Back in the early 80's I was in junior high school and was around thirteen years old. This new kid showed up one day: His dad was some kind of corporate troubleshooter who had been called in to get a local factory back on track and his family moved around a lot. In his short life he had been to like eight different school districts or something insane like that. He only wound up staying in our neck of rural Illinois for six months or so.
My friends and I had played and loved D&D, and I think we had played Star Frontiers, and we had heard about but could not find a copy of Gamma World (Much to our frustration). But this new kid brought with him from far-off Seattle a new game, Top Secret. He ran a game of it at lunch in the English room.
The incredibly tasteless premise of his campaign (And I don't remember if this was his idea or ours. Probably ours, because we were sick little fucks.) was that our characters were all actual real-world killers and terrorists whose captures or deaths had been faked by the government so the CIA could use us as a kill squad. One kid played Charles Manson, one was Ted Bundy, and my character was Claude Dallas (A now-obscure but then in-the-news cop killer). Anyway, we lived under Berlin in a secret underground City of Assassins. This city was basically a giant dungeon: It had miles of labyrinthine tunnels, traps, and when we got bored we could just wander the tunnels looking for trouble. He had even made up wandering monster tables that included punks, bikers, hookers, gangs, Soviet troops, ninja, and rival serial killers. I recall fighting a lot of punks in those tunnels. By any standards of morality, genre, good taste, game balance, storytelling, or common sense it was "Problematic" and Doing It All Totally Wrong.
Needless to say, we had a complete blast.
What was your favorite "Bad-Wrong-Fun" game?
My friends and I had played and loved D&D, and I think we had played Star Frontiers, and we had heard about but could not find a copy of Gamma World (Much to our frustration). But this new kid brought with him from far-off Seattle a new game, Top Secret. He ran a game of it at lunch in the English room.
The incredibly tasteless premise of his campaign (And I don't remember if this was his idea or ours. Probably ours, because we were sick little fucks.) was that our characters were all actual real-world killers and terrorists whose captures or deaths had been faked by the government so the CIA could use us as a kill squad. One kid played Charles Manson, one was Ted Bundy, and my character was Claude Dallas (A now-obscure but then in-the-news cop killer). Anyway, we lived under Berlin in a secret underground City of Assassins. This city was basically a giant dungeon: It had miles of labyrinthine tunnels, traps, and when we got bored we could just wander the tunnels looking for trouble. He had even made up wandering monster tables that included punks, bikers, hookers, gangs, Soviet troops, ninja, and rival serial killers. I recall fighting a lot of punks in those tunnels. By any standards of morality, genre, good taste, game balance, storytelling, or common sense it was "Problematic" and Doing It All Totally Wrong.
Needless to say, we had a complete blast.
What was your favorite "Bad-Wrong-Fun" game?
Best Worst Game?
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