What age did you start playing Armageddon?

[Vessol]

The other topic inspired this. I included the two teen options to get a better idea of those who started as teenagers.

Vote and include the exact age you started playing if you wish.

[Delstro]

I first tried it when I was 12. It didn't have pictures?!?!?!? Couldn't play it.

[Cutthroat]

I started playing when I was 16 in February 2007.

[Rogerthat]

i started when i was nine or eight O_o. brother showed me the game.

[kreial]

Started playing Arm about a month ago, at twenty-five years old. Though I started playing MUDs back when I was 15/16.

[Kronibas]

at 14 back in late 99.

[BreakBad]

I started at 13 I think...? 4 or five years ago at any rate.

[NoteworthyFellow]

I started when I was fourteen or fifteen, though I left after a few months and came back at age 21 where I started really playing.

[Synthesis]

I started playing around 16 or so, but I didn't really play -well- until I was about 21.

[Zoltan]

Started when I was 21, January of 2007.

[FuSoYa]

Started when I was twenty-two though I had rolled up a character probably a year before and walked around for a few minutes and said fuck this...

Started MUDding way back in like '94-'95 after I made the switch from chatroom roleplay (MAN was that bad) to Terris and Gemstone:Dragonrealms on AOL.  After they started charging I paid for a few months then went on to mudconnector.com and quit in like ninth grade for girls and guitars.

Now I'm back and trying to get in the most time possibly with two jobs and a girlfriend.

Brandon

[Irulan]

I started playing at 25 (in 2003), had never roleplayed before, or ever been involved with any Muds or any online communities at all. My husband (was my live in boyfriend at the time...yes, we were living in sin! ) was a long time player, and I was so very curious about what was taking up all of his time. So, I forced him to teach me how to play, and I've been addicted ever since.

-Irulan

[a strange shadow]

20

[FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit]

Started at 14, I think.

[Gimfalisette]

Wow, what a crazy-awesome age range we have, according to the poll answers.

[Ourla]

[my live in boyfriend] was a long time player, and I was so very curious about what was taking up all of his time. So, I forced him to teach me how to play, and I've been addicted ever since.

Hehehe, that's exactly how I got into Armageddon, too.  I think he regrets introducing me now, at times.

[Yam]

I started at fourteen or fifteen.

[Irulan]

[my live in boyfriend] was a long time player, and I was so very curious about what was taking up all of his time. So, I forced him to teach me how to play, and I've been addicted ever since.

Hehehe, that's exactly how I got into Armageddon, too.  I think he regrets introducing me now, at times.

Heh, I think Red Ranger may regret it a little sometimes too, though we do have some interesting conversations in restaurants that people walking past would have no idea what we were talking about. tee hee
Now, though, I play more than he does!

-Irulan

[House Rising Sun]

15. Good god.

I'm totally with the interesting restaurant conversations. Long ago, a man in a Perkins in Lawrence, KS just before the bar crowd started rolling in, leaned over to my table and asked me and Clegane who we were talking about, who did we kill? Where did we do it? He was so drunk and so excited, we didn't have the heart to disappoint, so we just told him to nevermind. I like to think he was impressed, but neither of us were very scary except in how casually we retold our old stories of extreme violence and senseless murder.

[Gunnerblaster]

50-59 ---  1 (1.6%)

I started late 2006, I believe? Maybe early 2007. Age 17.

[LauraMars]

19, 2005...I found it on an internet search thing...

[Voular]

Twenty, after years of hopping about on silly graphic substitutes with a str score of 18/00.

[brytta.leofa]

I'm totally with the interesting restaurant conversations. Long ago, a man in a Perkins in Lawrence, KS just before the bar crowd started rolling in, leaned over to my table and asked me and Clegane who we were talking about, who did we kill? Where did we do it? He was so drunk and so excited, we didn't have the heart to disappoint, so we just told him to nevermind. I like to think he was impressed, but neither of us were very scary except in how casually we retold our old stories of extreme violence and senseless murder.

"So, you know, the worst part?"
"Where all those people who were locked in got just incinerated by that guy?--"
"Heh, that was great. No--"
"Oh, right. That one place where those guys just got totally smeared? Like, literally, spatula-smeared?"
"No, no. It was the heads, to me."
"The heads?"

(Argh. I cannot complete this train of thought without saying more than I probably should.)

[Lakota]

15 I think. 23 now.

[manonfire]

17. 25 now.

[AreteX]

I started playing about 2 weeks ago.

At the age of 26.

I have been mudding or playing some form of text based game since Trade Wars and BBS's back in the day.  Man, trade wars was so awesome...

Anyway, I was more of a player-killer type mud oriented person back then.  Now, roleplay is more appealing.

[tarsier]

Seventeen. A week ago.

I've MUDded for a few years though. RPI'd since like 15, 16.

[Me]

17.

6 years ago.


....shit it's been SIX YEARS?!

[Desertman]

I started when I was 12.

I am now 23.

[Pale Horse]

I believe I was 16...

Yeah, it was late '99 when I found Arm, that puts me at 16, then.

[Vessol]

I started when I was 15, I am now 18.

[LittleLostThief]

It was so long ago... I don't remember exactly.  Somewhere in the range of 14 - 15 years old, since I'd been playing a while before I got my first job.  I was mudding long before that and I think I even applied for a character here and got approved before I actually settled in... I was really turned off by the application process.  I mean... every OTHER mud let me create out of the box, why did I have to wait for some snarky immortal to say my guy was good enough to run around leveling up?  I think I just deleted that approval email when it finally came, laughed, then hacked some slashing.  I started moving more and more towards "roleplaying" muds, getting hooked on Oblivion's rendition of the rolemaster system and "light" character play.  When it went down, PF and Gaz brought me over here.  Thanks guys.

I'm 27 now, and this game gave me gray hairs.  Thanks again.

[Aruven]

I was 12, actually - 18 now.

[solera]

You are all so young!   
I started playing a few years ago when I was 54.
I saw an article about MUDs and thought, "This could be me."

[FuSoYa]

You are all so young!   
I started playing a few years ago when I was 54.
I saw an article about MUDs and thought, "This could be me."

Hell yea!  That gives me hope I'll still be playing then. 

Only 31 years to go.

Brandon

[Tisiphone]

You are all so young!   
I started playing a few years ago when I was 54.
I saw an article about MUDs and thought, "This could be me."

Sir/Madam, you rock.

[Bogre]

I was 12, actually - 18 now.

-18?

How did you manage that?

[Delstro]

Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance
6 P's of surviving the world. That is why their parents planned ahead.

[FantasyWriter]

Kronibus drug me into it at the ripe age of 24.

[Belgoikiss]

July first was my 3 year anniversary here, so I was 22.

lol i looked up my very first approval in gmail and saw my first notes

(not verbatim)

No gmh would have a rinthi elf slave, Tard.

No he never called me a tard but maybe he should have.   

[manonfire]

Imagine you, wanting to play a slave.

[General_Makii]

13. Two days ago =D
Looking for something to tide me over until Fallout 3 (or more)

[Desertman]

13. Two days ago =D
Looking for something to tide me over until Fallout 3 (or more)

lol Looking for something to tide you over?

For another game?


Heheh. Give it a week...When Fallout 3 comes out, you are going to be using it to hold you over when Arm just happens to be down.

Once you start the Arm, every other game really kind of loses its luster in a BIG way.

You will still be able to enjoy them for what they are, but there will always be a voice in your head comparing it to how it really doesnt stand up to Arm in "this" or "that" way.

[Zoltan]

Once you start the Arm, every other game really kind of loses its luster in a BIG way.

You will still be able to enjoy them for what they are, but there will always be a voice in your head comparing it to how it really doesnt stand up to Arm in "this" or "that" way.

So very true. My friends are annoyed that I compare every game they got on their kick ass consoles and computers to Arm in some way or another (and Arm usually comes out on top).

[jhunter]

I was 19 or 20. I just turned 33.

[Desertman]

Once you start the Arm, every other game really kind of loses its luster in a BIG way.

You will still be able to enjoy them for what they are, but there will always be a voice in your head comparing it to how it really doesnt stand up to Arm in "this" or "that" way.

So very true. My friends are annoyed that I compare every game they got on their kick ass consoles and computers to Arm in some way or another (and Arm usually comes out on top).

Hehe, make one PC for them and get them to start playing, they will never turn back.

For two years I sat around playing Arm with Forest Junkie and Mudder saying this...."I cant believe you are playing that stupid game again."..."It doesnt even have any damn pictures, that has to be boring."

I got them to each make one PC, they have been playing ever since...That was years ago.

[Forest Junkie]

Eh, my learning to read at the ripe ole age of 15 helped. Sorta..

[Desertman]

Eh, my learning to read at the ripe ole age of 15 helped. Sorta..

You still cant read, you can only write.

Loser.

(Try to figure that one out)

[Forest Junkie]

Spec apped a bastard noble rl. Staff forgot to add all the skills. 

[Desertman]

Spec apped a bastard noble rl. Staff forgot to add all the skills. 

Ooh, good explanation.

You should submit a request on the RL request tool.

[Belgoikiss]

Imagine you, wanting to play a slave.

Shut it.

It wasn't that kind

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

Bwahahaha.

[loopylobes]

I begun when I was 15. 16 now, and I'm hoping I get to play Armageddon (or Arm.2) for a long time to come.

[FantasyWriter]

I can just see is all in forty years showing up at APMs all wrinkly and shit..

[Ampere]

1997 - I was 17.

Dropped it for a goodly ten years (with a brief two month resurgence in 2004).

My partner is so excited.

[Cavus]

4 years ago when I was 21.

[Kiri]

I discovered MUDs (Dragonrealms, God help me!) when I went to work for AOL right after they went unlimited. That was 12 years ago so I was 28, I think. (I got to play DR for free! Woo!) For some bizarre reason I continued to play even after I had to pay for it... I had no idea there were free ones out there! Then a friend of mine turned me onto another free MUD and from there (due to the constant admonition to VOTE!) I found the topmudsites... and decided to try Arm. At the age of 37 or 38, because now I'm 41 and without being able to go back and check for sure I think I've been playing about 3 and a half years.

[FuSoYa]

I started MUDding about 12 years back on AOL also.  First DR then Terris and yes I paid for Terris went AOL started to charge as well. 

Brandon

[Aruven]

I was 12, actually - 18 now.

-18?

How did you manage that?

Er, losing a LOT of characters to rash things and losing a lot of social life.

[Maso]

I started Arm when I was about 16-17 (22 now). But I discovered MUDS and the wonderful world of RP when I was 10-11ish. Not sure how I coped without Arm, I spent about 5 years trying inject RP into hack&slash play. 

[anotherhippie]

OMG...I feel so old, I started playing 3 weeks ago or so and that makes me grandpa at 40!

[Maso]

OMG...I feel so old, I started playing 3 weeks ago or so and that makes me grandpa at 40!

I wouldn't worry about it! We arm'ers are a diverse and varied lot. Better late then never, right??

[Preacher]

OMG...I feel so old, I started playing 3 weeks ago or so and that makes me grandpa at 40!

Hey!  Thanks for making me feel young again.  38 when I started.  1 year in.

[Anael]

Five years ago, I was like what... 22?

[Maso]

Five years ago, I was like what... 22?

I dunno, were you?

[Anael]

I actually thought you might help me figure it out.

[deviant storm]

I started playing in '01, but I forget my age at the time. Or my age now, for that matter.

Must be the alzheimer's setting in. 

I was 36 at the time...I think.

[Krath]

Started in '97
I was 15 now 27...JESUS.

[Sephiroto]

I was 15 and Arm was my first MUD.  I am now 24 and Arm is still the first MUD I've (seriously) played.

[RogueGunslinger]

I was 16 when I first played Arm. 20 now.

[Riev]

I was 22 when I started playing Arm, but my first MUD, EmeraldMUD, I remember playing as early as 7th grade.

[MarshallDFX]

I was 13 when I played my first mud, which was Altered Reality (ar.static.net, god help it).  I played around on that intermittently until I was about 16.  At 16, I had a very brief stint on Dragonrealms.  Followed by a long hiatus from MMORPGs in general.  A matter of weeks ago, I decided to start playing a mud again.  I turn 21 in a week.

And so far I'm quite pleased!

[SMuz]

I was 15 when I first heard of Armageddon, but got bored of description writing. 5 lines of description?! 22 when I finally submitted that desc

[Majikal]

Got introduced to the game and muds in general by my roommate  in 2000 when I was 14 or 15 , and have worn out many a keyboards since that day.

[titansfan]

Started playing at age 10, played DarkTower alot too in my early days....now 19 and belong exclusively to Club Arm.

[IAmJacksOpinion]

Lets see. Started about 15 - 16 ish? Now I'm 20.

I went with 16 (though I think it probably was late 15's) because I couldn't last for more than 2 days for the longest time. After months I learned how to judge, early on in a fight, if I even had a chance of winning, then flee before I could lose 25 hp, instead of my old idea of waiting until I was BELOW 25 hp to flee! :p

Started with Threshold, then quickly learned how bad it sucked.

Friend who had started me on Threshold, told me to come to Arm. I did. Logged in my first character in Red Storm, looked around for a minute or two, then went LD in the tavern. 3 months later, was feeling a little frisky so I logged back on (- 700 some coin, I estimate. Must've been some decent theives in town at that point) Talked to a merchant down in the tavern there who said he would pay me 1,000 coins to assassinate Lord So-so in Allanak. (I was an assassin) Sold me a flint dagger for 60 sid, and gave me directions to Allanak! Managed to survive the desert, but died in the rinth.

Ran through like 4 more characters basically within the week and decided: I want karma, and I'm getting damned good at this RP stuff. So, I went off and made a new account. (There's a reference to IP overlap in my notes. Heh.) Ran through about 30 more characters who lasted max of a week. (At least half of them were assassins. I've had 2 or 3 different characters in one day, bitchez.)

I still run through them like crazy cause I'm the sort who likes to play almost exclusive combat (or something dangerous), and test myself against stuff that will most assuredly eat my face. hehe. Not too long ago I saw a ________ that says in the mdesc "You get the feeling that if you ______ something very bad will happen." I __________'d.  Yeah baby.