I seriously stopped reading this thread once I saw shit like "VM down IRT DD) IRT POP." Whoa, then calculators were getting rocked in this thread?
I never played a regular D&D game, but I remember being really little and my whole family of 5 sitting at the dinner table to play THIS:
Looking back, I guess I was raised into nerd-dom and I don't know how I didn't get into D&D after that. I had a brief stint of Magic: The Gathering a few years later, and then it's been 100% Nintendo nerd for me.
EDIT: I just looked it up on Wikipedia, and apparently HeroQuest came out in the U.S. in 1990, so I was 7, and my sisters were 4 and 10. Hahahaha. Okay, I've discovered it. The exact thing that turned me into a huge nerd was... my dad really got me into Hack. That's it. I think that paved the way for all my of my future nerdalities.
I've still never rolled a 20 sided die though.
