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Jul 28, 2006 16:06

From Gamespot... "Pick five games--the only five you can take with you. If you got stuck on a desert island (or some other location that would be difficult to leave), these are perhaps the last five games you'd ever need to play. Feel free to add a comment with five games that you'd take with you ( Read more... )

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Hmmm....about to show my age ladycelia July 28 2006, 23:22:22 UTC

SCRABBLE
A deck of cards
Backgammon
Chess
Monopoly

Re: Hmmm....about to show my age darksonic July 28 2006, 23:39:03 UTC

lol! No worries. But you know how us computer junkies are.

Now, if instead of 5 computer games it was 5 board games... I'll agree with you on cards, chess, and Monopoly. For the other two - Axis & Allies, and Shogun.

Re: Hmmm....about to show my age ladycelia July 29 2006, 00:43:23 UTC

I've played Axis and Allies a couple of times, but I never really go into it--may have been just lack of exposure. Not familiar with Shogun--tell me more.

Re: Hmmm....about to show my age angry_american July 29 2006, 20:05:48 UTC

Shogun was 1 of 3 out of the original strategy game series that produced Axis and Allies. Axis and Allies was the most successful of the three. The least successful, fortres america, I don't think anyone plays anymore.

I wanted Shogun bad ... I mean really bad when I was a kid. But alas, due to the success of Axis and Allies, it was not reproduced and was a good enough game (I assume) that all the boxes of it were sold up by the time I really started asking for it.

-FW

Re: Hmmm....about to show my age ladycelia July 29 2006, 21:18:42 UTC

Is it still out of print? I've had good luck finding obscure OOP games on eBay.

Re: Hmmm....about to show my age ladycelia July 29 2006, 21:20:42 UTC

http://cgi.ebay.com/1986-Vintage-SHOGUN-Board-Game-used_W0QQitemZ270011300131QQihZ017QQcategoryZ2558QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Re: Hmmm....about to show my age darksonic July 29 2006, 20:49:39 UTC

FW's explanation of Shogun is pretty accurate. Avalon Hill is the game company, and Shogun was similar to A&A, except feudal Japan (obviously). I never saw someone successfully execute a blitzkrieg in Shogun; some games were notorious for going on for 2-3 days.

Re: Hmmm....about to show my age angry_american July 29 2006, 20:06:19 UTC

DEWD<

Do you really have a shogun game? Um, I've never seen one ... and would really like to.

-FW

Re: Hmmm....about to show my age darksonic July 29 2006, 20:47:42 UTC

I wish I had one. The friend who introduced me to it YEARS ago had replaced the plastic coins that come with the game with real metal ones. I've only met one other person who has a copy, and he just recently got it.

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