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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Apr 8, 2022 2:08:34 GMT -5
I have an narrow taste in horror, I like the Edgar Allan Poe style of horror. Poe is brilliant! |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Apr 8, 2022 2:10:48 GMT -5
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Apr 8, 2022 4:17:14 GMT -5
I have an narrow taste in horror, I like the Edgar Allan Poe style of horror. The jump scares were the thing that made us enjoy Friday the 13th but the first initial exposure to horror was the old Saturday Creature Feature on the local Fox station. It might show Godzilla or something like Fall of the House of Usher, the Pit & the Pendulum, or some Hammer horror, maybe the old black & white Universal monster movies, or something else. I wish something like that was still around. |
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Post by hengest on Apr 8, 2022 11:14:13 GMT -5
I would love to see some of those old monster movies in a theater. Such showings do occur but they're rare as hen's teeth these days.
I know people older than me who talk with awe about the revival houses that would play movies years or decades after their first-run. I understand it's not going to be that way these days, but still seems like a loss.
I'm not even particularly into horror or monster movies.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Apr 8, 2022 20:20:25 GMT -5
I have an narrow taste in horror, I like the Edgar Allan Poe style of horror. The jump scares were the thing that made us enjoy Friday the 13th but the first initial exposure to horror was the old Saturday Creature Feature on the local Fox station. It might show Godzilla or something like Fall of the House of Usher, the Pit & the Pendulum, or some Hammer horror, maybe the old black & white Universal monster movies, or something else. I wish something like that was still around. I do too. Here in Ohio when I was a kid in the evening there was a show called Flippo's Early Show. It had a little of everything moviewise and I loved it. Columbus Mileposts: Dec. 10, 1953 | Flippo begins decades on Columbus airwavesThere was also a show that had Showboat or Steamboat in its title on Sunday afternoons for several years in the 1960s that showed tons of movies from the 1930s, 40s and 50s. I would love to have access to all of those movies. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Apr 8, 2022 20:26:17 GMT -5
It occurred to me that I am soooo old, I remember when it was really, really weird (and extremely rare - I never even heard of that concept until I was past 30) for a kid to be scared of a clown.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Apr 8, 2022 20:35:07 GMT -5
I would love to see some of those old monster movies in a theater. Such showings do occur but they're rare as hen's teeth these days. I know people older than me who talk with awe about the revival houses that would play movies years or decades after their first-run. I understand it's not going to be that way these days, but still seems like a loss. I'm not even particularly into horror or monster movies. It seems like if you did it right that could be a successful niche even now. Give people a choice of B/W or colorized, with food service at one sided tables and an intermission, and show two movies with one ticket. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Apr 8, 2022 20:41:25 GMT -5
I never played any GURPS, but I did have some of the books (not the core) as a reference. Lot of good stuff in them. I also saw bits of TFT back when a lot of it was posted online years ago. When the KS came around, I could not afford it and wasn't able to get it. That has always been a problem with some groups, you can see it all over the internet and it started with the beginning of AD&D in the late 70s. To some extent it happened with the OD&D Supplements where a lot of people thought you had to use all of it. |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Apr 9, 2022 5:59:27 GMT -5
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Apr 9, 2022 12:57:11 GMT -5
I've never seen that and don't have any memory of ever hearing about it. But in 1981, I was in my first job that I spent about 40 weeks a year living out of a suitcase, I did not own a TV at my apartment and at the hotels, when I was not writing my reports, I was usually reading books. Come to think of it, I did not own a TV until I got married in 1996. |
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Post by oldskolgmr on Apr 10, 2022 11:02:16 GMT -5
Hello and congratulations to The Semi-Retired Gamer for updating his blog! Nice to see you writing for a (hopefully) wider audience again. Cheers! |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Apr 10, 2022 12:25:45 GMT -5
Hello and congratulations to The Semi-Retired Gamer for updating his blog! Nice to see you writing for a (hopefully) wider audience again. Cheers! Thank you! That is very much appreciated!!!! |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Apr 11, 2022 2:10:46 GMT -5
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Apr 12, 2022 2:29:24 GMT -5
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Apr 13, 2022 2:30:59 GMT -5
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Apr 14, 2022 2:19:37 GMT -5
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Post by hengest on Apr 15, 2022 11:46:15 GMT -5
Go Krull! Thanks for the links here! |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Apr 15, 2022 14:28:11 GMT -5
After a mishap with the link, I have reposted.Can any series of posts about gaming in the 1980s be complete without listng M is for Mazes & Monsters?
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Post by hengest on Apr 15, 2022 14:37:29 GMT -5
After a mishap with the link, I have reposted.Can any series of posts about gaming in the 1980s be complete without listng M is for Mazes & Monsters? Very nice post here! Some replies to quotes below: I am all for flavor, but I think in a lot of instances, it would take me out of the game (or just feel irrelevant). What's most important to me is what goes on in the game itself. Of course, the still you posted makes it clear these candles were used in the movie for the "occult" feel. It's unbelievable how silly people can be about things. When the general public (or even a small section of it) takes a hobby as way more intense and important than even the diehards do...well, something's wrong with that situation! |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Apr 15, 2022 14:49:08 GMT -5
After a mishap with the link, I have reposted.Can any series of posts about gaming in the 1980s be complete without listng M is for Mazes & Monsters? Very nice post here! Some replies to quotes below: I am all for flavor, but I think in a lot of instances, it would take me out of the game (or just feel irrelevant). What's most important to me is what goes on in the game itself. Of course, the still you posted makes it clear these candles were used in the movie for the "occult" feel. It's unbelievable how silly people can be about things. When the general public (or even a small section of it) takes a hobby as way more intense and important than even the diehards do...well, something's wrong with that situation! I agree that it would be very distracting for me as well. If you had a bunch of disposable income so you had a gaming room in the basement made up to resemble an old tavern with fake lanterns, etc. that might be cool.  As far as those that like to make a hobby into something it isn't, I'm fond of the old saying, "If you stir the $***-pot you should have to lick the spoon.". It's only fair. |
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Post by hengest on Apr 15, 2022 15:06:17 GMT -5
Very nice post here! Some replies to quotes below: I am all for flavor, but I think in a lot of instances, it would take me out of the game (or just feel irrelevant). What's most important to me is what goes on in the game itself. Of course, the still you posted makes it clear these candles were used in the movie for the "occult" feel. It's unbelievable how silly people can be about things. When the general public (or even a small section of it) takes a hobby as way more intense and important than even the diehards do...well, something's wrong with that situation! I agree that it would be very distracting for me as well. If you had a bunch of disposable income so you had a gaming room in the basement made up to resemble an old tavern with fake lanterns, etc. that might be cool.  As far as those that like to make a hobby into something it isn't, I'm fond of the old saying, "If you stir the $***-pot you should have to lick the spoon.". It's only fair. I can imagine any number of cool gaming rooms, and certainly wouldn't object to lanterns, real or fake! It could be fun to have visual markers that this is a "gaming place." Yes, I am in agreement with you about that last bit. It bothers me when people get to make trouble while being insulated from the very trouble they make. |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Apr 16, 2022 0:37:15 GMT -5
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Apr 18, 2022 4:34:09 GMT -5
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Post by hengest on Apr 18, 2022 15:41:12 GMT -5
Just from your description, this sounds like fun. Wish I could spend a weekend having people show me games like this, trying them out, ans then spend a week rpging. |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Apr 18, 2022 15:47:54 GMT -5
Just from your description, this sounds like fun. Wish I could spend a weekend having people show me games like this, trying them out, ans then spend a week rpging. It's a great little game. A weekend I've that sounds awesome! |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Apr 19, 2022 2:03:28 GMT -5
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Apr 20, 2022 2:08:04 GMT -5
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Apr 21, 2022 2:13:54 GMT -5
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Apr 22, 2022 2:12:53 GMT -5
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Apr 23, 2022 4:56:40 GMT -5
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