Wednesday, 4 January 2012
2012. Finally, the Year of Shadowrun.
Just kidding!
Shadowrun was a game close to my gaming roots back in the day. I've spoken before of selling a lot of gaming material that lied collecting dust in the attic after getting married. My Shadowrun collection made me quite of bit of money in 2001.
No regrets, really. The game was, by 2001, on its third edition and most of my collection was easily first, maybe some second, edition titles...I think (looking up the property on Wikipedia is not helping me).
However, Shadowrun made me aware of the Mayan calendar and it's "Sixth World" long before pop culture caught on and Hollywood started making bad movies. Shadowrun seems to be a property too that got it's timeline about right. It was a feature of the setting that I enjoyed a lot: as titles were published, so advanced the calendar from 2050 (the setting year). The setting has advanced this calendar a few times as I understand it, but it provided something of a hook in 1987, when 2012 seemed so far away.
Happy New Year... here's to hoping we get to 2013! ~o)
Shadowrun was a game close to my gaming roots back in the day. I've spoken before of selling a lot of gaming material that lied collecting dust in the attic after getting married. My Shadowrun collection made me quite of bit of money in 2001.
No regrets, really. The game was, by 2001, on its third edition and most of my collection was easily first, maybe some second, edition titles...I think (looking up the property on Wikipedia is not helping me).
However, Shadowrun made me aware of the Mayan calendar and it's "Sixth World" long before pop culture caught on and Hollywood started making bad movies. Shadowrun seems to be a property too that got it's timeline about right. It was a feature of the setting that I enjoyed a lot: as titles were published, so advanced the calendar from 2050 (the setting year). The setting has advanced this calendar a few times as I understand it, but it provided something of a hook in 1987, when 2012 seemed so far away.
Happy New Year... here's to hoping we get to 2013! ~o)
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