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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:04 am

I activated the time machine (ie Model Retailer) again and I found myself at Gen Con 1984... Here are the photos.

Pacesetter booth with a young customer buying Chill

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28697569@N ... 740129764/

Booth for the obscure (?) Shogun game at the Shipps Games booth:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28697569@N ... 740129764/

Steve Jackson Games booth (I think the person showing just his face above the other one showing his back might be a VERY young Steve Jackson himself!)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28697569@N ... 740129764/

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giving Shogun a try

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28697569@N ... 740129764/

West End Games booth with Paranoia demo (who is the person giving the explanation? Greg Costikyan perhaps?)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28697569@N ... 740129764/

Fasa booth with th Star Trek RPG products

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28697569@N ... 740129764/

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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:29 am

Alexander1968 wrote:West End Games booth with Paranoia demo (who is the person giving the explanation? Greg Costikyan perhaps?)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28697569@N ... 740129764/

Can anyone make out what the large text on the button says?

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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:53 pm

g026r wrote:
Can anyone make out what the large text on the button says?

Nope, only think I see an 'S' and 'P', but who knows.

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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:57 pm

Plaag wrote:
Nope, only think I see an 'S' and 'P', but who knows.

ShaneG.

I guess the button says SPI and something smaller (perhaps a way to identify ex SPI employees?).

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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:28 pm

Alexander1968 wrote:I guess the button says SPI and something smaller (perhaps a way to identify ex SPI employees?).

That's what I was thinking. (That it says SPI.)

Which might suggest that it is in fact Costikyan.

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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:35 pm

It looks like Costikyan.
Here is a recent photo on his web page.

http://www.costik.com/

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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:40 pm

I'm not sure ... there's some other photos of him circa that era, including a long interview with Space Gamer, where he's got some crazy-ass huge hair. Not that he couldn't have gotten a haircut, of course ...

I'm also unsure about the proposed Steve Jackson sighting. I look at the photo once and I think it's him ... I look at it again and I say, "no way."

I've met both men, but, in each case, my most recent meeting was years ago. It could be that my mental picture of them is inaccurate and that they are, in fact, present in those photos.

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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:52 pm

That might be one of those "SPI died for my sins" buttons that were popular at the time.

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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:33 am

Xaxaxe wrote:I'm not sure ... there's some other photos of him circa that era, including a long interview with Space Gamer, where he's got some crazy-ass huge hair. Not that he couldn't have gotten a haircut, of course ...

Perhaps he was forced to cut some hairs by West End, for the convention at least, to give the company a better image, a more polished "I'm a professional" look. I have nothing against long hairs, but booths with shabby people don't impress me in a favourable way

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