One of the Avalon Hill games of the early 1990s was Blackbeard, a pirate game totally different from any others available because it simulated the actual life and careers of historical pirates, and how they went about their chosen professions. Richard Berg has now taken the original and redesigned it, almost entirely, to bring it into line with what gamers...
Warning: This game explores issues of racial inequality and it is useful to read the context of the game design before playing. Some may find the method of exploration of these issues offensive. In Blacks & Whites players experience life in the ghetto. Live on Welfare. Try to buy a place in a white suburb. Your challenge: To keep the land-hungry majority...
America’s realest real estate game is back! It’s Blacks & Whites: 50th Anniversary Edition. Fifty years ago, Prof. Robert Sommer and Judy Tart created a socially-conscious version of Monopoly, highlighting the racial inequity of the housing market and capitalism in America. Inspired by the original, the 50th Anniversary Edition features a new foreward by...
Features: All skaters who competed during the 2006 season (men & women) are included. They are each graded individually for all events in which they competed. Simple phase system allows for quick play; game is broken down into 3 skating phases: Start, mid-race and finish. Skater's performance in these stages is then combined with a base score to obtain a...
Blasted is a retro space combat and exploration game for 2 to 4 players. The Mechanisms of a long-dead civilization, The Ascendants, are again activating and imprisoning all of the Galactic Outposts in the sector. The Ascendant Key is needed to deactivate these mechanisms; but it has been separated in to 4 pieces, called the Prime Relics, and scattered...
Step inside a classic video arcade side-scrolling space shooter. Earth is once again at the mercy of on-coming waves of alien attack ships. Luckily, you have the one vessel that can defend the earth from the onslaught. Equipped with your all-important blaster, destroy wave after wave of alien ships and defeat the "Boss" at the end of each level, until the...
Play WWII battles from Company to Brigade size. Finish a game in 2-4 hours. Keep everyone involved with simultaneous turns. Infantry are based as a single stand, representing 8-12 soldiers or two squads. Use your FoW armies. Each armoured vehicle model represents 2-4 real vehicles. Ground scale: 1mm equals roughly 1.5 metres. Time scale: Each game turn...
Flying Officer Stumpy Prangsworthy’s handlebar moustache streamed behind him in the 280mph wind as he craned his head round trying to locate where Von Strudels Focke Wulf 190 A8 had gone to. Deep within the cloud, the spineless Boche had shown his true colours and escaped Stumpys righteous justice. The growling Merlin engine sang a new song as he...
Bleeding Kansas is a two-player game portraying the politics and violence in pre-statehood Kansas. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 gave new territories the right to “popular sovereignty,” allowing residents to choose whether or not to allow slavery. Within months the stream of settlers to Kansas was swelled by parties of sponsored abolitionists and...