Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Congratulations on finding a new dumbest hill to die on.

 

[TiQuinn]

Yeah, I've got a strong hunch it was Fight in the Skies AKA Dawn Patrol.

This was originally self-published by Mike Carr starting in '66, then the fourth edition by Guidon in '72, then by TSR in '75, so the term role-playing game didn't even exist yet. It got re-titled Dawn Patrol by TSR in '82, and somewhere along the way it got retroactively labeled an RPG because of the pilot experience system, I expect purely as a marketing trick. But it's really a dogfight wargame/boardgame.

Historical note: It's the only game that's been played at EVERY GenCon, since the beginning.

All the talk of WWI flying games makes me think of this:


I played this game endlessly as a kid on the Apple IIe.

 

[trappedslider]

Congratulations on finding a new dumbest hill to die on.

well as long they are dead....

 

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[Mad_Jack]

I have seen a lot of my friends who loved Car Wars back in the little black box days are loving Gaslands. A great way to reuse your old Matchbox cars.

I never looked into Gaslands since I was pretty sure I'd never get a chance to play it. Back in the day, though, I used to build Car Wars vehicles out of plastic models - I'd steal guns and stuff from military models and mount them on cars.

 

[Staffan]

#5 seems unreasonable.

 

[Velderan]

Congratulations on finding a new dumbest hill to die on.

Oh come on, all of the hills I choose to die on can't be the dumbest..

 

[trappedslider]

#5 seems unreasonable.

very

 

[Mannahnin]

I have seen a lot of my friends who loved Car Wars back in the little black box days are loving Gaslands. A great way to reuse your old Matchbox cars.

I never looked into Gaslands since I was pretty sure I'd never get a chance to play it. Back in the day, though, I used to build Car Wars vehicles out of plastic models - I'd steal guns and stuff from military models and mount them on cars.

Gaslands is great. Got to try it out at a convention not long ago and really enjoyed the simpler mechanics than Car Wars.

Mad Jack, which edition of Car Wars was that? I originally had the plastic mini black box plus some later supplements, but those were all scaled for use on regular graph paper with cars being IIRC 1" x .5" cardboard chits. Motorcycles were .5" x .25" I believe. So the scale was pretty small, for easy play on regular tabletops.

When Games Workshop came out with Dark Future, that came with plastic cars that had interchangeable weapons, and those cars were the same scale as Matchbox cars, so that obviously opened up a TON of possibilities for awesome modeling and painting and so forth. Which Gaslands and some other modern games also do.

 

[Scribe]

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