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  23, 20 years. : PantherX
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    ditto. : haiku
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      Were your parents barflys that gave you quarters to go pump into Donkey Kong too? : PantherX
      • you spelled 'donkley' wrong. :*( : tomservo
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  21/ a year and a half : futant
  • oops, longer than that... Computer games: year and a half Video games: whenever Nintendo came out : futant
• 18 / 13 : ArmagideoN
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  23 - been playing since my parents bought a texas instruments computer when I was either 3 or 4. : Teiresias
  • found some linkage to it, too! Texas Instruments TI-99/4a http://www.99er.net does anyone else remem... : Teiresias
• 17 / 12 years : StuMan1337
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  oh and an additional question. How long do you see yourself continuing to play games in your life? : carnivore
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    20, been playing since Frogger on my AT&T 386. About 16 years. : zyklonbee
    • weak : zyklonbee
  • why dont you just ask me when I think I'm going to die, I dont know on both : mista mista
• 21... whenever NES came out. : snuff
• 22 / long enough : verbatim
• 18/14 : fluze
• 16/9 (first box = 90mhz ownage... oh yeah) : Theos
• 31, been playing video games since 1976. Pong! And I was there when the Atari 2600 VCS was fresh and n... : [andromeda]
• 18/14 : Cosmicfool
• 24/15-16 years? : ScoobySnack
• 18/14-13 : mista mista
• 22 , 13 : Q-ball
• 31 years old, 21 years playing computer/video games. : malevolence
• 20/14 : Supine
• 24/22 : jaga
• 26 on monday, playing video games since i was .... about 5 or 6. : draed
• 20/12 : c0bra
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  21 - 14..........? roughly : tomservo
  • same *high fives tomservo* : sevogajre
• 27/19 : TheOccifer
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  20 / since Atari : Nighteyes
  • Right on, same here! : MuaaSan
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    atari is older than you : jaga
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      Yeah, but it was still around when we were born. We don't have to play stuff younger than us! \m/River R... : MuaaSan
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        yes, but 'since atari' isnt the correct wording : jaga
        • Since Atari was the "popular" console? : MuaaSan
• 23/18 years or so? : geedeck
• 22 / 17 yrs. i'd guess. : protoman
• 31 been playing since ATARI! : whippy
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  32/27. I had an original Pong. Console with 2 paddle/spinners on it. : futtbucker
  • Yeah the wodden box thing with those dials? I had one too : cold_40
  • 30, been playing since before Atari. We had this Triangle shaped console. Steering wheel on one side, li... : Former_HPB
• 18 / 16 : jednet
• 104, playing 96 yrs : frosty
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  22 and um, whenever it was that the ol' hobbit text adventure game came out :) : strider_
  • screenshot! http://www.lysator.liu.se/tolkien-games/entry/screen-shot/hobbit2.gif : strider_
• 36 years old, I've been playing games on computers since my family's first TRS 80 model 1. : Thresher
• 26/19. fuck knows what games you were playing 22 years ago! : radula
• 29/25 : [Zoesch^2]
• 21/11 : Sarcastro
• 24, 17 years (1985: Super Mario!) : Entity
• 24/10+ : cold_40
• 26. 20. : acheron
• 30 / 20+ years playing : V0lk
• 29. constanly since I was a litte squirt. : Lawgiver
• 23, probably 20 years. my first system was a NES in 3rd grade, cuz i got good grades. That was the last ... : kenmis
• 20, probably 16 years or so. my first system was the odyssey. : emocore
• 21 yrs, 21 yrs and 5 months I was playing them in the womb : Bob Jones
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  16/since amiga : kueay
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    Amiga is older than you. : PantherX
    • I'm aware of that, but oh do i miss those load times. : kueay
• 19/don't remember... : -mish-
• 20, 15 years : qrenton
• 35. playing vid games since pong. i remember when i was little i got to play a test arcade unit of aste... : hal9000
• 35/25 : fragasm
• 24 and about 6 years maybe? :/ : Optimus Prime
• 21 / 15ish? : artillery
• 24, 20 : mr. winky
• 40. I was playing the original Pong when it came out in the seventies. Didn't get a computer till late 9... : Dreagon
• 25/19 : Homard
• 25/22. Pong baby!! :-D : __declspec
• almost 20, 15 years? : aveil
• 26/20 : dorker
• 25/since I was around 6 I think : xwer
• 22/12 Started on the Sega Master System (Alex Kid rocked!) : keith
• 21/12 Started on a 386? 486? with some sub game where you have to Add to kill the monsters. and some ot... : Ratalon
• 19/13 : firebone
• 29 Since PONG : overtoke
• 29/25 : Scrimbo Obeer
• 22, 19 years. : Lone Swordsman
• 20, First game was Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge on a Tandy. I think I can still play that game star... : urbanonymity
• 17/15 years : --Viscid--
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  3/4 : infidel
  • age, not IQ : overtoke
• 28yrs old/been playing PC games since Doom shareware : Corvus_6
• 22 years old/playing since 1985 and the NES. : slax0r
• 21, 17 years : cygnus
• 27/started with an Apple 2c : stump
• 22 years old. i remember my parents buying an NES for me close to when it came out, so gaming about 15 ... : king_darius
• 20/16 since the vic 20 : Daggoth
• 25, 21 years :) : moshman
• 32, playing since 1976 Damn, I'm old. :) : xakmalice
• old/17 years : Sander Pilon
• 26, since the atari days, 1982 maybe : quietb0y
• 20/10. Gamboy - Genesis - 386/40 - 486/66 - P1 133 - K6 300 - Athlon 1200 : yobock
• 38. Since 1986. : RatBastard
• 39,since Pong, off and on. Played the first Pong game when it came out, played video games in arcades ti... : goatsecxy
• 21 started with and Atari, got an NES in 88, became really involved in Videogames after I got my SNES + ... : bRAINsick
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  19/17 AppleIIe baby! : scythide
  • Same in a month or so ;) (ie 18/16, Apple 2) : gingerninja
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  23 and 14 years computer / 17 years video games... first pc game was ALF on a Tandy laptop (My dad's off... : celerity
  • CORRECTION Toshiba Laptop! Not Tandy.. heh I don't think Tandy ran dos on their TRS80 laptops :) (Had on... : celerity

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  The Hills Have Eyes and Jacob's Ladder! : Vis Inack
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    Jacobs ladder was cool :) : urbansling
    • that movie was damn cool, not scary tho : chillin
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    Whats scary about jacobs ladder, I have still have yet to see that movie...... : suicidemachine
    • some of his visions are kinda scary.. other than that it's a decent movie : urbansling
    • I still have yet to see that movie.....grrr......need more sleep..... : suicidemachine
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      It certainly creeped me out at several points... just a very disturbing mix of traditional heaven/hell i... : Vis Inack
      • *adds to netflix rental list* : suicidemachine
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        Spoiler.................................. the part where his spanish wife was dancing at the party and t... : urbansling
        • Spoiler.............................Yeah, that was a creepy one. The freakiest stuff was the scene where... : Vis Inack
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  I thought Blair Witch was pretty boring. It was so overhyped. : slax0r
  • agreed.. movie was lukewarm up until the end. : urbansling
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    Yeah, I think the only way for Blair Witch to be scary is if you'd gone to the first screenings and were... : Vis Inack
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      Yeah, I went with two people. One thought it was fake, one knew it was real. The one who thought it was ... : Portax
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        Er, thought it was real, knew it was fake, I mean. : Portax
        • yea, i worked at movie theater when that came out. We got the print like 2 weeks b4 it came out for some... : postal21
    • I did and I still thought it was stupid :\ : klerck
    • You could never believe that shit was real. That movie was stupid and terrible and all foreplay with no ... : nudel
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  Exorcist 1-3 were pretty scary. : cwlc98
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    I enjoyed 3 alot...I think its cool that FLA samples alot of it too. : drucifer
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      The part with the priest stuck to the ceiling still sticks in my mind.... Which FLA album? : cwlc98
      • Tactical Neural Implant : drucifer
• Exorcist : Homard
• Doom 3 : silly
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  exorcist 3 : johnny rotten
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    I'll pick that one up : urbansling
    • its a super movie actually. Better than the first one in many ways. you wont regret it. : johnny rotten
• The Shining, Halloween, Ghost Story.......... : Dreagon
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  Ghost Dad! Now that's scary. : DonkleyPunch
  • for all the wrong reasons. : Dreagon
  • Haha, I love the line where the taxi driver says "Eat shit!" and Bill Cosby says "Thanks, I'm tryin' to ... : Hello Kitty
• Silly boy, that's Arkansas! : Visceral Monkey
• they should make a movie out of the Shack GHOSTS! website. : proclone1
• The Others was the first movie in a long damn time to make me jump a little. Finally a movie which doesn : Entity

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  5 more weeks =/ : Vis Inack
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    I suppose I could go see it at the theatre still but I can't find anyone to go with. : fat mike
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      I usually end up seeing the stuff I really care about by myself since no one else is interested. That st... : Vis Inack
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        Yeah but I mean at least one other person is cool to see a movie like that with. It's obviously not a hu... : fat mike
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          I usually end up getting too concerned about whether or not whoever I talked into seeing some movie they... : Vis Inack
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            Yeah, kind of like people will blame you if they think the movie sucked. I feel that way sometimes also.... : fat mike
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              Yeah, exactly. Magnolia for example - my parents' first question now when I recommend a movie is somethi... : Vis Inack
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                I told my Grandpa to watch the Limey and after the movie he asked me if I hated him. : fat mike
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                  Ouch, my parents did like that one. That's the weird thing, you can never tell. I guess we could both ag... : Vis Inack
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                    I had an "alternative cinema" class in which the professor was too l33t for independent films so we watc... : keith
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                      Whoa :) Sounds pretty extreme! Was it interesting? : Vis Inack
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                        The films were really hit and miss. I can't say that I'd actively seek out similar films in the future b... : keith
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                          I also learned never to say "movie" when talking to a Radio/Television/Film (RTVF) major. Gotta say feee... : keith
                          • I'm a snob about that anyway. Wouldn't have to change much, luckily :) : Vis Inack
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                            to me there are movies, there are films, and there are flicks. : slax0r
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                              hmm, 3 divisions... I usually just go with films, the good stuff, and movies, the crappy stuff. I could ... : Vis Inack
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                                films = art movies = entertainment films can be good or bad just like movies IMHO. : keith
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                                  Except I think when a movie truly succeeds, it's elevated to an art form... you look at the best films i... : Vis Inack
                                  • that's where I disagree. I believe that one sets out to make either a movie or a film from the start; th... : slax0r
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                                    An example would be Fincher's Seven. If you look at it, there's nothing particularly 'artsy' happening i... : Vis Inack
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                                      interesting. I've never thought of Se7en (right?) as a film before. I'd say it was a movie with film-lik... : slax0r
                                      • Another example would be some of Hitchcock's best stuff... in Psycho, you're taking a slasher movie and : Vis Inack
                              • all movies aren't bad though. It's just a different type of moving picture. : slax0r
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                              what would flicks be? : keith
                              • not big-budget and grandiose like movies, but not clever and introspective like films. Mostly whimsical ... : slax0r
                  • yep, I feel the exact same way. : ZedAgent
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            a friend of mine has the exact same tastes in movies so i usually end up seeing movies like amelie and o... : chillin
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              The thing about independent films is that I almost never want to go and yet when I do I am almost always... : keith
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                that's because shitty Hollywood movies appeal to your basic senses always, while independent films do no... : slax0r
                • exactly. : keith
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                  Enough was a rehash movie. I don't get it. People go and see the same movie over and over. Isn't eno... : Vis Inack
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                    in my defense, I wasn't planning on seeing it, but everyone else I was with wanted to so I was kinda for... : slax0r
                    • Yeah, it happens. I've been known to go along to see crappy movies out of boredom. : Vis Inack
              • if you can see a trailer to the movie you can usually tell if its going to be a shitty indie. but i love... : chillin
• come to Europe, it's out. : moshman
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  already out in Canadia.. why not just import one? same region code : astral
  • GO Canadia! : kueay
  • Where is it available in Canada? HMV says it's not out yet. : TwiLyght
• its only in french here in canada. : sweat