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Now I'm curiius how you feel about dark tower. It was publish 2 year before.and already had a more coherent design.

Great video, Aten! Took me a few days to get time to watch it, but great info! I remember seeing this module back in the day, and it could be found for years on the discount racks at various game shops. I admit that the cover art really didn't grab me, so I never picked it up. I recall once finding an open copy and not being at all impressed by the maps either >.<

Great review!! I played James Bond RPG back from 1983 to about 1985. I actually found it a pretty simple system. Tables are not hard. In some ways they're easier -- I found it as actually a very easy system to learn and play. If you are going to play espionage beyond the OSR games you mentioned I'd recommend GURPS or SpyCraft (if you want super crunchy) or you can use Basic Roleplaying (BRP) from Chaosium if you want something easier. I think this is g great game if you are a James Bond fan!! -- Basically, going through one of the modules was like re-living one of the movies and being able to talk about the movie with other people that also were also into James Bond. So, the great thing about this game was the "James Bond" Intellectual property, which is what that OSR game does not have, so not the same game. You need the James Bond IP!! Such a fantastic game!!

This game influenced my favorite game system, Top Secret S.I. :)

I love hearing about monster lore and how you use certain monsters for more interesting set-ups outside of just simply attacking in a straight forward fight. I never thought about how 1 shadow demon could harass a low level party for the entirety of a dungeon without the party even realizing what they are dealing with.

Love this stuff. Tharizdun is one of my favorite evil gods to use as a source of problems for my adventurers.

This RPG was much better than I expected. Heh, and when someone in the group said "you can't make a female 00" and I pointed out that there was an unnamed 003 female agent in Thunderball. Additionally, there was a group of unnamed 00's being given a mission assignment in The World is Not Enough, and one was a female. My family was one of those who fell into the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, so I wasn't allowed to play a game like D&D. However, James Bond RPG or Mayfair Games rpg of DC Comics was 'safe'

Every new video I'm falling more in love with this channel. Thank you for this amazing content, you always somehow seem to show me games I'd love and have never heard of. Massive bond fan and was never aware of this, but I have played all the bond video games.

Woohoo! All caught up again. =^_^= Never played this but I loved the old Bond films when I was a kid. The game looks like it would be a lot of fun, I'll have to see if I can find it some time... If my scatter brain remembers. Really great video, take care and have fun Aten. =^_^=

Great video as always Aten, sorry I'm a little late. Been almost feeling like I'm under the influence of the god of madness lately with how busy I've been, I typically create my own deities but I may just have to use Tharizdun sometime to throw my players off. Thanks for all your hard work and dedication. =^_^=

i think that the depth of background for the PC AND especially the massively detained NPCs made this game really feel exactly like the movies. "He was an member of the SIS till his mission was compromised , had a keen interest in "bird watching" (player immediately makes a double intrada about something , something female anatomy and table groans but upon remembering the movie series and era and decided not to immediately call in a third party to help everyone breath into a paperbag...

Bond was great for teaching pacing well as social interactions (steps of seduction) and keeping things MOVING!!! They even START with a teaser to specifically get you building up those hero points!!! and "bidding" on chases is not to be missed. (GURPS has a series called "ACTION!" that helps focus the sprawling GURPS toolbox to double naught spies to the A-Team taht reatains a LOT of the meta and mechanics including an overall level of difficulty called BADD to up the tension.)

Really showing my age here, but my buddies and I used this ruleset to create our own Mack Bolan game. I'm sure someone gets that reference.

I remember seeing this game back in the day but I never played it. My group played Top Secret instead which was fun but never quite had the cinematic feel you described here.

Thank you so much Aten. Please keep up the fantastic work. Sincerely, Alicia from Sweden

I've heard nothing but great things about this game, and I regret not picking it up. Thank you for sharing the strengths of the game with us! All the best, Aten -- 🍪☕

i always loved this game! and the accessories and the ease system were great!

Очень интересное путешествие в прошлое настольных игр! На своем канале я просто вожу игры 1 игрок и 1 мастер по правилам dnd 5e + мои дополнения.

An excellent video as usual Aten. I love your well researched critique and examination of TTRPG systems I have never heard of. It is disappointing that the system is best run with just a GM and one PC, as I have never felt comfortable in that kind of TTRPG environment, but thematically it makes sense as very rarely would you send a team of spies into a James Bond Like situation. I have obtained a copy of Classified and I am wondering, is possible to make home-brew changes or house rules, that would make party play possible? Now to the subject of tables. I have never been a fan and in my opinion, I have always thought that system creators made them as a subconscious effort to gate-keep their work. "Only smart people are allowed to play our game!" As a software developer IRL, the first thing I do when I see a table in convert it to a computer program that accepts minimal inputs and spits out the final result. I think I might be considered a heathen for doing that.

If you're looking for a math degree/engineer's RPG, may I counsel the French RpG "Légendes"? that one was made by engineers for engineers and you better have a calculator handy when creating characters or resolving situations.

You probably already heard me mention this at one point or another, but we used to play a game that was an amalgam of this and the Top Secret game. The GM did all the heavy lifting, so we just played his game and we all had a ball. :-) We played with the one GM and two of us players, so we did exceed the recommended two player count... and I agree that this game (or this style of game) is probably best suited to one-on-one GM/player play. I think the same would apply to the TSR Indiana Jones game.

That Q Manual looks awesome! That alone would make the whole game worth it for me.

Great explanation! Really enjoyed your video! -Charles

Played a fair bit of 'Top Secret' back in the day, but never this one. I believe most TTRPGers secretly want to be James Bond on one level or another, and many never fully grow out of that. I know that's true of me. :) There is also, I know, a card game called 'Before I Kill You, Mister Spy'. It was originally sold as, you guessed it, "Before I Kill You, Mister Bond', but they got into trouble for that (surprise!).

my cool sexy spy name: Baldino McFucknuggets

2:50 irony much?

Oh God, I remember that chart.!!! I had to constantly explain to my buddy/player - and I suck at math ... but he loved being a super spy. We MOSTLY only played with one... but I occasionally had two, and I recall having four, once... ...and the people who can't deal with the Bond series? Who cares what they think! :) Great video, Aten.

I still have my boxed set I believe I picked up in '84. I actually used the Dr. No adventure from the book for the basis of a choose your own adventure for my BASIC computer programing class in 8th grade. Loving your channel, Aten! Keep up the good work! Also a big fan of the TSR Marvel Superheroes. Can't wait to see your take on that.

Thank you for talking about one of my favorite RPG's ever! I have hung on to the game for nearly 40 years and tell everyone how good it is... Well, problematic issues aside, the mechanics are wonderful

"Play however you want because none of these games from the 80s were ever intended to be an endorsement for bad behaviour. They're a form of escapism that might even expose us to valuable moral lessons" This is wisdom. I never did find the time to get familiar with it when I owned a copy, so thanks for the nice, thorough treatment of the ruleset! I feel at once informed and slightly nostalgic!

Thank you Aten, I have been waiting months for this and it was worth every minute. The chase mechanic in 007 and the one from Indiana Jones are both alot of fun. ❤

i have not (yet) played this game, and your video is encouraging! i enjoyed "Top Secret" back in the 1980s

Reminds me a bit of Top Secret, a bit.

i knew i liked you for a reason, dyscalclexia or w/e-tf it is sure makes being a machinist fun for me. not being able to properly write down my phone number almost got my pet sent to the permanent sleeping room. nonstop adventure with numbers. I like charts also. with context numbers always behave better.

Liked so much the presentation that I subscribed. I'd love to run an old school spy game, but the closest to that for the moment is Delta Green which seems to bring more players.

I run it currently as a back up to my main Star Wars campaign when all the players don't show.

I honestly love Ms Galore. She kicks butts. The name might be cringy but that actually adds to how awesome as a bad ass Lady she is. I've always respected her.

My favorite Secret Agent RPG was Top Secret. The Original, Top Secret/SI, and Top Secret: New World Order. Created by Merle Rasmussen

I loved this game as a kid! All the weapon and vehicle stats were exactly what my autism was into.

I'm really excited to be sharing these old school game videos with you! I hope you enjoyed by fabulous singing intro! I should be on Idol!

Now that I have more time, I want to make a more proper comment: I really like these lore consolidation videos and appreciate the effort to gather the data from multiple sources. Thank you for doing these and looking forward to more!

A thorough and lovingly detailed of the greatest villain in any campaign setting, ever, and another smash hit! Nice job, Aten!

Great video! Thanks! Keep these up!