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poor Murray

 

[Ryujin]

Was it Fight in the Skies or Dawn Patrol (both by Mike Carr)?

Fight in the Skies

Single-seat fighter vs. two-seat fighter vs. observation balloon in aerial combat.

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Dawn Patrol: Role Playing Game of WW I Air Combat

Light role-playing, via continuing pilot characters, meets WWI air combat gaming.

boardgamegeek.com

The cover certainly looked like Dawn Patrol, like so many others as well, but it wasn't a RPG.

Richtofen's War by any chance? I played a fair bit of that in high school.

Don't think so.

 

[dragoner]

Yes to all.

I had a lot of the expansions for the Metagames/Steve Jackson games, with OGRE/GEV getting the most play. And I also had the Apple II versions of the computer games for OGRE/GEV and Car Wars. Car Wars is one of the few computer games I finished.

Good times. Good times.

So much gaming, like mentioned below, there was diplomacy, a hugely popular game in the chess club. There was a wealth of games, I still see a lot at the gencon exhibit hall, and the game store has so many I will never play, except my mind wanders back to the little ones of my youth. I think one thing is that they were really portable. Set up and play anywhere.

 

[billd91]

The cover certainly looked like Dawn Patrol, like so many others as well, but it wasn't a RPG.

Dawn Patrol is less a role playing game than a game in which you play an individual pilot who gains experience. If you haven't clicked the link, go check out the screenshots and see if they jog any memories.

 

[Ryujin]

Dawn Patrol is less a role playing game than a game in which you play an individual pilot who gains experience. If you haven't clicked the link, go check out the screenshots and see if they jog any memories.

Thanks, I did before responding. The "RPG" on the cover and the cover art didn't spark any memories.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Back when the little black box games were in the process of losing the company money (seriously, at one point the box prices rose but they kept charging the same amount -- $2.50, I thin? -- so they ended up, in the final accounting, losing a few cents for each unit sold), I was only able to get in on a few games of Ogre, and picked that one up. I absolutely loved it, bought everything else for it, and never got into another game. The group I knew that played those little games a lot never really invited me, probably because I wasn't a very strong tactical player. I loved the short fiction pieces that should up in The Space Gamer for the setting.

At the time, I always intended to run a game in the Ogre universe. One guy might play a GEV pilot, another a power-suit Infantry guy. Another might play an agent or something. You're all that's left of your respective units, and are in a mostly-ruined city that is still being menaced by an Ogre Mark III. How do you survive? Can a few individuals even have an impact on an Ogre? I never got anyone to bite.

Since then, I've picked up a lot of these and did the SJ Games Kickstarter. I love the concept, but always had trouble finding people to play them with. That's why I had a kid -- I'm making my own gamer to play games with!

 

[dragoner]

Back when the little black box games were in the process of losing the company money (seriously, at one point the box prices rose but they kept charging the same amount -- $2.50, I thin? -- so they ended up, in the final accounting, losing a few cents for each unit sold), I was only able to get in on a few games of Ogre, and picked that one up. I absolutely loved it, bought everything else for it, and never got into another game. The group I knew that played those little games a lot never really invited me, probably because I wasn't a very strong tactical player. I loved the short fiction pieces that should up in The Space Gamer for the setting.

At the time, I always intended to run a game in the Ogre universe. One guy might play a GEV pilot, another a power-suit Infantry guy. Another might play an agent or something. You're all that's left of your respective units, and are in a mostly-ruined city that is still being menaced by an Ogre Mark III. How do you survive? Can a few individuals even have an impact on an Ogre? I never got anyone to bite.

Since then, I've picked up a lot of these and did the SJ Games Kickstarter. I love the concept, but always had trouble finding people to play them with. That's why I had a kid -- I'm making my own gamer to play games with!

I loved the Space Gamer, all the various magazines, going to the game store was a wonderous experience, also because they were usually hobby stores, with all sorts of stuff. I have the Car Wars black plastic box, though I used and old check box, like from a bank for it. The zip lock bags were ok until the zipper ripped, the folded plastic envelope games always leaked pieces. Eventually I just used brown paper bags from lunch to keep the games together. Sort of like finding a treasure of "what's in this bag?" When I opened the box after a ton of years. IIRC there were crossover RPG's from Car Wars and Ogre; we just used them in a mash up of AD&D and Gamma World, or Traveller.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I'm still trying to locate some of the stuff produced for Western, mostly because English language Old West material was sparse until Deadlands hit big and then was suddenly dominated with Weird West stuff that might not fit more mundane settings. I've gotten lucky with the fanzine archive on alexandria.dk; I'm a sucker for fanzines, even if I have to copy and paste the text to Google Translate. There were some fanzines with fan material for Western there.

I've seen a few different non-Weird Western games on DTRPG in the last couple years.

 

[Staffan]

I'm still trying to locate some of the stuff produced for Western, mostly because English language Old West material was sparse until Deadlands hit big and then was suddenly dominated with Weird West stuff that might not fit more mundane settings. I've gotten lucky with the fanzine archive on alexandria.dk; I'm a sucker for fanzines, even if I have to copy and paste the text to Google Translate. There were some fanzines with fan material for Western there.

If you're interested in newer material, the same people formed a new company to publish new stuff. I understand that it's pretty good if you're into that sort of thing ("mundane" Western is not my personal jam). It's written in Swedish, though.

 

[CleverNickName]

Any advice for a first-time home buyer? Asking for a friend.

I am the friend.