[OT] Old SF game reminiscences... (was: Re: An introduction AND EVEN AN ON TOPIC BIT!

> Ground Zero Games wrote:

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> Jon (GZG)

July 10th.....  :-/
> Let's see... There was Starguard, Space Marine, Alien Space, and the

Yup. Had 'em all except for Alien Space - never did get that one. Have
still got an early ed of Starguard, the SFBM and the reissued FGU Space
Marines book (lent my FanTac original to someone long ago and never got it
back...) Triplanetary. Other notable things from the same period are Dave
Rotor's original "Galactic Warfare" rules from Skytrex, which were (IMHO) not
very good, so they inspired me to do better, which led to writing what
eventually became FT, and I also have TTG's old Galactic War (not be be
confused with the Skytrex rules above), which is an A5 size microgame with
cut-out ship counters.
I was never very heavily into board wargames, so missed out on stuff like
Triplanetary - too busy spending what spare cash I had on miniatures!

> was my first science fiction game and it saw heavy use. The black box

It was a surprisingly good game, I thought... one of the few SPI ones I
actually played more than a couple of times. Sold it some time back with a