POLL: Average age on the forum.

[Flyby]

Originally Posted by rakinroll

My friend!

yeah, that's me (titanium hips and all!!!) LOL!!!
Flyby out

[Flying_Nutcase]

41 51/52 years old here, and like everyone else it seems, feeling multiple years younger. Was about 35 when I discovered IL2.

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by Flyby

At 60 years old, I remember my first pc flight sim experience. It was called F-19, (I think), and there were no joysticks. It was a low resolution model played against an orange background (way cool). The whole sim was loaded on a few floppy discs, and it ran on Windows 3.1. Later more flight sims required DOS agility, and custom start-up discs. (anyone remember TFX?). Then US Navy Fighters came out and it required Windows95. The genre has come a long ways since then. Long live combat flight sims!
Flyby out

Heh, you mean this one?



And we thought it was as real as it can get - LOL.

BTW it's an actual screenshot, not a thumbnail. Resolution 320x200 pixels was common for games at that time.
Good old times...

61. Friends and family shake their heads but not my brother in law. We tried flight sims online decades ago and he's mainly offline now but crazy about M_DS. If they ever ship us out to an old folks home it better have regular LAN parties.

[hellbomber]

considering Oleg admits that the core of the sim wont even be finished with the release of BOB ( still alot of tweaking and graphics enhancements and probably tons of patches) and also considering that this platform is tailored to work with third party developers, i think it will become a staple, id give it a 2-3 years more than il2 due to all the other developers that will use the core to build other things, SOW BOB will be less sim than il2 and more like a GAME ENGINE, think of it like the counter-strike engine, and when another replacement comes it will probably carry over a lot of the core functions of SOW and build on them

[Therion_Prime]

35 here.

My first flight"sims" were "F18 Interceptor", "Gunship", "Falcon 1" and a game (I don't remember the name) where you could fly a tornado - all on the Amiga 500.

Those were good times

[Skarphol]

Hm. This is the first time I've had to tick the 40-50 years box.
It suddenly made me feel much older. Not good.

Anyway, my father is flying this sim quite often, and he is turning 75 this fall.
He gets rather quick tired of aircombat though, so I'm making fairly easy missions for him, mainly to scramble and intercept a few transports or groundpounding trains. This game goes well with all ages!

Skarphol

[remer1957]

I'm 53 and thought I was old, lol. How about a geriatrics squadron?

[BP_Tailspin]

53

[Thunderbolt56]

I'm either 47 or 74. Can't remember right now as I haven't taken my medicine yet.