If you go to the Internet Archive at Internet Archive Wayback Machine you can see their site, which was active until fairly recently.  IIRC it has a listing of all of their published stuff.

deimos3428 wrote:

grodog wrote:If you go to the Internet Archive at Internet Archive Wayback Machine you can see their site, which was active until fairly recently.  IIRC it has a listing of all of their published stuff.

That is a truly nasty looking URL...

That's because it uses the Wayback Machine, an archive of basically the entire web over time. It is the best way to grab old missing web pages. I've resurrected stuff from defunct web sites there many times.

I think at best it would be $20-$25 but most likely less.  Not too many FGU completest collectors out there and Year of the Phoenix wasn't one of their main ones.

Also, anyone every play any of the Pacesetter games?  Are they any good?

I like Chill a lot. A sort of more humorous (Elvira was involved with it at one point, as I recall...) Call of Cthulhu, but not a bad game. Mayfair liked it enough to do their own version. That is the only one I can recall playing.

No a popular game evidently, considering it was released more than 20 years ago! I think I will de-shrink it then and have a look inside

I just checked our FGU listing on the Wiki and we already have 34 products covered.

Category: Fantasy Games Unlimited - Acaeum

PS. That waybackmachine is a pretty cool website!

serleran wrote:
I like Chill a lot. A sort of more humorous (Elvira was involved with it at one point, as I recall...) Call of Cthulhu, but not a bad game. Mayfair liked it enough to do their own version. That is the only one I can recall playing.

Big Pacesetter fan here. Chill was an excellent game. In fact, you can use Chill products as supplements for your CoC campaign. I have never cared for the Mayfair version. Mayfair really lost the "spirit" of Chill and tried way too hard to make it a true Horror rpg.

Timemaster was ok, Star Ace - not so much. TM and SA only had a handful of products and went up against some pretty tough competition at the time. SA never had a chance and TM just never stuck.

All Pacesetter rpgs use the same rule mechanic so they are easy to learn.

They also produced a game called Sandman - simply awesome. Problem was that it came out just before Pacesetter disappeared.

Pacesetter also produced two stand alone games (board games) Wabbit Wampage and Black Morn Manor - both of which I highly recommend. I think Wabbit had a follow-up called Wabbit Wevenge, but I don't have it and have never spent the time search it out. Probably should though because I think that would be the last item for my Pacesetter collection.  

I will be adding all the Pacesetter stuff to the Acaeum Wiki over the next couple weeks. Just finished scanning all the pics for upload.

I really need to find out who has the rights to Chill at this time....Mayfair is gone - bought by daVinci Games who I know nothing about.

JohnGaunt wrote:*raises eyebrow*  I have a Wabbit's Wevenge that is punched and has the "54-40' Orphyte" stickers on the box.  It also has the Orphyte product sheets inside instead of Pacesetter ephemera.

That is interesting. I got it on watch, now.

As far as detailing the products, I am at work and I don't have my laptop today so I can't check my product lists. But that sounds about right.

Orphyte bought out Pacesetter or something.  They are still selling off the old stock.  Although it looks like Star Ace was sold to someone else.

Mars wrote:Orphyte bought out Pacesetter or something.  They are still selling off the old stock.  Although it looks like Star Ace was sold to someone else.

I think they just bought out the stock. Though I have seen it othe places. In fact, I just picked up:


** expired/removed eBay auction **


and


** expired/removed eBay auction **


What I am going to do with them all, I don't exactly know, but I couldn't pass them up.

Star Ace did not have too much material. So I think the summary above is got to be darn close.