How old are you?

[ZoeyLovecraft90]

I guess I shouldn't ask this outright.
So what age were you when you first played City of Heroes?
I wish to know the age group of the community I belonged to for so long.

So It would be kewl to write a short story like this

"I was 16 when I first played City of Heroes.
Willpower had just come out and Ae was just being put into the game I think.
I was introduced to it by a friend who was in his 40s at the time.
I've known more women than men who played this game with me
All older than me"
True story btw
Which is weird because I always tend to befriend people who are WAY older than me in real life. May have something to do with why I got along in COH so well
Are you guys all old hippies?

[microc]

to old..used to work with punch cards on my first job...how to tick off your boss reshuffle the cards on payroll day.

[ZoeyLovecraft90]

I'ma always the youngest person wherever I am..

I wish I had a beard.
23 and still nothing
I should start a post on beards

[Twisted Toon]

I am not a hippie.

However, I was...*calculates* *mumbles* carry the one...*mumbles*

32 when I was first started playing CoH in September of 2004. Yes, that would make me a cranky old man now. 

Although, I was first introduced to the game when it was still in Alpha testing in 2000-01.

I frequented the forums back then and tried to get people to see some reason and stop with the "I will hate this game if it only has 6 million possible costume part combinations at launch." complaints. However, I got sidetracked with college and other things for a few years. Then when I came out to California to visit my brother and some friends, they'd had the game for a couple of months. As soon as I got back home, I bought it and subscribed until they told me I couldn't pay them any more.

Most of the people I played with were older than me too.

[Heroette]

Ha, got you all beat (is this a good thing?)!!

I was born in the merry old year of 1960 so I am 53  (cries silently about the number, not the wisdom that comes with it).

[SerialBeggar]

to old..used to work with punch cards on my first job...how to tick off your boss reshuffle the cards on payroll day.

I learned Cobol programming in high school with punch cards.  They made us buy our own packs of cards  , so of course, one either got good with typing or it became expensive fast.

I wish I had a beard.

Do ya?
I guess it has its benefits.

/due to ethnicity, it takes me a month to develop a 5 o'clock shadow

[Ohioknight]

Mine's in my profile, 58 years old.  I'm the guy who renamed SHIELD for Marvel Comics in 1990.  I watched an episode of Twin Peaks in a hotel room with George RR Martin and his fellow Wild Card authors.  I was an invited guest speaker at Superman's 50th Birthday party.  I bought Amazing Fantasy #15 from a drugstore for a dime, read the first Super-skrull Fantastic Four comic when it was new and became a huge Kirby fan by 1968.

I made my living many years working in COBOL/Z OS/DB2/SQL Big-Iron Fortune 500 company's systems (began with punch cards in 1981) and now I'm a Requirements Analyst on an Agile line.

Discovered COH in 2006 at the age of 50

[ZoeyLovecraft90]

Yeah? Well.... I lead THIS..
>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fbnWhb2QC8
My best life accomplishment..

[OzonePrime]

46 in 2005,  when I discovered the best game ever!

[healix]

I have underwear older than all of you.....

now get off my lawn!

[Kemphler]

I was 12 when I started playing CoH back in 2004. I was 20 years old when it shut down. My teenage years were spent playing City of Heroes...Hell, it was my social life. I'm 21 now, and going to be 22 in a few months. And I still wish that City of Heroes was back. But looking forward to City of Titans.

[OzonePrime]

I have underwear older than all of you.....

now get off my lawn!

LMAO!

[FourSpeed]

Count me in the keypunched computer cards generation.  Some of the first cards I punched were
for a program (written in Fortran IV) to print a "picture" of the Starship Enterprise on the line printer
of an IBM 1130 computer.

I was amused -- some others, not so much...   

I bought one of the first TRS-80 Model I's that got to my hometown. Still have it, somewhere - it might
even still work, but probably not -- haven't powered it up in decades ... literally.

These days, I dabble with Perl and Python on *nix boxes - amusingly, they still pay me for this 

You probably don't want to know about my underwear, but I have T-shirts I wear that are older than
many of the folks in here, or the colleagues I work with... I wore an Amdahl T-shirt to work the other
day, and only one other person knew what it was....   

I won't tell you to get off my lawn... I pay the neighbor kid to tell you that!   


Cheers,
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[Night-Hawk07]

I started playing when I was 18, right around Issue 10, I think. June 2007. I was 23 when the servers went dark. I'm 25 now. After watching Spider-man 3, I had this urge to play an open-world superhero game if I could find one (or at least find a copy of the Spider-man 2 Xbox game). I remembered seeing this superhero-looking game on the same rack as the Star Wars Galaxies game boxes (what I was playing at the time), and that turned out to be City of Heroes. Ran up to Gamestop, picked up a copy of Good vs. Evil Edition, and the rest is history.

[Tubbius]

I started playing in August 2008, having found a copy of Good vs. Evil on the cheap at a local Big Lots (think warehouse style discount retailer).  I played the game 'til it closed at 3 a.m. Eastern on December 1, 2012.

So age when I started?  29.

[Twisted Toon]

I have underwear older than all of you.....

now get off my lawn!

un-opened underwear packages from the 20's do not count. 

[Little David]

I'm 30 now. I started playing CoH in the summer of 2008, and I was about 24 then.

I guess as far as which gaming generation I most identify with, it'd be the NES/SNES era. Though my family did own a Commodore 64 for a shor time, and so I have fond childhood memories of a number of games from that side of things.

[Minotaur]

49 now, so 39 when I started.

a memory of playing with an Aussie who was older than I was, his global was @Blue <insert name> and he wasn't kidding, his conversation was incomprehensible with the profanity filter on.

[Styrj]

My son introduced me to a superhero game called City of Heroes back in 2004 (hope my date is correct, I seem to be having a brain cramp).  Anyways, I started my sub just before I2 went live and never looked back.  I'm 66 now so I'll let you good folks do the math (dang, can't find my calculator).  Great community this is!

Huge nod & thumbs up to Ironwolf for trying to get our game back.   Man if I lived in your area I'd be helping you put them barn doors up.

[Cailyn Alaynn]

I was 14, the game was in Beta when I was over at a friends house playing games.
His dad had gotten into the beta for this MMO called 'City of Heroes'. He played for a little bit, and then turned it over to us.
Been playing from then until the doors shut in my face...Un-told amounts of dollars later...

I grew up in Paragon City, and while I'll save the sob stories for now, CoH and the community pretty much raised me when my parents wouldn't. I can surely say that I wouldn't be who I am today without the community.

So when the doors shut, after a few hours of crying I said f*ck that, f*ck NCSoft, and started learning how to re-make the game in a new engine...

Still a die-hard CoHer to the core.