Tony A. Rowe
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I’d have to check to make sure, but I think issue #7 was my first.
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I’d have to check to make sure, but I think issue #7 was my first.
I am ready for the return to the Conveni(ence store) Wars. Let the Barcode Battler revolution begin! (Their original post called it “Barcade Battler” and I like that idea too)
October 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I am ready for the return to the Conveni(ence store) Wars. Let the Barcode Battler revolution begin! (Their original post called it “Barcade Battler” and I like that idea too)
Both series were designed by Alfred Leonardi, who I met back in 2015! Queen's Blade uses Leonardi's Lost Worlds combat book system, first published in 1983, for duels between fantasy characters and monsters. He started Ace of Aces back in 1980. Unfortunately, he passed away earlier this year.
September 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Both series were designed by Alfred Leonardi, who I met back in 2015! Queen's Blade uses Leonardi's Lost Worlds combat book system, first published in 1983, for duels between fantasy characters and monsters. He started Ace of Aces back in 1980. Unfortunately, he passed away earlier this year.
I had both the Six Million Dollar Man Movie Viewer AND the Bionic Video Center so that Steve Austin could sit in comfort and watch Star Wars and Alien film cassettes with me.
September 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I had both the Six Million Dollar Man Movie Viewer AND the Bionic Video Center so that Steve Austin could sit in comfort and watch Star Wars and Alien film cassettes with me.
I joined the Otherworlds Club when I got my AD&D Monster Manual
September 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I joined the Otherworlds Club when I got my AD&D Monster Manual
I always liked the original cover art that was created for Apple Lane. However, Chaosium decided to simplify it before publication (from Wyrm's Footnotes #6 (1979)).
September 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I always liked the original cover art that was created for Apple Lane. However, Chaosium decided to simplify it before publication (from Wyrm's Footnotes #6 (1979)).
A sample of "The Fantasy Game" feat chance rules in question.
September 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A sample of "The Fantasy Game" feat chance rules in question.
I spotted a tiny mantis in my garden a few months ago and just encountered a sizable specimen while traveling in Maryland (thumb shown for scale).
September 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I spotted a tiny mantis in my garden a few months ago and just encountered a sizable specimen while traveling in Maryland (thumb shown for scale).
My uncles were shopping for arcade games and took me when they visited JATRE USA offices in Irvine, CA. I got to play the "latest game" Jatre was marketing in the front office: Spiders! I never did unlock the "Space Mona Lisa," as she was also called. (image from Cash Box 11/14/81 pg. 39). 1/2
August 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
My uncles were shopping for arcade games and took me when they visited JATRE USA offices in Irvine, CA. I got to play the "latest game" Jatre was marketing in the front office: Spiders! I never did unlock the "Space Mona Lisa," as she was also called. (image from Cash Box 11/14/81 pg. 39). 1/2
We’ve been losing that battle since the 1960s.
August 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
We’ve been losing that battle since the 1960s.
I love the cover art for early Traveller supplements in Japan.
July 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I love the cover art for early Traveller supplements in Japan.
Amano also created illustrations for tabletop role-playing games like Foreigner (shown) and Stormbringer for Hobby Japan.
July 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Amano also created illustrations for tabletop role-playing games like Foreigner (shown) and Stormbringer for Hobby Japan.
Also, the best drinkware.
July 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Also, the best drinkware.
That’s a nice Cloud Giant you’ve got there (illustration by Henry Justice Ford).
July 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
That’s a nice Cloud Giant you’ve got there (illustration by Henry Justice Ford).
Disney already modified Walt’s historic existence by airbrushing the ever-present cigarette from his hand in photos and immortalized his “two-finger point” as just a quirky gesture he liked to do.
July 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Disney already modified Walt’s historic existence by airbrushing the ever-present cigarette from his hand in photos and immortalized his “two-finger point” as just a quirky gesture he liked to do.
It’s still a Harpy by my eyes #CrusherJoe
July 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It’s still a Harpy by my eyes #CrusherJoe
It looks like it is from the same line of expensive figures that I keep running across when I am searching for the 1980s Foreigner RPG by Hobby Japan (no relation to the figures or the band of the same name).
July 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It looks like it is from the same line of expensive figures that I keep running across when I am searching for the 1980s Foreigner RPG by Hobby Japan (no relation to the figures or the band of the same name).
I am sad to share the news that long-time Steve Jackson Games editor Scott Haring has passed away. Scott served as editor on several game magazines (most notably Autoduel Quarterly) and wrote several game books, RPG rulebooks, and RPG adventures. www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/...
July 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I am sad to share the news that long-time Steve Jackson Games editor Scott Haring has passed away. Scott served as editor on several game magazines (most notably Autoduel Quarterly) and wrote several game books, RPG rulebooks, and RPG adventures. www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/...
I’ll see you there! Tom Hirschfeld’s “How to Master the Video Games” was the first video game book I ever purchased back in the summer of 1981.
June 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I’ll see you there! Tom Hirschfeld’s “How to Master the Video Games” was the first video game book I ever purchased back in the summer of 1981.
RIP TO Cheers actor George Wendt. In his honor, here is the source for his title card image. These revelers are in an unnamed Barbary Coast joint in San Francisco, not Boston.
May 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
RIP TO Cheers actor George Wendt. In his honor, here is the source for his title card image. These revelers are in an unnamed Barbary Coast joint in San Francisco, not Boston.
Lots of fail in this “history of video-games” chart. Nutting Associates made Pong? Vectrex in 1976? Super Mario on Colecovision? Massively multiplayer Doom? TETRIX????
April 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Lots of fail in this “history of video-games” chart. Nutting Associates made Pong? Vectrex in 1976? Super Mario on Colecovision? Massively multiplayer Doom? TETRIX????
My daughter’s lovely meteor ducks painting has been discovered in Japan and likened to both a tarot card and a random photo of kissing ducks.
March 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
My daughter’s lovely meteor ducks painting has been discovered in Japan and likened to both a tarot card and a random photo of kissing ducks.
Always good to see an article on The Cosmology of Kyoto, a unique combo of horror adventure game and multimedia reference that presses the idea that games can be art. Here are Japanese and US versions from my collection (and formerly the LucasArts library in one case).
March 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Always good to see an article on The Cosmology of Kyoto, a unique combo of horror adventure game and multimedia reference that presses the idea that games can be art. Here are Japanese and US versions from my collection (and formerly the LucasArts library in one case).