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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7060774" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Honestly, if you widen things to just general 'games from the 80's' or even 70's there's a lot we still play. A rabbit ate my original Cosmic Encounter, but I still have a pretty ancient copy that we trot out at regular intervals. Its easy to teach, so it makes a great game for non-gamers that is still pretty cool. Nuclear War (and its expansion, Nuclear Annihilation) is another one that still sees a fair amount of play. The humor is a bit dark perhaps, but there are always plenty of people willing to gleefully unleash Skippy the Super Germ! </p><p></p><p>There are a few others that have endured as having good repeat play value. King Maker, a bit long and the play options get a little stale eventually, but its good for a game every few years. Likewise Samurai can be amusing (the Japanese equivalent of King Maker). Merchant of Venus is another one that manages to get good replay value. </p><p></p><p>I'd say some of the more modern Eurogames are a bit slicker than most of these, but there are still a lot of very solid games from the first wave of what I would call RPG and wargame experienced game designers moving back into the more general entertainment games. </p><p></p><p>There are also some grey area games, like TFT that are sort of RPGs, (and TFT definitely grew into being an RPG) but were originally designed to play a more limited kind of game. TFT or its microgame versions is still kinda fun, though my copies have given up the ghost at this point.</p><p></p><p>There's still a lot of classic RPG-related wargames that are good too, like GEV/OGRE, and Car Wars (almost an RPG itself).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 7060774, member: 82106"] Honestly, if you widen things to just general 'games from the 80's' or even 70's there's a lot we still play. A rabbit ate my original Cosmic Encounter, but I still have a pretty ancient copy that we trot out at regular intervals. Its easy to teach, so it makes a great game for non-gamers that is still pretty cool. Nuclear War (and its expansion, Nuclear Annihilation) is another one that still sees a fair amount of play. The humor is a bit dark perhaps, but there are always plenty of people willing to gleefully unleash Skippy the Super Germ! There are a few others that have endured as having good repeat play value. King Maker, a bit long and the play options get a little stale eventually, but its good for a game every few years. Likewise Samurai can be amusing (the Japanese equivalent of King Maker). Merchant of Venus is another one that manages to get good replay value. I'd say some of the more modern Eurogames are a bit slicker than most of these, but there are still a lot of very solid games from the first wave of what I would call RPG and wargame experienced game designers moving back into the more general entertainment games. There are also some grey area games, like TFT that are sort of RPGs, (and TFT definitely grew into being an RPG) but were originally designed to play a more limited kind of game. TFT or its microgame versions is still kinda fun, though my copies have given up the ghost at this point. There's still a lot of classic RPG-related wargames that are good too, like GEV/OGRE, and Car Wars (almost an RPG itself). [/QUOTE]
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