The Game Cabinet
a games magazine
October 2000

Greetings, Explanations, and Legalities

• What is The Game Cabinet? - not quite an FAQ
• The Cabinet Makers - the folks responsible for all this
• Game Shops - where to buy these games
• Search - have a chat with the Cabinet mouse
• Copyright - who owns what
• Submissions - articles we would like to see
• Materials for Review - how to get us to play your game
• Advertising - how to let folks know about your game

The Living Room Floor

Most of the new stuff is scattered around the living room. After about four weeks, I'll pick stuff up and actually put it away in the Game Cabinet (give or take a bit depending on other demands on my time).

Gaming News & Commentary

• Letter from the Editor - notes and introduction to this month's issue (October)
• Across the Board - looks at public gaming in Dallas, Texas

Stump the Net

• This Month's Queries - posers and ponderables from other Cabinet readers (October)

Letter Box

• Tiroler Roulette - Lee Harper has the scoop on the bowel game

Game Reviews

• Bus - getting from here to there is not the same of everybody
• Keytown - clan politics in the land of Key
• Lunatix Loop - can you make it to the finish in one piece (and sane!)

• Mike Siggins - postcards from exile
  • Carolus Magnus - declared Risk free despite dicey problems
  • Disk Wars - reinvention of wheel is too much and not enough
  • Taj Mahal - four games in, still confused, loving every minute of it

  • Card Games - some quick reviews
    • Middle Earth: The Balrog
    • Zircus Flohcati
    • Mystery Rummy
    • Friesematenten
    • Quacksalbe

Game Bits

• Tournemant Rules for Settlers of Catan - by the MSO team

English Game Translations

• High Bohn - the Wild West expansion for Bohnanza

Other Places

• Advice on Publishing Games - from the very wise Tom Jolly
• 7 Deadly Sins - snakes and ladders, indeed (this ones for Moo)
• Aces Up - Matthew Baldwin (no relation) covers games monthly
• Dao - strategy of chess simplicity of a koan
• Fleur Designs - funky variants on old favorites with craft boards
• Fun 'n' Games - a wide range of common American games
• Hard Knocks Domino Players - complete guide to the rules, strategy, and even slang
• Hayes Tech - specialty shop - BattleTech, Car Wars, Ogre & Gurps

Sumo's Karaoke Club (Redux)

I would just like to take a moment to point out that Sumo is no longer being published. Further writings by Mike Siggins can be found in back issues of Games Games Games. But, as of this writing, Mike Siggins has retired from the world of board gaming. Perhaps we will see a return one fine day in the future.

Most of the other folks who wrote for Sumo are now writing for Counter. You can read all about how to subscribe to this fine publication on the magazine rack elsewhere in this Cabinet.

All of the issues prior to the one featured below can be found, along with a small pile of mouldering sweat socks and a four foot high resin cast garage kit of Thunderbird 3, crammed into this drawer here.

Sumo Issue 23/24 - Summer, 1995

Editted by Stuart Dagger.
Published by Mike Siggins.
Converted to HTML by Stuart Dagger w/ bugs added by Ken Tidwell.
Resident wit Mike Clifford.

• Thoughts from the Sun Lounger
• Gamer's Notebook
• Reviews
  • Die Siedler von Catan
  • Sternenhimmel
  • Linie 1
  • Skedaddle
  • Paparazzo
  • Volle Lotte
  • 1830 PC
  • Chinese Walls
  • Canaletto
  • The Foot of Kilimanjaro
  • Condottiere
  • Ligretto
  • Eagle Kingdoms
  • 1837
  • 1856
• Armchair Cricket/Club Golf/Turf Horse Racing/Formula Motor Racing
• The Observer's Guide to German Game Designers
• You're a Pink Toothbrush
• Nice Bits
• Another from the Vaults: Nessie Hunt
• The Greatest Boardgame - Ever!
• The Nineties -- An Alternative View
• Die Siedler von Catan
• Letters

In (And On) The Cabinet

These drawers and shelves hold the bulk of the stuff in the Cabinet. Have fun rooting around in them! (If you want to find something specific just ask the Cabinet mouse.)

• Game Rules Shelf - variants, translations, tactics
  • English Rule Translations (September 00)
  • Flemish (Dutch) Rule Translations (monthly by Piet Notebaert)
  • French Rule Translations (July 96)
  • Rules Chat (September 96) - tactics, rule clarifications and other advice
  • Extra Bits (August 99) - variants and extra parts
  • Original Games (August 99) - public domain and net posted games
  • Traditional Games (September 00) - old favorites
  • Game Patents (continuously)
• Review Drawer (September 00) - reviews of games, books, and magazines
• Ludography (retired as of May 97) - index cards listing designer/inventors and their games (see also Luding)
• Book Shelf (September 00) - board and strategy game books
• Magazine Rack (November 98) - traditional print periodicals that feature game news and reviews
• Sumo (monthly) - back issues of England's premiere board game magazine
• The Phone Book - always a good place to look for phone numbers and addresses
  • Clubs (November 96) - well organized spielfreaks and how to find them
  • Manufacturers and Distributors (September 00) - folks that make and move games
  • Shops (September 00) - merchants that sell cool games and accept phone/mail orders
• Web Games Terminal (September 00) - various human and machine opponents await you
• Boardgame Software (September 00) - virtual boardgames for the home and office
• Out The Back (September 00) - if you go right out the back you can go to all sorts of other places
• Back Issues Shelf (monthly) - all the articles in the order they were added to the Cabinet
• Letters from Across the Board (March 98) - a look at public gaming throughout the world
• The Cabinet Makers (November 98) - curiously enough, can often be found inside

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