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Michael S/Chgowiz

Hi Randall, good to see you’re still around!

Randall

Superhero 44 had some good ideas but the execution was horrible. I suspect it would have made a good play-by-mail superhero game. It just did not work well face-to-face.

I used the idea of patrol sessions to handle what a superhero character did between major (played out) adventures in most of my later SH games, so SH44 was a very good purchase just for that idea.

I can’t say the same about Supergame. I bought it, read it, actually tried to play it once, and put it in a box on the shelf. Had I had any common sense, it would have stayed on the store shelf and I’d have spent my money on something more useful, like graph paper or note cards.

Ed H

OK, if you actually *played* (or tried to play) Supergame or Superhero 2044 when they came out, then you have extra retro cred to spend and can use it to bless Marvel Superheroes as a retro game. It only came out a couple years after V&V 2nd edition after all. 🙂

(I owned Superhero 2044 back in the early 80s but I don't think I ever played it, and I picked up Supergame as a curiosity in the 90s, but never had any inclination to play it whatsoever. 🙂

Randall

LOL, Ed. While you certainly have a point, Marvel Superheroes is both out of print and out of style, so it definitely qualifies for this site.

Superhero 2044 was a lot of good ideas, but was unplayable. Supergame was just weird. V&V is a good game, but the random character generation — while very retro — made it very hard for most comic fans to get into. I tried them all with comics fans as I was running a comic shop when they came out.

Ed H

We interrupt your retro for this announcement

MARVEL SUPERHEROES IS NOT RETRO.

VILLAINS AND VIGILANTES IS RETRO.

1ST EDITION VILLAINS AND VIGILANTES IS REALLY RETRO

SUPERGAME IS PATHETICALLY RETRO

SUPERHERO 2044 IS AWESOMELY RETRO

that is all

you may now return to your regularly scheduled retro