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Year
1983
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Description
Players build a wall of plastic bricks to protect their fort, then alternate turns shooting the walls down using ballistae ("crossbows") and plastic discs, or by lobbing discs over the wall with the catapult. Various scenarios and victory conditions can be made.
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3 Minute Board Games Top List at 30:56 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Nostalgic Positive
Pros
- Incredibly fun as a child (8-9 years old)
- Had so much fun with it
- Host has no regrets about this nostalgic pick
Cons
- Stretching it to call it a board game
Thematic elements
- Siege Warfare
- Medieval Combat
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Projectile Flinging — Involves flinging projectiles with crossbows and catapults at targets.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Hunter is another one of those games we ended up playing a lot at University mostly while drinking
- Hunter has several problems it takes a lot longer to play than it should for what it is especially when you're doing the coup those can drag on quite a long time and also fundamentally it's pretty racist
- I think the hunter idea of a Banana Republic itself is pretty dated but the idea of a corrupt government where players of different office members competing for positions and stockpiling money definitely has potential just there's got to be a better way to interpret it
- Cosmic Encounter is still going strong and that is an achievement and a half
- it's core idea of a simple gameplay element Modified by a whole bunch of variable Powers has had a profound influence on all of gaming and unlike a lot of designs from this period it still holds up pretty well today
- so happy birthday to me for 42 years old today here's to 42 more
- if you want to do the same thing yourself just go to board game geek click on advanced search and search by year published range and just fill in the year and feel free to post your list Below in the comments
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Adam in Wales - Board Game Design Analysis at 3:56 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Successful enough to spawn multiple expansions and new editions
Cons
- Game was much too large for the average table
Thematic elements
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players positioned large plastic towers at each end of a playing space and then constructed walls from plastic bricks to protect them.
- Projectile hurling — Involved hurling plastic projectiles at each other's constructions using the plastic crossbows and catapults referenced in the title.
- Throwing/Bouncing/Flipping — Involved hurling plastic projectiles at each other's constructions using the plastic crossbows and catapults referenced in the title.
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Quotes (from this video)
- When I was a child, the board game industry was also dominated by huge hulking giants, epic, violent, plastic adventures aimed squarely at children.
- Unlike the dinosaurs before them, this entire genre of games which felt like everything to children like me went extinct.
- What they shared wasn't mechanisms, it was ambition. They were huge, packed with toyetic miniatures and terrain and aimed squarely at kids.
- Meaningful decisions. And this is where the genre struggles.
- The reality is that epic plastic adventure games for kids represented a very specific cultural moment, and one which we can never get back.
- Grab a block of amber, extract a little dino DNA, and rewild the board game ecosystem with new epic adventures for kids.
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