Addressing the Elephant in the room (No, not you Sir! Please, sit down.)

[Jim Kane]

Originally Posted by JLV

Hey, I lived in Austin back in the day (alas, after the demise of Metagaming and TFT, but Steve was still there) and a "sweet-smelling Houri Fan-dancer" was entirely possible! It's a college town, you know -- anything's possible! ;-)

You Too?!!

In mid '76 Before MELEE came out, moved from our Austin property on Brodie Lane off 290 - now get these directions: "just before 'Convict Hill Rd' comes into Brodie, and if you hit 'W Slaughter Ln' you went too far". I am 100% serious about that! LOL! We didn't even have a normal mailing address back then; it was just some wacky Rural Route code.

NOW think what it would have been like as a Jr High kid in '77 after the release of Melee, to ask other kids to come over to play this new game where you chop each other up, IF you don't fill each other up with arrows first,.. and use those directions to your house LOL!

I couldn't have found Metagaming back in the day, as I didn't start driving until around 1980. Even if I had known about the TFT Play-Test Sessions, the address printed on the Microgame Boxes would have lead me to a Post Office over on the other side of the Colorado River and UT - and I probably would not have thought to simply write and ask where they were physically located LOL!

As a teen, all kinds of wacky projections go on through your mind, like:

If I had called to ask if i could join the Play-Test Group, what if HT might have told me: "If you're too dumb to find us, you're too dumb play with us"
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What if HT might have asked me where I lived? "Uh,..on Brodie, near,..Uh,.. Convict Hill,.. ugh,...before,.. ugh... Slaughter Ln,... "
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So we both had bad timing; and I just had a worse address
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