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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8937955" data-attributes="member: 19857">D&D - It would have been 1981 I think. Maybe '82. A snowy recess when we were stuck indoors and one kid pulled out a basic rulebook and offered to run a game for us. I think we stole the dice out of the Risk boardgame that was in the classroom and he basically made a bunch of stuff up but I was hooked after that.Star Wars - 1980 is when I have my first recollection of the franchise. The kids next door had divorced parents and so owned far more of the toys than anyone I've ever known. (My parents tell me that we saw Star Wars in a drive-in. But given that I would have been about 4 at the time I don't really have a memory of it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )Earthsea - Read the books in middle school, so it was probably 86 or 87? They made a bit of an impact but I didn't really appreciate them until I reread them for a college "Fantasy Literature" course much later. (The Lathe of Heaven, on the other hand, made a huge impact on my impressionable Middle Schooler mind...)Potter - Sometime around 1999 people were asking if I'd heard of this Harry Potter franchise so I read the books. I think there were 2 of them at that point. I thought they were fine, and my wife liked it more than I did, so we kept up with the series as it came out.Magic the Gathering - It was 1993. The comic book / game store owner at the college I attended was very excited about this new "Magic the Gathering" game that Wizards of the Coast was publishing. My entire dorm was insane about the game by the end of that semester. Folks were dropping hundreds of dollars on boxes of boosters. Too rich for my blood - I bought a few decks and some boosters and was mostly competitive except against the guys who had dropped the big bucks on the game.Marvel/DC - I literally can't remember a time when I wasn't aware of these characters. Superfriends was on perpetual rotation on Saturday morning, Spider-man and his Amazing Friends was there too, and Adam West's Batman was always on in the afternoons. I can't even remember when I started reading comics - it feels like they were always there. My mom loved comics like Little Lulu and various Romance comics when she was a kid, and my uncle loved superheroes, so she actively encouraged us to read them.  She would just pick up stacks of comics at garage sales cheap for us to read.</blockquote>

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