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¿Question #95?
ensor: When did you know you were a gamer?

sparkous: a long time ago ...
ocdspectrum: 3rd grade. When D&D entered my life.
oldhoss: I don't know. Am I?
vandemonium: I was born a gamer. It's perfectly natural.
Myok: Playing Stratego in third grade.
beerbear: Middle school.
resin: D&D coloring book at age 7.
bcooperok: Cosmic Encounters, 1979.
Felimid: Thousands and thousands of years ago ... when we would play "Pin the tail on the woolley mamoth" and "Don' Go Swimmin' With a School of Piranhas Unless You're too Drunk to do otherwise" and Cro-Magnon Checkers and others.
Commandex: when I found out there was games beyond monopolyl
joebelanger: When I caught myself looking at other peoples bits.
jp21763: After playing Bowl Bound at 12.
tankexmortis: When I had my first board game related dream.
Hubsi1w6: I always knew. Everyone is born a gamer, only some people change.
Randy Cox: I think that would be December 25, 1968 or 1967. And you?
Wes Hope: when no one else wanted to play games with me
aleo09: yesterday
cleonhard: The real question is, when did I discover some people WEREN'T.
OsmiumATOMasATOM: College, when I was skipping class.
DHEK: When I first played Axis & Allies when I was in primary school.
william_henshaw: August 29, 1965
Cmot Dribbler: when someone asked me and i said yes
POvidiusNaso: About 2.5 years ago.
greenpawn: As soon as I played my first game.
cluegirl: 2/12/93 no just kidding,....when i realized i enjoyed all kinds of games!
Chrisrob: Since I was a kid.
xscape: all my life
Ebon Wendigo: When I would look for the game sections in the toy catalogs.
daveroswell: When I was micromanaging Chutes and Ladders at age 4.
duLac956: When I stayed up all night when I first learned how to play Magic
bigbadsteve: that time i was walking down the street and someone yelled, "hey, gamer!"
Langoroth: I grew up in a family of gamers. I don't remember not gaming.
bwildrick: When I was run through my first D&D game when I was seven.
vampywife: the first time i played advanced civilization
brainrob: When DdW appeared ...
falloutfan: My first D&D box. I was hooked. It was 1977 I believe.
Salamon: Just figured it out yesterday.
sdonohue: RPG in high school, CCG when my collection covered a pool table. Boards when I entered my collection on the geek.
cobbz20: When I found this site and suddenly realized that there were 50 games I HAVE to buy that I didn't even know existed a day before.
Helenoftroy: When I married one or maybe when I played D&D.
WatchmanX2000: May 23, 1968, 15:27:12
Chemik: About age 8. Football Strategy took me in.
bekudno: When I started going out of my way to play games, rather than waiting for the opportunity to arise.
fledermaus: My first Friday night at a game store
Sykokaj: When I got my game of Hero Quest, and played it till it was in shreds.
chrisisapimp: im not a gamer
flyinghogfish: When I started playing games...
Loquutus: When I beat my dad at Britannia when I was 10.
jellospike: when I started buying games
notquitekarpov: Playing armies with coloured sweets, aged 2, according to my mum. Advanced Squad Leader followed automatically thereafter apparently...
javelin98: When I was eight years old and couldn't keep my eyes off my sister's Star Fleet Battles games (she's ten years older than me).
Gecko23: I'm still in denial.
Yollege: When I started buying every RPG & CCG I could get my hands on.
snicholson: When all of my allowances went to board games.. and nobody would play them with me.
ssmooth: As soon as I knew there were games.
puffinge: I played tic tac toe in the womb
Tushratta: When I was about 7
obob: That question does not apply. The /real/ question would be "when did you learn that people actually existed who were _not_ gamers?" and that was probably about kindergarten
gt8595b: at the age of 22, when the love of chess was born in me
mrbeankc: When I discovered Avalon Hill
sourwyrm: age 13 or so
rdmasters: When I was about 10 or 11. Mmmm, Wargames...
Lord_Prussian: Early on
scriptorum: When I realized I was becoming a social outcast among my friends, the social outcasts, for continually trying to get them to play more games.
chrisesko: In the womb
The Unbeliever: 42
TMJJS: November 2004
BengalBandit: I've always known. I was born a gamer.
Wernazuma: At the age of 14, then forgot about it with ~17 and only rediscovered it a good year ago
Igmatto: When I found this Red Storm Rising game in the attick when I was 4
skrutsch: I guess when I started looking for game stores on vacations. That was probably during our honeymoon.
sbszine: When I bought interesting games that I knew no-one would ever play with me, just so I could look at the bits.
mandj2001: A good friend started me off with Fluxx. It was when I bought a copy of Catan that I realized I was doomed.
otrex: When I played "Panzergruppe Guderian" with my uncle at age 9.
jimchris: I've always known I was a gamer...
Windopaene: when I was about four
2amp: when i got my first game in 75
todi: Have been one from early childhood.
fellonmyhead: When I was four years old; and yesterday.
AlorielLelyn: Heh, at about 5 years of age.
Karlsen: Probably by the time I was four
StormKnight: I can't remember that far back
Jackwraith: When I was about 9 or 10 and discovered Chitin: I
sdownin: Since I was a wee little kid.
threlicus: Back in High School.
Blackwind: I was born a gamer.
chaddyboy_2000: About freshman year of college, when I discovered Munchkin. I hate that game now.
onky: At the age of 12
chad56s: When I got fired for reading this website.
DangerMouse: I must've been about 10 or 11 when I realized that I loved board games.
wtrollkin2000: When gaming became the way I spent the largest percent of my idle time.
djlg: ~age 7
geberus: When I was a kid and saw D&D
fizzix: I'm not a gamer. I'm fine. YOU people all have a problem,
darthcliff: 1983
BobDodgerBlue: 1st grade
Eric Haas: at 3:17 am
jaredh: When I first played Risk when I was 8
Ludocrazy: When I decided to got to Origins by myslef for a vacation.
djflippy: Not sure. Maybe when I rolled up my first D&D character in grade school?
snoozefest: now. and now. and now.
queequeg: When I purchased PR knowing I had no one to play it with at that time.
darquil: 2nd trimester
toucana: when i played my first game of citadels
melissa: probably at my first convention.
tragicpoet: I learned Blackjack @ age 3
PghArch: Forever
seppo21: I've always been a gamer. I can't remember a time that I didn't know I was a gamer.
Jim_P: Playing AH's Blitzkrieg in the summer of '65... I had to buy more!
Flyspeck23: 20 years ago.
ejmowrer: Right after my first fission.
shotokanguy: right after my first game of D&D, circa 1979
sisteray: After my first game of survive
CDRodeffer: I was very young, maybe three.
AnakinOU: I always have been a gamer.
EYE of NiGHT: A serious gamer? When I played first Settlers in 1997. A revelation.
Reloaded: When I couldn't stop playing...
BaSL: 15-10-2001; 19:56:21
Gregarius: Since I knew there were games
skelebone: Since I knew I was an obsessive.
disclamer: elementary school?
louiseh: always
dietevil: All my life
ValJor: I'm not a gamer, I just play for fun
rochs77: Grade school playing Clue
Friendless: When my kid could read and wanted to play against me.
nix342: My first memory is getting a clock game for my third birthday...so, I guess I've always known.
Geosphere: I'M A WHAT?!
Zambogirl: When I actually had fun at Origins.
Dante_Cubit: When I was spending more time gaming than looking for girls.
WasQ: always
TD2008YDS: about 10
Septic: age Four. I wanted to play with the Monopoly money, (ie Be the Banker) HHOK
gnomehome: Am I really a gamer ?
Fawkes: When I got my first D&D manuals.
Debate: Not long after my birth
MisterCranky: When I first shaved my head and saw that 215 to 1 shot in my scalp.
CortexBomb: Self-awareness ensued in early adolescence when my RPG book collection was threatening to take over a monster book shelf
ynnen: Very early on, with my first issue of Dragon Magazine with the Dennis Beauvais "Chess" cover... Early 80s?
berserkley: after my first game of Blitzkreig
manowarplayer: When I saw my dad's copy of Midway from Avalon Hill up in the closet when I was a kid and KNEW I wanted to learn to play it someday.
kimbo: I was born a gamer. Seriously, I've been playing games as long as I can remember.
jttm: I probably lost my gameginity at 16. There were some earlier attempts, but they didn't really satisfy.
ensor: New Years Eve, 1999
Aldie: I always knew.
janiera: Probably 20 years ago.
Shakar: 8 years old.