Palatinus' OverPower Forum

First purchase had to have been not long after release, which was a booster pack.  1995, that would make me...8 at time of purchase, I guess.  Currently 25.

I was in 2nd year of University when I started playing. I'll be turning 40 this year. Bonkers!

38 now.  Was 21 back in 1995 and in college when I started buying cards.  There was nobody to play with except my roommate, but he only played because I was interested and he was a good friend.  I collected comics, so I still enjoyed buying the cards even though it would be years later until I could play fairly regularly.

I'm 30 years old now. I started in 1998 when I was 16 years old, probably late in 1998. I acquired my own collection from a friend who gave me all of his cards, so I had everything through Classic OverPower, and I do mean everything. This friend had at least two of every card, if not more, and for cards like Vertigo  he had almost ten of each card. It was enough to give my brother and cousin their own collection and still have enough cards left for my friends to build decks when they played with us. I bought Image and X-Men on my own and pieced the sets together during some intense buying at the local flea market. We had the X-Men set in one day, having bought several boxes as a group from one of the vendors selling. Image took quite a bit longer to complete, but I was able to score Malebolgia and the multi-five card in packs pretty early on. I didn't know the value of the multi-five at the time, and figured Malebolgia was rare, but didn't realize how rare. I had thought Spawn was the rare character card as it took me a couple trips to find him (my brother actually bought it in advance to give me a scare, as it was gone when I went to buy it from the local vendor, but he traded the card to me for Grifter and Violator character cards).

Today; my cousin might still have his cards, he moved out of the area and I only see him during family get-togethers a couple times a year. When my brother stopped playing he let me have his cards and I sold the bulk of my collection (except for one of each character card) in two massive lots for a nice chunk of money several years ago. In all, we played quite often from late 1998 to 2003 and on and off for a year or two after before I sold the bulk of my collection.

i know this is an old thread, but i just tripped upon it while moseying around the site.....
You people make me feel OLD!!!!  i'm 53, and started playing at 36 with my son & daughter, then later with step sons and friends of the kids.  (Couldn't find any adults that were interested, other than my younger brother who lives 2 states away.)  Got so into the game that i put myself in deep debt buying boxes of expansion packs, trying to complete 2 complete sets (1 to collect, 1 to play with).

i'm 30 right now and i started playing when i was 13-14 years old.  I didn't have much money in those days, no allowance, so my friend would lend me cards to build decks with, he only had one set so we could never have the same hero in our decks.  it was ok though since he liked strength decks and i like fighting decks.  Didn't start my collection until around year 2000 and i think i've acquired about 80% of all the sets which is pretty good since i stopped collecting in 2002 when i thought no one was playing anymore.

I am 27 now and I started playing when I was 21, or sometime near that. I never heard of the game, but my husband would often talk about it because he liked it so much. He bought me a bunch of cards, and convinced me to start playing. I have not played much, because I have never been very interested in any deck building games until very recently.

I'm trying to get my wife and friend to play, but my wife is resistant.  I just picked up the new UpperDeck Legendary card game, which went over REALLY well with my friends, (we get together every Tueday night as a game night) and my wife seemed to like it too.  I'm planning on using it to bridge more people into Overpower. 

Started playing the day it came out. I had read about it in Wizard magazine. I remember how popular MtG was at the time but I had no interest in a game that I was not on board with from the beginning. I was into Marvel comics at the time so it was a perfect match. I was 24 at the time. My brothers were 21, 18 & 15. I bought about 20 packs and we put teams together not really knowing the rules or strategies. We started beating on each not using the venture aspect of the game. It was my youngest brother that first started grasping the concept of a winning team (at that time). Fun times

Quote from: Demacus on March 17, 2013, 03:06:37 PM
I'm trying to get my wife and friend to play, but my wife is resistant.  I just picked up the new UpperDeck Legendary card game, which went over REALLY well with my friends, (we get together every Tueday night as a game night) and my wife seemed to like it too.  I'm planning on using it to bridge more people into Overpower.

I have never heard of or played UpperDeck Legendary, is it at all like Overpower?
I can relate to your wife not being able to get into overpower. I use to not enjoy it at all and only played because my husband wanted me too. It literally took him years to get me interested in playing. What got me into it was he started having me watch ALL of the old comic cartoons. I only half payed attention, but after a while I started to care about the characters. Now I am semi familiar with the characters and it is actually fun to play.
We play a lot of games too. Have you ever played any of the Fantasy Flight games? Particularly Decent or Arkham Horror?


Some the the shows responsible for helping me get into overpower are: Spiderman the animated series, Avengers the earth's mightiest heroes, X men the animated series, Justice League, Young Justice, Batman Beyond, Static Shock, The zeta project, Batman the animated series, superman the animated series.... There are more but I can't remember them.

Legendary just released from UpperDeck back in Nov-Dec.  It's a card game, but that's about the only similarity that Legendary and Overpower have.  Where in Overpower, you build your deck WELL in advance of the game, then go toe-to-toe with another person who did the same, in Legendary, you build your deck AS the game progresses, and instead of playing against the other players, players work together to defeat a villianous mastermind, who's plays are made autonomously though the rules of the game.  The villian has his own deck, which is automatically advanced at the start of each players' turn.  It also has rules for playing solo, if you are bored and by yourself or if you just want to try your luck on your own. 

It's a neat game, but I wouldn't compare it to any of the TCG's out there, as all the cards needed to play come inside the box when you purchase the game.  There are no booster packs floating around that you need to buy to strengthen your collection, though I understand that UpperDeck has an expansion scheduled for release in June.

I remember trading a normal comic trading card for a copy of carnage's ag in 2nd or 3rd grade. I keep a copy of that card in my wallet. So that would have been between late 95 and early 97. So that was my first overpower card,before I played or anything

Started collecting when i was 9 or 10 in 98. I am turning 25 in June.
I actually made this popular at my middle school in 7th or 8th grade. I think one of the reasons my collection was  at about 69% when I got back into the game last year is because I would sell my own boosters on campus of my doubles. Especially getting rid of my dc crap. Because I didn't have a job or allowance as is kid.

I do owe a lot to my older brother because he had a job and spent a lot of money on these cards too.

Around that time there was a seller at the weekly flea market who was selling iq packs very cheap, one of the reasons I have a copy of power leech and 4r spider man.

At the comics shop I remember mission control and bs being the cheapest. I never got many classic , jla or image packs from them.

And yeah x-babies were immortal on the playground lol.

I started playing with my friends probably in 96,97 maybe?  I'm not really sure... you could get Monumental and I'm pretty sure Classic packs at the time.  I remember going OP nuts and selling off my Magic the Gathering dual lands for about 8 bucks a piece, about 20 or 25 duals, so about 200 bucks worth of IQ packs.  That, in hindset was a BIG mistake (dual lands are outrageous in price right now!), but I don't regret it.  The largest part of my collection came from a friend that quit and gave me all of his stuff, with the promise that if he ever wanted to play, I would build him a deck.  That's fair.  I'm 32 today... I've never given up on the idea that this game could relaunch. 

I'm 32 now I started when the game first came out and stayed with it till the last X-Men packs came out. I was very active in the Legion playing in NY, Chicago, and Buffalo tournaments.

Maybe you know Marcel, he's a Toronto player that did very well at tournaments.