Old School Goodness to Share

[Grognardsw]

still have my Space Opera stuff

How was the game?

It's not "super old school" but it is 20 years old...

I never had the opportunity to play any robot games, but remember fondly the old Force Five cartoon series that aired on my UHF station in the very early 80s. It was an anthology show with a different dubbed Japanese robot show each day. Grandizer was one, the other names I forget.



And Battle of the Planets too, and Starblazers! I so enjoyed that after-school block.

[GreyWolfVT]

Well Bill the first game I posted that is from 2001 wasn't really a robot game but BattleTech certainly is. I didn't actually play either of those until around 2003 or 2004. BattleTech was pretty cool and had miniatures that you could paint. Kinda like WarHammer but certainly not as expensive a hobby to get into. Yes I also know D&D in some circles also used miniatures that often people would paint. (I did this myself later on around early 2000's). The Fallout game (for those not familiar) is fairly similar to Gamma World in the sense that it is a post apocalyptical world you can play a human or mutant. I think there was a part for androids/robots and or cybernetic though similar to the computer game/video games. Typically the video games were based in real areas of America at least to my remembering it was places like Vegas or California through most of those games one was in Washington D.C. all post war. With a retro sort of WWII time frame of when the war all happened so a lot of the relics found are from that era.

[Rex]

I never played battletech but I did play RIFTS a bunch. It had robots and cybernetics in plenty.

[cybersavant]

#161 Unread post by Grognardsw » Mar 3rd, '21, 09:21

cybersavant wrote: ↑Mar 3rd, '21, 01:50
still have my Space Opera stuff

How was the game?

it's a great game. one of my favorites

[ravenn4544]

Found this in the desk this week. Spent HOURS getting my ass beat and getting lost in the dark. Loved it. loved it. Still have the apple IIe I used to play it on. Boots up but that's it. Probably for the best .

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[Scott308]

One of my all-time favorite games! I also loved Exodus: Ultima III and Bard's Tale.

[ravenn4544]

Forgot about Exodus! That was so awesome back then - spent weeks and weeks on that one searching each square and dungeon.

And now for something completely different - here is the closure you may have been searching for all this years . Good ending .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1_6SeRRflo

[Grognardsw]

[Norjax]

So David Bowie!

[Rex]

Elves in space!

[Starbeard]

It took me a while to realize that was a space cat next to her and not her tutu!

[Grognardsw]

[Grognardsw]

Great game for JD fans. 2000AD rocked back then.

[Grognardsw]

May the 4th be with you.

[tibbius]

Wow. That's a really touching photo, I had never realized how boyish Mark Hamill was in real life back then, and it's so nice to see Carrie Fisher with a genuinely happy smile. Did the small guy play R2?

[GreyWolfVT]

I was wondering if the small guy was R2 or if he played a Jawa. What gets me is how young Harrison looks.

[ravenn4544]

Kenny Baker - he played R2D2.

[Rex]

A cool photo for sure.

[Starbeard]

Those look like Empire haircuts to me. I wonder where Anthony Daniels was that day.

[Grognardsw]

L-R: L. Sprague de Camp (whose packaging and publishing of Conan made the barbarian the phenomenon he is), Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. Big influences on the genre then and now.