Twilight 2000 4e RPG & The History of Wargaming RPGs 

I helped playtest this in college ages ago. I went to school close to GDW. (University of Illinois - Champaign/Urbana) I remember taking out a tank with an RPG. I didn't realize how rare that outcome was. Fun at the time.

That's the best Twilight 2000 lore vid I have seen and I've seen a few

I love this video! Like real-life table top lore

That was neat! I love hearing about obscure games like this I vaguely remember from the BASH catalogue. Would love to see you tackle other dead games, like Dark Conspiracy or Traveler itself. As for the timing... well, they did predict a lot of things uncomfortably well, didn't they? But I think it's more impactful because we're in a place where we've seen this happen.

"we didn't start the fire" by billy joel plays in my head starting at 9:45

Been tempted to run this as a Metro inspired game especially as running it vanilla feels a bit grim right now.

I’d love to hear more about the oddities of the last edition

Excellent review, and even better lore video. Well done!

TW2000 was my other brother's favorite.

this was super entertaining, thanks! i have a bunch of the old stuff from T2K, Traveller, and MegaTraveller, loved those games.

Played so much T2000 in 6/7th grade. Great memories

Great video! Helps me (and hopefully my players) get familiar with the game setting. Well done!

Traveller was published immediately after and influenced by Star Wars, look at the Psionics rules. I bought the first edition in 77 when it came out. ;-)

I remember playing the original as an 80's kid and the game always started with "you're in the middle of Poland" 😅 I'm not sure if I would like to pick this up at 2024 as it hits a little bit too close to home 😞

Love the alternate history lesson. Also, for all the info that I had no idea of. Great video.

I'd like you to explore the original setting.

17:02 *both sides panic as the unthinkable happens*

Please explore the Twilight 2000 setting!

I love the lord and world building of this game

This is a great watch - makes me want to play Twilight!

Cool video, I especially love the part at 13:20 where you talk about a violent debate and the girl sorta half heartedly slaps the table. :D I played Twilight 2,000 back in 86 when it was considered speculative fiction not alternative history. Which is kind of a weird thing to have happen . As far as a good time to release.. Well it was released before the whole thing in the Ukraine happened so it's not like they're trying to make a statement or anything. I also don't see why people would be uncomfortable due to current events. I mean if you're close to the fighting, but still have time to play a RPG I suppose it would strike close to home. But for those of us in the US or UK or something... That's a long ways away and hardly a big deal. I mean if someone is ok with playing a Vampire... then they should be able to separate reality from fiction for this.

Sure, explore that setting. I'd watch it.

i honestly thought we were exploring the 80s version.

And here we are in 2023 playing out this game in real time…

No mention of T2K, 2nd Edition?

Please explore the setting

I honestly believe that GDW would have done better if they had pushed DARK CONSPIRACY as the newer game (over TW2K V2.2) and changed it to be a darker action-adventure game like PULP CoC based on something like the X-Files, instead of positioning it as a comic book based or 50s serial-movie-type format like the old Rocket Man or Flash Gordon. DARK CONSPIRACY could have been the inspiration for games that resembled movies like TROLL HUNTER, THE LAST WITCH HUNTER, and CONSTANTINE.

Explore the original setting

Interesting concept, but of course my brain won't shut up. The problem is with collapse of the Warsaw Pact most of the man power of the Soviet Union is gone. Russia's total population was 147 million in 1991. A time time scale compression could fix the issue as tactical nukes come out faster. Or China. But, then we are looking at Twilight 2020. I think a little more war gaming is in order and some history is needed.. What would a post Desert Storm with the Cold War still ongoing look like as the USSR is still around and angry? Germany would have one of the largest military in Europe post reunification. The United States, UK, and France would have a battle tested armies from Desert Storm. China suffers Tammian Square. All this could lead to the wanted scenario.

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So where was the review? Video went through the history all the way up to 2000 and then ended. Never got to the game at all.

Yup. Shouldn't have watched this before bed.

Real talk. Is now a good time to release Twilight 2000? A bad time? Give me a comment, let me hear what you think about this RPG. Is it repellant to you?

Bloody hell, watching this with the war in Ukraine is a scary thing....Can your next video be something nice like My Little Pony

You keep saying in this video that war-games had become commercially unviable in the late 80s/early 90s. I guess Warhammer 40,000 passed you by......

Bro, I know you're an American and it's not your strong suit, but you have mispronounced horribly EVERY SINGLE non-english word. Doesn't take much effort to check their pronounciation...