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djflippy: What is your fondest gaming memory from childhood

mattomaw: Tricky to answer because of when in my childhood makes a difference. From my pre 10 days it was probably making Epic films in International Moviemaker or a particular reactiona friend had when losing a noble in Kingmaker. First game of basic D&D when I was 10 or 11 is a particularly fond memory (B1 - still love it!). In early teens it was probably discovering Swords and Sorcery and Wizard's quest. Hang on, this is not really the kind of answer you want is it?
legolasegb: Axis & Allies - My brother Greg holding out in Britain while I was able to wheel around with my Russian troops and save his ass!
BOBBYCAN: Playing monopoly with my family till one AM.
freechinanow: Playing Ulcers with my sister and pretending to be a hotshot president of a company and then firing my secretary.
isobar: Playing Goldeneye with one shot kills, Pistols weapon set on the complex with my neighrbors. As for board gaming, I didn't get into those untill after highschool.
SoulStealer50: Playing Hero Quest with my brother and friends.
brautigan25: Probably when I got a Lone Wolf game book for Christmas. Playing Wizardry and Ultima III: Exodus on my Mac 128k. And also playing Scrabble with my Dad and Cousin Eric and Monopoly with my Mom.
TRINDEL: learning chess
jcaraway: playing Monopoly with Payday. It was my first attempt at making a new game
Felimid: Playing "Emperor of China" with my dad and my two older brothers (I'm youngest of three).
Chris Busse: Too many to name. Way too many.
TheLogLady: Playing Cootie and Don't break the Ice at my birthday parties. I loved those games. Also, I made my parents take the batteries out of Operation because I was afraid of the buzzer - kind of defeats the purpose, I know. Silly child.
Tushratta: My first game of Parcheesi.
Nikku: First game of Axis and Allies, after years of Risk.
kathleenryan: Going to my neighbor's house and playing Monopoly for the first time when I was six years old.
Frubgarde: Playing boardgames with my father.
Couggar: A combination of Monopoly, the dog and chocolate pudding...I will let you figure the rest out.
onibaloney: Getting my mom to play D&D Basic with me when I was 9
Great Dane: gaming with my family
Tree of Ni: My brother, having a hard time at Risk and freaking out after several hours of play by flinging the whole board and pieces across the room
Neil Thomson: Playing 30+ games consequetivley (spelling poor) with my sister to while away rainy Saturday afternoons
ExitDose: Punching my cousin for his stupid house rules.
Lord Ramius: winning monopoly about 12 times in a row during 3 weeks of holiday.
DHEK: Bringing Risk to primary school to play with classmates every day during the last few days of school after end-year exams.
Rukasu: Trashing the board when I lost...oh...fondest.
POvidiusNaso: Beating a smug friend of mine who said that it's impossible for the Axis to defeat the Allies. He wasn't count on my younger brother to play Russia like absolute crap, though...
nerotora: My first Monopoly games.
Frankenfletch: finnally beating my brother at Shadowlords! I always had to have the Viggo Character.
FrozenHoHos: Learning to play chess.
Avatar_69: Beating my Mum at Monopoly for the first time
_Kael_: None come to mind. Perhaps time to change hobby.
jasta6: Betting my Big Brother at "France 1940" by cutting his supply line. I was 14 he was 21.
brainrob: Escape from Colditz
banjoseamonkey: Setting up the board for Axis and Allies. My dad and I always did it together before everyone else came.
chrisisapimp: naked twister
Loquutus: Beating my dad at Britannia
talanthan: Playing Pac-man for 13 hours straight.
doonzer: "Dungeon" with my parents
Agrajag: Realizing that round Cadaco baseball cards could be hand-made using math and a hand-made disc segmented into 128 sections. It changed this basic game into a real strategy event and forever set me on a course of game improvement.
javelin98: Playing sci-fi microarmor at a local gamecon
ssmooth: Playing Pit with my mom's friends and family when I was about four. At the beginning of each hand I would crawl under the table to sort my hand secretly.
ststrat: playing Risk over Christmas with a huge family
TaliaIsabelle: Hungy Hungry Hippos, or maybe Screaming Eagles
Linnaeus: Playing the microbox version of Car Wars for the first time.
Cavedog_pdx: Playing games with my friend John and his three brothers.
Reloaded: running away from fireballs on Fireball Island...
Lord_Prussian: Playing games for hours at end during the summer time. Car Wars and D&D ate up a lot of time, as I recall.
skrutsch: playing MasterMind with my neighbor, Dan.
AWildEep: Playing this game involving "popcorn" peices... No idea what it was, but somehow it powered monsters.
Musti: Playing 'Escape from Colditz' in the sunny garden at home
heli: anticipating Monopoly
bluebehir: Winning
Sceadeau: Winning a chess tournament for 8 year olds. I suck at the game now, although I'm pretty sure I could still beat most 8 year olds.
scriptorum: Hrm, I don't remember most of my childhood.
snoozefest: don't have any
melissa: Santa's Workshop boardgame - my brother and I always wanted the 'Rudolf' card
gnomehome: Playing with my cousins
erli: Not having that cage fall on my mouse
2amp: being invited to join the adults gaming session & being treated as a gaming equal
BengalBandit: Playing the boardgame that probably started it all: Hero Quest.
Wintergoblin: Winning Trivia Pursuit against my parents.
batman: Having all night game parties.
Randy Cox: Wow. I need to think about this. Mostly, I remember playing Monopoly, NBC Vegas, SI Baseball, Poppin' Hoppies, Humor Rumor, Hands Down (at my cousin's house), and Risk.
Toxidyne: Playing mahjong with my grandmother when I was about eight years old. I have her set now.
AlorielLelyn: Not many of them. I had awful neighbors. Most of them cheated... Even my brother usually did.
sumo: Playing Newmarket at Christmas.
tragicpoet: Learning Blackjack on vacation
solove: A 3 day game of Monopoly that I would have won if one of the other players hadn't told his mum that I'd swore
puffinge: Stratego
Nightmare: Playing Mille Bornes (or almost anything else) with my grandparents
Blackwind: dont remember
TiNYTimIDFluffYBunnY: trumps
nexttothemoon: Spin the Bottle....playing SOM Hockey with one of my best friends who past away a few years ago. Playing Cribbage with my mom who is also gone now and playing sessions upon sessions of games like PayDay, Monopoly, Careers and Stock Ticker...mindless games really but the socializing and fun we had will be fondly remembered forever.
CortexBomb: Fondest...hmm...probably role playing at summer camp the year before everyone else decided they were evil
DangerMouse: Beating my oldest brother at a game of "Battle Cry" (American Heritage game). I'd practiced a particular southern strategy for hours prior.
Ryno8: Winning my first game of Dark Tower.
djlg: Winning 5 games in a row of The Bible Game. (Ah! Smite Thee!)
m_r_tyler: I loved playing Dealer's Choice with my brother and neighbor. We wore out that game.
geberus: Checkers with my sitter
Dave: Creating a "game chain" with my little sister. Basically, you put several roll-and-move type games (Speed Buggy, Scooby Doo, $6M man, etc.) next to each other, and move from one board to the next when you reach the end.
shumyum: Playing pitch (the standard card game) for quarters in a friend's boathouse.
BobDodgerBlue: Endless games of Risk, Stratego, Tactics II & Uno at Summer Camp
chaddyboy_2000: Playing cribbage with my grandma.
Mozbink: Playing war with my Papa (grandfather). Hands down.
jttm: Probably playing Cluedo
louiseh: Playing solo Risk.
MisterCranky: Irritating everybody by continually declaring who the actual killer, weapon, and locale were when I accused incorrectly.
ynnen: Learning cribbage from my grandpa... I wrote a GeekList about grandparent memories: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listid=7167
Gonzaga: Playing Monopoly all night long ...
CDRodeffer: Playing checkers with my dad.
skelebone: I don't recall playing many games in childhood.
ValJor: I don't have any, didn't game too much when I was a child