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The Games Workshop games:

   
• Judge Dredd the Role-Playing Game (box set / rulebook depending on edition, based on WFRP)
• The Judge Dredd Companion (supplement)
• Judgement Day (scenario)
• Citi-Block (JD/W40k supplement)
• Slaughter-Margin (scenario)

At some point I should go through all my copies of White Dwarf and compile a list of the JD articles that were featured (at least some of which were later reprinted in the Companion, above).

(taken from this rpg.net thread)

Last night (or was it really early this morning) I got around to combing the 2000AD RPGs era of White Dwarf that I have and came up with the following.

2000ADopedia (as it was the easiest place I could think of to put all the info that I could easily edit at a later date).

Issue 73 (January 1986): review of the Judge Dredd - The Role-playing Game
Issue 76 (April 1986): You're Booked! - The Justice Department Accounts Division for Judge Dredd, by Marcus L Rowland (art by Mark Harrison
Issue 77 (May 1986): The Crazy File - New Crazes for Judge Dredd by Pete Tamlyn
Issue 78 (June 1986): The Spungg Ones! - A Judge Dredd adventure for a small team of Judges by Marcus Rowland
Issue 79 (July 1986): Psi Judges by Carl Sargent
Issue 80 (August 1986): Something Special - Special abilities for the Judge Dredd game by Hugh Tynan
Issue 82 (October 1986): Narks! - Informers in Judge Dredd, by Carl Sargent
Issue 83 (November 1986): A Day in the Life of Sector 255 by Hugh Tynan and adverts for Judge Dredd: The Game of Crime-Fighting in Mega-City One, Judge Dredd - The Role-playing Game and Judgement Day.
Issue 85 (January 1987): Thrud the Barbarian by Carl Critchlow
Issue 86 (February 1987): The Trouble With Time - time travel for the Judge Dredd RPG by Marcus Rowland
Issue 88 (April 1987): A Night in the Death of Sector 255 - an adventure for the Judge Dredd Roleplaying Game by Hugh Tynan, art by Brett Ewins; Pass-Interference Eat Judge Boot, Creep - Judges in Blood Bowl, by Lewis Foti, Marc Gascoigne and Jervis Johnson; advert for Rogue Trooper (boardgame)
Issue 89 (May 1987): reviews of the Rogue Trooper Boardgame and Slaughter Margin; Illuminations: Brett Ewins
Issue 90 (June 1987): You'll Never Take Me Alive, Cop - Aarrgh - perps as player characters in Judge Dredd the Roelplaying Game by Carl Sargent, art by Nik Williams; Tales from Mega-City One - adventure outlines by Hugh Tynan; We Gotta Traitor to Find - new cards for the Rogue Trooper boardgame by Graeme Davis and Jervis Johnson
Issue 92 (August 1987): Thrice Upon a Time in Mega-City 1 - three adventures for the Judge Dredd Roleplaying Game by Marcus Rowland
Issue 93 (September 1987): Lone Trooper - solitaire rules for the Rogue Trooper boardgame by Richard Halliwell; All the Lonely People - campaign characters for the Judge Dredd Roleplaying Game by Marcus Rowland; advert for the Judge Dredd Companion
Issue 94 (October 1987): To Live and Die in Mega-City One - an epic adventure for the Judge Dredd Roleplaying Game by Marcus Rowland; Happy Hour - new counters for the Block Mania boardgame by Richard Halliwell
Issue 95 (November 1987): To Live and Die in Mega-City One Prog 2: The Big Sleep by Marcus Rowland; advert for Citi-Block: Judge Dredd Floor Plans
Issue 96 (December 1987): To Live and Die in Mega-City One Prog 3: Let's Do the Time-Warp (Again) by Marcus Rowland

The RPG is fairly easily available at not-too-silly prices on popular eAuction sites - though I'm currently concentrating on WOiN-based RPGs...

I do actually have a few of the figures (bought second hand) but they didn't come with instructions - and I have a feeling they should have had cards with them, like the current Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog miniatures games - so have no idea how to play with them.  Nice figures though.

Simon Harrison Durham Red / Johnny Alpha pin-up on the 2000ad tumblr.

Just started listening now - you've (so far) missed out on the opportunity to announce a disclaimer: "Space Spinner 2000 does not condone carrying out the final solution"!

Christo, 84, artist.

EN Publishing have just announced the next four planned releases for Judge Dredd and the Worlds of 2000AD.

   
• Luna-1
• The Cursed Earth.
• Rogue Trooper (playing GIs, Southers or Norts)
• Strontium Dog

But not necessarily in that order - Stront is next out while they're working on Rogue at the moment.

The other thing to be devoutly wished is that HeroClix, which has licensed scads of character IPs from multiple copyright holders, would take out a license from Rebellion to produce character figures. Who cares about the gaming system, lots of people collect these to use in other RPGs or just to have the figures.

Just for the avoidance of doubt, there was was series of 2000AD-licenced figures from Heroclix...

2000AD Prog 296: "Merry christmas!"

After thinking the Lim-ees were not affected by the mentality that had afflicted Frank Sector only to be rudely awakened, Rogue is put in contact with an elite core of Lim-ees who he initially thinks were not - you can guess the rest.

I'd argue that genetic quality has not been improved in dogs, cows or pigs (I'm not familiar enough with roses or horses to comment).

I've got one - if you've bred everything to be the same then what you've got is a monoculture.  Wikipedia has a few examples of what that isn't the best idea.

But at the same time I'm quite comfortable embracing a lot of - even muturally contradictory - nonsense. I just don't let it get in the way of the practical stuff, except where it's useful - not walking under ladders seems quite sensible to me.

Seeing as modern religion is based on things which may have made sense at one time (keeping away from some types of food before refrigeration was possible, etc) how do you feel about avoiding walking under ladders when it means walking into busy roads with fast-moving traffic?  Which isn't even a metaphor because superstitious people will do things like that.

I have but it probably wasn't helped by the time he compared the Quran to Mein Kampf or the time he used the term "mild pedophilia" or the time he suggested it wasn't a good idea telling children fairytales because it could lead to them believing in the supernatural.

I'd be interested in reading or hearing the full context in each case.

Perhaps there are some similarities between the Quran and Mein Kampf? For example, this bit seems a bit fascistic:

Fight those who believe not in Allah or the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth, from among the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission and are subdued.

As for pedophilia coming up in a discussion of organized religion - well, that's not too surprising, is it? Just as an example: we all know, I think, that the Catholic church has in place a structure that nurtures and supports pedophiles by hiding their actions and moving them to fresh locations where their terrible nature is as yet unknown. Was Dawkins perhaps quoting the Pope?

The part about fairy-tales is intriguing, as Dawkins wrote a book (The Magic of Reality), specifically for children, in which he describes all sorts of fantasy stories (like the Eden myth, for example) as a backdrop to the science.

I'd want to know the context to - otherwise it's like the ad hominem attack on people pointing out certain Israeli policies being accused of being anti-semitic (even if the person pointing out the policies are Israeli jews).

What we'd now call paedophilia seems to be written in to the holy books of two major world religions that I know of - think of all the patriarchs marrying girls of seven or twelve years old - twelve years and one day technically.

Yup!  Surprisingly managed to find the Morecambe and Wise song on spotify but not the Jane Wiedlin song.

2000AD Prog 293: "Starbase one under attack!" Win the video game that talks to you!

Computer games everywhere!  Even in Rogue Trooper!

Couple more songs from 'Play it again, Sam!' for your playlist...

The telegram delivery robot starts this number...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en8siIQH2Ds

And the singing telegram itself seems to be this (even though prog 293 came out nearly three years before that movie...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6obUJYlIxk

Prediction - before viewing that video I'm going to assume it's Jane Wiedlin (famous for her hit single Rush Hour and being Joan of Arc in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure) playing the singing telegram in Clue, before being shot dead.

p.s. still need to fiddle about with the playlists to add Lobo's suggestions - now how difficult are youtube and spotify going to make that for me?