I'm just curious and really want a walk down memory lane.

What games did we play as young fellas/fellettes that may have influenced you to be where you are now. There are 2 rules:

1. Must have been a game that influenced you in some way towards gaming or current interests. Unless you're in finance, I think monopoly if off the board (eh .. EH?)

2. Pictures only.

Let's begin now.

Oh, I remember playing Crossbows and Catapults drunk in the dorm hallway. That was a lot of fun!

The most influential game for me?

Ok breaking rule nr 2 now:

This is what got me into reading Tolkien.

This is what got me into reading H.P. Lovecraft. (also with some help of my history teacher. It's a long story.)

Some good stuff. I definitely played several, especially D&D (starting with 1st Edition and onward) and Crossbows and Catapults. Here's a sampling of my geekening:

I don't remember the actual game, but I -loved- it. my brother and my cousins etc, all were forced to eager to play it.

heroquest followed into the same niche years later and there was no turning back from that point on;

"Abandon hope all ye who enter here.. nerddom awaits. and you'll love it"

Ok, so here's the story. I started with the usual suspects of board games...... along with a card game called Mille Borne, which my family and I played teamwise( myself and Dad versus my mom and sister). Being a pre-internet army brat, our family did a lot of gaming together, between being places where you didn't speak the language and being around people who could disappear at any time and you'd never see again. We were in the US when my sister was entering high school, and she wanted to graduate from where she was. My father. being a hell of a guy, after being told that if he stayed in we would be shipped back to Germany (which I wouldn't have a problem with, being the younger sibling) retired, and took a civilian position at the base he had been stationed at. Suddenly, we we're going to be where we were for a while. No one else I knew had ever encountered Mille Borne, which let me know that there were games that were outside the norm. I found some of them. Mostly RPG's, which I loved. D&D, Shadowrun, RIFTS, TMNT, Marvel Super Heroes, I got sucked into them. In addition, I encountered a game called Battletech. LOVED it. Played it whenever I could. As I grew older, video games became a thing (my first system was a Sears 2600 rip off with fake wood panelling around the console lol). I got sucked into that. Installed my first AV system technically by connecting my Sega Master System to my boom box that had stereo inputs. I did gravitate toward those games that I was familiar with the style though. Mechwarrior, Shadowrun on the SNES, Final Fantasy. Time goes on, tech gets better, internet is a thing. Online games become a major thing, but the communities (in my opinion, from what I've observed) become rather toxic at times. I look to the past, start to see what's out there. X-Wing shows up on my radar. Looks pretty cool, but how does it work? Youtube videos from Team Covenant show me how the game works and I think to myself "oh hell, I'm all over that". Now I barely touch my consoles, hardly ever use my PC for gaming, and play the living crap out of X-Wing, Dreadball, and Infinity, in addition to various hobbiest board games.

EDIT: My apologies for the length. I get a couple of glasses of wine in me, and I get talky. Considered editing for length, but said screw it, let it stand.

This is what you buy for the small children of people you don't like.

Some people might disagree, but I've always thought of car wars as X-wing with math. Awesome game nonetheless.

Here's a proper schooling ...

You know, the credits in the front of Car Wars listed a play tester named "Badger". Yard later, I actually met the guy when I lived in Austin, Tx.

You know, the credits in the front of Car Wars listed a play tester named "Badger". Yard later, I actually met the guy when I lived in Austin, Tx.

hmm, small world.

I played the Battletech CCG a lot, and actually still have my cards. I dabbled in a bit in other games like Magic but nothing else stuck. Tabletop games weren't a thing for me until I discovered X-Wing back in 2012 and boardgames like Catan soon after.

The single biggest influence was this:

I started college in 2000, and 3rd Edition had just been released. An engineering grad student was demoing it for a group of freshmen, and after about an hour my fate was sealed.

The single biggest influence was this:

I started college in 2000, and 3rd Edition had just been released. An engineering grad student was demoing it for a group of freshmen, and after about an hour my fate was sealed.

Did you get into any Living Greyhawk?

This is what I did with my playtime from 2000 to 2008 when 3.0 came out (and then 3.5 followed by Pathfinder).

The single biggest influence was this:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/Dungeons_and_Dragons_3rd_Edition_Player's_Handbook.jpg

I started college in 2000, and 3rd Edition had just been released. An engineering grad student was demoing it for a group of freshmen, and after about an hour my fate was sealed.

Did you get into any Living Greyhawk?

This is what I did with my playtime from 2000 to 2008 when 3.0 came out (and then 3.5 followed by Pathfinder).

Not a lot, but enough to have a PC at... 6th? I ran a few events, too, when the local club was shorthanded on DMs.

Where it all started.

followed by:

Lead into:

and then:

with honorable mentions to:

Man, I wish I still had all of those :\

Seems like what we need around here is a car wars sub forum

The single biggest influence was this:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/Dungeons_and_Dragons_3rd_Edition_Player's_Handbook.jpg

I started college in 2000, and 3rd Edition had just been released. An engineering grad student was demoing it for a group of freshmen, and after about an hour my fate was sealed.

Did you get into any Living Greyhawk?

This is what I did with my playtime from 2000 to 2008 when 3.0 came out (and then 3.5 followed by Pathfinder).

Not a lot, but enough to have a PC at... 6th? I ran a few events, too, when the local club was shorthanded on DMs.

If you played COR3-15, Nine Lives, that was my module.

That was the little gnome wizard who's potion making made his tower blow up and he needed help getting his familiar back from the smoking building.

What's funny is I have a RPG designer credit on BGG from it, and I wrote it over a decade ago and just found out today that it's there.

I also got to write some Ket and Tusmit modules as well. Those were the good ol' days of gaming in my book.

Man, I wish I still had all of those :\

You can still find the PDFs online

Spent far to much time and money on Warhammer 40k (played from first Edition) and the Star Trek CCG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Customizable_Card_Game

Fun times

For me it all started with this game.

I took care of a neighbor's cats for a week and they paid me $10 so I got this game (that was like 1979 or so... $10 was a lot of money) Wanted to get AD&D but my parents were told that it lead to devil worship. Funny enough I hadn't read the novel when I got the game. I did get the book a few weeks after I got the game and it has become a book I read every few years since.

After Starship troopers I started with the Travelers black book. Then after that it was AD&D regardless of what my parents said, CarWars, Battletech and the rest.