Combined Arms 2000 is a light wargame simulating armored warfare using modern technology. It features a realistic scale for both movement and fire (1 space = 1 kilometer), a good selection of vehicle and infantry types, off-board fire support, and fixed-wing air support. Players build armies from parts of a shared deck, then fight! The attacker has only...
The game consists of a board and two dice; one with numbers 1 - 6 and one with cartoons (car - boat - train - cat - bird - pig). The board has 36 squares with holes in the middle. Every square is a combination of the dice (train + 1, pig + 4, etc.). Throw the dice and see what combination comes up. Players try to find the combination on the board and...
The players have to lead their basketball teams (4 game pieces) from their preliminary round locations in Germany to the final city of Cologne. To do this, they roll the dice and drag the pieces across a map. Whoever beats another figure (or their own) sends them to a basketball game, which is decided by a simple dice roll. The winner gets to move on, the...
From the box : "It's a great time for you to come play with me! Let's go through the house and see what fun stuff we can find! Toys are everywhere! Balls in the living room, trains in the kitchen, bears in the bedroom. Look, I found the blocks! Can you be the first to collect all of the toys you need for your toy box? So many toys to find. Good thing it...
Contained in the book Fairground Games to Make and Play by Neil and Ruth Thomson. An entirely luck-based spin and move game, but different from many such games, since every space is an intersection with 4 possible directions to another space: forwards, backwards, left, and right. The spinner (to be constructed) has these directions (F, B, L, and R) as...
The Comedy Company is just about to go to air, but the characters are scattered all over Pittswood Shopping Center! As trainee TV producer your job is to track down three of them then catch the bus back to the TV studio. Sounds easy but things keep changing along the way. You will need luck and strategy to win The Comedy Company. Contents: The Comedy...
Boardgame released by Denys Fisher in the seventies as part of the Comic Action Heroes line of toys. It's an official DC licensed version, and includes the heroes Superman, Batman, Robin and Shazam against the villains Joker, Riddler, Mr Freeze and the Penguin. It's a fairly basic roll and move game, where the object is to reach the top of the 3-d...
An instructional race game from start to panel number 42, illustrating the Exhibition at Crystal Palace 1851. This is a 2-6 player game. Order of play is determined by throwing a die. Each player is given a different colored counter and 4 tokens which he throws into the pool when required to do so. There are 22 country squares which are put in a pool. When...
Commander in Chief is a game showing a soldier's rise through the ranks from Private to Commander in Chief. The game seems to represent the Spanish American War, in fact one portion of the primary Illustration on the game board seems to be an inverse of Fredric Remington's "Grimes Battery", a drawing representing Battery A, 2nd U.S. Artillery. They saw...