Golden Heroes i think.

The 1st version of Top Secret though it turned into a post-apocalyptic game halfway through the campaign.  Alot of fun.

The first RPG I played with no supernatural elements was the original Recon oddly enough.  Played lots of Boot Hill and Top Secret as well, but never tried Gangbusters unfortunately.

Quote from: brettmb;450656Lots of Boot Hill, I see. Top Secret SI was one of my favorite games. Anyone here ever play Gangbusters back in 80s?



Oh yeah, I've been a big fan since the 80s.

Yep, my gaming group at the time had long-running Gangbusters campaign. It started out as a small group of players who wanted to do grifter-type adventures (think The Sting). Eventually the group grew to 8 players and they became a force to reckoned with in Lakeside City. I opted to use Lakeside (the setting that the game came with) because I lived in Chicago for 5 years and was already familiar with it's shady history.

We had a bit more fun a few years later when I ran a Daredevils game where everyone played masked avenger type characters who had to clean up the organized crime left behind by their Gangbuster characters.

Our group's first game - which I ran - was T&T, which we played solid for 2 or so years. So it seemed natural to buy Mercenaries, Spies & Private Eyes when it came out. We loved adventuring in the modern era after two years of fantasy.

Call was next up, and we used it for non-supernatural games as well, so it ended up surplanting MSPE. Shame in a way, as I always thought that MSPE had a nice feel. The gun damage rules were a bit of a pain though - especially for a reckless fly by the seat of your pants group like ours.

The first non-fantasy, non-scifi game I ever played was a friends homebrewed supers game that he ran on and off in between sessions of Dungeons & Dragons (2nd ed.). This was in the early 90s. We played those two games until we discovered GURPS.

His system was a glorious mess, first adapted from WFRP (seriously, for supers), and then devolving into some weird class/level system. I think the changes he made during 'playtesting' killed our interest for a few years, but we loved the feeling of playing much more powerful characters than our wimpy 3rd level D&D guys. We were teenagers and the GM didn't mind if we were evil, so we ate it up. He also hated Champions with a burning passion after a bad experience with it, so I didn't discover that system until a few years ago, in college.

Auf Cthulhus Spur (CoC, first German edition)

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness

The FASERIP Marvel game. It was the second RPG I played and the first that I bought.

Yep CoC 2nd edition for me. Im imagining its a popular one. Actually I may well have played CoC before any Sci Fi games, I cant quite remember.

Assuming it doesn't count as sci-fi, it was probably TMNT, actually.  I might be remembering wrong, though, it was quite a long time ago.

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