10 years old, nerdy as ****, and more then a little bit morbid.
I'm genuinely surprised here. That's a very young age to be on this forum.
Well, I loved the old Commodore 64 AD&D games and some of the Civil War games my father had bought when I was about four or five years old. Those were complex, and the civil war games were basically just blue and grey bars with numbers on the bottom of the screen walking over very basic representations of green up arrow forests (although it was actual graphics, and not ASCII). I wasn't very good at playing them, but I was capable of comprehending at least enough of the basics to get through.
Of course, I had to play against myself since nobody would play those games with me, and Mother said they were "too complex for her", so I made the Union always win because I liked the color blue better than grey.
Or doing things like playing Axis And Allies against myself, because nobody else would play with me because it was either "too complex" or "nobody wanted to play with a kid" or "it took too long to set up" (no it didn't, I set it up just fine by myself)...
... You know, suddenly why I do things like drafting 60-page proposals for modelling ecosystems in DF instead of going outside or talking to people in real life comes into much sharper focus...