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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5168885" data-attributes="member: 20741">Yes, very much so.The places I tend to associate with "great gaming memories" were always the homes of others 30 years ago or thereabouts  - back in high school.  I think this is because, generally speaking, the times that I was at those places was mostly while I was gaming, so I don't have many strong memories of the places OTHER than while gaming there.So yes, there are the basements of three of my friends I gamed with back in the late 70s and early 80s which have a lot of strong "great gaming memories". I can picture each of these basement gaming areas quite vividly in my mind's eye.It's been a long time since I have been back to the town I grew up in - let alone the basements where those events took place. I believe that in every case, the homes have since been sold and the parents who owned them have moved on. Indeed, in one case, quite literally have "moved on" as they have both since passed away. Thirty years really is a very long time. Half an adult  lifetime away, for most of us.So it isn't possible to ever visit this places again in the here and now. Even if I did, I am sure they would not look much like what they looked like back then. Thirty years is a long time and those basement rooms exist only in memory now. But that's okay.  I can recall the furniture, paint and lighting to this day vividly and precisely -- all in 3D.  I may have misspent a lot of my time over the years - but I never misspent THAT part of my life. I'd do it all over again - in a heartbeat.Unlike most people here on ENWorld, I still game with two of the people I first started gaming with back-in-the-day. We all grew up and left our home town a 1,000 miles away, sure. But being from the Maritimes in Canada, a good portion of those who moved away always end up in the Toronto area -- so we never lost touch over the years.Great gaming places are fond memories - but great gaming buddies? That's what the game is all about.</blockquote>

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