Ahhh, the nostalgy..
When I was younger (~15) I read of the marvelous RD&D in an old Dragon magazine. I was excited by the nice pictures of people wearing medieval customes and weapons. So, naturally I decided that we should do the same amongst our friends, which were all red box original d&d veterans. We made armor from cardboard boxes, and lots of weapons which basically were broom sticks with guard for the hands. We gathered some 15 guys, went to the nearest construction site, and beat each other bloody. It was quite fun, until we we're thrown out of there by a rude guard. That was the first and only time I played RD&D, we decided that the broom sticks hurt too much, and we didn't have money or insight to think of anything else anyway. Just wanted to share..