I'm sure there's probably been a thread like this before, but oh well.

What game did you play when you were introduced to RPGs? Do you look back on that ruleset fondly and with a hearty dose of nostalgia? Or do you laugh at yourself?


With me, it was AD&D 2nd Edition. It was fun and it kept me glued to RPGs, but I don't think I'd play it these days. Being numerically lysdexic, I like to keep my games trim.

Moldvay Basic D&D.  I was very, very young (maybe 6) and my brothers had just gotten a mountain of D&D stuff with their Christmas money.  Since they were stuck babysitting me when my parents were out of the house (which was often back then), they grudgingly let me play with them.

Over the years, I moved on to AD&D, then 2nd edition AD&D, and then on to other games (I vaguely remember TMNT in high school, messing with Pendragon, and thinking Shadowrun's first edition looked really cool).  Over the last two years, however, I've come back to the old BX D&D books.  They're all I really need to run or play a game; everything's contained in two 64-page books that fit nicely in a looseleaf binder along with some graph paper and the ever-present Mead (or whatever brand notebook was on sale in September at the local market).

I also started with Moldvay Basic D&D back in the day.  I think that I was introduced to 1st ed Gamma World around the same time.  We also played a ton of FASA Star Trek, too.  


TGA

Moldvay D&D. I don't look back and laugh, but my nostalgia for the period is centered around things other than the rules set.

Seanchai

Quote from: Seanchai;248028Moldvay D&D. I don't look back and laugh, but my nostalgia for the period is centered around things other than the rules set.

I agree.  Most of the good times were products of over-active 13 year olds' imagination, no sleep, and large amounts of caffeine.  I do like the simplicity of the roots, system-wise, and I think that the (relative) simplicity was a good thing for the young teens we were.  My nostalgia is mostly missing old friends, as we were then.

Monty, Jeremy if you are out there our good times are not forgotten, man.


TGA

Mentzer red box Basic D&D. We ran it mostly with a bunch of 1e modules that my friend found at a yard sale. Man those were good gaming days.

Quote from: jswa;248013I'm sure there's probably been a thread like this before, but oh well.

What game did you play when you were introduced to RPGs? Do you look back on that ruleset fondly and with a hearty dose of nostalgia? Or do you laugh at yourself?

Some version of pe-A D&D - probably Red Box - which accreted into iE and 2E AD&D. I don't look on it with nostalgia, nor with laughter. I just look back at it with kind of tired acceptance. I just played it too long without a break, and it does nothing for me anymore.

To be honest, Nostalgia pretty much doesn't exist for me. Sometimes I see a TV show I used to love and wonder what the heck I ever saw in it. Other times, like with Northern Exposure, it's just as fresh and interesting as it was the first time.

-clash

The first role-playing game I ever played was the Basic Solo module Latham's Gold, which I played when I was 8 years old.  My babysitter John, 13, ran me through it, reading the options given in the book aloud and handling the game mechanics for me.  I (or rather my dad) bought the Moldvay Basic set two years later after I saw it in a (board) game store and recognized the D&D logo.

I, like most people who played it, have TREMENDOUS amount of nostalgia for red Box D&D, and it's still one of my all-time favorite system.

I think it was red box D&D that a friend had bought and I got into from there (he actually had Expert and the green one as well). However I also played a lot of the sole adventure books - lone wolf, final fantasy etc.

I don't think I'd laugh at the ruleset and we approached it with refreshing mix of common sense and lack thereof (encumbrance is too hard so lets not bother + roll for treasure = 30 magical swords)

After that it was WFRP that really got me into gaming - not conincidentally when I was able to also play in a larger group

I started with the J. Eric Holmes boxed set, and I wasn't introduced, I introduced.

Nostalgia is for suckers. But I don't laugh because you've got to start somewhere.

My gateway RPG was 2e Gamma World back in the early 80's.  I do have a certain fondness and nostalgia when I think about those days, and the Gamma World RPG in all it's editions.  I still think that the 2nd edition is the best, with the 4th edition being a nose behind.

Oriental Adventures for AD&D.

OD&D, followed in short order by Holmes D&D then 1e AD&D.

I had fun playing in an OD&D one-shot a couple of months ago, but I don't have any strong desire to go back to any edition of [A]D&D.

I would play Top Secret, Flashing Blades, Boot Hill or Traveller pretty much at the drop of a hat, though.

AD&D 2E, Shadowrun 2E, and WEG Star Wars.

I bought most of the DnD 3E books for reasons of nostalgia, but haven't played it much.
Shadowrun, I'd like to get back into one of these days.
I hardly remember anything about WEG Star Wars, except that my characer's death would usually involve some sort of grenade.

Some iteration of Basic D&D, filtered through a schoolmates mind and adapted for 2D6, later I played Red Box D&D.