Honestly, if you had known that finding this stuff in an old shoebox would go so far, would you still have dug into into? Check it out: a matchbox, a diary… and then this intriguing flyer for a punk concert… Yeah, that was us, sis' ! So you went on the web, found other people who had heard of "Die Kartoffelsalat"; and then there was this zine, "Your mom's a punk"… And then it went even further; but you know the rest…
WE WERE PUNKS is an epistolary game, it involves no mechanics whatsoever. Everything revolves around what you describe and what you wish to happen: in your quest to know more about the punk scene of yesteryear, what you say becomes the truth.