Board Games
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How about an episode on board games translated to digital format (in a similar way as the episodes on pool/snooker, golf or pinball games).
Beside all the chess and backgammon clones, there are a few unique games e.g. 1830: Railways & Robber Barons or Advanced Civilization.
Neat idea, I mean even the mundane ‘Monopoly’ had quite a number of variations on DOS, from text based to full graphical.
Biggest challenge I found with any digital adaption was the interpretation of the rules, often learning more rules that I previously knew of, or finding out a ‘rule’ may have been a ‘house rule’ and not an official one!
That’s a fantastic idea for this episode series (Skiing, Golf, Pool, …) !!
Advanced Civilization
5th Fleet
Some DOS versions of commercial board games:
Virgin/Leisure: Monopoly, Scrabble, Risk, Clue (Master detective)
Domark: Trivia Pursuit, Pictionary
Gametek: Candyland, Chutes y Ladders, plus a zillion adaptations of game shows
On the more ancient side, there’s Chessmaster 2000 which kicked off my favorite chess series of all time. Fun fact: I once played against the lowest-ranked CPU player in CM 9000: a chimpanzee named Stanley who just makes random moves. His rating was 1 (the strongest grandmaster in the world, Magnus Carlsen, is rated about 2850). I lost.
Oof yeah, I’m pretty sure I’ve never beaten a CPU chess player. There was a chess on the games floppy, which my dad brought from work alongside the 286 that he brought home for summer holidays a couple of times. I also remember fondly playing one of those electronic chess games at a library (in Kajaani, Finland, in the late 80s or early 90s!)
Incidentally, I’m playing Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate obsessively right now … not a DOS game, but you _could_ make it in DOS I’m pretty sure!
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