used to rent a place with a couple of guys and one was a french man, he was into role playing and used to DM games at our place with some of his friends , and believe it or not was paid to run an education course teaching teenagers dungeon and dragons on sundays at the local adult education centre, he at first got me playing d&d with his friends ,but he also had an old c64 and amiga set up in the down stairs entertainment area,at first i played games like turrican,populous,silkworm ,hired guns , stuntcar racer,all great games then he got me playing dungeon master,bards tale , ultima series ,bloodwych, eye of the beholder crystal dragon etc , so thats how i got into rpg's thanks to gerad a french hippy from LeMan who cooked me snails in garlic butter but he himself refused to eat frogs legs saying only french bastards would eat that crap, the only man i know who made me join a medievil society and participate in a full blown tourney.
then i bought a used c64 with games and action replay cart for myself quickly followed an amiga then the ps1
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