30 or over....

[Fendell Orcbane]

It seems like a lot of the people that post here are in their 30's. Which is great for me since I don't feel like the oldest person in the room. Although I might be at 39. Its just interesting that these games tend to attract older players. But maybe older people like to read more and I've always felt like playing Angband was kind of like reading a book versus watching a movie. Angband requires the player to be more active than a game like Diablo where its all there for you. I like that we all have our own version of Morgoth in our heads.

[Mondkalb]

Many players started playing roguelikes many years ago (if not decades ago). Back then there were a lot of text-based adventures and rpgs around, so people grew up with it or got used to this kind of games.
Even if the games had graphics they were not remotely as shiny as they are today.

[AnonymousHero]

I think was around 30 when I started -- probably a little less given the date of my first posted winner in any variant. However, I don't think age has anything to do with it, I just think it's a certain type of personality which is attracted to this type of game.

[Malak Darkhunter]

I'm 37 growed up on it, played wizardy, ssi gold box forgotten realms(Dos)..Kings Quest, remember those? Then came along moria, been hooked ever since, and now angband.

[Gorbad]

40 here, and I *know* I'm not the oldest in the room by far, so you're safe Fendell.

Started off playing nethack on the computers at the math faculty around '91-92.

[Cardinal Rob]

35 here. Started on Rogue in the mid 80's, and then Hack (or was it NetHack?).

In the mid 90's got introduced to Moria, and then from about 2000 I've been mostly playing Angband, Zangband, Chengband, and now PosChengband

[ekolis]

I'm 30, and I've been playing roguelikes ever since I was, I dunno, 10 or so? I remember playing Nethack on my dad's PC and being absolutely entranced with it - maybe part of the reason was that it wouldn't run off the floppy disk, and my dad said I wasn't allowed to install anything on the hard drive, so I had to be secretive about it! Of course, the gameplay itself (and the wacky humor) surely had something to do with it - I loved how you could read a random scroll and teleport 30 levels down to Hell (where you would find both hostile *and* friendly demons!), or drink a random potion and start hallucinating about Daleks! A few references (and other things) went over my head - I read something about a "GNOME patch", and wondered how I could install it on DOS to make gnomes a playable race! :P

[HugoVirtuoso]

31 this year. Experience started with playing a developmental version of Moria for the Mac in the mid-90s. Good times!

[Fendell Orcbane]

Also it seems like a lot of you were math majors or something. Me ? I'm, pretty much bad at math...lol. I think I'd be a better player if I were more mathematically inclined.

[Nick]

39 is a couple of years older than me ... when I started playing 12 years ago. And yes, I'm a mathematician...

[Timo Pietilä]

39 is a couple of years older than me ... when I started playing 12 years ago. And yes, I'm a mathematician...

Change "couple of years" to "few years" and you get my age. Though I started playing when Ben took over about two decades ago. I'm computer geek, not mathematician. Could have been if I had any teachers in math that could do any math. My physics teachers were way better in math than math teachers.

[Djabanete]

25 here, and playing Moria (and later Angband) since the age of 7. They got me when I was young.

[Cardinal Rob]

Also it seems like a lot of you were math majors or something. Me ? I'm, pretty much bad at math...lol. I think I'd be a better player if I were more mathematically inclined.

I'm a sucky mathematician too, but I'm not sure you need maths to beat a roguelike game. I'm pretty sure you need patience. I always get killed by something I wasn't ready for, and didn't plan appropriately.

[fizzix]

I'm 32. I'm not very good at math.

[Fendell Orcbane]

I'm a sucky mathematician too, but I'm not sure you need maths to beat a roguelike game. I'm pretty sure you need patience. I always get killed by something I wasn't ready for, and didn't plan appropriately.

Well I've had my wins for sure...I'm just thinking that it would be easier to calculate stuff like weapon damage etc. if I were more mathematically inclined: also optimizing moves would come more naturally as would LOS. Which generally tends to work in the monsters favor : ( Those damn druj's get me every time. And they can easily kill you when you first encounter them.