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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 8713709" data-attributes="member: 7026594">There were definitely multiple waves of new young players who came in with Holmes, B/X, and BECMI, but by the time BECMI was released the fad was on the wane (1983 was the last real year of it), whereas B/X's entire publishing lifespan was in the fad period.&nbsp; IME people swearing by the RC is a more modern phenomenon.&nbsp; Certainly SOME folks liked it on initial release, but 1991 was well after sales were on the down trend and other games had started eating D&amp;D's lunch.&nbsp; I remember that, as an AD&amp;D-playing teenager, when I and my friends saw the RC we were a bit confused about the point of it.&nbsp; We saw the Basic/Classic D&amp;D line as having been aimed at kids and functionally supplanted by AD&amp;D.&nbsp; I think I picked it up and looked it over, as I remember it being well-reviewed, but the terrible interior art was a turn off. B/X and BECMI have also benefited from retrospective re-evaluation, but most of our generation came in with one of those versions, and have some nostalgic memories of them, even if we then dismissed them as kiddie versions compared with AD&amp;D.&nbsp; IME B/X, BECMI and the RC have all now gotten substantial critical re-evaluation since the OSR started ~15-17 years ago.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 8713709, member: 7026594"] There were definitely multiple waves of new young players who came in with Holmes, B/X, and BECMI, but by the time BECMI was released the fad was on the wane (1983 was the last real year of it), whereas B/X's entire publishing lifespan was in the fad period. IME people swearing by the RC is a more modern phenomenon. Certainly SOME folks liked it on initial release, but 1991 was well after sales were on the down trend and other games had started eating D&D's lunch. I remember that, as an AD&D-playing teenager, when I and my friends saw the RC we were a bit confused about the point of it. We saw the Basic/Classic D&D line as having been aimed at kids and functionally supplanted by AD&D. I think I picked it up and looked it over, as I remember it being well-reviewed, but the terrible interior art was a turn off. B/X and BECMI have also benefited from retrospective re-evaluation, but most of our generation came in with one of those versions, and have some nostalgic memories of them, even if we then dismissed them as kiddie versions compared with AD&D. IME B/X, BECMI and the RC have all now gotten substantial critical re-evaluation since the OSR started ~15-17 years ago. [/QUOTE]

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