I'm 33, got addicted to Elite in January 3307, and it played a significant part in my life being a good distraction from various unpleasant stuff and a great game in general. Well, at least Horizons, lol. Played Elite 2: Frontier and First Encounters about 10-15 years ago and enjoyed it, as they were, maybe, the best games that ran properly on my shitbucket PC of those days. Also, later, played several other fantastic space games such as early Wing Commander series, X3, Freelancer, Kerbal Space
And, personally, uh... I'm quite a weird and distant person, I like Discussions and Logbooks as I can open and close them at any time I want, write random stuff, but I completely reject the idea of playing with someone else. So, doing solo AX and enjoying it much. When I got enough time, of course, as I'm an adult person and I have to, ugh, lose my time on the job.