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[vettie]

After reading through this i really feel O L D

55

What the hell, I AM OLD

[Novakaine]

Gonna start a mech unit called the Olde Skulls.
Nobody under 50.
Naw young folk keeps me young.
Ah youth is wasted on the young.

[MarineTech]

44.

I started playing TT back in 86.

My computer gaming started with The Crescent Hawks Inception on the Commodore 128. I played all the MW computer titles as they were released.

[Xmith]

So far I'm winning at 62.

PGI are you reading this?

Being the oldest so far should result in a new cockpit item of my choice. Jk

My family and friends think I'm silly for playing computer games at my age. I have to explain that playing these type of computer games keeps your mind from wondering off into a direction you don't wont it to go. Playing can help a person stay alert and be able to focus on the task at hand. It also helps in maintaining good eye and hand coordination as you age.

There is one negative though. Playing tends to raise my BP.

[Gauvan]

90% of you folks need to turn off that rock-and-roll music and git off my lawn. *shakes fist*

[DocBach]

I'm 31 next week

[IllCaesar]

21 here. Never played TT because never could afford to. First foray was, no surprise, Mechwarrior 4, but I've read into the lore a lot, I think one or two of the books, and played most of the other Battletech videogames.

[ZealotTheFallen]

52 look 42 act 8 with a very insane temper

[Summon3r]

34 here and started with mw2 on 3.5" floppy's LOL still my favorite game of all time!

[Antonio]

25, I started with MW3. I got an old computer last year to run Win98 to try out MW2:Mercs though.

[LiegeOfThePit]

I'm 14 years old and very competitive gamer, playing other games such as Battlefield 4 and Counter Strike: Global Offensive. I've been playing MWO since me and my dad got hooked on the beta. Used to play Mech Warrior Vengeance and Black Knight until my new PC couldn't read the disc ;(
Although I've never played or seen BT I thought it would be good to let you guys know that there are people like me playing a well.

Edited by LiegeOfThePit, 18 November 2014 - 05:57 PM.

[Tarl Cabot]

I turn 50 November 25th (or am I turning 05? )

I started with a bootleg copy of the original Mechwarrior around 1990 without the log in codes. Starting reading Tech Readouts/Novels to discover the codes were tied to Military Phonetic Alphabet - ie Foxtrot Yankee Zulu. Been hooked ever since.

All Mechwarrior versions / Mechcommanders / Crescent Hawks Inception and Revenge
GEnie EGA 3025 (House Davion) (ya paid by the hour. $6/non-primetime, $18 Primetime - local time 8am to 6pm weekdays)
MPBT Solaris on AOL/Gamestorm (House Kurita from here on out (originally slated as SVGA 3025 - have an advertisement flyer)
MPBT 3025 for its short-lived life with EA

Also played Battletech (also own the original Battledroids) with a local group for several years and own enough miniatures to where if I was dumped overboard with them I would never be found.

And spent way too much (worth it though) at Virtual World in Dallas 15 years ago. I tooks some vacation time and took my 11 year old nephew Coty to Dallas. We went to Six Flags, some other place and Virtual World. On the fourth day I gave Coty the option on what he would want to do. He selected VW again. We had tons of fun and video of some of our matches.

I had also went to a few GENcons for Battletech. Always had a blasted. Rode the bus the 1st time but after that I took a flight

Edited by Tarl Cabot, 18 November 2014 - 07:45 PM.

[Novakaine]

Everyone over 50 should a senior citizen mc discount.
I have my AARP card to pro it.
Oh and I'll take the brag I still have two original unopened box sets of Battletech.
Sorry not for sale.

Edited by Novakaine, 18 November 2014 - 07:45 PM.

[Slepnir]

currently 42, still more metal than people half my age \m/(*¡*)\m/ , started into battletech back in highschool around 1987.

still playing TT on a regular basis, guess I am just lucky to live around an active gaming community.

Edited by Slepnir, 18 November 2014 - 07:55 PM.

[Beo Vulf]

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[AntiCitizenJuan]

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[Papaspud]

I am older still............58. I am pretty sure when I played the original MechWarrior game it was on 5 1/4 floppies for a dos 386 machine. Then played MW3-4, never did the tabletop, but I knew some people that did. I was into WW2 miniatures on sandtables.....hahaha dice and tape measures. Still have my lead miniatures somewhere...

[Abivard]

Papaspud, on 18 November 2014 - 09:15 PM, said:

I am older still............58. I am pretty sure when I played the original MechWarrior game it was on 5 1/4 floppies for a dos 386 machine. Then played MW3-4, never did the tabletop, but I knew some people that did. I was into WW2 miniatures on sandtables.....hahaha dice and tape measures. Still have my lead miniatures somewhere...

umm it was 5 1/4 but for the c64 for me, but the tabletop was where I first started. I will be 56 in 2 months to the day of this post, glad I am not the oldest here nor even the second oldest lol

I started out in RPG's as what would be called today as a closed beta tester for chainmail at the age of 13 or 14 ;>

Edited by Abivard, 18 November 2014 - 10:49 PM.

[crustydog]

Lol - 49 here - we started with CityTech I believe... then BattleTech...

There were at least ten of us back then, we had the maps, Geoform Mountains, and a box of hand painted Battlemechs... more than a battalion, also the novels, etc. the whole deal. Even wrote some stuff for FASA.

We've still got a shoe box of mechs sitting in a garage someplace... I've a Wolfhound and more in there... plus vehicles, VTOLS, LAMS, and Infantry.

.....and now the children are playing the game as well.

and to think the wives were trying to throw that box away, while the men were hiding it like the holy treasure it is...smuggled from house to house.

[Senor Cataclysmo]

Kanya Pryde, on 18 November 2014 - 12:36 PM, said:

36... It all started for me by picking up "The Way of the Clans" at a bookstore in the mall in the 90s. When my family was at the beach I was staying up late reading Battletech and sleeping in while they went out to the beach in the mornings. I invested a bit in TT but never found anyone willing to play. Played MW2 and 4, played the old mechwarrior title on super nintendo, mech commander, and I spent way too much money on wizkidz mechs. I miss being able to use a joystick, but the throttle, pedals, mouse combo is working for now.

Mate, this is pretty much the same as how I got bitten by the BT bug. I was about ten & I was in a charity shop, & they had *loaaaads* of Battletech novels, I didn't know where to start so I picked up the Jade Phoenix trilogy 'cos they all had mechs with reverse jointed legs on the covers (to this day my favourite mechs are the Mad Dog, Timber Wolf & Dire Wolf). Pretty soon I was skipping family beach trips to stay in & absorb all the BT knowledge I could.

By the time I got round to the video games, I was a firmly indoctrinated clanner. I was dismayed to find most of the other BT media is from the point of dirty inner sphere freebirths!