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Year
1940
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Description
This game is very similar to Monopoly. Players go around the board and buy cities, with infantry, subs, generals etc (rather than money). Once they have a set of any 2 cities in a county they can then build forts, which enables the fort owner to receive military units from other players who land on that city.
The game appears to originate from New Zealand during the war years. It was promoted in local and National New Zealand papers from 1941 to about 1947. The rules were printed by the Evening Post which was a New Zealand Newspaper publisher company. The advertised examples suggest that small coloured moulded playing pieces were included, although other metal button type tokens have been recorded. These may have been an austerity measure during the war
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3 Minute Board Games Top List at 30:10 sentiment: negative
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Negative
Pros
- Played a fair bit at university
- Had a lot of fun doing it despite the game's flaws
Cons
- Not a good game
- Takes forever
- Almost every game ends in a nuclear explosion
- Not a good game by anyone's standards today
Thematic elements
- Warfare
- Global Conflict
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Implied by the nature of global conflict and moving bits around.
- Nuclear warfare — Games often end in a nuclear explosion.
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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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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 13:04 sentiment: negative
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negative
Pros
none
Cons
- Devastating impact of bad luck
- Feeling of wanting to quit the game due to unlucky events
Thematic elements
- War and nuclear winter
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice Rolling — The host describes rolling a die to determine the success of a defensive measure against a nuke.
- Nuclear warfare — The game involves launching nukes, and the host recounts an instance of being targeted by one.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I just backed it because I wanted to I'll keep this one though because I want I want those books
- It's just a can response The First Response somebody gave them to was you really are clueless to the reality of just how things actually work
- I hate using the word [ __ ] but I can't think of a better way to say it it's just it was just it was I I take it back I shouldn't have said that but I say it
- Gillis was transported to a hospital by emergency medical personnel for evaluation according to the report he suffered pain swelling and abrasions to his left wrist and knee his pants were also damaged Beyond repair
- It's it's just it's like I grew up in New York so I have a ton of friends who were Nicks fans and when they got knocked out and I said you know what the worst thing about this whole thing is they gave you hope
- I hate everybody the I I just I despise despise all uh all old uh white guys old white dudes who are worried that they're going to ruin that they're going to uh that they're going to ruin anything about D and D
- It's just like you know when you catch somebody in a lie it's annoy you're probably right I mean it's it's it's annoying because it's like you catch him in the lie and you're just kind of like oh you know just don't just don't
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