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¿Question #7?
ynnen: What game first got you hooked on the gaming hobby?

sparkous: I played DungeonQuest (first edition) at my neighbor's house, a long time ago. Probably one of the games that pushed me towards this hobby
Inkedad: D&D
pekin2121: It's a choice between Dragonlance and Dungeon! I started playing both of those in the 80s around the same time.
Woelf: Guillotine and Carcassonne
El Hidalgo: Chess
oldhoss: Axis & Allies and then Settlers.
ropearoni4: Roborally
rpow3rs: carcassone was the first i think, it's like a gateway drug
tehjburz: Axis and Allies
weed131: first loved game - Axis and Allies, first involved with hobby - Puerto Rico
resin: first loved game: Clue; first awareness of "hobby": Magic Realm
beerbear: Risk.
bcooperok: Cosmic Encounter (Eon)
MScrivner: Diplomacy
senorcoo: Puerto Rico or Lord of the Rings Risk. Maybe the latter as it was the first game my wife bought for me.
ldkoehler: Diplomacy
Der Ubermolch: I've been playing games since I was five, probably younger. So, Cootie?
Felimid: Probably "Emperor of China". My late father had a copy of it and taught it to my two older brothers and me.
Chatbus: Ticket to Ride.
Cringing Dragon: Talisman (2nd ed)
forthur: Chess
daveroswell: It was more hanging out than anything, not really any one game in particular
tankexmortis: As a kid, Junior Monopoly. As an adult, Zombie Fluxx.
MarkStewart: NATO
rseater: settlers of catan
Numskull: Carcassonne. Boring, eh?
Phil Fleischmann: Chess, and various pencil-and-paper games I played (and invented) as a kid.
Zedsdead: Settlers, Settlers Card Game, Ticket to Ride, and Ingenious alerted me to the existence of "other" games, but I think it was Elfenland that sent me cartwheeling down that game-collection road to hell.
utahBGG: Settlers
vandemonium: Axis and Allies probably.
Polgara: good question, i don't really remember
jruddy: Monopoly
gmcash: Do not throw fruit at me, but it was Monopoly
Megadev: Talisman. That was the big one.
Linkyboy23: legend of zelda
Muzza: Monopoly
Decorius: Dungeons and Dragons.
Tall_Walt: Canasta
DHEK: Axis & Allies
aleo09: settlers
KDSN: Chess
Brentoon: gaming? actually gaming? i would never have said I was a gamer until Baldur's Gate 2
dsmeyer: monopoly, then Magic
Ebon Wendigo: Checkers
Tenchizard: Hero Quest
dmomo: Go
GornTC: Win, Place, and Show
Dweeb: Candyland
brainrob: DdW
clesiemo3: Can't Think of one in particular
Chris Page: Dungeons and Dragons. It was all downhill from there.
falloutfan: Arkham Horror
Case: Settlers
mrspank: Tough to remember way back when, but Settlers turned me on to Eurogames.
Gwahlur: Must have been chess. Or MtG.
Helenoftroy: chess, Runebound, and Pirates Cove
ralpheous: D&D
Loquutus: I can't remember. I was hooked at a very young age.
otha62: Sports Illustrated's College Football (later became Bowl Bound)
_Kael_: Risk. No doubt.
vetinari7878: Civilization.
simon craddock: railway rivals
POvidiusNaso: Apples to Apples and, oddly enough, Midnight Party.
ZombyDawg: Richtofen's War
rjburns3: Settlers of Catan card game
mats-k: Magic: The Gathering
skrutsch: Cosmic Encounter
zadmando: Chief Herman's Holiday Fun Pack.
javelin98: Star Fleet Battles
SteveK2: Settlers
yossarians: The Awful Green Things From Outer Space
notquitekarpov: 25mm Napoleonics miniatures wargaming
Chaz: Talisman
davedanger: not pr
Lord_Prussian: D&D
Gamegrunt: Chess
scriptorum: Civilization.
rdmasters: Figure-based wargaming. One of the very old WWII systems.
Cavedog_pdx: Clue
ssmooth: Monopoly
Otterdance: Settlers.
heli: see http://spotlightongames.com/review/reviewer.html
arkibet: Poker.
jimchris: Soldiers. The mechanics showed me that it is possible to simulate human emotions on the table while tying it with combat tactics.
Sceadeau: chess, at the age of 5
mandj2001: Fluxx
ThatFalafelGirl: i've always liked gaming, but when i was younger it was hard to find people to play with me
Kubilai: Shogun/Samurai Swords. Back in the eighties it was exactly what I wanted of a game (still is).
dkeisen: Carcassonne. Unless you mean Shenanigans 40 years ago.
Drewcooter: Risk, when I was about 10.
Bearcat89: After my D&D spree of the early '80s, it was rail games...1830.
stayman: Bridge
Scott Firestone IV: Axis and Allies...but then Carcassonne started the current craze
HappyProle: Diplomacy and then a few years later, Settlers of Catan.
fellonmyhead: Monopoly
2amp: Panzer Blitz
ginn5j: AD&D
darquil: Clue
GuyHill: ad&d
Toxidyne: Playing Mahjong with my grandmother.
StormKnight: For boardgaming, Settlers of Catan. For "hobby" gaming in general, D&D
isolated: Believe it or not, Monopoly.
AlorielLelyn: I don't remember
redhuntingcap: though i enjoyed playing various games when i was younger, i will have to say magic.
[Deleted user]: Panzer Blitz
jpact: Dungeons and Dragons
kracken: A Game of Thrones
Ebonwoulfe: I think it has to be Hero Quest
Sideburn: Backgammon started it of for me, but Risk really got me hooked
Belash: Settlers of Catan
steef: I always played Monopoly & Careers but Melee got me hooked
J Davison: RISK started it. Carcassonne revived it.
m_r_tyler: I really can't remember back that far.
ejmowrer: Either Risk or Monopoly.... not sure which.
Blackwind: risk
Bluenose: Risk. God bless its cotton socks
sos1: Uncle Wiggily
bop517: Monopoly
Mike A: Really hooked? Carcassonne.
dakarp: Settlers got me back into things in the late 90's, but in high school, I was hooked by Talisman, Illuminati, and Cosmic Encounter.
geberus: Clontarf in an old S&T
UhhhClem: I think it was when I was 4 and my aunt told me I couldn't play Monopoly because I wasn't old enough.
P.O.G.G.: Dungeons & Dragons
Dave: The Speed Buggy board game (http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-5028/Speed_Buggy/).
shotokanguy: D&D Basic Set, the one with the dragon and the two guys on the box
haraggan: Ogre
madmattuk: Monopoly
Komodo: Midway
Randy Cox: Life, Monopoly, NBC Vegas, Sports Illustrated Baseball.
Ludocrazy: Ra
Mosse: Carcassonne
jens_hoppe: AH's Samurai
Claytonius Maximus: SoC
BobDodgerBlue: Tactics II
funkhauser: My gaming history goes something like: Chess, Magic: the Gathering, Go, Settlers of Catan, General Board Game Addiction Syndrome
klellingson: Risk
djflippy: D&D
Melantha: Yahtzee.
Jim_P: AH's Blitzkrieg
Gelatinous Goo: Settlers
wtrollkin2000: I always was given as gifts and played Hasbro type games, but buying Imperium(in 1977) was my entry into the heavy gamer/buyer part of the hobby
kimbo: Wow, this is going way back... Monopoly? Careers? Mille Bornes? Broadside, Dogfight or Battlecry? Games I don't remember the title of?
Eric Haas: Cosmic Encounter
scribidinus: After the American Heritage series my first real war game was Tactics II.
seppo21: I've always been a gamer. The earliest game I can remember is Cootie. My recent addiction was spurred by a game of Empire Builder.
tragicpoet: Formula Dé
Rubric: Probably Melee by Steve Jackson.
TamiWhitsett: Monopoly
Con Man: Samurai
Friendless: Harry Potter TCG
CDRodeffer: Pitch
EYE of NiGHT: Settlers. 1997.
echoota: Dungeons and Dragons Basic Set
Reloaded: Squad Leader.
daw65: Probably pinochle, way back when.
saulsehy: Bowl Bound
snoozefest: settlers? magic? amoeba wars? can't remember
nix342: Settlers
louiseh: Talisman
skelebone: Carcassonne, but we played Risk 2210 for about a year before that
Spielguy: Chinese Checkers
IngredientX: Illuminati opened the door, and Puerto Rico shoved me through. Of the two, I only play Puerto Rico these days.
NickB: Risk (in the 80s), maybe A&A, but played more Risk
Zambogirl: Settlers
rochs77: Busen Memo
BaSL: targui / tikal
Linnaeus: Car Wars
TomVasel: Settlers of Canaan / Queen's Gambit
Spielfreak: Settlers of Catan
chaddyboy_2000: Munchkin. Blech.
hacksword: Axis & Axis
Ryno8: Outdoor Survival
sdownin: Acquire, when I was a kid we played it every year after Christmas dinner with the rest of the family.
gnomehome: The Game of Life
WasQ: Dune
Dante_Cubit: AH's Paydirt
Gargoyle: Settlers of Catan
sumo: Six Day Race
Jon_1066: Monopoly
litho: LOTR
Flyspeck23: Warhammer.
Septic: Acquire
djlg: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/5455 (Its amazing I'm still here.)
MisterCranky: War.
Debate: Escape from Colditz
MikeMKH: Magic
mvonahnen: The Russian Campaign
melissa: D&D (roleplaying) then Settlers, then Carcassonne started a buying spree that has yet to end.
Rukasu: Axis and Allies
PghArch: Stalingrad
mjwills: Settlers of Catan
PopeBrain: Dungeons and Dragons
janiera: Settlers of Catan or Carcassonne... Can't remember which.
ensor: Ricochet Robot
meccaneer: Chess.
Shakar: Advanced Civilisation.
ping9x: Risk - back when I didn't know better.
ValJor: Chess
midnightferret: Battle Masters
tiredmind: Talisman
natemike: Settlers of Catan
habermanm: Carcassonne
jttm: Heroquest. But currently, its those Euro-games than won't let me stop gaming.
Aldie: I think it was Settlers of Catan, but Euphrat & Tigris rehooked me.
HBGlover: Magic: The Gathering
CortexBomb: German Gaming: Settlers Gaming Period: Dungeons and Dragons
ynnen: Dungeons & Dragons