How old are you?

keenmaster486 · Post by **keenmaster486** » Mon Aug 22, 2016 22:32

Cue evil laughter:

MWA HA HA HA HAA!

Actually, no, I'm not going to make you reply to this. Only if you want to

I'm 18, which, I think, is rather young for a Keener. But hey, we'll need new blood eventually, right?

Crazy to think that I was born 8 years after Keen came out, and yet it's still my favorite video game of all time.

Anyone brave enough to post their age for the record books?

troublesomekeen · Post by **troublesomekeen** » Mon Aug 22, 2016 22:57

It appears I accidentally selected the wrong choice. Where's my glasses?

chrissifniotis · Post by **chrissifniotis** » Tue Aug 23, 2016 5:16

I'm.....
*rolls 6 dice*
.....27!

And I don't care if other people know it. In fact I'll level up on Melbourne Cup day this year.

Post by **Keening_Product** » Tue Aug 23, 2016 6:45

Gramps?! I'm in my 20s! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWprCOi61AA

chrissifniotis, you live in Sydney, you don't get the day off do you?

Post by **Levellass** » Tue Aug 23, 2016 9:17

I think we could all have predicted these results.

Quillax · Post by **Quillax** » Tue Aug 23, 2016 21:11

Well, I'm in my 10s, from the day the ROM trilogy was released, and the day I posted this.

chrissifniotis · Post by **chrissifniotis** » Wed Aug 24, 2016 6:59

Keening_Product wrote:Gramps?! I'm in my 20s! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWprCOi61AA

chrissifniotis, you live in Sydney, you don't get the day off do you?

Not in the regular sense, my job does grant a day off on the day annually but it's not an official public holiday.

Post by **Keening_Product** » Wed Aug 24, 2016 10:05

Quinton wrote:Well, I'm in my 10s, from the day the ROM trilogy was released, and the day I posted this.

There used to be a load of teens on these boards. I joined when I was 17 (2010) and there were others younger than me. I'm surprised the forum's youth reach is still this strong.

Spikenexus · Post by **Spikenexus** » Wed Aug 24, 2016 13:02

28 here! Joined wayyyy back in 2001 on the old ezboard PCKF forum.

Good to see Keen (and the forum) still gets a run with all ages.

BlueGasMask · Post by **BlueGasMask** » Fri Aug 26, 2016 6:13

24 this coming November. Been keening before I could talk.

Tseki · Post by **Tseki** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 16:07

I'm one of the older ones here, I'm 32

Post by **Keening_Product** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 16:11

Tseki wrote:I'm one of the older ones here, I'm 32

From now on you will be known as "Gramps."

Benvolio · Post by **Benvolio** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 19:36

So the majority are 21-30? If you're 21 you were born about five years after Keen. And if you're 30 you were just four when Keen came out. Which means that what predicts membership of the Keen community is clearly not growing up with Keen as a contemporary game. Rather, I would imagine, it is a combination of exposure to legacy equipment and gaming, and even more importantly, growing up with the internet. Perhaps those kids who actually bought Keen in 1990 (say, twelve year olds) were all too old to have endless spare time during the Internet era, so they never googled Keen and got hooked on the Community/fan activities e.g. fan games, levels and mods.

Post by **Keening_Product** » Thu Sep 15, 2016 4:42

I'm 24. My parents found Keen as the "bonus game" on a shareware Battleship floppy at a local $2 shop. I remember watching my dad play when I was probably three years old. While we did have the internet relatively early, we never downloaded games because dialup was ridiculously expensive and our connection was particularly slow.

I suspect some younger people here might have found the game through older siblings or cool parents

Edit: minor rewrite of a sentence.

keenmaster486 · Post by **keenmaster486** » Thu Sep 15, 2016 5:01

Keening_Product wrote:or cool parents

Well, my dad was the one who introduced me to Keen through a shareware disk which came with his joystick

Although once in a while I try to get him to play Keen again and he says "When you get old, you don't play video games any more" in his best "serious" voice. He's still really cool though