Pre-History Collections

This seems like the perfect time to do some prehistory on my gaming history prior to the passion for CCG/TCGs and Mutant Chronicles.

I've always been a collector, I remember collecting stamps in grade 2. Then those amazing Panini Sticker books that I would never get enough sticker packs to complete. In grade 5 (1989) I was in to Donruss Baseball cards. When I moved to Nova Scotia we found out there was a card / comic / hobby store in town and they had Donruss cards. Interest few into their comic books and I dived head long into Punisher comics for a year or two, comics and sports card were huge at the time, before the bottom fell out. 

Around the same this time my neighbor was into Dungeons and Dragons and what they could find at the library. That lead me to the original D&D Cyclopedia as well as the Fighting Fantasy book Titan that showed a fully detailed world, I only seen this book at this point so I had no idea about the FF books until much later.

Shortly after HeroQuest showed up in the toy section of the defunct small regional department store Peoples. I think it was pretty inexpensive and I got it for my birthday that year. It is pretty rough looking but I still have it:

I'll do a follow up article on HeroQuest. From this to D&D Black box / Mutant Chronicles: Seige of the Citadel then very shortly after a new game came out, maybe you've heard of it...Magic:The Gathering.