So, how sick are 'ya?

[Pylon1357]

According to my wife, I spend far too much time playing video games. In my mind, I certainly do not. I just play the games, I don't sniff the air from the box, I don't lick the CD rom or DVD rom, I certainly don't sleep with my game console controller either.

I paly the outdated games as my machine is too slow for the newer games. I bought an xbox 360 but I gave it to my son.

[Whiterook]

Oh come on now Pylon.....you never once sniffed that 360 cartridge when your wife's not looking?

[50th]

I remember when I was a kid in school and they had those mimeograph machines, the ones that printed in blue ink, I used to love to pass out those papers. Especially when they were just off the machine and the ink was fresh. My last best game smell was when I bought Memoir 44 about a year ago. I am having to wait until summer before the airpack is within my budget, but I am counting the days and looking forward to that! I also play video games and have fallen asleep in my easy chair while playing a video game. Haven't we all done that though?

[Jim O]

Originally Posted by 50th

I remember when I was a kid in school and they had those mimeograph machines, the ones that printed in blue ink, I used to love to pass out those papers. Especially when they were just off the machine and the ink was fresh. My last best game smell was when I bought Memoir 44 about a year ago. I am having to wait until summer before the airpack is within my budget, but I am counting the days and looking forward to that! I also play video games and have fallen asleep in my easy chair while playing a video game. Haven't we all done that though?

The ones that printed in blue ink were commonly called rexographs. More specifically they were known as "Spirit Duplicators" or "Ditto Machines". Just the thought of that smell brings me back a "few" years.

A mimeograph was more like an offset printer. A wax paper stencil was made in a typewriter (sans ribbon) and the (typically black) ink passed through the stencil onto a paper.

[McCoy]

Ah, those blue rexographs that smelled a lot, especially when they were newly printed n' warm. n' the text faded pretty quick as I remember.

[Whiterook]

Hey 50th....that Air Pack expansion for Memoir '44 is sweeeeeeeet! Very well done! The expanded rulesbook is so much nicer than sifting through the Days Of Wonder website's scenarios section. The planes are gorgeous. I wonder if now having gone to the dark side with painted minis, DoW will start issuing future pieces painted? I doubt it, as the cost would be a lot more for production. Plus, many of us have the previous expansions with the non-painted figures, and it just wouldn't look right to have one side painted na d the other not. With the planes, that's not so glaring.

[50th]

One thing I would like to do when I get one, would be to repaint the white p38. But I am looking forward to it. But some early war or late war scenarios could be changed too much, I think. For example times when the allies had air superiority, or those times when German aircraft production was so low due to bombing by allies.

But yes, papers produced on those rexograph machines did smell good!

[Whiterook]

50th....I think Brummbar has probably already started repainting them, LOL!

[KG_Panzerschreck]

Originally Posted by Whiterook

No, this is a serious question! Another gamer (I'll spare him the embarassment of dragging him down this self introspective admission) at this site brought up the point that he "...loves the smell of carboard in the morning"...a symbolic muse, granted, but I'm sure with a hint at real life admiration of boardgames! I love the smell of a new game, and it's like openning a box of chocolates...the aroma is also to be savored......

Uh, Er.....Um.......I wonder who your talking about?

Im a hardcore sniffer from way back in the days of Avalon Hill Games. The best "Smelling" game i've ever smelled was Memoir '44! It had a pleasant aroma of fresh plastic and fine Artist Oils from the board when i first plucked it from the box. I think its time someone stages an intervention on my behalf..... Ive got it bad.

[Klaus]

I am not a big wargamer. Propably because I suck at it big time. Or maybe because my colleagues only tell me some rules at the beginning and then some others while playing: "Oh! I forgot! THAT, what YOU wanna do is NOT ALLOWED." Those bastards.

But I am definitivly a sniffer. I am not a sicko and smell my 360 cartridges, as some may or may not do, () but I definitivly smell new books, Nazi-stuff I ordered and just arrived and other WW2 related stuff such as Dragon figures and my recently purchased copy of "Mein Kampf" (wedding edition).

And sometimes I smell the fur of my kitten (pet not girlfriend) to see if it betrayed me again and ate at the neigbours. That's the most strange thing about me. Otherwise I feel very, very sane. "Hitler felt sane too, ya know?" Oh, shut up will you?!