Re: Seeking an old pbm game

From: "�lfgr�m Vilmei�son" <ulfgrim@gersey.org>

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000

rdadrian@paradise.net.nz wrote in message
<7dco76$pen$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...

>Hi! I'm trying to find out if anyone knows of a game tha was run in 70's
and
>80's (that's about the time I was playing it) but the name of the game I
>can't recall. At the start of the game you have to build your own race of
>beings, then create the planet they live on, give them a name, pick the
type
>of society they live in. The games moderator  give you a tech level, from
>there your turns start and you build yourself an empire. If anyone
remembers
>this game or knows of one similar please let me know. Thanks in advance for
>your help. Dick rdadrian@paradise.net.nz

There were a couple of games out around that time that matched that
description. "Starmaster" was the first, run by Schubel & Sons, then later
taken over by KSK Concepts (where it was revamped and moderated by the guy
who originally designed it, Richard Lloyd; I was one of the GM's at KSK
Concepts and did the Starmaster newsletter for a time). The game was at
first 100% human moderated, but then switched to semi-automation under KSK
Concepts. Schubel & Sons then created a 100% computer-moderated version
called "Starmaster II".

There was also a Starmaster clone run by some guy in Utah called "Galaxy:
Alpha". I'm sure there were others as well.

None of them is still around, as far as I know. One of the great things
about "Starmaster" was the fact that you could do special actions that would
get read and acted on by real, live GM's, rather than having to choose from
a list of pre-programmed orders.

Joe Bloch

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Seeking an old pbm game
rdadrian@paradise.net.nz
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000