August, 1999

Gaming News

• Letter from the Editor - notes and introduction to this month's issue (August)

• Inside Pitch 50 - the life and times of Mike Siggins

Game Reviews

• Mike Siggins - ye olde Siggo speaks
  • Lost Cities - Knizia's card game of risky exploration
  • Rheinlaender - a short, sharp shock of a game
  • Robin Hood & Don Pepe - two birds, one stone, no letters from animal rights activists
  • The Oxford History of Board Games - Parlett's long awaited tome
  • Tikal - Kramer digs up still more hidden treasure
  • Union Pacific - Airlines on iron rails
• Rick Heli - analyzes the hits
  • Klunker - an analysis of strategies
  • Mit List und Tuecke - Palle redux
  • Reviewing the Reviewer - Rick reveals all

Game Bits

• Union Pacific: Variant - by Rick Heli

Original Game Rules

Note that the PostScript files in the rules below should be downloaded to your hard disk and then printed using the appropriate application (lpr on Unix, BBedit or others on Mac, ?? on Windows, etc.).

• Ancient Empires - shareware game of civilization development
• Final Decrees - a game of monstrous bureaucracies by Carl de Visser
• Trolley Car - a Reineresque romp by Rick Heli

English Game Translations

• Hai Lu Kong Zhan Qi - Chinese Sea-Land-Air Battle Chess

Traditional Games

• The Chickenfoot Game - try not to cluck up in this matching game of branches

Game Software

• free games net - errr, free games from, well, the Net...

Web Games Terminal

• java Medici - Milton Soong's implementation of Knizia's shipping game

Other Places

• Publishers and Other Organizations
  • BNBG - Board Not Bored Games Pty Ltd - makers of 6 Billion
  • Gibsons Games - makers of Escape from Colditz and more
  • Mensa Mind Games - including their games of the year
  • Warp Spawn Games - a wide array of original SF and fantasy games - very 70s

• Individual Games
  • 4 Player Chess - twice the fun?
  • Dragons & Danes - throwing stones - no glass houses in Denmark, I guess
  • Diskwars - Tom Jolly's latest triumph
  • Laugh Trax - Losing Is Now Fun?
  • Shadowfist - re-release news
  • Trioker - Les jeux , les puzzles et le reste

• Shops
  • Contagious Dreams - these Looneys sell games
  • Domino Guy - domino, dominoes, games, board games, toys
  • Gamer's Realm - New Jersey's largest game store
  • Games Plus - Chicagoland's Source for Adventure Gaming
  • l'Antre Jeux - game store in Brussels
  • The Game Preserve - mostly American games
  • The Laughing Giraffe at the MONKEYSWEDDING - toy shop

The Game Cabinet - editor@gamecabinet.com - Ken Tidwell