Born of the great and mighty God A'void Kophirite
I think SB has a special place in my heart because it provided something that other games did not at the time. At the time I was fed up of the D&D system and its endless expansion of mechanics. SB did away with all that and had something viceral - where a beggar could survive and the Melnibonean Sorcerer Noble-Warrior got chomped.
It was the "Punk Rock" of FRP