LiamKerrington
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Yeah. +1 I remember watching that one as a child. And I was heavily charmed by the small robots. I even reconstructed those with LEGO (tm).
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Liam
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Yeah. +1 I remember watching that one as a child. And I was heavily charmed by the small robots. I even reconstructed those with LEGO (tm).
Best wises!
Liam
leo knight
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I almost forgot my first science fiction book. The girl who babysat for me when I was only 3 years old knew I was nuts about the Gemini space launches, and gave a Dig Allen Space Explorer book, "Captives of Space". I couldn't even read then, but it had rocket ships and spacesuits. Joy!
folks might like this site... lots of good scans from old space books and the like. lot of stuff there already...
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/
Highorbit_drifter
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Almost exactly mine too. Add into it weekend local TV programming (KTLA mostly) that very often featured Godzilla, Forbidden Planet, War of the Worlds, and any number of horror movies that I would watch when a good SF wasn't on.
ShapeShifter
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SpaceBadger
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Dang, that was a long time ago, hard to pick out any one/two/three things.
There was ST:TOS.
There was the Apollo program. But I already had toy spaceships and astronauts; I remember my Mom borrowing them for party decorations when she had people over to watch the first Moon landing.
There was Major Matt Mason action figures (made out of rubber, with wire skeletons which soon broke) and a whole line of space aliens from each planet in our solar system.
There were "boy genius" books like Danny Dunn and Tom Swift, adventures like Burroughs's Barsoom, SF by Andre Norton and Poul Anderson and more...
That is all just stuff that I remember up to about age 8 - in the 1970s there was so much more!
There was ST:TOS.
There was the Apollo program. But I already had toy spaceships and astronauts; I remember my Mom borrowing them for party decorations when she had people over to watch the first Moon landing.
There was Major Matt Mason action figures (made out of rubber, with wire skeletons which soon broke) and a whole line of space aliens from each planet in our solar system.
There were "boy genius" books like Danny Dunn and Tom Swift, adventures like Burroughs's Barsoom, SF by Andre Norton and Poul Anderson and more...
That is all just stuff that I remember up to about age 8 - in the 1970s there was so much more!
My influences started when I was 5 or younger.
My dad had these things called "Little Big Books" a combination books/comics with Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. There was also Tom Swift and Rick Brant (I was an early reader)
The TV/Movie show "Family Classics" on WGN here in Chicago back before I was 5. The first movies I remember from that show on Sundays.:
Mysterious Island
The Last Days of Atlantis
The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds
Dark Shadows - not sci-fi but it made my mind more receptive for things
THEN came TOS and Wild Wild West...
My dad had these things called "Little Big Books" a combination books/comics with Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. There was also Tom Swift and Rick Brant (I was an early reader)
The TV/Movie show "Family Classics" on WGN here in Chicago back before I was 5. The first movies I remember from that show on Sundays.:
Mysterious Island
The Last Days of Atlantis
The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds
Dark Shadows - not sci-fi but it made my mind more receptive for things
THEN came TOS and Wild Wild West...
Rooster Cogburn
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- Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
- Battlestar Galactica
- Star Wars
- Asimov, Pohl, & Niven
Riik O'Shae
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"Space Cadets" by Robert Anson Heinlein in 1966 when I found a copy thrust behind a desk in music class..
Been hooked ever since.
Riik
Been hooked ever since.
Riik
Enoff
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Like others I watched many TV programs but I think what got me interested in Scifi gaming was my very first war board game that my aunt bought me in the summer of '76, Avalon Hill's Starship Troopers based on Robert Heinlein's novel. Also of that summer I met several of the kids who would later turn me onto D&D. I was over at their house because their parents were colleagues of my aunt, who worked as a professor in the Geology department of the University of Kentucky. While the parents were preparing dinner and uncorking wine downstairs they were playing TSR's Star Probe upstairs. I was instantly fascinated by the talk of star exploration and starship battle fleets. The next summer Star Wars came out and sealed the interest.
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I loved the book "Starship Troopers" but couldn't get into the game. (I've got it in a box in the closet somewhere.) The game I enjoyed was Star Soldier, by SPI in 1977.
SpaceBadger
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I remember I had to make up a lot of houserules to make the Starship Troopers game fit my conception based on combat described in the book - which was probably my favorite book at the time the game came out (still in Top 20).
