Victory

[Victory]

Wow! Those are awesome. As someone who missed that entire era, it is interesting to get a glimpse of how things operated back then.

So KSK only ever ran a few turns of Starmaster after those announcements?

Was this before photocopy machines? Did the GMs have to manually type those newsletters over and over?

From these newsletters and other pbm archives, I just can't get over the scale of these games. There just doesn't seem to be anything similar these days. They truly were the first MMOGs.. err, MMOfflineGames? I was hoping Mark's Galactic Empires would make a comeback, but that is looking more and more unlikely.

I'm not sure how many turns KSK ran. I didn't think it was many, but that blog I linked earlier made it seem like more.

Photocopy machines were around (but expensive), but the type set of newsletters and such was pretty bad. I'm not sure if every PBM company had photocopy machines or if they took things to their neighborhood printer. RTG printed off rules and such at Kinkos, but we had a copier in the office. It wasn't cost effective to do many big runs on our machine though.

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In any event, if anyone actually wants any of these send me a PM with an email address and I can send them your way. The scans are 2-8 MB in size.

Oh, you know that we want it all. It sucks connecting to the Internet at 16.8K, right now. I am going to go to someone else's, just to download the things.

But, you know that we want them. I especially am interested in Galaxy: Alpha from Intergalactic Games. Do you recall much about them, Terry?

I don't recall much about Galaxy Alpha. If you want me to send the original scans of that first newsletter just send me a PM with your email address and I'll send them to you. It looks like only two of the four pages for the newsletter got uploaded for some reason.

Most of the box I found is old Schubel and Son newsletters and such. Not much more for Galaxy Alpha (sorry).

Thanks for giving me the incentive to dig those out. It made me feel young again for a little bit remembering what it was like to be in high school and checking the mailbox for a turn.