Tell us about yourself!

[Jasper]

Hello, my name is Jasper, and I'm a game addict... oh wait -- wrong group!

Ahem. I'm 30, happily married with sons aged 3.5 years and 4 months. I currently live in Corvallis, Oregon, USA where I work as a Code Troll, er, "Software Architect".

I've been playing computer games since about 6, starting with Star Trek, Rogue, Empire, and Adventure. Aside from the obvious computer games, I also have a long background in role playing games, board games, war games, miniature games, card games, Larps, Muds, and Fencing. I used to play (American) Football and wrestle as well. Every once in a while I think I play too many games, but it doesn't Last. ;-)

Favorite RPGs: Ars Magica, Earth Dawn, Rune Quest, Call of Cthulhu, Twilight 2300, Fading Suns.

Recent Computer Games: Dominions, Combat Mission, King of Dragon Pass, Gothic, Tron 2.0, Soul Calibur 2

Miniatures Games: Armati, Stargrunt, Dirtside.

Recent Boardgames: Mare Nostrum, Puerto Rico, Vinci, Civilization, Ursuppe; too many to list really.

Card Games: Shadow Fist

Defunct Muds: GodNet, Pandemonium

Fencing Style: Italian

-Jasper

[Strider]

47 years young.
3 grown kids, and 4 grandkids. I had the oldest grandkid playing Doom before she could walk or talk

Favorite toy was army men, then military/sci fi board games, then computers...waiting to see what you youngsters come up with next

I am Belgian, 38, married, 2 daughters (7 and 4). Lawyer and technical analyst in an Italian company. Basically I'm a WW2 wargamer (able to argue for hours about the real accuracy of the M1 Bazooka using a M6A3 rocket, or the exact number of HMG used on paper by a German Volksgrenadier Company). You see what I mean...
I mostly played Squad Leader, then the Steel Panthers serie. Played AD&D when I was student.
I was also hooked by Colonization in 1993 and played more and more 4X games since then (esp. EU and EU2). Wrapped up in dom1 since March 2002. Eventually I compiled on freewebz all informations I could find on usenet and other forums.

[LordArioch]

I'm 17, and currently a college student (studying physics and mathematics) in Austin, Texas, USA.

As a college student I feel it my duty to play anything and everything..so I'd need to make a list by genre and I don't really feel like it right now unless someone really wants me to. I stumbled across Dominions by searching the Age of Wonders 2 forums for references to Master of Magic...which was great back then.

Reading: Various science fiction/fantasty...including anything and everything I can find written by Greg Egan
And of course the many wonderful textbooks of physics and math.

[Stavetor]

I'm 25 (for another few weeks anyway), married, and finishing up a degree in psychology. I currently live in Mexico City, but I'm originally from a dinky little town in Iowa, and am about to move to the San Francisco area.

I got started gaming back in the early 80's on my dad's Apple IIe. The first game I ever played was "Artillery", but the one that really sealed my fate as a gamer was the text adventure classic "Eamon". I didn't get into strategy games until we got our first PC, but once I laid into Breach 2 I was hooked.

I use a Macintosh. Unfortunately, we don't get too many decent strat games, so I was really happy to see that Dom. II will also be OS X compatible. On the Mac I play a lot of Escape Velocity: Nova, King of Dragon Pass, and Dom. I. When I get a chance to play on a PC, I go for Age of Wonders 2, Kohan: Ahriman's Gift, The War Engine, and when I have a whole lot of time to spend, SEIV Gold.

Currently playing: EV: Nova
Currently listening: Live: Birds of Pray, A Perfect Circle: Thirteenth Step, Nick Cave: The Boatman's Call
Currently reading: An incredibly boring, enervating, and aggravating statistics textbook.

[ October 01, 2003, 08:34: Message edited by: Stavetor ]

[Humer]

I'm of the vintage -76, of Finland, married, one child (son, ~5 months, the world's most adorable thing, but I'm biased ), seemingly unable to finish my studies. Been working for the Last 3,5 years as a software designer.

Gamer since -83 (Amstrad PPC 664, gotta hate those things), C64, Amiga, PC. All-time Favorites include Archon I/II (C64), Wizard's Crown, Eternal dagger, Wing Commander -series, Freespace 2, Elite, Mechforce, but 'Master of'-series Really Has Me (well, except MoO3...). And Dominions. Oh, the sweet times spent at Mount Celeste...

Been a gamer all my life, no intention to stop (except at 2AM's b/c "When are you coming to bed?" "Just one more turn, I promise!").

- Humer

[Edi]

I'm 27, from Finland, and love TBS games and good FPS ones (the Thief series being absolute favorite there). Got introduced to Dominions only this summer, and got the full Version some three weeks ago. Needless to say, it kicks ***.

My other hobbies include reading, cats and role playing (favorite games DragonQuest and Star Frontiers).

Edi

[DominionsFan]

Omg you guys are old!

[PDF]

Originally posted by Nerfix:
Im not suprised that all the 30-years-old Grognards are here...
Im suprised that there are some people here who are not 30-years-old Grognards...

Nothing bad about being about a 30-years-old Grognard, because i plan to be one too...
I'll be like Uncle-PDF when i grow up!

Well and good, kid !
*old man rant on* Huuuh, at your age I played Squad Leader, but I thought that nowadays teens weren't able to play anything but console games and clickfest RTS ! *rant off*

I can adopt you as my nephew, but only if you stop trolling the Mod thread ! !

[Edi]

Easily, it's just another hobby, same as playing soccer or icehockey or reading or whatever. I've several friends my age or several years older who still regularly play games. Interestingly, the 20+ crowd of gamers is one of the biggest markets for games, as these are the people who grew up in the late 1970s and through the 1980s and played computer games throughout their lives, and there's no reason why they would just stop all of a sudden.

Edi