Boot Hill was in the toy/hobby store where I used to buy Metagaming games, and which also had Traveller and such early TSR classics as EPT, Tractics, Snit's Revenge, etc. Was never keen enough on the idea to buy it, although I did later get my hands on a Space Gamer that had a scenario for it. ("Big Lizzie", apparently inspired by Valley of the Gwangi.)

Quote from: jgants;450588Back in the day it would have been Star Frontiers for me.  I never saw Traveller until much, much later.  

Like many young gamers of the 80's, I didn't really go to game stores until I was older so the TSR stuff being in toy stores meant I primarily played those until I was quite a bit older.  BD&D, Star Frontiers, and Top Secret were the big ones in my case.  Less so with Gamma World and Marvel Supers, though those were played as well.  We even played the non-RPG Dawn Patrol a lot.

Oddly, only Boot Hill was never played because absolutely no store carried it.  I've still never actually seen a copy of it, even on eBay (I'm starting to wonder if it really existed).

As for Traveller, we all heard of it, but no stores in my area seemed to carry it.  The closest anyone got was Traveller 2300 (which, of course, wasn't Traveller at all).

Get Boot Hill here - http://cgi.ebay.com/Boot-Hill-Wild-West-RPG-TSR-/190517717322?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c5bbda94a

Its currently $5.....

Quote from: jibbajibba;450670Get Boot Hill here - http://cgi.ebay.com/Boot-Hill-Wild-West-RPG-TSR-/190517717322?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c5bbda94a

Its currently $5.....

Wow, a whole $5, LOL.  Maybe I'll buy it just to complete a TSR game collection (then again, my Dawn Patrol game was lost some time ago so that would need replaced too).

I guess I overstated my case.  I was really just saying that Boot Hill always seemed to be the least popular TSR game (and I assumed it had a resulting smaller print run because of it).

Quote from: jibbajibba;450670Get Boot Hill here - http://cgi.ebay.com/Boot-Hill-Wild-West-RPG-TSR-/190517717322?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c5bbda94a

Its currently $5.....

*shakes fist*

you bastard, i'm trying to be good about ebay, and you have to post that :D

always wanted it, but only got to play twice.

It will probably end at about $30

Traveller; but using my own setting.  I never cared for the default traveller setting, and of course back in the old days it was not uncommon to use your own settings; that sadly became less and less common as time went by, which I always bemoan as a missed opportunity for Traveller (turning into a "one-setting game").

As for Star Frontiers, I never cared for it at all. Curiously, my younger brother did, even though it was positive outdated by the time he got into gaming (he's quite a lot younger than I am).

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Quote from: RPGPundit;450800As for Star Frontiers, I never cared for it at all. Curiously, my younger brother did, even though it was positive outdated by the time he got into gaming (he's quite a lot younger than I am).

You just have no taste

LBB Traveller.  Star Frontiers seemed babyish in comparison.

Quote from: GameDaddy;450521Anyone else here remember that series of Terran Trade Authority art books that came out with all those great plates of enormous  multi-colored starships... we used the books as references and many of our early games were based on those kinds of influences.

Oh, yes indeed. Those books indirectly got me into gaming, as I mistook the Monster Manual for the fantasy monster equivalent of the TTA books.

Incidentally, there was a Terran Trade Authority RPG that came out not too long ago from Morrigan Press using the Omni (Talislanta) System.

I played both but I had more fun with SF. I just loved the aliens.

Quote from: GameDaddy;450521Anyone else here remember that series of Terran Trade Authority art books that came out with all those great plates of enormous  multi-colored starships... we used the books as references and many of our early games were based on those kinds of influences.

I still have my original Spacecraft 2000-2100 book (and wish our 2000 was as cool as the one in the book) and got on a big nostalgia trip a few years ago and sought out the other 3 books (and all of the Galactic Encounters books the same author wrote under a pen name).

I've been itching to put a Traveller game together for a while that would use the Spacewrecks book as inspiration and visual aids. Hopefully I'll pull the trigger on that back burner project soon.

I could never take Star Frontiers seriously, the aliens just seemed silly.

Traveller is fuckin' gold though.

STL - the Solar System Traveller (that's a youtube vid) looks like fun.

Quote from: J Arcane;450955I could never take Star Frontiers seriously, the aliens just seemed silly.

Traveller is fuckin' gold though.

Funny, I thought similarly about Traveller at one point; Wolf People, Lion People, Psychic People.

Mind you there are some cool cultural aspects, but that doesn't come out by looking at the pictures.

Quote from: Silverlion;450959Funny, I thought similarly about Traveller at one point; Wolf People, Lion People, Psychic People.

Mind you there are some cool cultural aspects, but that doesn't come out by looking at the pictures.

I got in with the LBBs (thanks to jeff here actually).  No wolf people or cat people in the three core LBBs, though there are psychics as an optional possibility.

The cat and wolf people are still on the cover of the reprint though, which I found odd since they're not in the book ...