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<\/p>\nSometimes I hate myself for being one.<\/p>\n
I recently started going back to my older non-sports tabletop board games, and found myself reading up on the rules for Starfire, 2nd edition.<\/p>\n
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This was the first boxed version of the game, which I originally picked up in high school. \u00a0Before this I owned the 1st edition of the game, which came in a ziplock bag, along with it’s two supplements (Starfire II and Starfire III: Empires). \u00a0I sold those off to friend.<\/p>\n
Anyways, I picked up the first expansion\/supplement for this edition, New Empires, back in the day.<\/p>\n
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I never played it, since it was more of a strategic-level empire building game that really needed a second player to get the most out of it.<\/p>\n
There was a third product in this line, before the third edition of the game came out, but I never bought it. Until now.<\/p>\n
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I didn’t buy it back in the day because by that time my group had moved on to role-playing games and Warhammer 40K. \u00a0So even though I rarely played this with friends, this, and Star Fleet Battles, went into the ‘did not play’ category of games that I owned.<\/p>\n
I would occasionally see this product on shelves in the late 1980s, but at the time I wasn’t interested in it and it went out of print. \u00a0But because of my recent interest in old games, it popped up on my radar again.<\/p>\n
Enter eBay, and sellers\u00a0who sell factory-sealed editions of out of print games. \u00a0I probably spent about 2-3 times the price of this thing was when it first came out, but at least I managed to scratch that itch that is my curse, the game completist.<\/p>\n
And regarding that third and later editions: yeah, I bought those, too, but 3rd edition was a bit complicated with it’s own set of supplements. \u00a0The game later spun off from Task Force Games, became 3rd revised (bought), and finally 4th edition, which I also own, but never even punched the counters. \u00a01st\/2nd edition were the most playable (read: simplest) version IMHO.<\/p>\n
And I own the PDF of the 6th edition, Solar Starfire. \u00a0They went with electronic products starting with the 5th edition (Ultra Starfire) which I didn’t buy.<\/p>\n
Enemy fleet on scanners – ARM WEAPONS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sometimes I hate myself for being one. I recently started going back to my older non-sports tabletop board games, and found myself reading up on the rules for Starfire, 2nd edition. This was the first boxed version of the game, which I originally picked up in high school. \u00a0Before this I owned the 1st edition … <\/p>\n