July, 1995

Gaming News

• Letter from the Editor - notes and introduction to this month's issue (July 1)
• News From France - more new games and more game companies

• Deutcher Spiele Preise - history of Die Pöppel-Revue's annual German Game Prize
• Nominations for Spiel des Jahres 1995 - short list for Game of the Year
• Spiel des Jahres 1995 Winners - German Game of the Year announced in Berlin

Game Reviews

• Linie 1 - tramway planning is fun; running the trams is not

English Rule Translations

• En Teufels Kueche - the full rules translation (lost, found, and finally posted - sorry, Tim!)

French Game Translations

• Phantoms of the Ice - Fantômes de la glace

The Front Door

• Fun-n-Games - on-line games shop - American roleplaying and trading card games
• Voyage I - a new education/travel game

Other Places

• Abalone - a strategy game with a fatal flaw
• Collateral Gamage - Vancouver Free Press' wargames column
• Cornell Strategic Simulations Society - a militant student group
• Flood's Games Page - strangely organized random game links
• Southern Illinois U. Strategic Game Society - yet another militant student group
• Terrace - strategy game featured on "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
• Trax - lots of random bits about this great tile laying game
• Virtual Playground - Bernie DeKoven's thoughts on games, play, and society

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