Poll: What's the Escapist's age?

[SycoMantis91]

looks like the 16-21's have it easy. myself, I'm 20.

 

[ToastiestZombie]

I was shaving actually. It's something we adults do

I shave an I'm 13. Not just you adults do that special thing. Also nobody deserves to ever go into the basement, how could you say such a thing :O

 

[SycoMantis91]

I was shaving actually. It's something we adults do

I shave an I'm 13. Not just you adults do that special thing. Also nobody deserves to ever go into the basement, how could you say such a thing :O

I was hacking my face at 11 lol damn Italiano heritage

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

19 going on 14, going on 40.

 

[Yureina]

I am 24. Bwee.

It is really boring. >_>

 

[KefkaCultist]

I'm 20, but I don't wanna be. Actually paying for stuff now is hard lol.

 

[Wolfram23]

I'll be 26 by the end of the month.

That said, I find the forums are often annoying and I take part in them less and less. I can definitely make out many places where the posters are either rather immature or naive and it's just not really worthwhile to bother commenting.

I like to read Escapist articles though, even if they are getting fewer/worse. I'm very happy Shamus is back, though! Yay for Shamus!

 

[ToastiestZombie]

I was shaving actually. It's something we adults do

I shave an I'm 13. Not just you adults do that special thing. Also nobody deserves to ever go into the basement, how could you say such a thing :O

I was hacking my face at 11 lol damn Italiano heritage

Well it's much rarer for a person of my heritage (Welsh/English) to have to shave and go through puberty so young.

 

[Tanakh]

I'll be 26 by the end of the month.

That said, I find the forums are often annoying and I take part in them less and less. I can definitely make out many places where the posters are either rather immature or naive and it's just not really worthwhile to bother commenting.

I like to read Escapist articles though, even if they are getting fewer/worse. I'm very happy Shamus is back, though! Yay for Shamus!

I share the feelings of this youngster, me bieng at the start of the next age bracket.

 

[Rooster893]

15 years old; 16 in August.

 

[deserteagleeye]

16, but people tell me I act like I'm 30+.

 

[Womplord]

I'm 18 currently, 19 in July.

 

[ace_of_something]

32 next month and the missus is freaking out about being 30 in june.

 

[Nexxis]

I'm 26, and I'll be 27 in September. I like browsing the forums just to see the different point of views people have on various subject matters. Sometimes, there are blatant flame wars, but intelligent discussions do seem to happen from time to time.

 

[latiasracer]

16, and 17 in May.

Personally i get on better with older people than those in my age bracket, because mentally im about 47...ehe...

But Hey-O that's just me

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Fifteen, been on the Escapist since I was thirteen.

 

[him over there]

Just about to hit 15 in a week and a half. Feels sort of weird but good at the same time. I'm constantly telling myself I'm really contributing to something instead of being a poser for the sake of not being "homphobic xbox live tweenager."

 

[sir.rutthed]

23 here. Pretty sure I'm right in the middle as far as the Escapist's demographics go.

 

[JasonKaotic]

I'm 16, 17 next month. 17's a good age. I want to be 17.

 

[CrystalShadow]

Inb4 16-21 shitstorm

For some reason I cant imagine many 28 year olds browsing these forums.

I believe the_root_of_all_evil is over 30.

Edit: Root is actually over 40 now

Wow, I thought he was 25 or something. The more you know, I guess.

Huh, looking at the poll theres a lot more people in the 28-33 range than I expected. Looks like my assumptions were wrong.

Well, I think you kind of have to put that in perspective of gaming's history.

On the assumption that most people started gaming as children, let's pick an arbitrary age and say... It's something you'd start at about the age of 8.

On that basis, the 28-33 age range would've been that age in the period between 1987 and 1992.

Which is basically somewhere between NES and Snes/Megadrive era... And I'd have to say the first really obvious peak of gaming as a relatively mainstream hobby.

If you're any older than that, your introduction to gaming, was, what? Atari 2600 games? Arcade titles? ZX spectrum?
Or otherwise someone who got into it later in life...

While those older systems were interesting in their own way, it's quite a challenge to relate that to modern gaming culture...

The remnants of the NES and Snes/Megadrive periods however are still alive and kicking.
Mario & sonic are still around. So is mortal combat. Street Fighter...
If you were into PC games, the work of Maxis is still recognisable. As is Civilisation.

Doom inspired the FPS genre...
The likes of Final Fantasy, Zelda, Metroid, Castlevania and the like are still around...

For that matter, this age group would have been teenagers in the PS1 era...

The vast majority of franchises and recognisably modern game ideas all originated in the period where the 28-33 year old group would've been children or teenagers.
Beyond that age, you start to see a lot of games and ideas that are all but forgotten.

Or something anyway.

I'm thinking there'd be a sudden obvious drop for anyone whose childhood predates about 1985... The connection between modern games, and anything earlier than that just starts to seem a bit too tenuous.

(Of course, I'm mostly just speculating here... No idea what really dictates the age range on a site like this.)