[geeks] Geeky Solaris question

[Ed Pate]

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Chris,
    I must concur with you on FASA's performance.  We have better weapons
guidance/aiming systems now than the game system allows for.

    All of the old Avalon Hill classics (most of their old stuff was pretty
good, most of their new stuff was marginal) belong to Hasbro now, too.
Anything that they can't sell a certain quota of just disappears into a black
hole.  If you call them up, they probably wouldn't even know they own the
rights for a lot of those games.  I have a closet full of Avalon Hill, SPI (who
also published Strategy & Tactics), a few TSR, and a host of smaller companies,
never seem to get to play much anymore, though.

    When did WOTC go under?

Ed

Chris Byrne wrote:

> I'm not so sure I want to rpeserve it as is. I'll be honest, I love the
> worlds presented by both games, but I always thought that FASA wrote some
> really bad gaming systems to go along with them.
>
> Now I'm not so sure about mageknight either, but it has to be better than
> shadowruns rulesystem
>
> What I'm more worried about is the future of former TSR products now that
> WOTC is out of business, and Hasbro Interactive is partially owned by
> microsoft.
>
> Chris Byrne
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
> Of Kurt Mosiejczuk
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 07:38
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Geeky Solaris question
>
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Chris Byrne wrote:
>
> > I was recently re-reading some michael stackpole books and a question
> popped
> > into mind.
> >
> > Was I the only one who thought of Atlases and Warhammers when Sun decided
> to
> > shange the name of Solaris 2.7 to Solaris 7?
>
> Nope.  =)
>
> > Chris Byrne
>
> Have you heard what's happening to Battletech?  FASA is going under,
> but WhizKids was buying it and Shadowrun to preserve it.  But it
> turns out Whizkids is converting Battletech to their dippy MageKnight
> game =(
>
> --Kurt
>
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