10-08-2016, 08:28 AM | #11 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Carrboro, NC
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Re: New G.E.V. Edition?
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10-08-2016, 02:09 PM | #12 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
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He's going to explode. He doesn't even know that the Designer Edition exists. |
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10-08-2016, 02:17 PM | #13 |
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
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Re: New G.E.V. Edition?
Just for reference, how old is your lucky son? I gave my son eBay purchased copies of Ogre, G.E.V., Battlefields, Shockwave ... when he was 16. He found them just as cool as I did when I found them around the same age (Ogre came out when I was 16, I think I bought it from an ad seen in Analog, I bought G.E.V. new from a game store when it arrived a year later).
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10-08-2016, 03:21 PM | #14 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
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I was laughing about it with my wife last night. When I bought Ogre back then, I had no idea what I was getting. The only reference I had was those sets of plastic army men they advertised in the backs of comic books, which I had bought scores of. So I ordered it thinking that I was going to get a whole set of miniature futuristic plastic tanks. Instead, I got, well, a microgame with a paper map and a bunch of cardboard counters. I was so disappointed. But then I started reading it, and I realized that this was a whole new level. I actually wound up using it as a model to go back and write miniature rules for all those plastic toy kits I'd bought from the comic books. So now, here I am, almost forty years later, buying an edition of Ogre for my son that actually has little miniature model Ogres in it. It feels like I've come full circle. LOL |
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10-08-2016, 05:01 PM | #15 | |
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Austin, TX
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That makes me one year younger than you. We have quite a crowd in our age range around here, I think.
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10-11-2016, 10:58 AM | #17 | |
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Location: Plainfield, IL
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I'm hoping it skips a generation. I just can't get my daughter to give it the time of day.
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10-11-2016, 11:29 AM | #18 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
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You guys are hysterical. My wife was looking at the pictures and wondering where we were going to store it. I told her I'd build a new shelf for it. She thought I was joking.
Well, we can't choose our kid's interests. My oldest is really into watching sports on TV. For the entire rest of the family, watching sports on TV is like watching paint dry. Me and my oldest are really into target shooting, but my middle really isn't. My oldest and my youngest are bookworms, but my middle is a builder, he would rather be plugging Legos together. Everybody is different. |
10-11-2016, 03:40 PM | #19 |
Join Date: Jun 2010
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And sometimes the timing is just not right. What they dismiss now may be of great interest a few years down the line.
What doesn't change is appreciating that people like something. If they see you enjoying the game, some will come around over time if for no other reason than, "Wow. Dad really seem to enjoy this. Perhaps I should check it out. . ." D.
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10-11-2016, 10:20 PM | #20 |
Join Date: May 2007
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I gotta tell ya, the pictures you've seen don't do it justice. Wait until you open the box! I discovered Ogre about 1977 if memory serves {and it may not}, I was 28.
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