RPG designers in the industry, leading to depressing and hilarious anecdotes of people at conventions not believing he was actually Mike Pondsmith. Well, that and the fact he did a Bubblegum Crisis (and Dragonball Z.) RPG in the late 90's, when RTG did its ill-fated Fuzion system, but that's something for another review. Pondsmith's also a major anime fan - anĪnime fan, back in the days of crappy VHS fansub bootlegs and horrible dub releases - and once you realize this, the fact CP2020 seems to have more in common with In 1990, generally considered (alongside Shadowrun) to be the genre-defining system for 90's era cyberpunk roleplaying. Talsorian Games, which has been in operation sinceġ982, and while it's never been a major company it's had several high profile releases over the years, most notably It's also probably important to talk a bit about Pondsmith himself, too. It's not a very big game the edition I'm reviewing has all of 84 pages, and several of those are taken up by character sheets and similar stuff. I'll give a comparison of the editions later on, but most of it's expanded examples and other such things rather than additional rules. the old versions had some charmingly cartoonish stuff, while the 1997 version had more blatantly ripoff fauxnime stuff (since while anime hadn't quite taken off yet in the US, the DVD market had made it at least a recognizable niche by then), but you're going to have to suffer through that either way. , which while similar in text content has much different art.
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Downside is, this is an actualĬopy and I lack a scanner or even something resembling a decent camera, while the only PDF I could legally find was the Now, before we get too far into this, I should note a few things: I've got my hands on my copy, which is the second printing version there it's basically identical to the original run aside from the cover.
That was also a pretty clear inspiration you've probably got close to the right idea anyway. pretty much what it says on the title, but if you're also old enough to remember a , which is another one I'll need to pull off the shelf later.) and even now is still sort of in the realm of experimental indie games. It's a niche that wasn't really touched on for years (the only other example I can think of for ages was Genre for RPGs, and one of those earlier RPGs that attempted to actually enforce genre conventions even down to the rule level, being a very simple and almost freeform game. (also from Pondsmith, admittedly.) came out in 1984, and Siembieda'sĬame out in 1986 - it's certainly and sadly one that most people have forgotten about over the years. While TFOS is not the oldest anime-based RPG in America. was that really 26 years ago.?), the second printing (1989), and the second edition/revised version (1997) there. But I don't mean any of that modern Moe crap. I'm sure everyone here loves anime games!. Unfortunately, some were pretty great and still went out of gamer perception, simply because they were niche at the time or because they haven't been printed in years. Many of them were good and have held on in various editions, others were bad and fell through the cracks and rightfully forgotten. There's been a lot of RPGs over the years. TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE - Introduction! It's April Fools, let's start this off right. Introduction posted by Asimo Original SA post
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