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mrbeankc: Which game turned you into a game geek?

Narlgoth: Arkham Horror
Welken: Um, I guess it was Magic: The Gathering when I was about 13/14.
brad_c_1966: I wandered into a game group and played Ticket to Ride, Carcassone, and RoboRally all the first day. I was hooked.
gamer667788: Munchkin at 13 and heroscape in highschool.
TiwazTyrsfist: Catan started me on Euros, but Carc brought me to the geek and started me buying big box games.
actuaryesquire: Gil Hodge's Pennant Fever
ricardofo: Risk
justin hendry: risk
senorcoo: Probably Puerto Rico.
CheetohFingers: Samurai or Evo got me restarted in 2004
goldenappel: Settlers!
Felimid: "Formula de Mini".
Johan: Thinking about it, it was probably Monopoly (so it can't be all bad after all)
rorshaq: mystery of the abbey
Harkonnen13: D&D in 1980
SirEvelyn: Settlers of Catan
WatchmanX2000: what's a game geek, do they bite the heads off games?
gmcash: i have to say monopoly started me there, several others followed
Phil Fleischmann: Technically, I'm not a game geek, but I understand what you mean by the question. Chess.
ZeroZilla: I was a geek before I was a game geek. If you're leaving off the 'board' part, it was the Legend of Zelda, on the original NES. If you're NOT leaving off the 'board' part... probably Citadels? Possibly Settlers of Catan. Most of those games hit us at the same time; it was a frenzy!
jcarvin: Settlers
jtrleone: What game got me into games: probably Zorro. Motivated me to make games and explore more mechanics.
Purple_FairyQueen: MRP
DHEK: Settlers of Catan.
mike86: Shhhh, we dont admit that!
aleo09: settlers
seppo21: I began the long, spiralling descent into madness after playing Empire Builder.
martybjsg: Panzer Blitz in 1970.
Guantanamo: ASL
aramis: SFB
dougpartridge: risk, diplmacy, settlers, ....
Darthlord: Hmm, hard to remember thirty years later, but probably Risk at age eight.
Trenton: Axis & Allies.
leslauber: Honestly? Snakes & Ladders... :-)
GornTC: Win, Place, and Show -- 3M
Rocketman_2004: gamegeek: D&D... boardgamegeek: catan
Ivan: El Grande
bonz: "bang!" (plus the expansions)
nibuen: magic: the gathering or settlers of catan depending on which games you mean
Dorque: Born that way.
Rozik: Struggle of Empires
Thosw: Acquire
Chris Page: Dungeons and Dragons.
Big Bad Lex: Diplomacy, then 1829
Number-Eighty-Five: axis and allies is the only board game I have ever played, but I wouldn't consider myself a geek!
Nekura: Netrunner
jellospike: Lord of the Rings
Helenoftroy: Runebound, chess
ct_cruiser: honestly?? AOM
wiz8mom: Magic: The Gathering started it all
dietevil: The Catan games
TheDS: Traveller. Actually, Megatraveller and TNE. Mostly TNE.
hacksword: Shogun
Loquutus: It was the people, not the games.
kinetic: Settlers of Catan
Megadev: D&D (25 years ago)
Fawkes: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.
KompaNanzi: Monopoly, hooked for ever since
chrisisapimp: im not a game geek
Recneps: Settlers. Go figure.
POvidiusNaso: I had always been one, then I played Rosenkonig at a Con and I asked, "Where did you get these games?"
Tushratta: PanzerBlitz.
Payne: Settlers of Catan
DaGen: none, I hate that word & do not consider myself as being one
erli: Keythedral
scriptorum: Civilization, Cosmic Encounter or Merchants of Venus.
javelin98: Space Hulk
ZombyDawg: Richtofen's War
Bahamut-X: A Game of Throne
djlg: TAHGC's Tobruk. Sad, but true. Hey it was great in the 70s.
GuyHill: D&D
ssmooth: Monopoly
motoyugota: Risk (which is why I refuse to be a hata')
archduke: either settlers or E&T
Otterdance: El Grande
GrandpaDave: Monopoly
ValJor: A&A, 1984 2nd edition
skrutsch: UpFront
jttm: Really don't remember
snoozefest: i think it was PR
Lord_Prussian: I think I've pretty much been one since I was very young and started playing D&D.
chaddyboy_2000: I think it was Entdecker.
CDRodeffer: Othello
skelebone: Ironically, despite my now cooled reaction to it, Carcassonne.
CortexBomb: I don't think any single game turned me into a game geek, it was more of a cumulative process
Spielfreak: Acquire and Kingmaker