Broke into a spy game variant RPG for a while but always came back to D&D.
Top Secret by any chance?
We were wargameres who also started RPGing when a friend brought an original D&D box set back from TSR after a vacation in Wisconsin. We quickly discovered that Flying Buffalo Inc. was just over in Scottsdale when they put out T&T. At first they didn’t have a storefront (mail order from a warehouse) but they ran games there and would let you go back and browse the shelves and buy stuff direct from them so we always had the latest games and supplements. From there we branched out to just about every RPG someone made for awhile, until there were just to many to keep up with.
Started getting to expensive to get everything for each game so we could all GM all of them so we each specialized in GMing our favorites. I ended up running Traveler, Chivalry & Sorcery and Runequest mainly.
I’ve tried gaming some since then but just never found a group that had the same chemistry. I suppose it was because we where already friends and also had social lives together outside of gaming.
I even did some live action RPGing with some SCA buddies during my first attempt at University. The utility tunnels under the buildings at Oregon State University made for great dungeon passages. It was very educational as to what weapons and fighting styles really worked in close quarters.
