Jetpack Joyride is a real-time competitive puzzle game adapted from the mobile game of the same name! Players need to fly their way through a lab using the polyomino tiles over a series of three rounds, avoiding obstacles and collecting coins along the way. Whoever has the most points at the end of the third round wins! This edition contains 3 additional...
Jetpack Joyride is a real-time competitive puzzle game adapted from the mobile game of the same name! Players need to fly their way through a lab using the polyomino tiles over a series of three rounds, avoiding obstacles and collecting coins along the way. Whoever has the most points at the end of the third round wins! This edition contains Deluxe edition...
Jets is a science fiction racing game that does not use a game board, instead you play on a very large surface (for instance your carpet). Each player receives one jet-racer. Your jet is moved by placing a distance token which varies in length according to your set speed in front of your jet. Cards are supplied to improve the special abilities of your...
Players move their counters which represent automobiles along a track which represents countryside. Landing on hazards delays their trip. There is nothing original to the game itself but the incidental art and particularly the detailed die cast metal early autos create a nice feel for the early days of motoring. The rule book states it is printed in...
Jeu de l'Automobile is an antique and simple blast-racing game. After assembling the models, the paper sheet is placed flat on a table and the characters arranged on the track at the discretion of the players. By blowing lightly on the wing of the car the player has to drive the automobile to the garage, without overturning the figures and especially the...
A race game for any number of players taking place on a board depicting events of the French Revolution. The game was produced during the revolution, apparently for propaganda purposes. Players advance from the fall of the Bastille towards the National Assembly. Players landing on certain spaces are required to pay tokens and/or suffer other penalties....
Vintage French cycling game from the 1910's with metal riders. The oldest version of the board had the games' rules printed on the board. It featured a Zeppelin on one of the corners (all the drawings in the corners were different, in fact), and a pre-Weimar Republic flag in a militarized Germany. The later version has demilitarized the German border, but...
Jeu du Skating-Rink represents another form of Goose variant: the introduction of two tracks, each of 63 spaces. The players divide themselves into two opposing teams, each playing on a different track. Additional interest is provided by crossing the tracks: at these points, if the two teams come together, they ”come to grief and fall” and both must start...
This very simple cycling game from Belgium and produced in the early '50s uses a 37x28cm paper map. The game was released a s a promotional game for table-oil. On the map there is a drawing of Belgium with 50 spaces on 50 different towns or cities, this forms the track. Each player controls a team of 2 cyclists, movement is determined by spinning a paper...
A French 1930s game, of which there were four versions. The first version only had 6 riders (one per team, no rules for team racing). Later versions had twelve riders (two per team). The cheaper versions had cardboard riders, the "deluxe" version had metal riders. Veldiv, short for Vélodrome d'Hiver (winter velodrome), was a very popular cycling track in...