Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!idi!qubix!steven From: steven@qubix.UUCP (Steven Maurer) Newsgroups: net.games.frp Subject: Re: Review of TOON (Steve Jackson Games) Message-ID: <1399@qubix.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 18:42:50 EDT Article-I.D.: qubix.1399 Posted: Thu Oct 4 18:42:50 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 01:42:35 EDT References: <3782@decwrl.UUCP>, <186@oliveb.UUCP> Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, Saratoga, CA Lines: 43 [+] I too, like TOON. It is the best you can do with an essentially unsimulatable genre. Why is it unsimulatable? Because almost all cartoons have two classes of character types, "Heros", and "Dupes". A "Hero" is like Bugs Bunny. He is not looking for trouble, but somehow it comes for him. He always wins. He is always impervious to all attacks. A "Dupe" is like Wile E. Coyote. He trys to get the hero, but looses either because of the hero's cleverness, or because he has terrible luck. The problem with TOON, is that few people want to play a Dupe. Heros Dupes ----- ----- Bugs Bunny The Coyote (Caneous Hungryus) Tweety Bird Yosemite Sam Micky Mouse Sylvester Road Runner Elmer Fudd Daffy Duck (early version) Daffy Duck (later versions) The baby Chickenhawk The Martian Popeye The Big Ape The Sheepdog Wile E. Coyote ("my card") Jerry Brutis Tom Non Heros/Non Dupes Foghorn Leghorn The Dog The turtle(s) Bugs Bunny (rarely) Granny Shorty Whimpy Olive Oyl Tom (occasionally) Jerry (occasionally) The Bull Dog