Still Waiting, Still Nattering

[woodwardiocom]

While I wait for Ogre 6e to arrive, here's a retrospective of my relationship with the Ogre product line...

• I first heard about Ogre before college, probably from ads in Dragon magazine. I recall working on a computer adaptation of it, based on my nebulous ideas of what it was about. I called it CADON, for "Computer Automated Device One-Nine". Never finished it.
• I first bought G.E.V. in college, circa 1990 (the small plastic box edition, probably 3rd edition, 2nd print). The store didn't have Ogre.
  
• I also bought Shockwave (1984 printing) and the Reinforcement Pack (1987 printing) around that time.
  
• And Battlesuit! (1983 printing, probably a special order while I was working at Games 'n Stuff.) For some reason, I never played this, and left it behind when I left college.
  
• Sometime in the 1990s I bought Deluxe Ogre (1987, with the nice board and the little counter stands). Since it wasn't compatible with all the other maps and counters, and had a typo on the frikkin' board, I eventually gave it away. This might have been the first version of actual Ogre-qua-Ogre I ever bought.
  
• I bought the Ogre Miniatures book shortly after it came out, but until 2013 only owned one of the miniatures, a Mark V Ogre.
  
• I've bought both versions of the Ogre/G.E.V. combined set (the sturdy cardboard box from the second part of the 1990/1995 edition, and the VHS tape box of 2000).
  
• I re-bought Shockwave and the Reinforcement Pack when they were reissued in 2000.
  
• I apparently bought two copies of Battlefields in 2001.
  
• In 1999-2000, I wrote GURPS Ogre.
  
• I have both editions of The Ogre Book (1982 and 2001).
  
• Counting up all the maps I own, I must have bought another copy of G.E.V. in there somewhere, but I don't know when or which edition. (Most likely it was another copy of 3rd edition, but you'd think I'd have kept the plastic box.)
  
• I used to play the Unix-based Ogre computer game while telnet'd into io.com in the mid-90s.
  
• I bought a lot of the miniatures off of another Ogre fanatic a few months back. Hope I can make time to paint them!
  
• Oh, and Diceland: Ogre!

EDIT: Info from the Ogre Ludography has been added above.