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[BoomDog]

This brought back some memories. It's from 1985. I was 16 and managed to talk my older brother into buying it for me. Who took one look at this rulebook and decided to never play it, lol.

[Joseph Mallan]

That and the 3025 TRO hooked me like crack!

[BoomDog]

I can't find my 3025 anywhere.... driving me nuts.

[Kelb]

I use to have the 3025 TRO memorized.

[Galland]

This game made me go on an eBay shopping spree for the TROs.

[Joseph Mallan]

Kelb, on 07 December 2012 - 10:15 AM, said:

I use to have the 3025 TRO memorized.

Used to???

[Enigmos]

BoomDog, on 07 December 2012 - 10:14 AM, said:

I can't find my 3025 anywhere.... driving me nuts.

You loaned it to Pauly who never brought it back after that last night.

Or maybe that wasn't you...

[Lin Shai]

I lost my box 'o classic role playing games in my cross country move 5.5 yeas ago

A lot of classic D&D, Car Wars, and all my BattleTech stuff.

I recently repurchased the BattleTech stuff because of Catalyst getting the rights to publish the FASA stuff. The 25th anniversary box set from Amazon is pretty killer; plastic miniatures instead of cardboard cutouts with stands!

[BoomDog]

Of course, this does expose how freakin old I am....

[Enigmos]

After I left home Mom sold all my books, comics, and everything at a church garage sale.

So what could I say to Mom, standing so small, completely mystified, and looking heartsick in the way Moms have that had me feeling guilty for her selling all my stuffs...

[spockhelp]

@Lin Shai : Steve Jackson games redid Ogre this year using a kickstart (it's supposed to ship in march i think, it got pushed back from decemeber due to demand), it did well enough Car Wars is supposed to be getting a kickstart next year.

Edited by spockhelp, 07 December 2012 - 10:22 AM.

[BoomDog]

Lin Shai, on 07 December 2012 - 10:18 AM, said:

I lost my box 'o classic role playing games in my cross country move 5.5 yeas ago

A lot of classic D&D, Car Wars, and all my BattleTech stuff.

I recently repurchased the BattleTech stuff because of Catalyst getting the rights to publish the FASA stuff. The 25th anniversary box set from Amazon is pretty killer; plastic miniatures instead of cardboard cutouts with stands!

That's a sad story bro...

I haven't given up on my 3025, it's got to be somewhere in my house. I can't see me leaving it behind.

[a rabid chihuahua]

BoomDog, on 07 December 2012 - 10:14 AM, said:

I can't find my 3025 anywhere.... driving me nuts.

They remade all the TRO's .thpugh they have been updated.

[BoomDog]

Surely someone can really show off their nerd cred and post a picture from the 1984 set when the game was called "Battledroids". I don't regret the name change either.

[Lin Shai]

spockhelp, on 07 December 2012 - 10:21 AM, said:

@Lin Shai : Steve Jackson games redid Ogre this year using a kickstart (it's supposed to ship in march i think, it got pushed back from decemeber due to demand), it did well enough Car Wars is supposed to be getting a kickstart next year.

Yeah, I saw that ... but the stuff SJ has put out in the last few years (ok, 20) using the IP has been ... blech.

[Flyby215]

Woo-wee that's older than me!

[Galland]

Blane, on 07 December 2012 - 10:24 AM, said:

They remade all the TRO's .thpugh they have been updated.

I have the 3039 and 3050 Upgrade. They're a mixed bag if you have the originals. The 3039 includes the original 3025, revised 3025, and 3026, some slight extras (prototype Wolfhound, Mauler, Cataphract and Raven), but missing artwork for the Unseen. The text is all new, but the art is mostly of the originals.

The 3050 Upgrade is all-new 3070-era fiction and art, includes all the 'Mechs from 2750 but the Unseen are not in there at all.

[spockhelp]

Lin Shai, on 07 December 2012 - 10:28 AM, said:

Yeah, I saw that ... but the stuff SJ has put out in the last few years (ok, 20) using the IP has been ... blech.

You're not the first person I've heard that from. There was discussion that the rules are going to be rebalanced in the process. I've never played Car Wars so I have no idea what would need work. I got in on Ogre because I've got one of the only pocket sets. *is looking forward to the 25lb box of Ogre*

[Alois Hammer]

BoomDog, on 07 December 2012 - 10:26 AM, said:

Surely someone can really show off their nerd cred and post a picture from the 1984 set when the game was called "Battledroids". I don't regret the name change either.

I could if I could be bothered to take the photo. But I won't bother...I've got it, and don't care about the non-believers.

[Lin Shai]

spockhelp, on 07 December 2012 - 10:32 AM, said:

You're not the first person I've heard that from. There was discussion that the rules are going to be rebalanced in the process. I've never played Car Wars so I have no idea what would need work. I got in on Ogre because I've got one of the only pocket sets. *is looking forward to the 25lb box of Ogre*

The pocket boxes were the best. I had the original Car Wars, "Sunday Drivers", and "Truck Stop", then the big original boxed set ("Deluxe Edition") after that, with most of the "Uncle Albert's" catalogs.

The early '90s stuff after that was "ok" ("Boat Wars"? Really?) ... then the 2002 "reboot" was just pathetic.