I started back in the early 90's, might have even been in the late-80's.
My first RPG session was actually in RM2 with the RM2.5 (on rpg.net) boxed set and Middle-Earth map from the finnish translation of LotR. To be honest, it wasn't all that good, our GM gave us 100/101 in all our stats and the rules didn't play too high of role in any case (not that I think that is a bad thing, but when you ignore them fully it kinda makes having a character sheet pointless).
Later on, around -91 or so, I met a guy at my new school that had the rules as well and bunch of other books. We ended up playing D&D however and didn't touch RM until years later, but that Shadow World campaign left a big mark on me and I still count it as the best campaign I've ever been in.
At one point or another we also played Space Master, Cyberspace & MERP. And had plenty of those books and adventures.
In 2001 I moved to Sweden and my group in Finland got left behind, I haven't been playing anything until I got on a Skype group about a year ago and only started buying books again, RM2.5 boxed set was one of the first things I got and I found it in perfect (as in the books had not even been opened) condition. The same guy also sold me his SW Master Atlas and Emer boxes, both in perfect condition as well. I'm now collecting all the SW material as I love that world.
So, a long time ICE fan.