It all started with Battlecars...

This article was originally a submission for the House of Paincakes, HoP Idol competition. I have no idea when or if they intend on posting it because they've scrapped the weekly challenges, plus I dropped out of the competition. It was the weekly challenge for week 3 of the competition, along with some Haiku, which can be found Here. While I've tended so far to re-post my entries here on my own blog, this challenge did get me thinking... how did all of you get into wargaming? What drove you all towards playing with toy soldiers and what was your first game like? Honestly I'm genuinely interested, let me know in the comments below.

My first gaming experience was roughly 27 years ago, and I was 5 (you do the math), and I don't really remember too much about it as a game... but I do remember an awful lot about how it made me feel! It made me feel awesome, and I don't think I've looked back since. The person who introduced me to this hobby was my dad and the game he did it with was Battlecars!!! For ages I thought it was called Dark Futures (this is what it eventually became), but I was reliably informed that it was indeed Battlecars and having seen the box art I now know that it was.
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