Not perfect but very playable game. We loved it (and no eye makeup or all-black outfits in sight).

Best game ever

I just hated these mechanics when the first edition came out. I am not commenting on later editions which I suspect fine tuned aspects. They took Shadowrun 1E, a very broken game in that first edition (later heavily refined in other editions) and produced a D10 version. Buckets of D6s were easy to cme by and cheap but at that time buckets of D10s were neither. Later, 10 packs of D10s came out because of the success of Vampire but those di not exist when the game came out. Also, I found it irritatitg there were potentially TWO difficulty measures the GM had to track. One is what number you rolled on each die to have it count towards success and the other was how many of those winning dice you needed. Sometimes counting dice you could keep measured the quality of the outcome and other times I seem to recall there were a minimum number you had to come up with. So as a GM, which factors should I put into each to decide the two numbers? There was a reason later editions of Shadowrun made the number you needed to roll on each die almost always the same and counting successes was the only real issue when they did that. Much better I so desperately wanted to love Shadowrun 1E but it was so broken I could not fall in love with playing in the cool background. I personally was tired of vampire stuff already about 5 years earlier when the Lost Boys movie came out and I have not got less tired of them in the past 35 years. I also found the Goth scene pretentious and inauthentic so I could not enjoy that aspect either. I imagine Vampire 2E, 3E or whatever was mechanically a lot smoother.

Not my cup of tea. I think the rules were very clunky and the background was not to my taste. If I had to go with a die pool mechanic at that time there were a few like D6 Star Wars and there are many more now. I agree both Shadowrun and Vampire polished their mechanics a lot a few editions later.