tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298399641711237003.post5512128563730308167..comments2024-03-26T11:47:07.063+00:00Comments on BigLee's 'Miniature Adventures': The Golden Age of GamingBigLeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960213980906190335noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298399641711237003.post-91086667675051177692010-01-29T00:53:32.692+00:002010-01-29T00:53:32.692+00:00Great read. I can't pinpoint my golden age, t...Great read. I can't pinpoint my golden age, though I distinctly remember my first contact with D&D, Star Wars, and gaming. I found board war games (Risk and the like) with my cousin and we often played our own variant of Victory in the Pacific. <br /><br />On to the various MB Gamemaster games, then my first foray into D&D. THAT was a golden time, playing weekly, character development, questing endlessly. I sometime long for a good campaign...<br /><br />Into college when I found the great empire and spent many a dollar on minis before loading bookshel es with games of all sorts, air combat, space combat, naval combat, and on and on. <br /><br />FOW and finally getting good at mini painting came next. Somewhere in there I was introduced to PBEM games and still wait anxiously for every round of Subs Ahoy!.<br /><br />Tanks for the memories!<br />HarryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298399641711237003.post-88164337811631967782009-12-17T21:58:51.238+00:002009-12-17T21:58:51.238+00:00A great post - thanks.
For me I had always been i...A great post - thanks.<br /><br />For me I had always been involved with model making - my Grandfather, my Father and my Uncle, so making Airfix models or carving Balsawood into gliders.<br /><br />Then involved with a wargame club in Swansea University (Not as a student - but as a pimple faced teenager, as my father worked at the Uni.) where plastic Airfix American Civil War toy soldiers fought over green sheets with chalk roads and buildings made from beermats. I still look back with 'glassy eyes!<br /><br />Then discovering D&D, painting Dwarves and Elves (a school fried - who was a great painter had some very early LOTR figures, very coarse detail, but they must be worth a fortune now!)<br /><br />From there I have modeled, painted soldiers or gamed ever since. I wonder how I would have turned out if I'd taken a different hobby?<br /><br />Tony<br />http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.com/Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06167770417289351340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298399641711237003.post-5969356253281437562009-12-13T10:32:09.382+00:002009-12-13T10:32:09.382+00:00My Golden Age of Sci-Fi would have to be my whole ...My Golden Age of Sci-Fi would have to be my whole life I think. I was born in 1984 so was fortunate enough to experience Ghostbusters, Transformers etc which laid the ground work for when I got a bit older. I grew up with my step-Father indoctrinating me with Star Trek TOS and the old Thunderbirds etc, and any old re-runs from when he was a kid. I've never delved into it with the obsessivness I get with other things, but I've had a steady trickle of sci-fi input throughout my life.<br /><br />My Golden Age of Gaming would have to be the present time. I first got into game books and Warhammer Quest when I was in primary school. I never got into pen and paper roleplaying though, it's just something that never took. During my secondary years I was a fan of Warhammer 40,000 but I stopped collecting on account of being poor :P. The last 4 years or so have been great though. Still relatively poor, being a student, but I can still get my fix of models and gaming! I was a bit disillusioned with GW around 12 months ago, but the last 2 months have been a bit of a resurgence for me.Soundwavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08020775753710647790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298399641711237003.post-45960770449323370032009-12-13T10:11:02.625+00:002009-12-13T10:11:02.625+00:00I started back in 72 or 73 (how long ago is that)....I started back in 72 or 73 (how long ago is that).<br /><br />First would be Airfix models leading to WW2 games - cannot remember the rules but they had a sand coloured cover.<br />Then Tolkien - SELWG rules (still have a copy)<br />Then D&D through the white box - specifically (brag warning) the second copy imported by a little known games company called Games Workshop who kept the first.<br />Scifi came around the same time - No idea who I first read but would think it was EE Doc Smith or Henlein or Asimov<br />Games would have been Traveller rather than ships though we did try ship combat (vector math anyone).<br /><br />After that the biggest game set (following and literally) would be Star Fleet Battles - had the lot of rules with the majority being shipped from the US as it was not stocked here. You needed two thick ring binders by the time the basic rules where in sleeves and as for the Captains Logs - two bags held them...Andyroohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10761050861511129571noreply@blogger.com