(03-17-2011, 04:11 PM)GrimFinger Wrote:(03-17-2011, 03:39 PM)Victory Wrote: If you have any specific questions feel free to send me a note. Otherwise I will probably disappear again until nostalgia finds me looking around again.
Well, Terry, I hope that you don't disappear, entirely. It's great, listening to you recall such bits and pieces of PBM's past. You're a walking treasure trove of PBM knowledge. I'm glad that the nostalgia bug bit you, and that you bothered to stop by - and to pause long enough to share such choice memories with us. Definitely, your postings are PBM gold.
But, I can't make anyone stay. If nothing else, feel free to just lurk, and only chime in occasionally. What little that you've posted, thus far, is actually some of the very best PBM-related material that I have come across online over the last several years. You're a PBM resource that is, quite plain and simply, irreplaceable.
Thanks for the kind words.
This web site was just a walk down memory lane for me. I can remember all the crazy times and then the boom years followed by the convention when I picked up a bunch of Magic (alpha) cards. That was a turning point for PBM when Adventures By Mail decided to get into the Magic card craze and their PBM games suffered a bit as they found the collectible card game bubble and discovered that the niche of PBM was so small compared to the CCG wave. I think quite a few other PBM companies saw that same light and had to look hard within themselves to decide if the love of the hobby was worth skipping out on financial rewards.
And after that slowed down a little the internet took off and the big companies with large art departments were able to get their subscription based games with huge advertising budgets and economies of scale that the little shops had difficulty competing with.
Your website has me wondering where my box in the basement is that contains all my StarMaster, etc materials. I wrote so many newsletters for SuperNova and I think I still have a bunch of the old Schubel and Son newsletters too somewhere down there. That was such a long time ago...