Mapping; where doth lie the root for interest?

[MangyCarface]

I'd like to test the correlation between those who played with Legos, or another building set as a child, and those who map. Humor me?

[Void]

I played with Legos and played lots of Sims 1 and 2, along with their expansions.

[YM]

Never played with legos, but I loved playing with my lego bricks.

I had a mahooosive collection (still do) I even had two of the original mindstorms kits, I made little "robomice" that could talk to each other

But actually my interest in games came from blitz basic my dad bought it when I was around 8 or 9 and we wrote a version of arkanoid together using it. fantastic times

EDIT: Fun fact: The very original of Worms was written with Blitz basic before being ported over to another language for its commerical release.

[Fireman]

Legos, K'nex , erector sets, I used to have heaps and heaps of all of them.

[uma plata]

Link'n logs ftw

[A Boojum Snark]

I have a tub of around 14,000 lego pieces sitting six feet away, and about 4000 k'nex pieces yonder further in the closest. I also had a few Capsela sets. edit: oh yes, link'n logs too!

Now for the weird one. My mother had a whole bunch of stencils for various kinds of design work, one of which was a bunch of road map symbols (lane merge, speed bump, highway signs, etc). I used to take said stencil and connect various symbols on a piece of paper in an intricate system to create, as I called them, "poop plants" (mature person translation: sewage treatment facility). I had all the different parts of the system named and what they did.

[umbratile]

I used to have lots of LEGO bricks and other variants (some larger, more child friendly ones called Duplo, but I don't know if those were sold internatially). I never built anything complex, I just played around with them. A friend of mine used to build LEGO robots and stuff, though.

[Spike]

I had legos and this:

[eerieone]

i´ve build transformers out of my vast lego collection, still have it somewhere back home

[AntonJ3000]

Yep, I played with lego when I was younger.