Designed and published by the sailboarding community in 1988, Pro-Am pits players (sailboarders) against each other as they race around the board collecting sponsorships, forging a career, and testing their knowledge on sailboarding. The game can be played on three different levels, from the experienced sail boarder down to the first timers and...
International Rescue Thunderbirds game see players race on a gameboard with graphics of all the Thunderbird characters from the 1960s TV program. Movement is by the roll of a dice from 1 to 100 squares. As the advance, certain squares aid or hamper their progress. The most interesting part of this game is the playing pieces. Fantastic futuristic helmeted...
This cycling game appeared somewhere in the 1970's in East Germany. The game has very original mechanics as the movement of the plastic cyclists on the oval indoor track on the gameboard is not done by cards or by dice but by a speedometer, a device that looks a bit like a spinner. That only makes this game a collectors item. Not to be confused with 6-Tage...
Interpoly (2 player) One player has 16 red pawns (policemen), the other player has 4 yellow pawns (gangsters). Movement is determined by a die. Red may share the die result between two or more pawns. The police tries to enclose the gangsters and the gangsters try to escape to the 4 home spaces in the corners of the game board. On the roll of a 6 red may...
Object of the game is to travel the newly implemented Interstate Highway system based on a randomly drawn Trip Card (ex. Seattle to Miami) and be the player with the most money at the conclusion of the game. Along the way, players can be forced to pay fees to other players by stopping at the Motels, Filling Stations, Restaurants and Repair Shops. They can...
"Card & Board game for 2-4 players. Find the Interstellar Pig or your entire race is doomed. This game is based on an imaginary game of the same name described in a novel of the same name written by William Sleator." Each player starts with a character, four planets, and a random set of Attribute cards. The players travel from planet to planet collecting...
A roll and move game (move around the outside of the board style), where players are asked to do things like 'Remove One Piece of Apparel', and 'Take A Drink'. The object of the game (well, aside from trying to "get it on") is to collect ten 'Dream' cards by moving around the board ten times. This is a mature audiences game for couples, with many of the...
"Simulation of the Charge of the Light Brigade, the final phase of battle of Balaclava in 1854." "The player controls a British cavalry group of 12 men known as a ‘Troop’. All men are mounted on horses. All men are armed with a sword. One of the men is the Captain, the leader of the troop. Another man is the Trumpeter. The other 10 men are referred to as...
This is a game designed to ensure that players have knowledge about the facts necessary for survival in the 20th century. Questions are very technical, such as "Is a BC dry chemical extinguisher effective on a Class A Fire" or "People may be asphyxiated by volcanic ash (T/F)?" Play works by rolling a dice and moving around a circular track, asking...