A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…no sorry that’s another story! The Outer Limits Games Club actually started in Coventry, England in 1990. Three brothers, John, Clive and Paul Marshall were meeting regularly in each others houses to continue a Warhammer 40,000 campaign they had been playing for some months. After a while Clive and John began to think about starting a gaming group somewhere that could take larger numbers of people than their own dining rooms.      They made enquiries at the local school and community college and were told that they could hire a classroom for an hourly fee. A booking was then made for the following month, to use a classroom for one hour. At that time in pre-history, there was no Games Workshop store in Coventry so the three brothers put adverts in model shops, newspaper shops etc. saying there would be a meeting at the school in a month’s time. This meeting was to gauge the reaction of any local gamers to the creation of a club. The embryonic club, needed at that time (costs have obviously increased over the years) ten people each paying £1.00 in order to hire a room for three hours. The brothers crossed their fingers and waited.The night of the meeting arrived and the brothers waited anxiously in the allotted classroom armed with details of things that the gamers (if any turned up) would want to know. How much was the club going to cost them? What could it give them in the way of facilities etc.?      At seven o’clock, the set time for the meeting the Marshall brothers sat silently watching the door. At a quarter past, no one else had arrived and they were beginning to think they had wasted their time, but then a group of four or five blokes came in, looking mighty dubious in the Homo Sapien stakes. These people (?), it turned out, were to become the backbone of the what was to be called the Outer Limits Games Club over the years.Mad Malc, Gary the Punk, ‘H’, Ray the Biker and Jump Pack John helped to provide the impetus to get the club up and running, and all but Ray the Biker (who has since moved on to pastures new somewhere in Leicestershire) still turn up every Wednesday evening.      All in all, twenty people turned up at the meeting and everyone of them were mad keen to get the club up and running. The next day, Clive Marshall, booked the first slot of ten sessions with the school and the club has never looked back.

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