Writer's Block: The name of the game

[gridlore]

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Ogre/G.E.V.

Admittedly, this was more a teenage years thing, but I was a real loner as a kid.

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[melchar.livejournal.com]

Heh heh - Dungeons and Dragons for me. In 1973 it took my 15 year old introverted self firmly out of my shell. In order to play this game I had to drag my friends and their brothers - not -quite- by main force as a group into a room and make them roll characters. Then I needed to do the whole act out/narrate/referee thing. [And they loved it - but in the course of this game, it forced me into becoming an extrovert.] Best game EVAR!

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

I took "game" in this context to be more of the traditional view of game. If you include RPGs, then it's a tie between Traveller and Chivalry & Sorcery

[melchar.livejournal.com]

I was a very bookish kid and didn't really play standard games. I played with dolls with the girls in the neighborhood, but that's not really a 'game'.

I learned how to play Bridge, Spades, Hearts and various card games - but that was when I was 18+ - so they doesn't really count as 'childhood' games.

My folks would drag out 'Monopoly', 'the game of Life' or 'Clue' sometimes, but that usually inspired shouting arguements by the end from one or the both of them, so I don't have any kind of positive memories there, either.

So it pretty much would be D&D.

[jursamaj.livejournal.com]

Of classical games, Risk.

Then around 12 I found D&D. :)