Love this ramble down memory lane. Very similar stories from both sides of the pond. I remember waiting for Games Workshop to announce their latest releases or my friend getting hold of Call of Cthulhu all the way from the U.S.
@Thegaminggang
2 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@Jonathan_Green_Gamebook_Author
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Jeff, for mentioning YOU ARE THE HERO. I'm looking forward to the full review! :-)
@Thegaminggang
2 ай бұрын
Coming soon!
@Wraithing
2 ай бұрын
Great to listen to you pontificate especially about Chicago. My nearest city was York and my first games shop was just through Monk Bar (the C14th fortress-style gate into the city). It was on the first section of Goodramgate before you got to the Minster and its precincts. There weren't many more stores than the Games Workshops in the UK to sell D&D, Call of Cthulhu, Golden Heroes and the other RPGs of the time. It was about a year before Dragonlance and about three before WFRP. I just remember how there was just this one cramped treasure trove to there being more games shops and in many more places quite quickly, for me at least, along with making and becoming involved in three (actually, at one point, four) different groups at one time. The '80s was a prime gaming era. Great fun… …and thank goodness, 'cause 'reality' kept trying to fall apart at the seams.
@galinor7
Ай бұрын
In the 1980s UK, RPG was a blast. We had AD&D, Avlon Hill's Runequest, Games Workshop's 2nd ed Call of Cthulhu, Dragon Warriors And Pace Setters 1st ed Chill. Wonderful days.
@kevinrsmith2947
2 ай бұрын
Watching this one on Memorex. 2010. I rewatched that movie a few months ago. It's weird watching something that assumed the Cold War was still going to be going on that year. The fact that the filmmakers were obsessed with sending an explicitly political message that wasn't really in the novel is one reason it's not remembered that well today. In the '80s in Dayton, Ohio, I think there were only a couple of game stores in the whole metro area. You got your D&D stuff at the Waldenbooks at the mall, and you were shocked into extasy at the sight of a game store.
@agilemonk6305
2 ай бұрын
Buck Rogers RPG The setting was active from 1988 until 1995.
@matthewconstantine5015
2 ай бұрын
BTRC still exists?! That's cool. I ended up with a bunch of their RPGs in a collection purchase a long time ago.
@chrislundgren182
Ай бұрын
Fantastic show
@Thegaminggang
Ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@KabukiKid
2 ай бұрын
I never played vanilla James Bond 007... but we did play an amalgam game of James Bond 007 and Top Secret. Had a blast. The GM had to do all the heavy lifting with knowing how the rules worked. We just played. heh :-) Good memories of those games.
@Thegaminggang
2 ай бұрын
Very cool!
@natesroomrule
2 ай бұрын
Also Circus World had toys and Games, not RPGs, just like KB Toys. We had a similar situation in Orlando.. the only place was Enterprise 1701. you could get some of the books occasionally at waldenbooks, B Dalton etc.
@Thegaminggang
2 ай бұрын
As I'd mentioned on the show, we didn't have Circus World stores near me but I get the impression they were very much like KB Toys. ~ Jeff
@natesroomrule
2 ай бұрын
I never experienced it in any game group from 1985 to today (Orlando Florida). None of the 11 people i still play with or have joined my group never experienced it either from 1978 to today. Also not saying it didnt exist. I actually have people talk about it today as if it was so prevalent. We had all kinds of people playing WEG, Vampire, D&D, Gamma World, Shadowrun etc... In school i was the white guy and my four closest player were Black and Hispanic. Carlos/Javier/Rob Ruiz/Al
@Thegaminggang
2 ай бұрын
Sadly, a whole lot of people who weren't even a glint in their daddy's eye in the 80s want to tell us about how awful we were to anyone who was a non-caucasian, straight, male wanting to play games with us. It's simply not true. Did gatekeeping happen? Of course it did. To the extent WotC apologists want to claim? Absolutely not! Truth is there was no such thing as geek culture in the 80s. If people knew you were a gamer or playing RPGs, the vast majority looked down their noses at you. ~ Jeff
@natesroomrule
2 ай бұрын
@@Thegaminggang Yeah in fact i would say the "Geek" scene was where you actually found more acceptance, because if someone wnated to prete3nd to be a dwarf elf or a vampire/Werewolf they were just as cool as you regardless of how they looked. there might only be 15of you in the entire 1500 person school, lol
@SteveDahlskog
2 ай бұрын
Where did you get the $$$ to buy the games? And imagine what we here in Sweden got on TV! (We probably saw Buck Rogers at least a year after you guys in the US.) As for games - the stores imported directly from the UK and US so you probably didn’t get it smoking hot of the press exactly.
@Thegaminggang
2 ай бұрын
I actually had a part-time job when I was 13. ~ Jeff
@KraxThebOld
2 ай бұрын
What did you Kick and perhaps ...why? oh ..nevermind...I shouldn't post as I am watching lol.
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