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the_tyrant

10-06-10, 08:22 PM

Ok, one of my friends clams that only old people play submarine simulations.
He says that even hardcore flight sims and wargames appeal more to teens.
So please tell me your age, I want to know if this is true
Truthfully please(On the forums i moderate i pretend to be a 19 year old girl hacker who lives in Sweden)
I'm 15 by the way

Takeda Shingen

10-06-10, 08:25 PM

Truthfully please(On the forums i moderate i pretend to be a 19 year old girl hacker who lives in Sweden)

Dishonest moderators are usually poor ones. I'm not saying that you are a poor moderator, only that you must be honest with the members if you expect them to be honest, and remain honest with you.

I'm 33. Joined SubSim 10 years ago. Started playing submarine simulators in my teens.

Legionary74

10-06-10, 08:28 PM

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the_tyrant

10-06-10, 08:29 PM

Dishonest moderators are usually poor ones. I'm not saying that you are a poor moderator, only that you must be honest with the members if you expect them to be honest, and remain honest with you.

I'm 33. Joined SubSim 10 years ago. Started playing submarine simulators in my teens.

Dude, one of the paste bars(a type of forum in china) i moderate is one of the biggest Marilyn Manson fan sites on earth
What can you expect?
here is the link if you would like to check it out:http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kw=manson&t=12

Remember to say hi if you do:salute:

TLAM Strike

10-06-10, 08:29 PM

I'm 25, I started playing subsims about 8 years ago and was in to flight sims about 2 or 3 years before that.

Sailor Steve

10-06-10, 08:44 PM

Most of the old movies you talk about, I saw in the theater. I picked up my first guitar in 1965. I saw the Beatles live in 1966. I was in Vietnam in 1970. Married in 1974. Divorced in 1985. My older daughter is about to turn 31. Her 'baby' sister is 28, and has given me two grandkids. I started playing tabletop wargames in 1973. My first subsim was Silent Service in 1986. On the other hand I still play rock 'n' roll and the blues, and some country, jazz, folk, and anything else I feel like.

I'm also absolutely honest about everything I do. The only reason I have a screen name is because when I first came here even Neal had one. I no longer pretend to be anything, excepting maybe human.

What can I say? I'm 60.

ps. Every Thursday night I play a truly hardcore flight sim, which involves pushing trolleys around on the floor of the local hobby shop, with model airplanes.

Castout

10-06-10, 08:52 PM

I'm 31 and started sub simming with Silent Hunter 2 and sub command ten years ago.

Joined subsim under different name somewhere in 2000-2002 if memory doesn't fail me but have since lost the account. Have since started going back as forum member from 2006

Started flight simming about 7 years earlier.

You know it's not true that only old people play subsim while younger ones play flightsim.
Just that sub sim titles are hard to come by and not everyone would want to take a try at them.
It's like when we were teen and we prefer to seek out and get attracted to the opposite sex teenagers but after a while(or maybe a long while) you just realize mature women could become more appealing than younger opposite sex. It's part of growing.
It's not the women or the female teenagers who have changed but your realization and perspective.

The general scene of opposite sex attraction is like
1. Male teenagers under 20s spotting a few hot or pretty teenagers->They go all crazy and without restraint to their explicit behavior about it I mean just by looking at them
2. Male young in his 20s spotting hot or pretty girl->They have a crush inside but show more explicit restraint
3. Male mid age in his 30s above spotting hot or pretty women-> Ummm...., Meh

When you're psychologically in category number 3 even when it doesn't mirror your biological age you're ready for sub simming LOL

Subsim is just more refined and takes more dedication and passion than the explosive flight simming in general.

Most of the old movies you talk about, I saw in the theater. I picked up my first guitar in 1965. I saw the Beatles live in 1966. I was in Vietnam in 1970. Married in 1974. Divorced in 1985. My older daughter is about to turn 31. Her 'baby' sister is 28, and has given me two grandkids. I started playing tabletop wargames in 1973. My first subsim was Silent Service in 1986. On the other hand I still play rock 'n' roll and the blues, and some country, jazz, folk, and anything else I feel like.

I'm also absolutely honest about everything I do. The only reason I have a screen name is because when I first came here even Neal had one. I no longer pretend to be anything, excepting maybe human.

What can I say? I'm 60.

ps. Every Thursday night I play a truly hardcore flight sim, which involves pushing trolleys around on the floor of the local hobby shop, with model airplanes.

Hands down you win :O:

That Thursday night revelation . . . . . . .:haha:

razark

10-06-10, 08:56 PM

Hello, my name is razark, and I'm 34.

I've been a subsimmer since I was 8 years old. It all started when I got my hands on something called Gato:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Gatoshot.png

It worked for a while, but then I started finding new and better subsims.
Silent Service, Red Storm Rising, 688 Attack Sub, Silent Service II, etc.

tater

10-06-10, 09:04 PM

Truthfully please(On the forums i moderate i pretend to be a 19 year old girl hacker who lives in Sweden)
I'm 15 by the way

Mid 40s

You call yourself Lisbeth, or Wasp? ;)

Ducimus

10-06-10, 09:09 PM

I'm 36, and this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEQTLUwduTI) was my first sub sim. (edit: If you want to call it a sim that is. )

Spyguy101

10-06-10, 09:09 PM

I'm 17 and started sub simming when I picked up SH4 as soon as it came out. Plus my sim days started when a family friend gave us Janes F-15 when it first came out before moving to Jet Fighter 4 and KA-52 Team Alligator.

Chad

10-06-10, 09:10 PM

I'm 22, joined Subsim and WPL when I was 14, so about your age now.

I've been to three Subsim meets and they're truly something special you never forget :arrgh!:

Sailor Steve

10-06-10, 09:14 PM

Hello, my name is razark, and I'm 34.

I've been a subsimmer since I was 8 years old.
Hiiiii, Razaaarrrk! :sunny:

Schöneboom

10-06-10, 09:21 PM

I'll turn 50 in a few weeks. One of the white-haired geezers with slow reflexes! But old age & treachery will overcome youth & skill! :woot:

TLAM Strike

10-06-10, 09:22 PM

I'm 36, and this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEQTLUwduTI) was my first sub sim. (edit: If you want to call it a sim that is. )

I remember playing that for hours when I was little. I guess that was my first subsim, although I didn't become obsessed with the genre until I got Sub Command back in 2002. :sunny:

frau kaleun

10-06-10, 09:54 PM

I just turned 46 a month ago.

I've been playing subsims since I was... 45. :D

Never did much gaming of any kind when I was a teenager, unless you count playing Trivial Pursuit with my dad. And watching Jeopardy to see who could yell out the correct answer first. And the occasional game of checkers. (Chinese checkers if we were feeling adventurous.)

Of course we didn't have personal computers back then, and I doubt I would have been into combat sims of any kind even if they were available.

But I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now. :O:

Sledgehammer427

10-06-10, 10:04 PM

Frau, you and my dad might have gone to high school together.....

I'm 19. :yeah:

been playing Subsims since I was....6.

and actually I moved on to other games from there, but I've always moved back to subsims.

I'm the only one in my town that owns all 5 Silent Hunters.

Castout

10-06-10, 10:18 PM

I've been playing subsims since I was... 45. :D

Umm I thought I was a late comer :DL

But I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now:O:.

That doesn't bode well could it?:O:

Flaxpants

10-06-10, 11:27 PM

I've just turned 45 and have been playing sub sims only a few months, been playing all types of games however for decades. These days apart from Silent hunter 3 I play Flight Sims, Arma 2 and still enjoy a good ole game of Medieval 2 from time to time.

So you see? We're not all old folk....

Sailor Steve

10-07-10, 12:08 AM

But I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now. :O:

That doesn't bode well could it?:O:
She's just tangled up in blue.

Castout

10-07-10, 01:01 AM

If this could make her feel better,

I'm practically choking in blue...and to blue :rotfl2:.

Nah sometimes life doesn't deserve the commitment and serious effort that we've put in. When I realize crooks could be well praised and respected I know life is not to be taken seriously.

But still life is a blessing despite the many wrongs that are going on around us. Trying to enjoy what life we have and to be comfortable with ourselves is more than enough.

In the words of one of my lecturer she said something like The world is not fair and to accept that.
She got it wrong I'm sure and convinced even convicted. It's men who are unfair because men are fallible. Life is fair. It may need courage and faith to look it that way but life is fair when you know death isn't the finish line. To the sight(figure) I behold when I was a kid back a year after I was shown Christ then whose face shone beyond everything....what a power, what a Godly body, what a life!

GoldenRivet

10-07-10, 01:47 AM

31

thats all i got.

Morts

10-07-10, 02:23 AM

16 *facepalm*

CCIP

10-07-10, 02:48 AM

My name is George and I'm a subsimholic.

Oh, wait, that's not what this thread is about :dead:

Fairly common knowledge that I'm 26. Have been on Subsim since I was 20, but you could argue my first sub sim was Silent Service 2, which I first played when I was about 9.

antikristuseke

10-07-10, 03:01 AM

I'm 23m will be 24 is november.

Skybird

10-07-10, 03:21 AM

43.

JU_88

10-07-10, 04:09 AM

Im 30 but if it helps, I was 25 when i bought my first ever subsim - SH3. :woot:

Your buddy is right though about subsims appeal to a generally older crowd.
In 2001 I used to work for a company which provided telephone support for Ubisoft, (their support was outsourced back then) Every guy who called with SH2 Issues sounded no younger than 50, I kid you not! One of them evern told me he was a retired Officer in the Royal Navy.
Being 21 and an avid gamer, I was actually dead impressed that there were gamers out there in the same age group as my parents, I remember thinking 'good for you', when I spoke to an older guy :)

@The Tyrant, if I got this right, you are a 15yo guy posing as a 19yo girl on a ?chinese? Marilyn Mason forum, where you are a moderator?

:o WTH?

..Gotta love internet :haha:

Raptor1

10-07-10, 04:21 AM

18, last time I checked...

the_tyrant

10-07-10, 04:50 AM

JU_88

10-07-10, 04:51 AM

I dont speak Chinese Im afraid, i just thought the situation was rather unusual - In a good/funny way though:)

Herr-Berbunch

10-07-10, 05:09 AM

I'm 36.

My first sight of a subsim was SHII, on a mate's laptop in Iraq in 2003, played it for hours to while away the quiet nights. Thought about it early this year and bought SH3 thinking that's what I'd played before(two years before release!), stumbled amongst these wonderful folk here and have never looked back (or forward!).

Used to be a FS freak, from 98, 2000, 02, 04, and now X, and X-Plane 8 which I never got the hang of. Before that it was A320 on an Amiga :DL

Had my PS phase too, but I'm over that now apart from the odd blast on NFS with my stepson.

I don't speak, or read, any form of Chinese :nope:

kiwi_2005

10-07-10, 05:15 AM

46.

First sub game was 'Silent Service' which I thought was total utter crap lol. If you google SS your see it has an average score of 8 which is good and is highly rated by fans. I hated it and thought after playing that the PC will never ever be the platform for sub games. :haha: Well I got that wrong.
Some time later I brought Aces of the Deep & SH1 Those two games sealed my interests in sub sims for the PC.

DarkFish

10-07-10, 06:58 AM

19 here:salute:

Lionclaw

10-07-10, 07:25 AM

26

Haven't played sub sims for some time now. My interest in the genre comes and goes, in a drought at the moment. :O:

Silent Service II on the Commodore 64 or Commodore Amiga was my first sub sim.

On PC: Silent Hunter II, III, and IV, Sub Command, and Dangerous Waters.

frau kaleun

10-07-10, 07:55 AM

She's just tangled up in blue.

Lord knows I've paid some dues getting through.

Bilge_Rat

10-07-10, 08:15 AM

I just turned 46 a month ago.

I love younger women...:D

55 here with way too much time on my hand.

My first subsim was actually the board game "submarine" by avalon hill which I played in the late 70s/early 80s. My first computer subsim was Jane's 688i HK around 1999. The only subsim I still play is DW, although I have not tried the latest LWAMI mod yet.

Rockstar

10-07-10, 09:20 AM

The body 48 and beginning to get creaky. But, not one gray hair! My behavior on the other hand is anywhere from 21 to 27.

Sailor Steve

10-07-10, 09:26 AM

Lord knows I've paid some dues getting through.
We just saw it from a different point of view. :sunny:

Rebel

10-07-10, 09:41 AM

Garion

10-07-10, 02:35 PM

52 here with a mental age of 16 :woot:

First Subsim was Silent Service on a CBM 64 and a datacorder cassette tape.

Started off as a 70's hippy, joined the Police Force, Royal Navy and ended up as a Computer Science Lecturer.

Spend most of my time in bed now sinking Der Englander Ships :salute:as I am disabled. I also play many other wargames and elsewhere I am known as as Jevhaddah or simply Jev.

Edit: I am now once again a Long haired beardy and the Local police call me Gandalf... Sooo I have gone full circle .
Cheers

Garion
aka Jev

krashkart

10-07-10, 02:52 PM

35 and already have some silver streaks in my beard. :-?

My first sub sim was probably Silent Service on NES -- I remember playing that for entire weekends at a friend's house. Somewhere along the line I got hooked on Microprose' F-117 Nighthawk, and CONFMEPS. I fell in love with simulations and strategy games, and ever since then it's been a round-robin of naval sim, strategy and flight sim.

Ducimus

10-07-10, 03:05 PM

16 *facepalm*

No need to facepalm. Enjoy it. And Enjoy your 20's. I wish i was in my 20's again.

Bilge_Rat

10-07-10, 03:23 PM

I saw the Beatles live in 1966.

lucky dog, where?

I had a chance to go see Led Zep in montreal in 75...but decided to go to a party instead...:damn:

Neptunus Rex

10-07-10, 05:39 PM

49. I did the real thing before the SIM thing. That would be 29 years ago.
:salute:

CaptainMattJ.

10-07-10, 05:42 PM

I'm 15 by the way
oooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH.

that explains alot.

avg age around here? 50. my age? 21.

ivank

10-07-10, 05:57 PM

18 here

yubba

10-07-10, 07:24 PM

a 12 year old in a 49 year old bodyhttp://www.pinrepair.com/arcade/searad3.jpg

ReallyDedPoet

10-07-10, 07:25 PM

41 :)

guitarjava

10-07-10, 08:57 PM

Hi everyone,

I'm 46 years old and it's nice to be part of the Subsim community.

Bremmer

frau kaleun

10-07-10, 09:11 PM

Hi everyone,

I'm 46 years old and it's nice to be part of the Subsim community.

Bremmer

Welcome aboard, fellow 46-year-old! :salute:

Sailor Steve

10-08-10, 01:01 AM

I AM 70 LIVED PASSED THE 1960,S .DON,T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON TILL 1973 WENT TO A JOB TILL 2004 . BEN PLAYING SH2 SH3 DON,T LIKE SH4 AND AS TO SH5 :haha: TOO MUCH MONEY FOR ME TO PUT INTO MY PC JUST TO SEE WHATS GOING ON
Hey Reb! Good to see you still posting. :rock:

35 and already have some silver streaks in my beard. :-?

Cheer up! It'll get worse! :D

lucky dog, where?
Dodger Stadium.

WELCOME ABOARD, young Bremmer! :sunny:

This poll thread is quite old now, but it will give you an idea of the averages around here.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=80887&highlight=average

ReFaN

10-08-10, 01:09 PM

21 ;>

i dont Subsim anymore tough :<

nikimcbee

10-08-10, 01:36 PM

my english, no so gud,
me 38 and I plays the el gato and silent service subsim
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/familyguy/images/9/99/Consuela.jpg

GoldenRivet

10-08-10, 03:42 PM

my english, no so gud,
me 38 and I plays the el gato and silent service subsim
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/familyguy/images/9/99/Consuela.jpg

Love it

Betonov

10-09-10, 05:20 AM

24, but I can smell 25 creeping on me

Jimbuna

10-09-10, 06:31 AM

53....retired at the age of 50 and lasted a couple of months before fearing death from boredom.

Re-entered the employment market and had my sanity questioned by ex-colleagues and friends.....only time will tell.

Herr-Berbunch

10-09-10, 06:50 AM

Re-entered the employment market and had my sanity questioned by ex-colleagues and friends.....only time will tell.

They're taking their time finding out what we've known all along :O:

Geno_Mariner

10-09-10, 08:04 AM

I'm 21, I occasionally play some sub sim whenever I have the time or want to.

Tis an interesting discussion though :doh:

swamprat69er

10-09-10, 09:25 AM

I'm 64.
Been playing SH4 for two years and flight sims for about 10.

Sailor Steve

10-09-10, 10:17 AM

WELCOME ABOARD, old man! :sunny:

At last, someone I can say that to! :D

conus00

10-09-10, 10:36 AM

36 here, which puts me pretty much in the middle of the age group here.

swamprat69er

10-09-10, 10:44 AM

WELCOME ABOARD, old man! :sunny:

At last, someone I can say that to! :D

Speak for yourself. ;)

Jimbuna

10-09-10, 11:16 AM

They're taking their time finding out what we've known all along :O:

http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/wacko.gif http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/crazy.gif http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/2391/bubblegum21.gif

Platapus

10-09-10, 11:36 AM

I am almost 350 in dog years and some days I feel every one of those years.

My first sub sim was an antisub sim (and the term sim is used very liberally) called Code Name Sector

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2584/code-name-sector

Anyone else remember that one? I thought this was the greatest game ever. And it had a "computer" ohhhhh

I have fond memories of Gato, Sub battle and Silent Service. Boy these games were the bestest when they first came out huh? :yeah:

I missed out on a lot of the early ones as I never had any of the "game machines".

Ahh the memories

Méo

10-09-10, 12:32 PM

I'm 36, and this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEQTLUwduTI) was my first sub sim. (edit: If you want to call it a sim that is. )

I'm 30 and when I think about this game I feel kind of old..:-?

i dont Subsim anymore tough :<

Same here :cry:

Fish

10-09-10, 04:24 PM

Hands down you win :O:

That Thursday night revelation . . . . . . .:haha:

No, he isn't, I am 70.:woot:

Started playing 688 HK back in 1998 and found Subsimforum.

bookworm_020

10-09-10, 04:55 PM

32 years young here, but getting older and grayer everyday!

Tchocky

10-09-10, 06:58 PM

24 here, first subsim was Silent Hunter, first flightsim was Falcon 3.0

Haven't been playing much recently, hoping to find some free time around 2016 :O:

Sailor Steve

10-09-10, 09:25 PM

No, he isn't, I am 70.:woot:

Started playing 688 HK back in 1998 and found Subsimforum.
I think he was referring to my gaming prediliction, not my age. Rebel already pointed out that he has several years on me. :sunny:

Stealth Hunter

10-09-10, 10:18 PM

54. This would be very interesting if we had a poll to compare the different age group sizes on SubSim.

Castout

10-10-10, 01:31 AM

No, he isn't, I am 70.:woot:

Started playing 688 HK back in 1998 and found Subsimforum.

Wow:salute: and sub simming. Many happy returns :yeah:

I think he was referring to my gaming prediliction, not my age. Rebel already pointed out that he has several years on me. :sunny:

Not exactly was impressed by the following

I picked up my first guitar in 1965. I saw the Beatles live in 1966. I was in Vietnam in 1970. Married in 1974I started playing tabletop wargames in 1973.

Beatles, Vietnam . . . . . :yeah:

Must be a hell of experience there

STEED

10-10-10, 06:57 AM

I am the answer to life the universe and everything...42.

See the Hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy. :D

swamprat69er

10-10-10, 07:32 AM

Ok, one of my friends clams that only old people play submarine simulations.
He says that even hardcore flight sims and wargames appeal more to teens.
So please tell me your age, I want to know if this is true
I'm 15 by the way

I think you need to define 'old'.

kiwi_2005

10-10-10, 08:33 AM

kranz

10-10-10, 09:04 AM

24 years old. First subsim: Aces of the Deep, then Command: Aces... and SH2, SH3

Sailor Steve

10-10-10, 09:26 AM

This would be very interesting if we had a poll to compare the different age group sizes on SubSim.
The thread I linked to in post #51 showed exactly that. It was last posted in more than two years ago, but I'll bet not much has changed.

@ Steed: You know the answer, but do you remember the question?

Jimbuna

10-10-10, 09:29 AM

I AM 70 LIVED PASSED THE 1960,S .DON,T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON TILL 1973 WENT TO A JOB TILL 2004 . BEN PLAYING SH2 SH3 DON,T LIKE SH4 AND AS TO SH5 :haha: TOO MUCH MONEY FOR ME TO PUT INTO MY PC JUST TO SEE WHATS GOING ON

Hi George....good to see your doing well.

Best wishes to the wife and Yoah (hope I spelled it correctly) http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/thumbsup.gif