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From: Andrew Murdoch toreador@***.bc.ca
Subject: [OT] Gaming in the Media
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:38:06 -0700 (PDT)
- Gurth <19:30/20-Jun-2000>

> And something else I thought of this afternoon: the British magazine
> Arcane (which doesn't exist anymore) used to have a column "Famous for 15
> Minutes" or somesuch, where they mentioned references to RPGs in popular
> culture, often brought to their attention by readers. All the following
> are paraphrased by me from the issues I own that contain relevant ones to
> this thread:

I also remember years back hearing how troops involved in Desert Storm
were more than thrilled about the donation by Steve Jackson Games of a
gazillion sets of Car Wars and the Car Wars CCG.

--
Raven
Sometimes known as Andrew C. Murdoch
toreador@***.bc.ca
http://members.xoom.com/corvisraven

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