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Toxidyne: What game influenced you the most as you grew up and why?

Phil Fleischmann: Chess
Blazur: Monopoly. It's the game we played the most as a family growing up.
Woelf: Dom-jot
Septic: Acquire. First adult game played with adults on an equal footing.
karlosMD: monopoly, i was very excited to get it and then it was terrible
Krishna: D&D -- turned me on to theme and storytelling (even though I was never very serious about it). Prompted me to pursue acting as a hobby for a number of years.
Spirit of 70: Dungeons and Dragons.
cadavaca: Magic: The Gathering taught me resource management, ethics (don't cheat), flexibility, economics, and self-control.
rinelk: Conquest of the Empire. The only person who would play with me was my brother, who was five years younger than me and whom I liked. I won enough that winning didn't seem to matter as much as playing, and my desire to be cruel in games evaporated.
vandemonium: Probably Scrabble. I played it a ton with my mom.
ricardofo: War (In english: Risk). Because I like it very much
Geosphere: Starship Troopers or D&D. ST was my first wargame and D&D took over my teen years.
cgund: Prolly Monopoly and Risk, because they were the ones most played.
chockle: Monopoly influence me most, because it was a game that I learned to think about after playing and consider what the winner had done right and to make that my strategy.
teaguewebb: D&D was a big influence. I found it at a time when I knew no other geeks, and it gave me a group of people with similar tastes.
joni: not sure
Andrew Snyder: dungeons and dragon- it got me away from the television
DHEK: If we're talking boardgames, it's probably Axis & Allies... but mostly because it was the only designer game that I owned when I was much younger and it was much cooler than Risk or Monopoly.
Der Ubermolch: Diplomacy. I think youmean how, rather than why, but the answer to why is because I played it a lot during high school which are very formative years.
Brentoon: I wish
bigbadsteve: i guess risk got me interested in more involved games
Cordingley: None... Because I had too much access to too many games.
J Davison: No question, that would have been RISK
aleo09: none, enough to answer this question
POvidiusNaso: Space Hulk. It made me realize that there are only two sides to every story: the space marine side and the evil gross alien side.
KentuckyKid: Strat-o-matic baseball. and D&D.
Chris Page: Dungeons and Dragons -- time spent, learning a complicated rules system, learning to vary the rules, and first role-playing game.
scriptorum: Civilization. I loved the depth, and the imagination it stirred.
suncrush: AH's Advanced Civilization. It got me into strategy gaming.
falloutfan: Dungeons and Dragons. It was so open ended, and gave you complete creative control.
heatherjberg: risk. i had to play by myself
vampywife: scrabble, maybe...i played it with my mom and it made me want to increase my vocabulary.
Langoroth: Boggle, we always played it as a family and it kept me on my toes.
Nekura: Mille Borne - first "real" game played outside of things like Sorry
dietevil: Chess, because I played it the most
kinetic: Canasta - my parents and their friends were forever playing it. As I got older I learnt how to play to the point I was actually one of teh better players in the group
Beowulf: Chess. My family has been playing it for eons, it seems. My great uncle was once in the top 50 players in the United States. I feel this obligation that I should be spending more time trying to become a better Chess player. That's what I really want from my games: guilt.
Kazin: Hard to say. There were so many..
_Kael_: Risk. World domination
Cavedog_pdx: Civilization - it set the standard that every game afterwords was invariably compared to.
Mike A: Hard to say. I would play any game I could get my hands on, there was no most influential one.
Recneps: Risk and Castle Risk. Because we had the "Ladies Love Risk Players" (LLRP) that would meet every Wednesday. (This is a true story).
arkibet: Hearts. We played it constantly.
Tushratta: PanzerBlitz by Avalon Hill. I learned that an armored assault can deal with anything life throws my way.
xlorp: Squad Leader. Sheer numbers aren't everything.
ssmooth: Monopoly. I learned it at age 6 and was fascinated by it.
pugwhan: Divine Right. We played that game about a million times. Our group only had one copy and when I had I ended up trading it for Starship Troopers (the original). Recently had to buy the 25th anniversary edition.
mogli43: Risk. Made me want to do what I do now - rule the world.
XanderF: SFB. Playing w/ bro was fun enough it got me through an otherwise rough time in school.
Great Dane: Monopoly. The interaction between players
sourwyrm: magic the gathering was the first game i played
Mease19: Dungeons and Dragons, it's emphasis on representing people as a set of numbers encouraged me to get a psych degree. Would you like fries with that?
Belash: risk. I played it with my dad a few times, with my friends and solitaire on a few occasions as well...
Larry Chong: for sports, it was baseball & basketball - it taught me about teamwork. for boardgames, it was Clue-it taught me deduction.
djlg: Escape from Colditz. It was an "adult" game which I could win against adults by the use of superior strategy and it had a great theme.
Lord_Prussian: Probably D&D because it was the first non-children's game I played that I can recall.
puffinge: Stratego, we played it often and there was a fair amount of strategy there. Broadsides was another good one.
leece: Mahjong! It's the only game I've played with non-gamers and gamers alike for so long, and it kind of influenced my romantic life. :-)
The Unbeliever: 42
ThatFalafelGirl: Hang On Harvey, it's one of the few times i can remember being w/ my brother and not trying to kill each other.
heli: Diplomacy maybe as it got into more serious games.
der_chad: Dungeons and Dragons. A geek among other geeks.
skrutsch: I'd have to say Mastermind. It was the first game I taught myself to play and I played a lot. (Usually with Dan!)
nexttothemoon: Hmmm...I created a lot of my own games and amused myself for hours with them...so I'd say that influenced me a lot...learning to always occupy yourself and being able to always find something to do and not be bored.
2amp: OGRE / GEV. Watching the gameboard get devastated by radiation turned me off the MAD principle
skelebone: Not many games influenced my development.
snoozefest: d&d? cause it was geeky
gnomehome: All of them had a little influence I would think.
rawk: havent grown up yet
jttm: Probably Cluedo. Just played it a lot.
CDRodeffer: Othello, because everything is clearly in black and white. But things change.
MisterCranky: Wff n' Proof, because when I was 9 years old it was the most daunting and confusing thing I'd ever encountered, and the teacher of my logical games class despised me for my inability to comprehend any of it. I vowed that day to avenge my logicless parents, and I trained with philosophers from all over the world in order to become worthy. Now, in my secret role as Modus Ponens Man, I fight crime simply by applying the tenets of the sentential calculus. To the Conditional Cave, Robin!
Dave: Gnip Gnop - it made me inured to losing.
chaddyboy_2000: I wasn't really influenced by games.
Spielfreak: I don't think I've ever been influenced by a game.
AlorielLelyn: I don't know
CortexBomb: Influenced? I don't think the games I've played have really influenced me in terms of shaping who I am, rather, I think who I am has shaped the games that I enjoy playing. Games are meant to make you think and be creative but I don't think as singular entities that they have majorly changed who I am, as an overall hobby they've certainly affected me, but not at the micro level