Wizards and Warriors

Quote from: TrippyHippy;989450I'm actually serious about The Young Ones - playing scumbag students, living in their own squalid, surreal, comedic fantasy world is actually a game I'd like to play in.

Over the Edge might be a good system for that.

QuoteIt's somewhat similar to my interest in seeing or creating a RPG version of Trainspotting. The 80s Thatcher's Britain backdrop is also perfect too, particularly if you combine it with Scooby Doo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVPYFsTlp4Y

If it is the '80s and you combine it with Scooby Doo, you are going to get Scrappy Doo in there as well.

Quote from: ArrozConLeche;989465I would really love to play Miami Vice (blame GTA Vice City), but I think The A Team might be more feasible.

The hardest part of an A Team game is finding players that don't want to kill people

Quote from: Charon's Little Helper;989476I know that the movie was 1980's, but did the Highlander show start in the late 80's?  Because that would be really easy to make into an urban fantasy campaign.

While the show is '90s, I think the movie lets it get grandfathered in.

If you wanted to run a time travel game with a concept the prevented you from having to worry about all the related shenanigans, then Voyagers would work. Conceptually, it's a lot like Quantum Leap but with more emphasis on action than on emotions.

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Tales of the Gold Monkey would be a great game.

Tales of the Gold Monkey would be a pretty easy one to do with any pulp ruleset.

Tales of the Gold Monkey, Lovejoy, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (cheating, I know...)

Young Ones: I can see a D&D campaign with Vyvyan the dwarf barbarian, Neil the elf druid, Rick the human bard and Mike - well, no-one liked Mike anyway, SPG the awakened hampster.

Well the obvious choice is Kid Video. Then I can load any pairing of 80s Top 40 goodness in a blender and run a nostalgic fantasia (we can blame the fae afterwards).

Oooh, and the Facts of Life. Especially run it with "moral lesson of the show," and side-comedy sub-plot. That'd be the lighthearted fair. If we wanted to do a crapsack world gritty comedy we'd play Good Times. Gotta cue up some studio audience laughtrack for both.

If all my players want to do is hardcore combat (and catty backbiting) we'd all play Dynasty. It might even fill in any lingering desire to play anything White Wolf ever again.

Quote from: estar;989460Robin of Sherwood

That'd be a good one! That was a pretty dark show considering...

Probably the same one I've already run several campaigns about...  Robotech.

Logan's Run!

Quote from: The Exploited.;989526Logan's Run!

I'd want the Sandman's gun from the books though: a selectable 6 shooter with tangler (a net), nitro (explosive), vapor (gas), ripper (AP), needler (dart), and Homer (heat seeking nerve-killer).

Dukes of Hazard - Customizeable muscle-cars. Moonshine running. Corrupt cops. This could be blown out to running all kinds of "stuff" and the PC's are part of a crew. Counties would be territories with different conceits with crews/authorities/independent allies "Cooters!". So you'd have instant politics of varying levels. Auto-Duel like customization. You could take straight on the nose, or go full post-apocalyptic.

Quantum Leap/Sliders - PC's are caught in a quantum field that causes them to go back/forwards AND/OR sideways in time. They will leap them moment they discover the "macguffin" and fix it. You could have a bunch of random tables for GM's to create the "episode" of the session. Including fast-character creation where you have only physical stats, but the backgrounds and such are generated procedurally OR in the case of Sliders you keep your body.

It was revived for TV in the 80s, so Mission: Impossible.

Thundarr the Barbarian, natch. I've run several games in this setting at cons and such and even put together a loose Mutant Future supplement with all of my notes and creatures and setting materials and adventures and what-not. That said...

Automan -- The Tron-meets-police procedural TV show starring Desi Arnez Jr.

Pirates of Dark Water -- An amazing setting. I don't think the series ever got a proper ending.

G.I. Joe or Transformers could be fun, too.

Quote from: The Exploited.;989526Logan's Run!

There was a novel, a movie, and a comic book...all in the '70s...what TV show?