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At the back of the short rulebook it says “If you would like to receive details of further advanced and optional rules, please send an S.A.E. (stamped addressed envelope) to the inventor…” followed by the designer’s address. For any young’uns reading this - that was pretty common back in the day.
No chance he still lives at that address though, right? It’s been 27 years, for goodness sake! But also… Maybe! So I sent an S.A.E. together with a short letter (handwritten and everything) and included my email address, because we now live in THE FUTURE. Worth a shot, I thought. If nothing else, if it reaches him, it would be a nice thing to receive after all these years.
This morning, an email from the designer arrived in my inbox. He wrote “yes, we're still here, and as you suspect, it's quite nice to have a message about Fireside Football after a long time” and he attached some documents from “an archive copy from a CD backup” including a 4,672 word history of the game (written around 20 years ago).
“Also, I've made up some stuff for your padded envelope. There's a spare set of dice, counters, etc, and also some semi-blank player cards.”
So here I am, transported back to when I was a young’un myself, once again waiting for the postie. :)
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