This prompt is amusing. With Amazon and the internet, you can find all those old games — often in good shape! — so if you wish it, you can have it. That said, part of me really wishes I had an old science fiction game called Universe that SPI (I think it was) put out in the early to mid ’80s. It had this spectacular map of the nearest stars that was pretty accurate (for a 2d representation of three dimensions), and I remember the rules being decent, if not as simple as Star Frontiers, but lightyears better than the execrable Space Opera, which we also tried and which has never been bested in my mind for truly awful mechanics until the unfortunate Traveler 5 or whatever that shit was that was published a few years ago.

It’s probably awful by today’s standards, and I realize that there’s a lot of sentimental BS — this was the sci-fi game we settled on in the high school group after Star Frontiers. It was supposed to be SPI’s answer to GDW’s Traveler, if I remember.

Having written this, I of course, hit the interwebz and found the game on eBay and Noble Knight for a ludicrous $175ish (but in excellent shape — so probably as close to new as possible.)