All I had as a kid was pong and a Spectrum ZX81 that we could only just afford being a single parent family but no games for it. My experience of games was round friend's houses who had them and playing on them. When I started college and got myself my first console - a Mastersystem II with build in Sonic The Hedgehog (Which I played to death along with Robocop Vs Terminator) and went onto a SNES, playstaion (One/PSX) and then mainly computers apart from my Playstation 3. In the 90's I also played on my friends PC and his games. (Master of Orion, Dune, Under a Killing Moon, Megarace and may other games.
I've been playing almost entirely single player Minecraft since I got it in Alpha v1.1.2_01 and after 6 years, still don't see my self stopping anytime soon. I'm more selective about games these days and it's mainly PC ones from steam or offers on Humble Bundle, but I'm still very selective. Minecraft is the one that's stuck.
Like Minecraft forums or interested in my world? Try My message board, it's better moderated because I run it directly and have run Internet message boards for 21+ years! Better software and I have much more control to keep the content more up to date. Free to join, 13 years+.
I'm 50 this year, been playing computer games since i was 19-20, and Minecraft since 2012 (my current world is 4 ys old and just passed 9900 MC days) and I started with a Commodore Vic-20; I was saving to get a 64 next, but my dad told me they had the new Commodore 16 in Woolworth's on sale, so I ended up getting one; and basically ended up with a dead end computer as the 64 just went from strength to strength. It was funny to read that post mentioning the 64, as I've just been given a 64 by a work colleague who was clearing his loft. And I'm also in the running to get one of these when they are released: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-64-computer-and-handheld-console#/
Hadn't seen that one. A few years ago I got a couple of one that was a C64 with several dozen games bundled into a single chip hand-held joystick. LSI at it's finest. plug it into a monitor or TV and away you go. Still have it around here somewhere and that makes me think of it again. I'll have to go look for it.
53 here - started gaming in the late 70s on mainframe based text games then went through the sinclair zx81/spectrum computers then on to pc, and still gaming (mainly minecraft and civilization series at the moment)
53 here - started gaming in the late 70s on mainframe based text games then went through the sinclair zx81/spectrum computers then on to pc, and still gaming (mainly minecraft and civilization series at the moment)
Love your alias!!
Haven't seen a reference to the 'Warlock' books for "lo these many years" as they say. Was one of my favorite series, but hated the last one where he and the Robo-horse went away.
I had a ZX81 and even made a cute Pac-Man knockoff that fit in the 1K memory done in Z80 machine code. Still have one I play around with on occasion.
I'm a 37 year old guy who plays with two kids (10 and 7). Just Vanilla, at home, no mods. It's nice to see I'm not the only "daddy" playing with his kids
I'm 40. My family has always played games and were one of the few families to have a computer when I was young. My boyfriend (46) and his kids play Minecraft with me. I'd like my son to play with us, but he is a little too young just yet to be trusted in multi-player.
I'm 52 and have been playing Minecraft since April 2011. I've loved games all my life and have played a variety of video and computer games, but Minecraft is the game I always return to. I can get extremely frustrated with different restraints when playing other games these days (ie can't go everywhere, can't interact with everything, forced down a storyline you don't want to follow in that exact order and so forth).
Before I started my own snapshot server back in 2013, I played on a few multiplayer servers. Oftentimes I just met people being amazed at an adult actually gaming and thinking it pretty cool or at least just fine. But I did also encounter some ageism, which left me a bit chocked and saddened. Some of the kids were extremely upset that not only an older person but on top of everything a MOTHER would play games. They'd say it was disgusting and that I should know better and have better things to do than play games. It left me mostly sad for the kids and their mothers to be honest.
Our community now consists of people of various ages, some my age, some in their twenties and two young teens (my daughter and her friend). I feel that the game lends itself well to establishing long term friendships in small communities online and I'll never regret the day my daughter talked me into buying our first account .
I'm 47 and enjoy playing Minecraft with my lovely younger wife (whom age I shalt not disclose for fear of Xrays Looming If you know what I mean) and our 12 year old son. We have been playing this together since about 2010 mostly on LAN but also had a private server at one time so extended family could all play together. I have been an avid gamer since the 80's. I personally love the diversity of Minecraft and the way we can tailor some versions to lean towards technology via mods, some towards architecture and decoration, mere survivability and adventure, and we even had one tailored towards archeology and Jurassic with the Jurassic Craft mod.
I also find it quite refreshing to witness that through this game many young people delve into coding to develop mods and eventually seek higher education. I myself have had to utilize our Roku to obtain streaming apps that teach this skill set because my own son's curiosity has been peaked to some degree. I just wish all games could be as enjoyable with the opportunity to inspire. The ability to watch people learn and understand the complexities involved in modern computing through Minecraft numbs the mind. Like this functioning word processor, this 4 bit computer
this 8 bit computer with GPU
, and this working computer that not only functions but also looks like one just boggles the mind.
I have had the pleasure to see the expression of arts with complex redstone/noteblock builds that play full songs,
complex city builds
some of which inspired by museums for the recreation and teaching of historical events.
I'll out myself. My first console was the Atari 2600. Fast forward, married with child and 2nd console was original Wii. Sometime after that my (now) 14 year old son started playing minecraft PC and later PE. He would show me stuff that I would supportingly say "cool" but thought it looked too pixelated and just didn't "get it". Later, 3rd console was PS4 and we purchased Minecraft (again) but I was excited we could play this game together. He would look up stuff to build while I was busy building my tower of dirt and mining. LOL. I ended up making it look nice but I wanted to build something tall and look around our world. I also liked the fact that no matter how high I fell I could land in one block of water and live. Love Minecraft physics. Once I hit the clouds I capped all the dirt with stone and lit it with torches and it served as a landmark to find home when we explored.
Fast forward some more, I bought my own Minecraft PC at version 1.7 and found Monkeyfarm (and others) on youtube and started using his modified John Smith. I've started a new world on each version since then. I want to revisit my old worlds so I think I will make copies and play those in the latest version while keeping the originals. I Recently bought PE and have it on my galaxy S5 and tab S2, really only playing it on my tablet.
Of course my son barely wants to hear about minecraft these days and often says it sounds like it got to complicated. I told him the PS4 app would be fun for us to start a new world again. I will be much more help than just building a tower of dirt.
Haven't seen a reference to the 'Warlock' books for "lo these many years" as they say. Was one of my favorite series, but hated the last one where he and the Robo-horse went away.
I had a ZX81 and even made a cute Pac-Man knockoff that fit in the 1K memory done in Z80 machine code. Still have one I play around with on occasion.
Thanks - the combination of fantasy/sci-fi and humour works for me!
Haven't seen a reference to the 'Warlock' books for "lo these many years" as they say. Was one of my favorite series, but hated the last one where he and the Robo-horse went away.
I had a ZX81 and even made a cute Pac-Man knockoff that fit in the 1K memory done in Z80 machine code. Still have one I play around with on occasion.
Thanks - the combination of fantasy/sci-fi and humour works for me!
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36 single dad with two kids here. I also find it hard to find older more mature people to play with these days. Most of the gaming friends I have are under 25. I have a vanilla ( Dead server ) that I have been apart of and also have run for a long time now. Would enjoy meeting some new people to play with.
I'm another "older adult" playing Minecraft on an Xbox 360 console. I'm 47 years old and mostly play SSP, but occassionally my wife joins me in a splitscreen session. She's not a gamer really, but she sometimes takes on the mantra of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em", and gathers resources for me or plays with the farm animals.
Like others here, I started out back in the 80's on an 8-bit computer. I was on an Atari 800XL for long into the early "IBM-compatible" days, so I guess my growth was stunted a bit, hehe. I played many games back then, but my fave was Alternate Reality by Datasoft. I remember Zork and many of the other older games mentioned already in this thread.
I'd love to play SMP, but these days I can't really afford the Xbox Live Gold subscription to get my console online. I'm a sickness beneficiary, so I spend many long hours playing Minecraft. In my current world, I've recently defeated the Ender Dragon, and I'm getting ready to face the Wither, for the first time ever!
I live in New Zealand, so there's much of my online gaming experience that has been dominated by time zone differences, which has been both a curse and a blessing on occassion. When I was playing Travian, I was sought after as someone who could be active online while most others were asleep, haha.
Although I don't game online much these days, I still like to keep in touch with other "mature" gamers, such as through these forums.
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Hi, I'm Augur and I'm from New Zealand (NZ). Just call me "Augur". I'm an older person playing Minecraft Xbox 360 Legacy Console Edition without Xbox Gold (no online gaming, sorry), so please don't hate on the old. 😄
I won't tell you my age since some of the players on the server I'm staff on visit here, & although they know I'm one of the oldest players I've been keeping my age from them on purpose (I like being secretive), but there's a few people posted on this thread that are around the same age as me.
Some hints to my age are..
> My first home computer was a Sinclair spectrum (the original. not the '+ or 128) released in 1982, although my VERY first dealings with a Computer of any type was at school & IIRC it was a "Sharp m-z80" (or something like that) - one where you had to load in the OS from an audio tape each time you switches it on
> However the first 'home computer' game I ever played was 'maziacs' for the Sinclair ZX80 (which ironically belonged to my Maths teacher), who was also responsible of getting the school to actually have a 'Technology department' (computer club), but only if he could supply the computers himself (he knew a company that went bust & grabbed the PC's for the school)
I'll be 41 at the end of March.
All I had as a kid was pong and a Spectrum ZX81 that we could only just afford being a single parent family but no games for it. My experience of games was round friend's houses who had them and playing on them. When I started college and got myself my first console - a Mastersystem II with build in Sonic The Hedgehog (Which I played to death along with Robocop Vs Terminator) and went onto a SNES, playstaion (One/PSX) and then mainly computers apart from my Playstation 3. In the 90's I also played on my friends PC and his games. (Master of Orion, Dune, Under a Killing Moon, Megarace and may other games.
I've been playing almost entirely single player Minecraft since I got it in Alpha v1.1.2_01 and after 6 years, still don't see my self stopping anytime soon. I'm more selective about games these days and it's mainly PC ones from steam or offers on Humble Bundle, but I'm still very selective. Minecraft is the one that's stuck.
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Like Minecraft forums or interested in my world? Try My message board, it's better moderated because I run it directly and have run Internet message boards for 21+ years! Better software and I have much more control to keep the content more up to date. Free to join, 13 years+.
16yrs+ only
Hey whats smp and i just started a new survival server with large world.. ps4.
Hadn't seen that one. A few years ago I got a couple of one that was a C64 with several dozen games bundled into a single chip hand-held joystick. LSI at it's finest. plug it into a monitor or TV and away you go. Still have it around here somewhere and that makes me think of it again. I'll have to go look for it.
Learn something new each day
53 here - started gaming in the late 70s on mainframe based text games then went through the sinclair zx81/spectrum computers then on to pc, and still gaming (mainly minecraft and civilization series at the moment)
Love your alias!!
Haven't seen a reference to the 'Warlock' books for "lo these many years" as they say. Was one of my favorite series, but hated the last one where he and the Robo-horse went away.
I had a ZX81 and even made a cute Pac-Man knockoff that fit in the 1K memory done in Z80 machine code. Still have one I play around with on occasion.
Learn something new each day
I'm a 37 year old guy who plays with two kids (10 and 7). Just Vanilla, at home, no mods. It's nice to see I'm not the only "daddy" playing with his kids
I'm 40. My family has always played games and were one of the few families to have a computer when I was young. My boyfriend (46) and his kids play Minecraft with me. I'd like my son to play with us, but he is a little too young just yet to be trusted in multi-player.
I'm 49, be 50 this year... here's hoping my wife doesn't trade me in for two 25's.
I play unmodded vanilla minecraft survival, very little multiplayer. Big believer that a minecraft world should tell a story.
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Please check out my vanilla Minecraft survival Let's Play on YouTube!
That was a heartwarming testament. :-)
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Oyster Boy
Please check out my vanilla Minecraft survival Let's Play on YouTube!
I'm 47 and enjoy playing Minecraft with my lovely younger wife (whom age I shalt not disclose for fear of Xrays Looming If you know what I mean) and our 12 year old son. We have been playing this together since about 2010 mostly on LAN but also had a private server at one time so extended family could all play together. I have been an avid gamer since the 80's. I personally love the diversity of Minecraft and the way we can tailor some versions to lean towards technology via mods, some towards architecture and decoration, mere survivability and adventure, and we even had one tailored towards archeology and Jurassic with the Jurassic Craft mod.
I also find it quite refreshing to witness that through this game many young people delve into coding to develop mods and eventually seek higher education. I myself have had to utilize our Roku to obtain streaming apps that teach this skill set because my own son's curiosity has been peaked to some degree. I just wish all games could be as enjoyable with the opportunity to inspire. The ability to watch people learn and understand the complexities involved in modern computing through Minecraft numbs the mind. Like this functioning word processor, this 4 bit computer
this 8 bit computer with GPU
, and this working computer that not only functions but also looks like one just boggles the mind.
I have had the pleasure to see the expression of arts with complex redstone/noteblock builds that play full songs,
complex city builds
some of which inspired by museums for the recreation and teaching of historical events.
It is nice to see that we are in good company!
I'll out myself. My first console was the Atari 2600. Fast forward, married with child and 2nd console was original Wii. Sometime after that my (now) 14 year old son started playing minecraft PC and later PE. He would show me stuff that I would supportingly say "cool" but thought it looked too pixelated and just didn't "get it". Later, 3rd console was PS4 and we purchased Minecraft (again) but I was excited we could play this game together. He would look up stuff to build while I was busy building my tower of dirt and mining. LOL. I ended up making it look nice but I wanted to build something tall and look around our world. I also liked the fact that no matter how high I fell I could land in one block of water and live. Love Minecraft physics. Once I hit the clouds I capped all the dirt with stone and lit it with torches and it served as a landmark to find home when we explored.
Fast forward some more, I bought my own Minecraft PC at version 1.7 and found Monkeyfarm (and others) on youtube and started using his modified John Smith. I've started a new world on each version since then. I want to revisit my old worlds so I think I will make copies and play those in the latest version while keeping the originals. I Recently bought PE and have it on my galaxy S5 and tab S2, really only playing it on my tablet.
Of course my son barely wants to hear about minecraft these days and often says it sounds like it got to complicated. I told him the PS4 app would be fun for us to start a new world again. I will be much more help than just building a tower of dirt.
Thanks - the combination of fantasy/sci-fi and humour works for me!
Thanks - the combination of fantasy/sci-fi and humour works for me!
Thanks - the combination of fantasy/sci-fi and humour works for me!
Good to see lots of older folks that play MC. Maybe a 40+ server could work.
I am on a "Momcraft" server. We are looking for some new folks If any "moms" or "dads" are interested.
It's a vanilla world.
Come join us on the Momcraft server!
36 single dad with two kids here. I also find it hard to find older more mature people to play with these days. Most of the gaming friends I have are under 25. I have a vanilla ( Dead server ) that I have been apart of and also have run for a long time now. Would enjoy meeting some new people to play with.
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I'm another "older adult" playing Minecraft on an Xbox 360 console. I'm 47 years old and mostly play SSP, but occassionally my wife joins me in a splitscreen session. She's not a gamer really, but she sometimes takes on the mantra of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em", and gathers resources for me or plays with the farm animals.
Like others here, I started out back in the 80's on an 8-bit computer. I was on an Atari 800XL for long into the early "IBM-compatible" days, so I guess my growth was stunted a bit, hehe. I played many games back then, but my fave was Alternate Reality by Datasoft. I remember Zork and many of the other older games mentioned already in this thread.
I'd love to play SMP, but these days I can't really afford the Xbox Live Gold subscription to get my console online. I'm a sickness beneficiary, so I spend many long hours playing Minecraft. In my current world, I've recently defeated the Ender Dragon, and I'm getting ready to face the Wither, for the first time ever!
I live in New Zealand, so there's much of my online gaming experience that has been dominated by time zone differences, which has been both a curse and a blessing on occassion. When I was playing Travian, I was sought after as someone who could be active online while most others were asleep, haha.
Although I don't game online much these days, I still like to keep in touch with other "mature" gamers, such as through these forums.
Hi, I'm Augur and I'm from New Zealand (NZ). Just call me "Augur". I'm an older person playing Minecraft Xbox 360 Legacy Console Edition without Xbox Gold (no online gaming, sorry), so please don't hate on the old. 😄
I won't tell you my age since some of the players on the server I'm staff on visit here, & although they know I'm one of the oldest players I've been keeping my age from them on purpose (I like being secretive), but there's a few people posted on this thread that are around the same age as me.
Some hints to my age are..
> My first home computer was a Sinclair spectrum (the original. not the '+ or 128) released in 1982, although my VERY first dealings with a Computer of any type was at school & IIRC it was a "Sharp m-z80" (or something like that) - one where you had to load in the OS from an audio tape each time you switches it on
> However the first 'home computer' game I ever played was 'maziacs' for the Sinclair ZX80 (which ironically belonged to my Maths teacher), who was also responsible of getting the school to actually have a 'Technology department' (computer club), but only if he could supply the computers himself (he knew a company that went bust & grabbed the PC's for the school)
I'm in my early twenties. Minecraft is my main game, and probably will be for quite a while.