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Originally Posted by Adm.Lee
Speaking of players younger than the game, my 12-year old son was the other guy in the Top Secret game at the Con. 1953 Berlin meant nothing to him, the Cold War is something they might not cover in social-studies class. I have hooked him on D&D, versions 2, 3.5, and 4. The good stuff comes later....
Good-o on Squad Leader, I kept all mine even after selling off ASL.
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Lee,
Hmm, do your pre-teen kids count in the same way? It's not like they're going to know about the Cold War even in school, like you say! Still, maybe you get triple points for indoctrinating a new generation!
My wife jokes that when we have kids they could be third generation gamers. After getting out of the Van Doos/Airborne in the 70's my father-in-law went back to school (after stints working for corrections and as a parole officer up North, and earning his high school diploma) to study for his Doctorate in Criminology. While he was at SFU in the 90's he was part of the gaming club there and played AD&D, so there's definitely a generational connection there.
(Funny story, my father-in-law in effect interrogated me the first time we met, and he told me how he was going to do it beforehand. It didn't involve water-boarding or a polygraph.)
Tony