Are you into any other retro hobbies?

[runequester]

Any other retro hobbies you guys are into?

Old hifi stuff
Music instruments
Old music
Cars/motorcycles
tabletop games
old women :confused:
Old game consoles


Tell me what you got. Or even better, show me

[runequester]

Retro Video Games
Good parenting... Oh, uh, that wasn't what you meant was it...

Having children certainly makes one feel retro, I can attest to that

[runequester]

I'm actually facinated by how many retro things my 6 year old is into.  Crazy Legs Crane.  Pink Panther.  Populous on the Amiga.  PacMan.

I actually bought him a Nes/Snes combo system for Christmas.  I think he is going to love it.

Ive been tempted to get a NES or sega for my kid when he gets a tiny bit older. SOmething a bit easier to manipulate for him (both controller and machine wise) and a lot of good kids games

[runequester]

photographing abandoned railroads
collecting classical music LPs
 
Don't really have space or $$$ for much retro stuff.
 
Cool pinball machines! I'd love to visit you if I could.

Do you have any of those photos online?

[runequester]

I play original (1974) and Advanced (1978) Dungeons & Dragons - the ones that Gary Gygax wrote. I've got stacks upon stacks of books for AD&D (some of them autographed by the Man himself, may he rest peacefully), many duplicates, and copies many times over of the OD&D booklets (also one set of those autographed).
 
2nd Edition was a wimpy neutering of the guts-n-gore of the predecessors and characters in 3, 3.5 and 4 might as well wear blue tights, a red cape and sport an "S" on their chests.

Big RPG fan here. As my name implies, "my game" was always Runequest, but we play Rolemaster, AD&D (and I agree that the original AD&D is the way to go), Traveller and plenty of others.
 
Big fan of the original Warzone and Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader mini's games too.

[runequester]

Excellent; do you cast around any RPG forums?  I have one, and Knights & Knaves alehouse is another great one, and of course The RPG Site...oh, can't forget Dragonsfoot.

Also: much love for Rolemaster (aka Rulemaster/Rollmaster/Rulebastard ).  Not my first game of choice but I've had much fun with that one too.

Also also: 1e Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play!

I used to hang out at rpg.net and dragonsfoot but its been a while.

WFRP is awesome. I ended up selling my 2nd edition books. It might be better designed than 1st edition but the original book is just so damn inspirational

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Everytime my wife complains about my amiga taking up space, I point to people who have old cars as a hobby and she's okay

Jeeps are awesome btw

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Isn't it, though?

I asked for a 1e WHFRP book a couple years back for Christmas, and I expected to get a softback Hogshead copy/edition.  I got an original Hardback in near mint condition Games Workshop copy.

The wife went a-browsing and found one on addall used books for $50, figured "Oh it's Christmas, what the heck" and bought.

Very nice My current copy is the Hogshead one. Would love to have the GW version, especially in hardback.

Was always a bigger fan of the 1st edition combat system and the criticals :rtfm: