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The game that has earned me the most money (On the whole, I think I still meet federal poverty
guidlines, however) since it was published. That's probably because it has
been in print, in one form or another for nearly twenty five years. The game first
appeared as a centerfold of Dragon Magazine # 28, way back in the summer of 1979. As initially submitted, the title was just "The Awful Green Things", but good buddy, Tim Kask, then editor of the Dragon, thought the title needed more pazazz and added "From Outer Space"... an addition I'm glad he made. A year or so later, TSR put it out as a boxed game (cover shown above), and it sold well. In the second printing, the game came in a large flat box, with cover art by Jeff Dee.
In spite of heroic efforts by Will Niebling, the company couldn't get Sears to put it in their Christmas catalog. Things went downhill for the game after that. When the print run ran out, TSR stopped selling the game and the rights came back to me. Steve Jackson got in touch with me, took up the contract, and published it first in a small green pocket box format. Subsequent SJG printings were in a mid sized boxed format, and a video cassette box. The current printing is in a larger box and has actual die cut counters!!! |