Re: Remembering Metagames' Microgames (was Re: Age and Complexity)

Morgan Keyes wrote:

> All this talking about Rivets has my fondly remembering my old
> Metagaming days (or is that daze?) many years ago.  I still have many
of
> them stashed away in little cubbie holes here and there back in my
folks
> place on the West Coast.  Now thinking about the potential of turning
> some of those games into DSII/SGII (and even extrapolating FT..)
> scenarios.  Just off the top of my head I know my collection has Ice
> War(?)(USSR invades Alaska), Hot Spot, Ogre (who DOESN'T have this
> one?), GEV, Revolt on Antares (TSR's foray into this type of game),
> Outpost Omega and Grav Armor (from the defunct Dwarfstar(?) Games),and
> Olympia.  I know there are many more sitting around but those are the
> most prominent in my mind at this time.  Certainly a project to take
up
> once I get back to the States (hard to track down hard-to-find
classics
> like these when you are in Bosnia).
>

Last year during a "sidewalk sale" my local hobby shop was selling old
Metagaming micros for a dollar each!!!	It seems they had a box of 'em
lost
in the storage room. Of course I bought several, and the rest disapeared
rapidly...

> Morgan Keyes
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