Villains and Vigilantes

I find it somewhat sad that Fantasy Games Unlimited, the publisher of Villains and Vigilantes, has gone out of business. V&V had a lot of potential as a game, though unfortunately it also had a lot of the lousy production values common to games of its era (I think the copy I own is dated 1984?). Players were expected to play themselves, made into superheroes. They were expected to rate themselves fairly on a 3-18 scale in a few attributes, and then roll on random tables to see what kind of super powers they ended up with.

Side note here: HTML desparately needs a "sidebar" tag of some kind.

V&V didn't have the happy-go-lucky "roll and shout" quality that Marvel Super Heroes has/had, nor did it have the number-crunching precision and joy that Champions has, but it had an okay blend of each. I think I had some weird collection of powers that made me into a telekinetic eagle man or something, when we played, but it was, as you may have guessed, over ten years ago. It used all the dice, which I liked. :-)