, Il2, Ghost recon and Bf1942 being the expections.
Im a Morrowind depended (Meaning whatever any game I play, I always return to it after a while) but Sh3 is curing Me!

[faamecanic]

Been playing since 1985 or so also..... Atari 2600 (Pitfall anyone! or Haunted Mansion?)

Then I moved to the Commodore 64 and 128... Silent Service anyone!! I still have Silent Service on my book shelf as a matter of fact.

Then it was a 486 25Mhz SX...and the rest is history!

[tallyman44]

heh heh--i guess I'm gonna win this one--74 come December--been playing since --dunno for sure--must have been 'bout '98,anyway bought CFS1,and was hooked for life... .Then came the Sturmoviks and OMG-had to get a part time job in the local pub to keep my hardware up to date..lol-----
So!!-I claim to be the oldest Capting (AND ww1&2 fighter pilot-not forgetting Jet pilot in Lock-on)
Well still trying to figure the mission editor in this one, but agree with everyone here--great sim.
I was a mechanic(Royal Navy),and spent rest of my working life at sea, and those graphics of rough weather areso real--they take me back in memory................
OK--how's that Lane old chap? ;D

[Lane]

Tallyman44,

"Surprise "Surprise" you are winner!
No contest ;D
Thank's guys for the feedback
I though I mit be the oldest ;D
Lane ;D

[WrongwayPeachfuzz]

Been playing since '79 myself =).

197? - PONG & Breakout type standalone consoles
197? - Cromemco CP/M PC (Hangman was the best game available)
1980 - Atari 2600
1981 - 82 - Atari 400 Home computer w/ tape drive, upgraded to 48K RAM ("cload" baby!)
1983 - 84 - Atari 800 48K, dual 5.25" floppies
1984 - 86 - C64/C128 with multiple 1641's (hmm, save ",8" or ",8,1"?)
1985 - Mac 128 (couldn't do anything, even boot, without a software ramdisk - but the computer was happy anyway)
1986 - 87 - IBM/AT (fond memories of loading my mouse and joystick drivers successfully in DOS)
1987 - Mac + (more of the same, but computer could boot all by its self - only needed the ramdisk to load applications!)
1989 - 1991 - Amiga 500 ('nuff said!)
1992 - Present - IBM 286, 386, 486, Pentium I, II & IV (skipped the III, those blue guys scared me)

What really makes me laugh are all these kids online these days who feel justified in their whining about ANYTHING. We've never had it so good.

Cheers!

[memoryleak]

I bought a pong unit back in the mid 70's.

Then Atari 2600

Intellivision was my favorite at the time and it cost me 1/3 of a month's salary. Over $200 for that system. I have several of them now that I bought at Good Will for $5.00 each.

Then Comodore 64

AtaRI 800XL

I still have those tow in the original boxes and many programs for each one.

Then the XT and At computers upward. Hundreds of games.
It's been fun....