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¿Question #5008?
Nem Menuu: What was the board game that 'started it all' for you? Not the first one you owned/played but one which got you hooked.

ocdspectrum: Catan brought me back after a long absence.
Jedadeana: The aMAZEing Labyrinth
BOBBYCAN: Richthofen's War. Panzerblitz came later.
Sacco: Tactics II
CarlK: Scrabble, believe it or not.
oriecat: Last Night on Earth
pakruse: Illuminati: Mob Power
MartinWin: Settlers of Catan.
jprayson: Cribbage. Loved it as a kid. I wanted to play all the time.
ricardofo: Wurzburg
pilot: San Marco, then there was a pause of for some time and then Settlers of Catan got me hooked again.
Redhawke: Risk 2210 AD.
swmabie: Chess
Redwhelp: carcassonne
Frubgarde: Probably Escape from Colditz, followed by Kingmaker.
Jypsy: Talisman, one of the first editions. A friend of mine had been given as a gift from his father, and we played all summer long.
Zuhkov: Shogun (Samurai Swords)
Capitaine Grappin: Citadels
tsievers: Avalon Hill's "Chancellorsville", in the early '60s. Other AH games followed as they were released!
pisecobabe: Settlers of Catan
Mike McCall: None, BGG did it.
Royalflush: Risk
DHEK: Settlers of Catan
ACK ACK: The Awful Green Things from Outer Space
aleo09: settlers
POvidiusNaso: Apples to Apples.
Brentoon: russian ruolet
_Kael_: Risk
Ebon Wendigo: Chess
Leo-T: Advanced 3rd Reich
Boraxia: Settlers
Greedo: I can't say that I'm officially hooked yet. I just joined up to get access to all the info.
scriptorum: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/question/7
Nap16: King Maker
mooka: card game actually ... rage
SisyphusX: Talisman.
kuocal: Battletech or Car Wars
arkibet: Settlers
kozmo: risk and dungeon
Burnham: Settlers of Catan (a friend at college had it)
puffinge: Rail Baron. OK, Football Strategy really, but Rail Baron was the more-than-2-player game that got me interested again.
brainrob: DdW
vampywife: as for regular family-type games, i'm not sure. as for strategy games, advanced civilizations.
John3: GI: Anvil of Victory
Avatar_69: Cosmic Encounter
BaSL: Tikal
xianrotide: Dungeon!
RandomGraham: Roborally
matthew.marquand: Acquire - don't like it much now. Burned out playing it too much.
Solamar: There are so many I cannot remember. Probably El Grande.
Helenoftroy: Chess, Runebound
Big Bad Lex: Diplomacy
dwarf: There isn't really one in particular.
Karlsen: It was too long ago. I have always been hooked on games
fixed-idea: Puerto Rico
Chris Page: Naval War
skrutsch: UpFront
fehrmeister: Settlers of Catan
Timothius: Settlers of Catan, which was a gracious gift from my brother, the fehrmeister.
RoSKoMaNTe: settlers
flyinghogfish: Traveller (ok, so it's an RPG)
ssmooth: Monopoly gave me a fascination, at age 6, the likes of which I had never felt for anything before.
javelin98: Dark Tower
ZombyDawg: Richtofen's War
erli: Keythedral
skelebone: Carcassonne pointed the way, Settlers hooked in, and from there it was downhill.
chaddyboy_2000: I think it was Entdecker.
Lord_Prussian: I can't think of one in particular, but Car Wars, Brittania, Civilization and 1830 were some of them.
CDRodeffer: Othello
Spielfreak: Acquire or Kingmaker
jttm: Heroquest
CortexBomb: On German games: Settlers