When was YOUR Golden Age of Gaming?

[YourSwordIsMine]

1993 to 2000

Was introduced to GURPS at that point and joined a new gaming group. We played GURPS for those 7 years almost continuously until 2000 or so when DnD 3.0 came out... Wish we had never switched. Those GURPS games were the most fun, memorable and compelling of any before or since. Its why I'm going back to GURPS since no other gaming system was able to be as awesome. Hopefully with my new Campaign we can recapture those times.

The Second Age was when I joined up with my first Mutants and Masterminds gaming group. That was mainly for the people I met and became friends with... I miss that group terribly.

 

[darjr]

Great times in gaming have come and gone for me, but I have to agree with those that say now is it.

I have a different D&D4e game almost every Sunday, 1st and 3rd Saturdays are full of gaming. I've set up 2nd Saturdays to run games in a near by town cause when I ran D&D4e there at a game day I had to turn people away. I've got a GURPS group that is on again off again, those guys are great!

I'm gaming more now than ever before.

 

[buzz]

Add me to the chorus of "now".

I wouldn't trade the times I played with my buddies in junior high, high school, and college for anything in the world... but IMO, the games being made today are better, the resources available to gamers are better, and the play with my current group is better.

Frankly, that this hobby made it out of the '80s and '90s at all amazes me.

 

[Silver Moon]

I'll give you three....

1981 to 1984 - Those were my college years and I was first introduced to the game. I began my own gaming group which at one point in time had fourteen active players - great fun. After college the group whittled down to a core group of 6 to 9 players, and we still play our game every Sunday night, but it's not quite the same magic as those early years.

1990 to 1993 - Those were the years after my wife and I wed but before we had children. We were very active in the Gaming Con circuit and had opportunities to game with some fantastic players in some fantastic modules. We still game regularly with people who we met during those times.

2004 to 2007 - Those were the years when I ran a fantasic play-by-post Wild West themed game that ran for two-and-a-half years. It was great fun.

 

[JohnRTroy]

There's an old saying either Don or Maggie Thomson (editors of the Comic Buyers Guide) once said regarding comics.

"The Golden Age is 12".

As in--it started when you were twelve years old. In other words, the excitement you tend to feel as a older pre-pubescent or adolescent is something you'll always look back on with excitement and wonder, and might not be surpassed ever again.

Based on many statements here, I'd say the Golden Age of Gaming for many follows the 12-years-old rule--maybe change it to 15 for gaming. It seems most people say their High School Years.