• Knowing the game as I do (even 18 years after I last played), I can tell you where else their budget went- making gun props that look <u>exactly</u> like the illustrations of certain guns from the gamebooks. The mage's gun would've been pretty simple to customize- just add some junk onto the barrel of a particular real gun- but the big guy's must've taken some real work to create.

• Right before she hacks into the garage door the shadow of the boom is clearly visible in the upper right corner. Loved the simplicity of only needing 6 sided dice. Granted you needed 20 of them, but thats why we had Risk games to cannibalize!

• Turns out she gave it away last year, but she DOES have that big gun the muscle-bound idiot is running around with.

• I do! I got it for Christmas the year it came out. I was 15 or 16 at the time I think. I recall be extremely disappointed with it (I thought it would be more like the excellent Dragon Quest game I'd gotten years before). Still, the video was good for some chuckles. My friends and I watched it a few times just to rip into it.

• I saw Crossing Shadows at GenCon a few years ago: http://www.shadowrunmovie.com/

• you're a liar. Punk was a decade dead by then.

• Looks like a serial cable, they do look like VGA cables, though.

• Ah sorry, thought you were talking about SR4, not the video there.

• Dude,that looks awesome! Please tell me you will give it another at go at some point in time!

• ... and that is why Captain Freaking Power is fondly remembered: because most of the other stuff looked like this.

• My friends and I were big, big fans of Shadowrun. We actually shot a short trailer back in 92 to use as a way to get funding for a ''cyberpunk' film that has a lot of the same themes. If I remember right we spent $7K to make this using a lot of favors (and a lot of free sets and explosions from Universal Studios Florida) Trailer is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz26uE8DkX8

• Any chance you can grab a pic if it? The jacket that is

• I knew that they are still in the game, I am in a SR4 game right now. I was talking about the video. Being human was always a good idea in 3rd ed. If the game ran a while the bonus karma pool would be a massive advantage.

• Ah Shadowrun, the bastard child of Tolkien and Gibson that somehow did not come out a fin fingered vestigial-tailed monstrosity. Love the game. Still play it. But man 1st - 3rd ED was so 80's it hurt.

• This is kinda' like D&D played by the cast of Saved by the Bell. /so, AWESOME!!!

• Hell yeah, the Genesis version was awesome! I put a Genesis emulator on my PSP just for Shadowrun. I was so disappointed when I couldn't find a ROM that worked correctly.

• I've never understood why while hollywood is doing a Battleship board game movie, nobody has snatchedthe rights of shadowrun that has over 20 years of continuity and much more live-action doable than mechwarrior, for example.

• When the decker "finished" whatever the hell she was doing (Did she actually accomplish anything?), and rejoins the others, I thought, "So the other players sat there with their thumbs up their asses while the GM described all that shit to the other player?" I had a copy of the rulebook that someone gave me, and swiftly realized how stupid it was to involve a pretend videogame inside a tabletop RPG. Cyberspace was just a snazzy but pointless special effect.

• LOL, I thought that, too.

• Stop giving Rob ideas

• The Matrix looked kinda like the beta version of Tron, which would explain why Rob put it up.

• "one of the girls casting a spell with absolutely zero special effects" yeah, her eyes glowed red in reality.

• Wonderful production values. I half expected members of the ALMOST LIVE cast to show up... which would have been insanely cool.

• "Kids, if this video and today's list didn't weren't clear enough, the late '80s and early '90s fucking sucked." You seem confused, this is why the late '80s and early '90s fucking ROCKED!!!!!!!

• When the shinto gate showed up in the Matrix, I was like HOLY SHIT A RECOGNIZER. Except it wasn't, which was kind of a downer.

• I've always wondered about that when I see bodybuilders traipsing around like that. At least a woman with a huge chest and no real support, I know shouldn't be running like she's in a marathon. But I never could decide if the generic "too much testosterone" guy was just as unfeasible for actual activity as the "too much estrogen" girl.

• I don't get the hate for it, really. I like media of the 80s because horror movies were actually sincere back then and would go for an R rating. Amazingly too, if there was nudity, the breasts were often even real! I like the 90s because it's pretty much this cute caveman version of the present. The 80s are outside the computer range enough that it's easy to just class in into the same category as anything from the period when TV existed but before the net. Stuff from the 90s tends to have amazingly weird concepts of technology in its infancy then. Watching it, I just start to think "We are their gods! What with our ability to order pizza from CYBERSPACE!" I think watching media from both really make one appreciate what we have today, and it's usually something I really love to do. Even though my childhood kind of sucked and I don't really look back at the past with any real love on a personal level.

• My girlfriend worked at FASA. She still owns a Shadowrun jean jacket. I swear to god.

• Sorry, I meant to say 80s and 90s.

• Dude, I would love to see the rest of this, if only to put your soul to rest.

• Oh, I love and miss the 90s. Big hair, tight miniskirts, yellow and black all the rage. I miss my hair.

• The punk and metal scene would like to have a word with you.

• Farkin' hell! Sometimes the evil you do in the past comes back to haunt you. I confess I did some of the special effects for this dog. MY only defense for this travesty was rent was due and I had to whore myself out. The budget for this project would have made Ed Woods complain about underfunding. Please forgive me! At least I used real lasers for the security fence The only part I can look back at with any fondness was shopping for party cups stirrers for mixng resins to cast break-away handcuffs and other bits. I went into a local Jewell Foods and when I was attempting to et the money out to pay, I dumped condoms for squibs, handcuffs I was casting, and a knife onto the checkout conveyor. The cashier looked at the contents fro my pocket, and the party cups and looked bemused and a bit confused. I told her it was going to be one hell of a party and asked if she wanted to come along. She said she would take a rain check, but she gave me her phone number. (SCORE!) The 250 pounds of hamburger in leather pants was so muscle-bound he could not get enough lateral torsion to break the damn lock apart. We had to saw it till almost all the way through. I had thought this video had been lost in the mist of time and I could forget it ever happened. Now I need to find some mental floss and high-proof brain wash to scrub this out of my head before I wake up screaming in the night.

• I remember Shadowrun. My character was an Irish terrorist, for some reason.

• Big white keyboards? I haven't seen those since I was thirteen. Hilarious And why the fuck does that guy have tassels on his arms?

• I always thought of Shadowrun as being the cyberpunk game for entrenched, change-averse D&D nerds who just couldn't bear to part with their precious wizards and elves. Reading the rulebook you almost get the sense that FASA started with a set of generic D&D ripoff rules, and hastily grafted a cyberpunk setting onto them in an attempt to be au courant. Cyberpunk 2020 by R. Talsorian was a much better system for simulating the "mirrorshades" genre, and mostly free of the cliched swords & sorcery cruft. I never played it, but GURPS Cyberpunk was supposed to be pretty good too, as I recall.

• Do current nerds hate the late 80's and the 90's because they were bullied or did not get picked for the sports teams at school and cannot get over the experience?

• When they're doing their little shuffle in the alleyway, I was half hoping, half expecting to hear the opening theme to "Peter and the Wolf", or maybe some Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass...

• http://spoonyexperiment.com/2008/01/05/dragon-strike-board-game-review/ Hey, it's Malibu! :B

• Everything old is new again

• Unless you're a Republican, EVERYTHING in the '80's and early '90's sucked!

• This video put hair on my chest...and the curious urge to grow a mullet. XD

• She hacked into a ROM of LSD Dream Emulator! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkXtOhfW0R4&feature=related

• Just as a heads-up: According to the person who put it on Youtube, it wasn't a 'trailer' for the game system. It was promotional material distributed in the packages sent to vendors. It was also, apparently, pretty rare and only shown at GenCon 1991.

• I thought trailers were supposed to intrigue you and make you go "cool shit, looks like something I'd want/etc" That just made me go "wtf" and desire to not remember that. :| I guess that then, in a sense, it accomplished its goal.

• My current Shadowrun 4E Hacker uses an old fashioned keyboard, though he doesn't plug it into his head, that would be silly. Shame 4E has no Deckers, only Hackers and Riggers. Sucks to be a Decker in a wireless world.

• The future is upon us, and it has shitty lo-res graphics and awful hair. At least our Shadowrun GM had the wisdom to keep the decker role as an NPC and just have them take care of things as was needed by the plot so we could do things like blow shit up. The Genesis Shadowrun game kicked some ass though.

• that looked like really bad larping. i mean larpers should be ashamed.

• No, the Orks, Trolls, Elves and Dwarves are still there. They just finally cost enough that they are the smaller population like they should be according to the setting (vast majority of people are still human). When just becoming an Elf is near 1/4 your 400 points, being human is more appealing.

• Yow...I haven't seen toi played a Shadowrun game in ages. I wonder if I still have my Decker character sheet on file somewhere.

• Hooray! I got to contribute!

• Heh heh...I remember breaking out the cards and playing War whenever the decker need to run some ICE. Good times.

• Wow that guard has a serious shoulder fetish. =O Maybe it's a good thing Sludge didn't try to take him on or this might have ended like some Fan Fiction Friday honorable mention.

• I don't remember Shadowrun being so boring.

• http://www.cinemassacre.com/2009/05/27/board-james-2-dragonstrike/ I especially like the moment where he talks about the warrior looking like he belongs in a hair metal video.

• This is reminding me of middle school so hard, I think I might be inside a locker. I always wanted to play CyberPunk 2020, but NO, everyone wanted their fucking little elves and shit.

• Game is still going on, they sort of update the technology through the years. Newest edition is wireless for everything, much closer to Ghost in the Shell then Neuromancer. Also they left out the Orks, Trolls and other fantasy beasties that awakened in 2012. Setting works better then it should, fun game to play.

• "Sally watch our butts!" ahhh the days when ass was too harsh of a word.

• It actually didn't work out too badly if everyone was a decker. It wasn't anywhere near as exciting...

• Had I seen that in the 90's I wouldn't have played the game. I didn't. I am a bigger nerd today because of it.

• does anyone remember Dragon Strike???

• A part of me wants to trade youtube and free porn with that lofi virtual reality we were promised in the early nineties

• We all know that no one but a massive dick played deckers. Hey lets take the fun away from everyone else to play a game on our own with even more unnecessarily complicated rules. Troll Phys Adept with killing hands deadly was the way to go.

• Ah Shadowrun. I actually played that one. I recall enjoying it. This video does capture the time so perfectly.

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