AGE of TPA players

[barryd2]

Hell, I think I've got the title of the oldest fart playing... I'll be 68 in November...

 

[night]

Hell, I think I've got the title of the oldest fart playing... I'll be 68 in November...

Good Lord, you must one of the last survivors who played on these old Victorian tables with ivory balls?!

 

[Iain]

I'm 44 and have never really been a video game player, however I love real life pinball and since I discovered The Pinball Arcade I now play every day. The are no pinball tables left in the area of the UK that I live in (or none that I know of) and so I haven't played real life pinball in years and so getting to play these classic tables again on my iPad is just awesome and I am now looking forward to the PC release.

 

[neilpinbot]

I'm 44 and have never really been a video game player, however I love real life pinball and since I discovered The Pinball Arcade I now play every day. The are no pinball tables left in the area of the UK that I live in (or none that I know of) and so I haven't played real life pinball in years and so getting to play these classic tables again on my iPad is just awesome and I am now looking forward to the PC release.

If you have transport you might want to check out the UK pinball league, they hold meets at private collectors houses. Mind you possibly due to the popularity of TPA the number of people attending these meets is snowballing.

 

[barryd2]

Actually, Night, electricity hadn't yet been discovered... so we had these hamsters running on a wheel to generate power... ah, the good ol' days...

 

[Dascoyne]

When I was a kid I abandoned pinball for video games.

How ironic that today my favorite video game is a pinball sim.

 

[chadderack]

45.

College years spanned '87-'93 (the first go-round) and there were a LOT of pinball machines in the student union building.

Went back to college and finished a degree '08-'10. People think I'm in my '30s.

 

[Man-Machine]

Ten months to go to 50...

 

[thejake01]

31

 

[Espy]

Very interesting to see a video game where teenage players are a tiny minority..! And 20-30 being the third smallest bracket.

You'd think with the average age of the players, there'd be more maturity on the Facebook page...

 

[Lazareth]

I'm 42.

 

[infernogott]

So Pinball Gamers are probably the oldest on average?

 

[danivempire]

I'm 35.
I hurry to say it because in a few months it's gonna be 36 ^^

 

[night]

So Pinball Gamers are probably the oldest on average?

Yeah, but go figure, our generation grew up with pinball (and videogames -> Atari's). No kid today spends his time in the arcades, there is hardly such thing around anymore.
Pinball is retro. We are retro. That's why the 'family mode' (and After Dark) is such nonsense, as almost all TPA players are Anti-aging cream users anyway.

 

[Tales from the Crypt !!]

41 and i miss the 80s

 

[danivempire]

41 and i miss the 80s

Yeah... totally... There are tons of good stuff today... but it was different back then...

 

[invitro]

I'm 6.

 

[brakel]

Very interesting to see a video game where teenage players are a tiny minority..! And 20-30 being the third smallest bracket.

You'd think with the average age of the players, there'd be more maturity on the Facebook page...

In the states teenage gamers are the minority. I think the average age of a gamer in the US is around 30. I think facebook is an ass magnet.

 

[crazy7892]

yea I'm 24, I was the tail end of the golden 90s pinball era 1995 - 1999. I was lucky to still have some arcades in my city, and a Adams family pinball machine in a hotel near my house in mint condition!!!

 

[Heretic]

In the states teenage gamers are the minority. I think the average age of a gamer in the US is around 30. I think facebook is an ass magnet.

couldnt agree more lol, the nintendo generations getting on abit