Top Secret...

[Henry]

Years ago (maybe 2002?) We had Merle Rasmussen pop up for a brief dialogue about Top Secret, but I can't find any reference to the posts, now. We had one server move in '02 that did not save posts, it might hve been at that time.

 

[dpmcalister]

I loved Top Secret/S.I. - and Top Secret, and James Bond

Sold them all last week though. Had almost complete sets of everything (definiately everything for Top Secret/S.I.)

 

[S. Baldrick]

I played Top Secret when I was in Jr. High School. It was a blast. One thing I do remember though was that friends and I figured out was that Top Secret was a lot more deadly than D&D was. One shot lucky head shot could take out your character permanently. When I GMed, my friends also learned that it wasn't a good idea to gun down a sleeping guard with an un-silenced Uzi, particularly when he had a room full of heavily armed buddies just waiting in the other room.
The end result of that mission was one team member dead, the rest captured.

 

[Plane Sailing]

I played Top Secret when I was in Jr. High School. It was a blast. One thing I do remember though was that friends and I figured out was that Top Secret was a lot more deadly than D&D was. One shot lucky head shot could take out your character permanently.

Well, that's why you had fame and luck!

 

[Greg K]

I liked Top Secret S.I. and still consider it to be, mechanically, one of the best rpgs from TSR/WOTC. Bond was also cool. Top Secret 1e was not very good, imo and the revised version was not bad if you had the Companion.

 

[Scribble]

I'd eagerly join in a game of Star Frontiers, Marvel Super Heroes, or even Boot Hill.

I remember back when Dragon had marvel stuff in it...

I wonder if when there's a "Modern" 4e thing put out if there will be a digital mag to support it? Or if it will geta few articles in Dragon?

 

[Agamon]

Played it a bit in high school. One of the few non-D&D games I played back then. It wasn't too bad, but I don't remember a lot.

 

[Alt F4]

My original high school era gaming group played Top Secret SI sometimes. I think they'd been playing it long before I met them and we started playing AD&D. I played some, but never liked it as much as AD&D.

Our last attempt at trying to play it in the mid-90's, the advances in technology since it was written made it difficult. I think we breezed through the adventure when one of the characters decided to use the Internet for research.

 

[Achan hiArusa]

Also, Top Secret was the game that incited a raid of the TSR offices long before it happened to Steve Jackson Games.

I am partial to the first game, but it may be the great set of legs on the box cover (who was that?).