December, 1994

Christmas time brings out the kid in everyone. There was lots of game playing around the Beckwell household this year. Rob Rossney came through with some timely game reviews to whet our appetites.

Game Reviews

• 6-Tage Rennen a very clever bicycle race where cooperation is a must
• Airlines a stock trading train game takes to the air
• Auf Achse trucking across Germany for fun and profit
• Elfenroads an excellent, beautiful, and strange race game
• Manager supply and demand in without all the fuss of production costs
• McMulti oil exploration and exploitation
• Metropolis city planning in a pre-SimCity world
• Modern Art high finance and high art meet for a night of light gaming
• Quo Vadis the politics of compromise in the Senate of Rome
• Waldesfrust timber management and economics

English Rules Translations

• Drunter und Drüber - a very silly game about rebuilding a town after a visit by a cat (SRB)
• En Garde - very possibly the best fencing game yet invented (SRB)
• Entenrallye - duck racing, Citroen style (SRB)
• Esels-Rennen - donkey racing, and there are no lemons involved this time (see Entenrallye) (SRB)
• Hacker - the other one (but not by the other Steve Jackson!) (SRB)
• Intrigue - rampant nepotism in the Italian Renaissance (SRB)
• Inkognito - an atmospheric masquerade laced with espionage and intrigue
• Das Letzte Kamel - a very random camel race (SRB)
• Supergang - a nice evening of parlor turf wars
• Tal Der Koenige - pyramid building in the Valley of the Kings (SRB)
• Valee des Mamouths - adventure in the Valley of the Mammoths
• Wucherer - a slum lord slugfest (SRB)
• Würmeln - the diced worm racing game

The Game Cabinet - [email protected] - Ken Tidwell