Hello to one and all, my name is Tyrone and I'm 37, I'm not sure if that counts as a ROAP (Really Old Age Playstationer) !! I've been into gaming since the days of the Commodore VIC20 (nobody scratch their heads while it loads 2kb from the tape for an hour for fear of it crashing at the last minute), abandoned that for an Atari 2600 (Now THAT's what I called gaming, graphics were pants but the game play...I'm coming over all emotional!) Spectrum 128+2 (on board tape deck, the height of sophistication back in the day) PC Gaming such as Doom, Playstation with games such as Quake, GT 1 & 2, G-Police etc, Then I moved up in the world and invested in a Darth's Toaster edition of the PS2 (with GT3 as part of the pack) Brought tons of games for that GT3,4, MGS2, Socom, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfare, Fifa, GTA3, Vice City, San Andreas, to name but only a few. I then Brought a Nintendo Wii (do we mention the "N" (Nintendo) word in here?) Officially it was "for my little girl and wife to play" Yeah right! although to be fair they play on it far more than me now, as Mario everything is not really my thing. I then Brought a PSP as a prologue to the big purchase of the PS3 which I got only a few weeks ago now. So far the games I've brought for this dream of a console are: COD4, GT5 Prologue, Resistance Fall of Man, Soul Caliber 4, GTA 4, Metal Gear 4, Race Driver GRID. I've also just purchased the PS Eye for gaming chat, but don't yet have the nerve to face 12 year olds shooting me in the back in COD4! Although I have been on line with GRID in my Honda Civic (well it felt like a Honda Civic in the slow lane on the Motorway) and Shot and Blown up Kiddies in GTA4.
I became aware of OAPS.org through the official Playstation Forums while finding out how to set up the camera thingy (you need to know a bit about the network settings on your firewall to sort that one out, but it works now and is nice) I don't currently know many gamers for the online side of the PS3 and truly hope I can find refuge in the Bowling Club as it sounds like a place suitable for me and my average skills (for average read poor) I've already got the little White Hat, White Windcheater, Grey Flannels and Brown Shoes so I should blend in nicely!
At the moment my favourite online game is GRID, although I think I would really like COD4, I'm still unsure about MGS4 as it's a bit to softly softly and I prefer FPS type games.
If anyone has any questions I will do my best to answer them as completely as possible.
I hope I can look forward to being overtaken or shot by you all soon.