September, 1995

Gaming News

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

Essen Release Announcements

Doris & Frank - announce Mü
Simulations Workshop - a new company offering some very nice game kits
White Wind - announces Elfenwizards
White Wind - announces Tricks and Rainbows

Game Reviews

In Teufels Kuche - things are really cookin' In the Devil's Kitchen
Keywood - village politics pit labor against capital in search of Utopia
Ransom - cutthroat real estate deals on the isle of Manhattan
Die Siedler von Catan - Jos comments at length on this instant 10+ hit

Game Bits

Auf Heller und Pfennig - variants by Steffan O'Sullivan
Ransom Variants - additional dirty deals and other diversions

Original Game Rules

Diffusion - a game of placement and territory inspired by poro-elastic media

English Rule Translations

Jagd der Vampire - vampires hunt for the Big Tomato (note the recent update of this translation)

French Game Translations

Die Siedler von Catan - Teuber's game of production and trade with scarce resources
Le Gang des Quatre - another variant on an old Chinese favorite

Flemish (Dutch) Game Translations

6 Nimmt! - six takes in this odd little trick taking game
Adel Verpflichtet - high stakes antique collecting
Airlines - stock battles over the airways
Auf Achse - a great game of long haul trucking
Auf Heller und Pfennig - abstract game of market day maneuvering
Bausack - tottering towers of wooden wobblers - steady!
Capone - gun toting goons in Chicago during the prohibition
Die Osterinsel - the statues of Easter Island engage in a foot race
Drunter & Drüber - a madcap game of city planning - look out for the outhouses!
Entenrallye - card based racing game

The Front Door

Perplexity - The world's first cryptic crossword puzzle board game.
R & D Games - the latest price list from Ray Pfeifer and Co.

Other Places

The Gamers - makers of fine wargames and publishers of Operations magazine

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