Between early exposure to televised coverage of NASA launches and constant reruns of Star Trek , it was almost inevitable that I would beco...

And so, with issue #80 (August 1986), we come to the end of my retrospective on Games Workshop's White Dwarf. Even so, I'll likely h...

Issue #12 of Different Worlds (July 1981) is the first monthly  issue of the magazine, all previous ones being bimonthly. It also features c...

Issue #11 of Different Worlds (February/March 1981) is an interesting issue to me, because its content continues to differentiate the magazi...

Issue #9 (August/September 1980) of Different Worlds features a quite striking cover by Luise Perrine that seems to tie into an article appe...

Different Worlds #6   is the December 1979/January 1980 issue and features cover artwork by Rick Becker. It begins with a brief editorial by...

Issue #4 (August/September 1979) begins with an editorial by Tadashi Ehara in which he declares – remember: this is just five and a half yea...

The various "ages" I outlined way back at the start of 2009 were intended to apply only to Dungeons & Dragons (hence the t...

Appropriately enough, the final issue of the year 1984 (#92) saw the appearance of this ad: Paranoia is a game about which I've writt...

1986 is usually well outside the timeframe of the gaming products I highlight in my weekly retrospectives, but I'm going to make an exce...

Paranoia was first released, appropriately enough in 1984. Set in a sealed habitat called Alpha Complex sometime in the future after a nucle...

Here's a presentation he recently gave about the value of randomness in game design . Be warned: it's long and a bit rambly, but it...

It is hard for those of us who grew up with wargames, who loved them, who spent so many years studying them and taking them seriously as wor...

All that is left to carry on the tradition are a few small companies like Fresno Game Associates, run as labors of love by hobbyists, who ma...