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What game got you addicted to board games?
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I have to go off of the grid a bit and put Dungeons & Dragons firmly in that #1 spot. I was playing other games at the time, mid 70s, a lot chits with tanks on them. But even prior to "role" being a major portion of my role playing, D&D was a stunning change due to its freedom of movement.
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Like Sag, I'm in a bit of a mix with early forms of D&D and cardboard chits with numbers on them, specifically Panzerblitz. But although board games were in my sphere as a hardcore RPGer at that time (around 10-12 years old), I think the game that really won me over and stayed with me for a couple decades afterwards was Talisman. In a lot of ways, it basically was D&D on a board, so you can probably see the appeal. Add in old classics like Cosmic Encounter and Wiz-War and you can see where I was coming from in the cardboard world. I was a long-time Magic: The Gathering and Games Workshop (40K, etc.) player, too. Thinking about it, what led me to eventually fall away pretty much exclusively to board-type games in this century was probably War of the Ring.
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But like Sag, a role-playing game was the game changer for how I viewed board games. Aside from my dad's fixation on Acquire, he usually bought family boardgames or American Heritage lite wargames for my birthday or Christmas presents, but I generally viewed board games as one of various possible leisure activities and not as a hobby. Then I randomly bought the first edition Gamma World boxed set while at a comic book convention. I got heavy into role-playing games in general, but the same stores that sold rpgs also sold some primordial Ameritrash games, which tended to play out like rpg-lite gaming. By the time I finished college, I had a modest AT board game collection, though I still didn't think of it as a separate hobby from gaming in general.
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I played a lot of Risk and Monopoly etc. as a kid, but when I played that I was blown away.
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Wow, that's a hard question for me to answer as I have been in love with the since I was a kid in the 70s. If I had to guess I would say it was either Hang On Harvey or maybe checkers. I asked for boardgames for birthdays and Xmases early.
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As a kid I lived just a few blocks away from the original Games Workshop store in Dalling Road, Hammersmith, back in the days when they were importing games and not just selling their own product. I still remember the first time I went in, it was a whole new eye-opening world that such awesome toys could exist. My first 'hobby' games were Samurai Blades and then I started to buy into GWs own range of early product, Battlecars, Fury of Dracula and their line of 2000AD themed games. I got into role-playing at High School, firstly with D&D but then mostly Cyberpunk/Shadowrun because teenage boys.
I dropped out during my college years after my Mum decided to sell the entirety of my nascent collection at a car boot sale when she moved home while I was living in dorms. Then, just after the turn of the century, I had a friend at the time who was a circus performer and she came back from a convention in Germany with a copy of Settlers of Catan. I discovered a whole new world of gaming, fell down the BGG/Euro-game rabbit hole, then came back to my senses after playing the excellent Battlestar Galactica. Sold all the Euros then bought too many Ameritrash titles, and nowadays I make a conscious effort not to collect and to instead keep only a very small and heavily curated set of games at home. So if I am an addict then I suppose I'm in stage three recovery but occasionally falling off the wagon.
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But Heroscape was the game that got me back into board games, and ultimately this site.
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dysjunct wrote: Axis & Allies.
I played a lot of Risk and Monopoly etc. as a kid, but when I played that I was blown away.
Exactly my story. Played Risk, Monopoly, Stratego, etc.
Young adult who was a worker at the latchkey program of my elementary school introduced me to Axis & Allies and I was hooked. Saved up money from a garage sale to buy my own copy.
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My way back into the hobby was a copy of Railroad Tycoon.
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Regardless, fantasy was my earliest jam thanks to mom dragging me to see Conan the Barbarian. I was six. It was intense. I'll remember every nihilistic moment perfectly. My older brother was deep into D&D, and Dungeon! / Dark Tower were there as a gateway for the impressionable youth like myself.
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