Palatinus' OverPower Forum

I will be 37 on April. Back in 95' when I started playing I was 20 years old, and one of the oldest players in my group. There were a couple guys over 30 back at the time, but the others were just kids!

I'm 26 now, and started playing when I was in 5th grade. I think kids playing CCGs these days have it much worse than we did back in the Overpower days. Reading spoilers online, being able to easily buy singles instead of booster packs, easy access to the strategies of other players...it was more fun being in the dark. The thrill of opening a chase card in a pack that you didn't know existed, the fun of discovering powerful strategies independent of other playgroups, ahh memories.

Quote from: Bios on February 10, 2012, 05:32:19 AM
I will be 37 on April. Back in 95' when I started playing I was 20 years old,

me too
well 37 now

I'm 28 now. I was 11 when the game first came out and I started playing it.

I remember when I first got into it, I used to go to K-Mart and pick up the original OP starter decks because the only places to buy OP were a)K-Mart - original decks and b) local card shop - but he barely ever kept anything in stock. As a little kid starting out my only thought was to get all of the characters so I would save my allowance and go to K-Mart each week and pick up a new starter deck! 

I'm 23 today and I probably started playing in 1997 when I was 8 or 9.

I'm 30. I started playing when I was 13. For Christmas of '95, my mom got me a booster box! I was the envy of all my friends... that memory inspired my wife to buy me another booster box, 15 years later (when I had long since lost all my old collection). Much to her regret, since my passion is now revived! haha!

I'm 28 now and started playing right when it came out, which was right after my i turn twelve. I only played up though the launch of Monumental though. Then my collection pretty much sat all though high school and college, although we would still play a few times a year.

After I finally finished school in 2008 I started collecting again and have been ever since. Still don't play that much, as my only playing partner is 2000 miles away.

Interesting topic. I'm forty-something (and quite a lot of something) and was a little over thirty I think when OP came out in 1995. Same for Cherie who is just a few months older than me. When we went to our first tournament (OP regionals) and Cherie was playing some youngster who was quite visibly amused by playing someone so old I turned to her and said 'It's your mom dude.' We still use that phrase as a bit of an in joke. After that first experience though OP always seemed a pretty egalitarian game. There were always a range of different player ages but OP, like many CCG's, never attracted much of a female audience.

Wow, must feel much more comfortable for us "older" folks to reveal our age with quite a few more others in the same age range.  I'm 38 and got into OP during college in '95 when it first came out. So if I do the math right I was 21 when I started playing. I was a late bloomer when it came to comics as I started collecting around that time as well. Played regularly with one friend and we stopped collecting before the Mission Control set came out. Over the years, I ended up buying booster boxes for Mission Control, IQ, and Monumental OP sets even though I wasn't playing. It wasn't until a couple years ago that suddenly there was a big renewed interest with my college friend to play again and since then we've introduced some more people to the game. That's what got me into getting the Classic and X-Men sets and try to complete all the Marvel OP cards.

Quote from: Onslaught on February 10, 2012, 06:01:01 AM
I'm 26 now, and started playing when I was in 5th grade. I think kids playing CCGs these days have it much worse than we did back in the Overpower days. Reading spoilers online, being able to easily buy singles instead of booster packs, easy access to the strategies of other players...it was more fun being in the dark. The thrill of opening a chase card in a pack that you didn't know existed, the fun of discovering powerful strategies independent of other playgroups, ahh memories.

That is so true!  So much of the joy of these kinds of games comes from not knowing what you could get in a pack.  I know people who still play Magic regularly and before they go to a launch tournament for a set they will have already read every single card and all the strategies and deck builds people have come up with.  When I go to a Magic tournament I'll usually go to a sealed or draft for a new set and go in blind.  I don't do great, but I have a lot of fun seeing the cards for the first time.

I started playing Overpower when the first set came out but I only had a couple of friends who played and didn't even know there were tournaments and whatnot.  I don't remember how old I was but I am 29 now so someone can do the math.  I played through until right around DC came out.  My friends were all playing Magic by then and so was I, but I was still interested in Overpower.  No one else wanted anything to do with intellect or new cards so after DC that was it for my group.  I didn't get back into the game until years ago when I started my original forum.  That was a while before this one.   I don't remember exactly when that was, but sometime before 2008.  Maybe 2006?  Anyone who was on the old board might recall.  I had quite a shock when I learned about all the new stuff since Mission Control.

29 now.  I started playing when I was 15....  I think.   I had collected previous sets of the Marvel Cards up until '95 and when OP came out I collected it as well, with little interest in playing.  Some time after IQ was released was when I first started to play and go to tournaments, but I only collected marvel at the time and I stopped collecting and playing in general after Classic came out.

Got back into it about 5 or 6 years ago, shortly after a trip to a comic store on vacation had re-ignited my love of comics.

Early 30s. Started playing my freshman year of college 1996 at 17.

32 now and I began back in '95 right before Powersurge released.  At the same time I was being introduced to Magic:The Gathering as well, and I really enjoyed the different play styles both games had, but being that I started playing M:TG going into it's 4th year, I was WAY behind the times and easily beaten by the "veterans" at my school who had been playing for 4 years, but when we played Overpower, Myself and 2 of my friends dominated those guys time and time again.  I really enjoyed being on a level playing field with my other opponents, and try to stay current with the games that still interest me today.

27 now started when i was 10 or 11. I never was really into comics besides the saturday morning cartoons. but This game got me into marvel. I collected up untill classic and have yet to get my hands on any x-men or image cards. Besides the promos.

I vividly remember buying our first starter decks (Deadly Foes and Mutants Unite) and 2 or 3 boosters each at the Co-Gos (convenience store) on Washington Pike in Carnegie, PA. They've since razed that Co-Gos and put in a CVS.

I can't remember how we got turned on to the game though. It might have been advertising, or another friend... I think maybe one of my younger brother's friends. The only problem with that is I don't remember anyone ever having the game but us.

Either way, it was a good purchase! I'm 30 now and too lazy to do the math, but we were early adopters of OP.

I even traded through mail for several years way back when. I definitely remember trading with the Orange King. I'm not sure how I got those connections... maybe through some website or an AOL group of some kind? Does anyone remember that?