December, 1995

Gaming News

• Letter from the Editor - notes and introduction to this month's issue (December)
• I have no words but I must design - Costikyan quests for the definition of 'game'

Features

• Sumo's Karaoke Club - early Inside Pitch columns and the rare Sumo 0
• Across the Board - looks at public gaming in San Francisco

Letter Box

• Mercator vs Medici - comparison and contrast of these two Reiner Knizia games

Special Report - Games for Late Christmas Shoppers

• Heavy Gear Fighter - Mech combat in a fiddly future (warning: not fluffy)
• Pirateer - Avast ye, mateys! Prepare to be boarded!

Game Reviews

• 1500 Gold - the Ragnars pick up the pace after Backpacks & Blisters
• G.O.O.T.M.U. - WizWar meets sci-fi in Tom Jolly's polymorphic maze
• Elfenwizards - a dicey competition for top dog at the pointy hat club
• El Grande - dominate Old Spain in this clever, well balanced game
• Ironman Football - manage the teams in the early, ragtag days of American football
• Keywood - Mike Siggins takes another look at this great gamekit
• Sixteen Thirty Something - the politics are thick in this recreation of the Thirty Years War
• Wrott & Swindlers - clever bidding is required at this auction house

English Game Translations

• Hattrick - another interesting trick taking card game

Flemish (Dutch) Game Translations

• Condottiere - Dutch version of a French game set in Italy now popular in Germany
• Der Fliegende Hollander - avoid the ghost ship for it will close down your joint venture
• Manhatten - dueling skyscrapers (Freud would love this one!)
• Rette sich wer kann - the lifeboat game, "Every man for himself!"
• Zatre - a totally different domino game

Traditional Games

• Warri - a complete guide to the strategy game popular in Africa and Carribean (may be down)

Web Games Terminal

Note to America On-Line users: you now have access to telnet! Upgrade and enjoy!

• Firetop Mountain - a Net-based implementation of Waving Hands
• Richard Rognlie's PBEM Server - the best place to play games on the Web!

The Front Door

• Dragon Trove - game shop specializing in role-playing paraphernalia

Other Places

• Inrete Games Page - an Italian ISP's game references (great links!)
• The Game Report - Peter Sarrett goes on-line with his quarterly
• Piet Notebaert's Game Pages - check out the table of game rankings (Dutch language)
• Plymouth Gaming Club - Steffan O'Sullivan's friends, students and fellow gamers
• Spielplatz - a games page by Knut-Michael Wolf, founder of Pöppel-Revue

The Game Cabinet - [email protected] - Ken Tidwell