I have an odd history with Pandemic. It served as one of the four horsemen of my entry into the hobby (the others being Catan, Arkham Horror, and Shadows Over Camelot). Like many people, I was surprised and delighted by complex tabletop (and especially cooperative) gaming, a hobby that that has had a huge impact on my life, both personally and professionally.
Unfortunately, I played so much of the first edition of Pandemic that I was effectively ‘over it’ by the middle of 2009. Even as I started and progressed my career in the industry, I haughtily ignored Pandemic for years until I transferred from Fantasy Flight Games to Z-Man Games. Settling into that new environment, it became clear very quickly that I would have to get over my ‘being over’ Pandemic.