"Robot Role-Playing Game"

The "Coming Attractions" column in issue #99 of Dragon (July 1985) included an entry for a new science fiction roleplaying game entitled Proton Fire.

The entry does not specify a release date, which only makes sense, because the game was never released. Steve Winter, who worked at TSR at the time, explained that Proton Fire was in fact completed (and even playested) but that it was canceled due to a lack of enthusiasm on the part of both TSR and its distributors. Nevertheless, I still sometimes think about Proton Fire and what it might have been like, but then I am also a connoisseur of vaporware RPGs, so that should come as little surprise.