Does Warhammer 2nd count as a nostalgic game? Because I'm having a boatload of fun with it.

I would have to say Top Secret - I just had loads of fun sneaking around trying to one up KGB agents.
Star Frontiers - rules were clunky at times but quick and easy to understand and had great adventures.
Gamma World - since it was the first rpg I personally owned that I did not borrow from my older brother.

Quote from: Andy KTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, for the reasons above: For years, that game had the most fun, intense character generation hands down. For a while back in high school, some friends and I would make characters, play a session, then the next week make new characters and play again.

Same here. I played the game when I was eight or so (around 1990-91), and we didn't really know much about how an RPG worked, so we just created characters and then had them fight and trashtalk one another and when one of them died, we rolled up another. I remember using Micro Machines for vehicle combat once I got the "Road Hogs" supplement.

TMNTAOS is one of two older games I actually still run, the other being Ringworld.

-clash

Add me to the T&T crowd. Loved that game.

I liked the old basic D&D game with the blue cover. The book's cover portrayed a red dragon in a treasure room, with a magic-user and fighter entering said room about to attack it. The adventure module in the back of the book was fun. I expanded it when I was a kid, and we spent endless hours exploring it.

After I expanded it, the place housed monsters, traps, strange magicks, and even an oddly-placed tavern for the various pirates, rogues, and scoundrels in the area to do their business in.

I lost that book.  But damn, it was fun!

RC D&D.

It did everything you needed, from level 1 to level 36.  Totally complete.  Totally one book.

:cool:

Living Steel: Wow, you have aliens, power armor that talks, a intermittently operational teleportation system, a rage virus like in 28 days (though less extreme), and the native resistance. All in a Ridley Scott/James Cameron style post-war planet. Thankfully I was just a player, as the system had some eclectic aspects to it as it was basically a simplified version of Phoenix Command.

Hivers: No, not really an RPG, but the coolest, most intriguing race from the original Traveller. They were the thing that made me WANT to play Traveller.

Cyberpunk: The original black box. Somehow the text and art holistically fused into a sexy monster that represented that 'Twenty Minutes Into The Future' version of the 80s that I consider definitive Cyberpunk perfectly. Sadly, each subsequent addition lost more and more of this spirit until it finally became Robot Chicken. How I ask you? HOW!?!?



I'll try to dredge my memory for more.