Tell us your atariAGE!

[eric_ruck]

Ah, what the heck. I won't be the youngest or oldest by any means, more or less dead on average.

 

Demographics: 33, married with 3 kids (19 month old triplets). I got a Video Pinball (which I still have) in 1980-81-ish, and an Atari 400 in 1982.

 

Sad fact: I went to the dump to get rid of a broken monitor today and almost came home with a Laser 128 Apple compatible that someone threw out, but my wife wouldn't let me in the car with it.

 

EMR

[Atariman]

dang! I didn't think that atari fans got any younger than I am! I was born 05/03/84!

 

As for my first system, it's the Atari 2600! I actually found the original payment slip for it and found that my family has had the 2600 since I was about a month old. So I learned how to repair my atari 2600 when I was pretty young seeing on as how some of the controllers were starting to act up when I was about 8. I actually didn't have any other system until about 1997 when I purchased the Atari Jaguar. Then I got an Atari Lynx, and I don't remember where I went from there. Maybe the 5200?

[Philflound]

Age: will be 32 in 11 days.

Born 05/20/70

 

 

Phil

[Lady Jaye]

DOB: Oct. 9, 1975 (same day as Sean Lennon, same b-day as John Lennon)

Age: 26 (but people still think I'm about 18)

 

1st console: a Coleco Gemini (2600 clone), 1987

1st computer: TI-99/4A (which my dad still has, along with old tapes for it)

 

1st brand-new game bought: either Phoenix or Tomcat F-14 for the 2600, in 1988 (bought both in the same era, can't remember which one came first)

 

Oldest memory of videogames: BurgerTime arcade in a rollerskate rink, circa 1983.

 

Currently owns:

Atari 2600 Jr.

SNES first gen (yellow and gray)

Genesis

Game Gear

Gameboy color

Gameboy Advance

[Flojomojo]

I want to start a little contest: who is the youngest and the oldest classic-gamer

on the AtariAge board?

 

I think i am the typical classic gamer, because i am 30 (born on 14.august 1971)

 

What is your birthday?

These old threads are crazy! Born in 1971 is 47, not 30!

[ApolloBoy]

I'm currently 29 and started posting here when I was 13, needless to say I've come a long way from being an annoying teen who used emoticons way too much.

[0078265317]

I will be 43 on this coming 29th january.

[digdugnate]

i'm 40 (10/7/78)

[RARusk]

51.

[Skippy B. Coyote]

I was born in February of 1985 so at the moment I'm 33, soon to be 34.

[Flojomojo]

I was born in February of 1985 so at the moment I'm 33, soon to be 34.

Yikes! So right between the 7800 and the NES! You're the opposite of retro, kid!

[wolfy62]

I am 56,born in 1962 and still playing and collecting retro games and accessories like crazy!

 

I love this hobby!

[Eltigro]

*checks AtariAge profile*

 

I'm 44.

[+HatNJ]

51 as of 28 days ago

[Gamemoose]

Is this like "BrainAge" but only for Atari?

 

(Apologies if this joke was taken)

[HoshiChiri]

In 2 days, I'll be 36.

 

And this is pretty much the only place I visit online where that doesn't make me old.