OT: How old are you ?

Spyder · #11 December 19th, 2001, 07:50 PM

Well, I'm not a noob, but this is the first time I've seen this thread

I am 44 and work as a VMS Systems Administrator with EDS in Ralieigh, NC. I am currently interviewing with Cerner in Kansas City and may move there soon

I spent 8 years in the Marines where I worked on the Hawk Missile system (yeah, the ones that Oliver North was selling). I attended many colleges over the years, real life kept interfering with my schoLastic pursuits, but, most notable were Texas A&M University, University of Texas at Tyler, and Sam Houston State University.

I was introduced to gaming in the USMC and have been playing ever since. My first roleplaying game was Merc, and my favorite was The Morrow Project...both are long out of print

My all-time favorite game of any sort is Civilization, the board game. It is also out of print, but I hear rumblings that the company that bought Avalon Hill is going to re-release it

My first strategy computer game was Empire, and I've been playing them ever since. Some of my favorite Computer games (other than Everquest, which I talk about below) have been: Empire, MOO, MOO II, The Perfect General (no better game for mano-a-mano, armor tactics), Global Conquest (Dan Bunten), XCom, Civilization II, The Bard's Tale, the original Pool of Radiance series by SSI (don't waste your money on the new one), Drakkar (early MMORPG) and all of the Sim games...gotta love them Sims.

EverQuest deserves special mention because I've never played any game as long as I have this one, except for Drakkar. My wife and I have been playing Everquest since the final phase of the Beta test. Soon after the game went live, we founded our guild, The Chosen Few, on The Rathe server (http://pub10.ezboard.com/bthechosenfew2416). We are currently on the Zebuxuruk server, and, We are one of the oldest guilds in EverQuest on any server.

My wife discovered SE IV in a magazine review (CGW, I think) Last year around December sometime and showed it to me...we ordered it right away

[ 19 December 2001: Message edited by: Spyder ]