December, 1994
Christmas time brings out the kid in everyone. There was lots of game
playing around the Beckwell household this year. Rob Rossney came through
with some timely game reviews to whet our appetites.
Game Reviews
- 6-Tage Rennen a very clever bicycle race
where cooperation is a must
- Airlines a stock trading train game takes
to the air
- Auf Achse trucking across Germany for
fun and profit
- Elfenroads an excellent, beautiful, and strange
race game
- Manager supply and demand in without
all the fuss of production costs
- McMulti oil exploration and exploitation
- Metropolis city planning in a pre-SimCity
world
- Modern Art high finance and high art
meet for a night of light gaming
- Quo Vadis
the politics of compromise in the Senate of Rome
- Waldesfrust
timber management and economics
English Rules Translations
- Drunter und Drüber -
a very silly game about rebuilding a town after a visit by a cat (SRB)
- En Garde -
very possibly the best fencing game yet invented (SRB)
- Entenrallye -
duck racing, Citroen style (SRB)
- Esels-Rennen -
donkey racing, and there are no lemons involved this time (see Entenrallye) (SRB)
- Hacker -
the other one (but not by the other Steve Jackson!) (SRB)
- Intrigue -
rampant nepotism in the Italian Renaissance (SRB)
- Inkognito -
an atmospheric masquerade laced with espionage and intrigue
- Das Letzte Kamel -
a very random camel race (SRB)
- Supergang -
a nice evening of parlor turf wars
- Tal Der Koenige -
pyramid building in the Valley of the Kings (SRB)
- Valee des Mamouths -
adventure in the Valley of the Mammoths
- Wucherer -
a slum lord slugfest (SRB)
- Würmeln -
the diced worm racing game
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