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>[email removed] writes:
>> I'm new to the list, so I don't know if there has been any discussion of
>> Space:1889. This game had the hopeful themes of Edgar Rice Burroughs and
>> Victorian Sci-Fi. I really like the game. It was, by all accounts, a
>> financial disacter for GDW. A couple of industry people I spoke with
>> thought that it had almost bankrupted GDW.
>I like Space: 1889 a lot too, although I didn't buy it when it came out. You
>can blame MegaTraveller for that. I had recently purchased MegaTraveller and
>after realizing the profound lack of quality control in that game, I wanted
>nothing to do with Space: 1889 until at least the second edition, lest I be
>stuck with *another* $30 unplayable monstrosity.
>Of course, a second edition never came out, and I eventually picked up some
>of the materials second-hand (and still check out whatever is left-over at
>the game stores for new Space: 1889 stuff).
I did one better than both of you, I even hoodwinked myself into buying
the *%&#* Space 1889 computer game. Actually I kinda of miss the pointy
ears folks on mars and the venusian lizard folk. Probably bought 90% of
the stuff for it. Always liked it a lot better than TW2000 and Trav 2300.
One of the redeeming qualities of Challange for me has been the fact that they
still publish adventures for Space 1889 in it. Actually, while my
signers of paycheck would never agree to it here, is there any interest
in a mailing list for us poor abandoned SP1889 fans and is there anybody
with the interest and the longer leash who would host it? This would
spare all those other members of TML who are still heaving into the
air-sickness bags over this conversation.
Brian Makens