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Post by dancetrain on Sept 21, 2015 17:37:43 GMT -8
Hey Everyone,
So, recently Netflix added The Angry Red Planet to their streaming service. Being a sucker for shitty old movies, I settled in. Not only did it give me some good ideas for adventures set in my current Traveller game but it also dawned on me just how crazy our perception of the Solar System was in that era. I didn't know this but early telescope observations of Mars at the time appeared to show green spots on the planet that would expand and contrast like seasons, but it was later attributed to the illusion of the dark areas vs. the contrast of the red planet. This caused a lot of early speculation that there was life and vegetation on Mars.
This really made me want to at least run a one-shot game based on concepts we had of what our future tech/space exploration would be like. Having things like Sonic and Death Ray Guns, Retro Rocket Ships and Flying Saucers with huge computers needed to run them, all planets being Earthlike, sound in space, aliens looking like humans in rubber suits, etc.
Has anyone here used old SciFi movies to inspire their games? What old tropes do you think would be a good addition to a game like this?
Reading back at this I feel like the Fallout franchise has already done some of this at least, but not so space oriented.
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maxinstuff
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Post by maxinstuff on Sept 21, 2015 18:54:16 GMT -8
Well, Traveller is already inspired by the Sci-Fi of the 70's - so it isn't too much of a stretch to bring it back to the 50's Dial up the presence of grav-vehicles and rafts, dial down the transhuman aspects. Bring the ominous threat of nuclear weaponry to the fore too. Maybe restrict it to our own solar system as well, with Mars having an atmostphere and ecology like you suggest - and perhaps other planets being even weirder.... Sort of like "Space 1954" (as opposed to space 1889)
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fredrix
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Post by fredrix on Sept 21, 2015 20:36:24 GMT -8
There's a great old BBC radio series, Journey into Space by Charles Chiltern which I enjoy. It's sooooooooo slow, as was all serialised drama in the fifties. A four man crew, "Jet" Morgan, British (obviously), the US rocket scientist "Doc" Matthews, Aussie "Mitch" Mitchel, and token working class bloke northerner, Lemmy (sadly not out of Motorhead) spend about four episodes just getting ready for take off. But then there's mysterious music in space, the Moon, time travel, Martian body snatchers, all sorts of heady futuristic stuff.
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