Pretty much my experience. But the "clicking" moment was my first scenario I played in with CP 2013. A medtech with a empathy of 2. I loved the bedside manner I gave to the my fellow PCs...
After Bladerunner, the seed lay dormant in me for years. occasionally it would get some water and soil,.... In 86 I got into anime, I had been exposed to it in brief measured doses before hand, as with Cyberpunk, not knowing what it actually was... Some of my earliest memories were of watching Speed Racer and Battle Of The Planets/G-Force (Gatchaman)... in the late 70's I saw Galaxy Express 999 (to this day it is one of the coolest and most stylish concepts ever) and in the early 80's HBO and USA used to show poorly dubbed anime movies and HBO ran a series called Thunderbirds 2081, loosely inspired by the old Thunderbirds are go.
Then in 1985 Robotech started airing, and HBO was showing Warriros of the Wind (a horribly dubbed and edited version of Nausica). After wandering for a year, not knowing what I was looking for exactly, I met a friend who introduced me to the wider world of anime. In early 88, I went to my first comic book convention and when I came home I had in my possession bootlegged copies of Akira, Bubblegum Crisis, Fist Of The North Star, the old Appleseed OVA, Grey Digital Target and a few other none cyberpunk animes.... I the seed was sprouting... but I was still wandering a bit.
I had gotten the Basic DnD red box when I was 10, but never had the cance to really play until my cousin invited me to join his group when I was 11. The experience was pretty dissapointing. For all the talk of being whoever you wanted to be and having control over your character, I couldn't play a guiy who was both a fighter and a thief, which meant I couldn't play Conan, which was kind of the entire point of wanting to play for my 11 year old self. The situation soured me so much that I wouldn't actually play an rpg again till the day after I graduated high school. It was weird, because my parents would buy me RPG books, I had Top Secret, all the Robotech books from palladium, a ton of Marvel and DC books... But I just regarded them as groovy information texts, that sometimes came with groovy dice..
Then the day after graduation, my friend, who had been attending the KC Art institute invited me to come play with his group. He kind of had to convince me, but we spent all night making up a DnD character. When we showed up, we didn't play dnd, we played this new game I had seen ads in the back of animag for but new nothing about... Cyberpunk
And that was all she wrote... the idea went from seed to full on garden instantly, the light shone bright above my head as the choir of digital angels dang in my ear.