Desaerted Asteroid Discs: Results

[Klaus]

OK, the server move ended the poll abruptly. Here's the top 7, from memory, based on my last view, with 37 votes.

1) Firefly /26
2) B5 /24
3) nBSG /12
4) ST:TOS /7
5) Blake's 7 /5
6) Farscape /4
7) Space: A&B /3

Interesting.....

Given that B5 is popular, why aren't people playing that instead of Traveller?!

btw, my PAL R2 box of Starhunter is on it's way from Down Under....

 

[Border Reiver]

I'm sure if my campaign had taken off UFO would have been up there.

 

[Beech]

Did UFO get more than the two votes it had last time I checked or was it just you and me voted for it?
It was damn good , those purple metallic haired moon girls really did it for me when I was thirteen.
Got the theme music on my ipod -still gives me a buzz when it comes on.

 

[Klaus]

Where did you get the theme music from? As it's been unavailable for decades.

A vinyl LP was recently released, but it's for audiophiles and cost a fortune. I'm not paying £70 for one record. Plus I don't have a turntable.

However, I have got some of the incidental music. A friend of a friend was clearing out an old recording studio when he found some decrepit reel to reel tapes. Turned out they were the original takes for the UFO theme music. He burned them onto CD; unfortunately as 3 loonnng tracks and they're very hissy. But it is nice to hear Barry Gray himself go "One, two, a one, two, three, four..."

 

[Border Reiver]

Lots of cover versions out there, my favourite is by TheWeddingPresent.

There is an album called 100 Greatest TV Themes on Silva Records. All the themes are re-recordings but are good clones of the original.

 

[Klaus]

Yeah, but I hate the clones. I need the original. I can always tell a clone. Just not the same. Recorded it off the dvd but not as good as full 44.1Khz sound.

Though I'd be interested to hear what TheWeddingPresent version sounds like.

I'm hoping there might be an Italian version I can get hold off. I know Spazio:1999 is the best vinyl lp of that stuff. The italians do like their soundtracks...

 

[Border Reiver]

Oh, here's the original

and here it is with added teletype sound effects

 

[Klaus]

Cheers Mr Reiver. I been there before, but there's some new stuff on it.

 

[Border Reiver]

Check out the iTunes store for a sample of TheWeddingPresent doing it. On the album HitParade. It was part of their whole twelve 7" singles in a year project, A-side originals, B-Side covers.

 

[Sifu Blackirish]

It was damn good , those purple metallic haired moon s really did it for me when I was thirteen.

Don't forget the miniskirts and boots!

 

[Hyphen]

Dear Folks -

A few years ago (Win 98 era?) somebody knocked together a UFO desktop theme for the PC.

Complete with memorable Straker voice-overs such as:
"Ten years... I've given ten YEARS of sweat and sacrifice to get SHADO running the way I want it. And I won't let some young punk like you mess things up!"
and of course:
"They may be years ahead of the human race but we've got one thing they haven't -- bloody mindedness. It built this planet."

You can grab some from here:
UFO Dialogue

 

[marvo]

Originally posted by Klaus:

Interesting.....

Given that B5 is popular, why aren't people playing that instead of Traveller?!

I tried that and the B5 RPG is not really that good. The starship combat game is another story. It's a super gearhead version of Full Thrust.

 

[Arthur Denger]

Originally posted by Klaus:

Given that B5 is popular, why aren't people playing that instead of Traveller?!

I think it is hard to beat Traveller in terms of sheer versatility. The referee (GM) still has an incredible number of options, as do the players. The campaign is by no means locked into the OTU, whereas in most other game systems deviation from canon means you are no longer playing that game, if indeed the game is even still playable at that point.

 

[marvo]

Also, it's not that difficult to add some elements from B5 into the Traveller universe. In MTU there's a mysterious menace lurking in the Reft sector.... the B5 shadow ships are just to good to pass up for this role.

I have not done the ship design in T20 rules yet as I do not expect the players to ever face one.. well, not if they want to live.

 

[kafka47]

Don't you all know that the Shadows were one of the progenerator races that pre-date the Ancients by a millenia. Afterall, Grandfather was said to be studying something and what drove his children against him?

...More of this...I cannot reveal...as my brain begins to boil and eyes pop out.