#TBT: Gaming Nostalgia!

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bayonetbrant

Quote from: Cyrano on August 11, 2015, 11:10:58 PMCome talk to me when you've built a single solar system for this ridiculous creaking mass of an RPG and then we'll have some real nostalgia...

{raises hand}

I actually fought at least 2 battles using the Delta-Vee system, too.  Never again.
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Cyrano

I actually LIKED World Killer and the Cartesian representation of 3D space...then again, I liked trig a lot too, so that may be saying something.

Delta Vee, on the other hand, like so much else that SPI did, just drove that sumbitch off a cliff...
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bayonetbrant

Remember when Palladium was all about historical reference books?  So do we!
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bayonetbrant

you want obscure?  we've got obscure...  O0
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mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

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mirth

And yes, Combots is obscure. I may have even played it once or twice, eons ago.
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BanzaiCat

I don't think I ever heard of Combots. Head of FASA of course, but f&ck them.

mirth

Don't be hating on FASA. Many of my fondest memories of gaming are from FASA games - Star Trek the RPG, Star Trek: Starship Tactical Combat Simulator, Battletech, the Dr Who RPG...
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Barthheart

Quote from: mirth on August 25, 2015, 09:42:46 AM
Don't be hating on FASA. Many of my fondest memories of gaming are from FASA games - Star Trek the RPG, Star Trek: Starship Tactical Combat Simulator, Battletech, the Dr Who RPG...

+1, why hate FASA?  :o

bbmike

Quote from: Barthheart on August 25, 2015, 09:43:47 AM
Quote from: mirth on August 25, 2015, 09:42:46 AM
Don't be hating on FASA. Many of my fondest memories of gaming are from FASA games - Star Trek the RPG, Star Trek: Starship Tactical Combat Simulator, Battletech, the Dr Who RPG...

+1, why hate FASA?  :o

+2  :o  :o
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mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

BanzaiCat

I used to love them (LOVE them), but they screwed me on a mail order back in the day. I ordered a copy of "Trader Captains and Merchant Princes" (the first edition, from '83 or '84 or so when it first came out) for the ST RPG. The book was a hot mess - pages double-printed, repeated, not all the content was there, some blank pages...it was an utter and complete travesty that ANYTHING like that could go out the door without being noticed. All they had to do was flip through the bloody thing to see it looked like a thesaurus and dictionary had wicked sloppy sex and left their letter leavings everywhere. And they never made it right.

I might still have it upstairs among my RPG stuff. If I have a chance later I'll go look for it and scan a few pages. As a tech writer/writer in general, sending someone something like that is akin to taking a hot shit into a book and mailing it to the customer. Unforgivable if not made right, and it wasn't.

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(whoops, cross-posting, no idea how that happened)

mirth

"Trader Captains and Merchant Princes" is one of the few ST:RPG books I don't have (yes I still have all of mine stashed somewhere).

I will grant you that the editing and production values of many FASA ST products left a lot to be desired.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

bayonetbrant

y'all oughta check out the ancient TSR ads out there on today's front page :)
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