WildSpace - the game that never was (released) | TSR

Booker Hooker

(Scratches)

United States
Kingsport
Tennessee

I was looking at the box cover to Dragon Strike this evening and noticed that it said something about an "AdventureVision Game Series". I did a little googling and stumbled upon this:

Apparently TSR had designed the game, made the prototype, and shot the 30 minute movie, but never released the game. Here is a brief description of the game:

Wildspace - Sail the void between planets in your squidship in search of treasure. Evil mind flayers, draconians, and Lord Fear hunt the spaceways trying to stop you. This is the second game in the AdventureVision series. Like Dragon Strike, when Wildspace the video ends, Wildspace the game begins. Watch the half-hour video adventure featuring your heroes in awesome action, then play as a team in exciting fantasy space adventures.

So apparently this used the same 4 heroes from Dragon Strike but set them in the WildSpace setting (similar to Spelljammer I guess?) where they had to fight this Lord Fear to try and regain some gem. The game came with several minis as well as some plastic ships that were 4-6" long! There apparently is (or was at least) 1 copy (the prototype) with a box somewhere. I don't know much about TSR or its RPG settings, but this sounds like an interesting game.

By the way, this was supposed to be released around 1994, so if any of ya'll have old TSR magazines (was it Dragon?) or catalogs you may see an add for this. There were apparently going to be four books written for the game just like there were for Dragon Strike. One book was about Necron the Mummy Queen, the 2nd about Lord Fear, the 3rd about Mind Flayers, and the 4th about Draconians.

Posted Wed Dec 15, 2010 3:32 am
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The Man Unmasked

(dumwytgi)

United States
Jackson
MS

I was gonna say, that guy looks like the warrior from Dragon Strike

(which I picked up at a thrift store for a dollar so complete it still had the ads in it).