I never knew that video existed until maybe 5 years ago. When would one have seen that in 1990-1991? I've got to assume it was produced for the expressed purpose of being shown at conventions, trade shows, and maybe sent to retail stores.
Paranoid! any military game did not have magic. As far as fantastical technology, well that was the GM doing, Top Secret, Star Trek, Traveller, they can push the envelope but no magic.
Twilight 2000 v2 did have Twilight Nightmares featuring aliens, dinosaurs, giant insects, and robotic killbots. While obviously not the core game, even T2K got into sci-fi scenarios.
I believe that’s what it was used for when I tried to dig up info for it when I first saw it years ago.
Yeah. I tend to lump magic and super techology into the fantastical realm. Cyberpunk and Traveller contain fantastical elements but are on the lower end of the spectrum compared to Star Trek.
Most of the fantasy things you can do in D&D you can do in Shadowrun without too much effort (although megadungeon style play might not work great) but it would be tough to do a lot of the real cyberpunk style stuff in D&D.
I worked comic and game retail from 1989-2006, and the store I worked at in 199x got it as a VHS tape. We ran it on a loop at the store for a while. Sold a lot of Shadowrun 1e. Even ran a campaign for a while, until we had to kick someone out. He came in the next day drunk and threatening violence - but that's a story for another day...
