For some reason, for the past many years, I had it in my head that my brother and I started with Holmes Blue Box in...

For some reason, for the past many years, I had it in my head that my brother and I started with Holmes Blue Box in 8th grade.

However, a couple weeks ago, someone mentioned that the AD&D Monster Manual came out in 1978, and I know that we had to wait for all of the AD&D books to come out.

I called my brother tonight and confirmed that it was actually 7th grade that we started.

So in march/April of this year, I will have played D&D for 40 years!

The Holmes cover to me is D&D.