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Oldest games still in print?

Started by Dominus Nox, September 19, 2006, 01:33:27 AM

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flyingmice

#15
September 21, 2006, 11:07:55 AM
Quote from: jrientsMy guess is 1981's Spawn of Fashan, arguably one of the worst RPGs ever published.  Lawrence Schtick's review of it in Dragon #60 was rather infamous in its day.  As I understand it the author still has copies of the original print run and if you can track him down he will send you one for an outrageous price.  (Fifty bucks, IIRC)

Classic Traveller is in print and on sale. That's 1977. I don't think anything else is older and still available.

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jrients

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September 21, 2006, 12:08:53 PM
Quote from: flyingmiceClassic Traveller is in print and on sale. That's 1977. I don't think anything else is older and still available.

The gap between the Traveller rules of '81-'83 and the reprints (starting in, what, '99?) strains the concept of "still in print" just a tad.
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flyingmice

#17
September 21, 2006, 12:31:54 PM
I was under the impression that the Classic Traveller reprints were just that - reprints of the old books. Am I wrong? Wouldn't be the first time. I never got the reprints because I still have my LBBs.

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flyingmice

#18
September 21, 2006, 12:33:23 PM
Wait - I think I misunderstood you! You meant the gap in time? Then you have a good point!

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jrients

#19
September 21, 2006, 12:34:52 PM
Quote from: flyingmiceWait - I think I misunderstood you! You meant the gap in time? Then you have a good point!

Yeah, I was talking about ~17 years that the game was not in print.
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flyingmice

#20
September 21, 2006, 12:38:28 PM
Quote from: jrientsYeah, I was talking about ~17 years that the game was not in print.

Gotcha! At first I thought you meant there was a gap in identity, that the reprints were actually different from the LBBs in something other than form factor. :D

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Dr Rotwang!

#21
September 22, 2006, 09:09:55 AM
If God had orchestrated the Traveller reprints, I might consider believing in Him.

Right now, though, it's Eris and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, all the way.
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September 22, 2006, 03:34:51 PM
Yup. For all its so called "editions", call of cthulhu's BRP version is still basically the same game/system it was from the very beginning.

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