Upbid for Rain (1930)

Information
Category Card Game
Mechanic Roll and Move
Description An introductory/simple/light wargame covering the invasion of France at the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944, and the first week's fighting. Flying your ship about the levels (rolling the dice to move). "The most aptly named game ever! Different items/people (cards) will be played on it and so be related to it. And this barking, vicious alarm system is called Bodo Boxo!
Comments
Initial rating. Traded it off for GG.


Summertime Trojanische (1998)

Information
Category Economic
Abstract Strategy
Mechanic Dice Rolling
Roll and Move
Set Collection
Description A new title of the Kosmos 2 player games. 1 inch equals 25 yards (for 15mm figures).
Comments
Just love this one. Most of my plays have been 2-player only and I guess it loses any tactics when played with 4 or 5.
Very pleasant mix of (a very little bit of) ressource management and (a big part of) tile placement.
This game is seriously more fun than I had first expected.
This rating may or may not be fair, as it is based on one playing. Very enjoyable other than the tile height challenge. Certainly a standout among retro games.


Bendar (2003)

Information
Category
Mechanic Pattern Building
Pattern Recognition
Storytelling
Description You cannot walk into a charity shop in the UK without finding a copy of this basic roll & move ecological quiz game. Came out in Games Journal #31. If the story makes no sense, other players can vote against the story and the storyteller loses his turn.
Comments
Simple play, but the strategy and the possibility of the "Nya-Haa!" A bit too "cold" for my tastes, but very good job. You start off as one of several career choices (sort of) and as the game progresses you have to make hard choices from scenario to scenario that change what it is that you are in the world.


Grissebasse Spy Spaceballs Krokodil Schnipp-Schnapp

Information
Category Card Game
Children's Game
Mechanic Hex-and-Counter
Set Collection
Description Translated from the package: This is a catch-all entry for various Munchkin Quest promo cards that have been handed out at various cons, release events, and by MiB. In another game, all card are placed face up, one player chooses a picture each turn, and the others try to find the rhyming word as fast as they can. And Latin American ports. Appears to be an updated version of SNAP using the little cartoon crocodile made popular through a song in Germany. The game was released on November 11th 2008.
Comments
Easy to set up and play but offers deep enough strategic options. The miniatures are good quality even if painted in very flashy cartoony colours.
Annihilation 3D Glasses.
Fun and Ameritrash.
Pretty cool game, fairly simple to pick up, gorgeous minis. I live in Ann Arbor, and would not want to buy such a game. Maps are a bit small for me (hey I like BIG batlles!), but that's what my extra Heroscape sets are for!


Crahltyng (2010)

Information
Category Children's Game
Educational
Mechanic Tile Placement
Description A compact trivia game, consisting of a deck of cards with 1560 questions (five to a card), a scorepad, pen, two special dice and rules. From the publisher's web site ( http://www.playmig.com/uk/index.html ): MIG - THE BRAIN GAME TO PLAY ON THE MOVE.
Comments
Meh.
2-4 players.
Well....it´s a trivia game.
Similar in feeling to "beetlez", but whereas in beetlez only memory is important, here you need some observation skills not unlike those you need to be good at "set".


Tricki Girls Coming! (1987)

Information
Category Card Game
Economic
Memory
Trivia
Mechanic Pick-up and Deliver
Roll and Move
Description From the publisher: In this fun game you'll learn elementary mathematics and numbers 1-100 in 4 different languages: Finnish, Swedish, English and German. The goal of the game is to find the infamous master of disguise, Dr. You will bring honor to your franchise.
Comments
The random card layout is extremely frustrating.
It's fun, and the humor is great, when I'm in the right mood, but it can get tedious.


Horde Loops (2006)

Information
Category Children's Game
Mechanic Dice Rolling
Role Playing
Set Collection
Description In teams, or one on one, you are trying to make your side victorious in the Québec referendum.
Comments
Used Conflict mag issue 4
1973 Conflict magazine edition of the game.
[2 players] An out of the ordinary non trick-taking game recommended by Parlett. For those desiring further detail (and depression) on the topic try Yaquinto's "Ultimatum."
A delight for dice lovers!


Ykgecy (2005)

Information
Category Educational
Sports
Wargame
Mechanic Auction/Bidding
Simulation
Variable Phase Order
Description WYPS is a word game played on a triangular board. The larger Ju88 crew increased the ability to spot the British bombers. Players could be bluffing.
Comments
Good game, but fairly dry.
Looks and sounds unbearable, but is actually so-so.


Three Finish Blows! (1978)

Information
Category Party Game
Deduction
Mechanic Pattern Recognition
Point to Point Movement
Description Motalaspelet is, more or less, a Monopoly-clone situated in the small Swedish town Motala. How could that have happened?
Comments
I played this several times solo, SPI was good for making games that had this option.
6 copies 1 mint and 5 used S&T 68


Nipengi (2003)

Information
Category Children's Game
Educational
Mechanic Auction/Bidding
Roll and Move
Description With intimate knowledge and experience in designing buildings, Konstantinos D. The map portrays Europe from East Germany to France and from Denmark to Switzerland. Re-implemented by: Contents include: deck of 66 cards, score pad, 4 hand wild card indicators, and corrected instructions. Positive points for "green behavior and knowledge" move the animals toward saved; negative points for "less environmentally friendly behaviors" move the animals toward extinction. For example, if you roll a five, you have to hit the fifth disc five times with the axe.
Comments
Great game to introduce new players to wargaming. I never really liked the game mechanics. Dumped it. The other two are AWOL (F-14 G and Mig 28 B). Martyn Collection. Not interested in modern warfare, so will never play. Το παιχνιδι τελειωνει οταν δεν υπαρχουν αλλες κλειστες καρτες ή οταν βγει ενας παικτης παιζοντας την τελευταια του καρτα. I think the VP penalty should be applied to the side that commits First Use. The lack of an air system also detracts, but it would have been a mess, so I understand why the designers took the route they did.
Top Gun simulates a dogfight with modern fighters pretty well without giving up too much in terms of playability. I wanted to like it, but there's so little for the NATO player to do, and the supply system is overwrought for such an otherwise simple game.

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