While it hasn't been updated since 2002, The Classic Microgames Museum is a Wunderkammer of gaming from the 1970s and 1980s. The site includes cover scans of games from Metagaming, Steve Jackson Games, TSR, and Task Force Games, among others. There are some personal favorites here, including Intruder, probably the solo game I played the most as a kid having become obsessed with the film Alien. (My older brother snuck me in to see it by telling the lady a the ticket counter that I was an orphan and he was indeed my legal guardian.) Others that I spent hours poring over were Swordquest and Valkenburg Castle. The fold-up maps that came with these games were terrific and inspired my own for D&D campaigns. What were some of your favorites?
MYSTERY THEATER
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
The Classic Microgames Museum
While it hasn't been updated since 2002, The Classic Microgames Museum is a Wunderkammer of gaming from the 1970s and 1980s. The site includes cover scans of games from Metagaming, Steve Jackson Games, TSR, and Task Force Games, among others. There are some personal favorites here, including Intruder, probably the solo game I played the most as a kid having become obsessed with the film Alien. (My older brother snuck me in to see it by telling the lady a the ticket counter that I was an orphan and he was indeed my legal guardian.) Others that I spent hours poring over were Swordquest and Valkenburg Castle. The fold-up maps that came with these games were terrific and inspired my own for D&D campaigns. What were some of your favorites?
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