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punkmaster98

12-03-07 05:24 PM

thanks i'll check it out

Doolittle81

12-04-07 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by simonb1612

37 Male. Another thing I would be interested to know is how many players/simmers have prior military experience and which service etc.
I have no military service.

64 here. Retired US Air Force O-6, Intel and Reconnaissance during 28 years active duty. Been into WWII wargaming since playing "Battleship" on scraps of paper back in the early fifties. WWII strategy Board games in the sixties and early seventies. WWII flight sims in early nineties (Aces over Europe, etc). Then the original SH and CFS and CFS2 and European Air War. The last few years have been primarily involved with the IL2 Flight Sim series. Just recently started SH4 and also Theater of War (ground combat, WWII). Anxiously awaiting the release of "Storm of War: Battle of Britain" FlightSim.

Misfit138

12-04-07 01:07 AM

22 but mentally relatively retarted :doh: Always have loved simulations and currently having a blast with Open Falcon 4.5

Subsims history goes back to SH1

kiwi_2005

12-04-07 07:16 AM

43 YEARS YOUNG! :rock:

Dustyboats

12-04-07 09:01 AM

Youngest Member ?

I'm 72yrs old.

CV43	12-04-07 09:06 AM

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I have been playing the Silent Hunter series ever since launch and really loving it, except Silent Hunter II which really kinda stunk. However, did anybody else get hooked on subsims by playing Silent Service on the NES? Cause that is how it happened for me. A friend of mine gave me that game because he thought it was too slow and boring. Ha ha...what a fool!

That is how I got hooked. Playing the NES and there was another Sub Sim on the NES or it could have been Sega that dealt with modern Sub.

6 years of US Navy service mostly onboard USS Coral Sea. Hence my user name.

banjo

12-04-07 11:19 AM

66 here. Been a gamer since the good ones like Silent Service came out about 1986 or so. I mention all this so you younger games can see that you have a life time hobby if you want it.

pythos

12-04-07 11:33 AM

A young 35 year old male here. I have always had an interest in subs, beaten only by Aviation. My first go at a subsim was Silent servic from micropose, on my friend's comodore 64. We spent hours and days chasing convoys in that game, and take turns as "skipper". Yea we were neards.

Now I spend days playing one campaign (with saves) playing one of the finest subsim series to come out.

Flight simulator is the second most run program on my comp, followed by World of Warcraft, when running with friends. On line, real time multiplay subsiming would be fun, provided I had one computer devoted to running silent hunter, and there was true contact between players.

Bill Nichols

12-04-07 11:34 AM

I'm really surprised at how many 'old farts' play this game. ;)

54-here come December 15
:|\\

Gunfighter

12-04-07 11:39 AM

Old Fart

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bill Nichols

I'm really surprised at how many 'old farts' play this game. ;)

54-here come December 15
:|\\

Well thank you Bill from Gunfighter 68yrs

howler93

12-04-07 01:47 PM

35 here :cool: Not married, but not single either... Love strategy titles like civilization, and sims like SH3 and 4. My first games were Zork (classic Infocom text game!) and the original Castle Wolfenstein!

Old Gamers Rule :rock:

Howler :arrgh!:

howler93

12-04-07 01:50 PM

Doolittle!

I LOVED Aces Over Europe! Did you play Aces Over The Pacific also?

Deerdiver

12-04-07 02:09 PM

No spring chicken at 44 but not ready to be put out to pasture either! Got into sub sims playing an arcade game at the fair where you had to try and hit the ship crossing in front with your torpedo. I remember at the age of about 9, hanging off the periscope like a true ace and shouting "loose" as I pressed the fire button. Happy days!

Doolittle81

12-04-07 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by howler93

Doolittle!

I LOVED Aces Over Europe! Did you play Aces Over The Pacific also?

Absolutely. I think in some respects AOE and AOP constituted a breaking point in Flight Simming... before that I played Flying Games, such as Atari's Blue Max and Microprose Strike Eagle (If I recall the names correctly)

howler93

12-04-07 04:07 PM

Blue Max and Microprose's Strike Eagle were my first flight sims too! The F-15E missions over Vietnam were interesting :) God...classic games the likes of which I thought no one remembered! :up:

pythos

12-04-07 04:18 PM

I had the original strike eagle. It was awful. The graphics were wire frame, of very low "stick count". When gun ship came out, F-15 was relagated to the bottom of my softwear drawer. Then I acquired my own coppy of Silent Service. Gunship and SS fought pretty hard for most played on my machines. Then Ms flight sim entered my life, as did Janes 688 attack sub.

Gargantou

12-04-07 04:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Doolittle81

Quote:

Originally Posted by howler93

Doolittle!

I LOVED Aces Over Europe! Did you play Aces Over The Pacific also?

Yeah, AOTP also had the perfect gameplay balance, not too unrealistic, but not OVERLY realistic, I still to this day prefer AOTP and 1942:PAW(Pacific Air War from Microprose) over Il-2 Sturmovik 1946 for example.

dean_acheson

12-04-07 05:11 PM

I'm 114 years old, of course.

ahaydu

12-04-07 05:50 PM

:yep: Looks like I might be the oldest, 62 ! I'm old enough to remember these subs on active duty :-)

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Originally Posted by spidair

What is the average age for playing SH4 (or sub games overall? Due to the nature of the game, (Let face it, it's slow at times, it happens nothing on long streches and so on...), I would think that the "MacDonalds" generation would stay clear from this kind of game. They usually like fast action paced games with little or no waiting at all, so I would guess an average age of 20-25 and up?

Or is it a game that younger folks likes too?

And what about gender? Is it a male or female game? (I would say male coz of its nature, but hey, I been wrong before!!):cool:

I'm 40 years old and male and since I'm NOT in the MacDonalds generation I like the kind of games you have to use your brain to more things than reloading my gun... like sims and strategy games.

So what about YOU? :sunny:

Yuor age and gender please! :D :D

Sailor Steve

12-04-07 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by ahaydu

:yep: Looks like I might be the oldest, 62 !

WELCOME ABOARD!

Well, you're older than me, but...
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...0&postcount=58
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...&postcount=106
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...&postcount=114

And that's not counting the several 70+ members who hang around.

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