In my day, D&D came in the Blue Box and the Red Box. I had the Blue Box 'Expert Rules'.
We played through college, then I got married... my spouse was not into RPG's much. So my gaming languished...
Then I was divorced and now I'm playing again in 5th edition and 1st edition. Somewhere someone will encounter an NPC Fighter named Dantuine who was my very first character who never actually died, just uh..hibernated.