That’s where Weisman came across a selection of surplus models based on Super Dimension Fortress Macross, the Japanese cartoon that had come out just a few years before. There were also more than a few distributors and importers there as well, and several of them were trying to unload a bumper crop of Japanese plastic model kits. Charlie Hall/PolygonįASA wasn’t the only vendor at the convention. This first edition is signed and numbered by author Marc Miller, who loaned it to Gen Con for display at the 50th annual convention in Indianapolis. The first printed copy of the core sourcebook for the Traveller system, Traveller: Science-Fiction Adventure in the Far Future. Both had been released just a few years before in 1982. The two men were there in Anaheim pitching their latest products: Star Trek : The Role Playing Game, a tabletop RPG based on the classic television series, and Behind Enemy Lines, another tabletop RPG set during World War II. ![]() It had made a name for itself with its line of adventures for the Traveller pen-and-paper science fiction role-playing system. “We would go and show our games to try to get general hobby shops to sell them.”īabcock and Weisman’s Chicago-based FASA was already well known in gaming circles. “There really was no such thing as game shops in those days,” said Weisman, who we interviewed on the floor of the 50th annual Gen Con in Indianapolis. That was the kind of stuff that was put out there.” “I mean, here we were, a few dozen gaming companies amidst hundreds of arts and crafts kind of folks selling foam balls and decoupage - anything you might see today in a Joann Fabrics or a Michael’s craft store. ![]() “It was a strange show,” recalled Babcock over the phone in September. Cover art for BattleTech Mercenaries Supplemental, published by FanPro in 2004 and written by Herbert A.
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