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Early fanaticism It started when I was young. My parents showed me the original trilogy recorded from TV on VHS tapes. I remember excitedly fast-forwarding through the commercials, with static making it hard to tell when to stop. Font Fangsong Gb2312 Download. The battles, spaceships, and lightsabers. The fate of the galaxy at stake!

Mystical forces! From those simple beginnings I moved to the. A little dabbling with. Then the: my first time seeing anything Star Wars on a movie theater screen! Descargar Gratis Biblia Amplificada Pdf Writer. Later, an enthusiastic group outing to watch. Yes, I was still excited about it walking out of the theater. Even now I have to admit that the lightsaber choreography in Episode 1 was pretty great.

But nothing quite captured like card games with infinite deck-building options. Was the first of this intense kind of game to cross my path. In late 1995, I had a couple friends with the cards and I was very intrigued. With limited funds and transportation options, I appealed to my parents for help in starting a collection. I was denied. Because Magic was too focused on demons, death and destruction: it seemed to be a combination of and content-based objections.

Happily this difference of opinion never became a real conflict because I was soon distracted The rise of SW:CCG In December 1995, released the first Star Wars: Customizable Card Game set, based on first first movie of the original trilogy. I didn’t hear about it directly - I discovered the cards in a friend’s hands after our holiday break in January 1996. Graphik Font Download.

He had great parents. They bought him some packs for Christmas. My group of friends and I jumped in with him, and we all started building our decks.

One deck of exactly 60 cards for the light side, and another for the dark side. Unlike Magic, games were always good against evil, and it was hard to include more than two people in one game. No matter; I had a lot of fun thinking through strategies, building decks, and playing games! The fall of SW:CCG It finally dawned on me, after the fourth set was released in April 1997, that I couldn’t stay on the treadmill. A lot of my friends had started to jump off already, but I needed hard proof that my hobby wasn’t good for me.

The fourth set’s powerful cards and smaller pack sizes made it clear that each new set would overshadow cards from previous sets. And if I was going to continue to play (and have a chance at winning), I would be squeezed for money I didn’t really have. Thus, I sold all my cards. It was a sad but necessary day.

Happily, I was able to channel that analytical energy into programming (with Pascal, then) and proto-blogging (with hand-edited HTML via ). The beginning of a lifelong obsession with software! In college, I bought some Magic cards and played them with friends, calling the effort Socialist™ Magic®. I took my lesson about the arms-race of commercial collectible card games to heart, building a shared set of cards my friends and I could play from. We had lots of fun, occasionally heading to the local comics/games shop to buy new cards we could all use. But I’d still look over to the new Star Wars cards sets wistfully, knowing that I didn’t have the money to jump back in. In 2001, unbeknownst to me, Decipher lost their contract to produce Star Wars: Customizable Card Game.

During that final year, they produced a number of last-minute, inadequately-tested sets, some based on the new prequel trilogy. And then the game was officially dead. Boardgaming, Hobbies, Nostalgia Cut to early 2015. After many game nights, I had realized that I really enjoyed serious board games, like and. All the little details, the strategies, the competition or cooperation. And the novelty: no game was ever the same, due to randomness.