I have not read the responses, so I don't know is anyone mentioned the worse thing about SB back then. When I first started playing, SB was just coming out. Every single VP you did, you would lose 1-4 suit parts (mostly 4 grrrr) and you had to run that many factories to get those parts back BEFORE you could do any merit runs. It was a MAJOR pain.
As for the low laff toons, we had them back then too. You have to remember that one of the Daisy's Garden tasks is to defeat a factory. If memory serves me, toons are somewhere between 34 and 43 laff in Daisy's? TT has always encouraged low laff toons to do factories.
No thanks. I'll take todays SBHQ
