Friday Fun: Your Formative Geek Media

[Mad_Jack]

I discovered Tolkien and D&D around the same time, aged 8-10. Can't really remember anything else I'd call formative, though.

 

[timmy]

Star Wars in the theater at 10 years old, then Narnia and the Tripods Trilogy, then the Hobbit & LOTR, Dune, & D&D - ‘77 to ‘82 was fantastic for me! Although I was definitely too young for Dune - it made much more sense when I reread it high school.

 

[GreyLord]

Hmmm...

Probably, first would be J.R.R. Tolkien....maybe Moorcock exposure. Tarzan? (Tarzan becomes incredibly fantasy after the first book).

Then came Wargames...and then D&D.

I loved Nickel and Dime SF books back in the day. The old SF Radio shows that came on.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

• The Hobbit -- my first memory is sitting on my dad's lap on a very 1970s couch and him reading me the first page
• Rankin-Bass' The Hobbit
• The Magician's Nephew (in publication order, where its revelations make one recontextualize the rest of the series so far)
• Ralph Bakshi's Wizards
• My dad's OD&D photocopies (all the booklets except for Blackmoor, weirdly)
• The Road to Oz
• Treasure Island
• The Princess Bride

 

[billd91]

In rough order of when I encountered them:
Star Trek: TOS and Star Trek: Animated
James Bond movies
Star Wars (I was 9 for the first theatrical run)
The Hobbit by Rankin/Bass
Battlestar Galactica
Flash Gordon cartoon
HG Wells books
Barsoom books
Lord of the Rings

 

[aco175]

I'm reading a lot of this and saying yep, yep, yep. I'm guessing there is a lot of overlap with most of us, especially at certain ages.