In the early 21st century the Rytell Corporation created the first androids, vat-grown, speed aged, altered humans with a shortened lifespan. These androids, and the cheap disposable labor they represented paved the way for the exploration of space and Earth’s first “Off World Colonies”. Mining corporations soon began to exploit the riches of the asteroid...
From the rules: "Leave Doobietown, U.S.A. and journey to an intriguing port of call, score caches of dope and return home anxious to sell. Sounds simple and it is - as long as karma, skill and the roll of the dice are on your side and you don't get hassled at any borders, ripped off by your partners or busted. Yeh, busted. Lots of dealers go to jail. In...
Two to four players compete at exploring for oil, building platforms, and laying pipelines to bring the offshore oil back to the player's home company. Players take on the roles of either BP (Hull), Amoco (Bergen), Chevron (Rotterdam) or Mobil (Dieppe) in their quest for oil. As with other games focusing on offshore oil exploitation (e.g., Omnia's North...
Οι Εφοπλιστές (oi efoplistes) is a board game published by Greek company MIKA in 1991. The game is a simulation of merchant shipping. It takes place all over the world. Each player has a vessel (or two in a 2-players game) for shipping commodities (food and machinery) from city to city. But they also have to pay attention on weather, fuel management and of...
From the manual: Oil Barons is a unique game for one to eight players which combines the advantages of board play with the speed and ease of a computer game. The computer does all of the bookkeeping, and running of the game. The players, freed from work, have the time to make decisions, develop strategies, and concentrate on winning. Oil Barons recreates...
In "Oljan: det stora äventyret", players represent Oil Companies competing for oil-fields and oil-cargoes. Players move around the board in "monopoly manner" and can land on a variety of fields: "Information" (card drawing - a bit risk-cards type), "Memo" (card drawing - bonus-card-like), "Drilling" or "Helicopter" (allow to buy drilling rights), "Stock...
The players roll to move their tokens around the board. They buy drilling areas in the exploration squares that represent areas around the globe by paying a “royalty” cost, and then they drill rigs and produce oil from the 3 fields attached to each exploration area. After it is produced, the oil is sold on the market squares – the cost it is sold for...
Welcome, brewmasters, to the world renowned Bavarian festival known as Oktoberfest! The 1810 wedding celebration of Crown Prince Ludwig I and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen swiftly became an annual tradition known as Oktoberfest. Each year the scope of the festival expanded, and by the late 1800s sponsored beer halls and competing breweries were...
ON SPEC is a round game based on the buying and selling of stocks and shares. Cards consist of "share cards" and "quotation cards". Share cards come in the commodities of Rails, Rubbers, Oils, Gold, Motors and Shipping and are beautifully printed coloured chromo-lithographs. Quotation cards are less spectacular and show numbers in red and black for "up"...
A game about door-to-door sales. The game plan shows a typical town map, with manly one-way streets. At the start, each player buys an office, where his salesmen will start every round. In each round, every player selects how many items they think they can sell. Then, everyone secretly selects their selling price. The person with the lowest price moves all...
You are the owner of a very successful restaurant that prides itself on using great, fresh and quality foods from the local farmers’ market. The walk-in refrigerator at your restaurant is on the fritz due to a freak power outage, but instead of closing for repairs you decided to make an emergency food run to replace your spoiled food. The “Open Market” is...