[net.games] New games

grady@ingres.ARPA (Steven Grady) (12/27/85)

About two weeks ago, I posted a message asking for new games that have
the same variety, complexity, and interest as Cosmic Encounter.  So far
I have gotten a few responses, and these have been amazingly consistent.
About 4 games were on almost all of the respondents' lists:
Illuminati (+ expansions sets)
Talisman (+ expansions sets)
Dune
Nuclear War/Nuclear Escalation

Other suggestions have included:
Junta
Acquire
Empire Builder

I want to thank the people who have responded so far, and I'd also like
to see more responses (boy, this net thing is great! the sheer bulk of
readers makes for quite an information bank..).

	Steven

PS Something I forgot to mention in my first message:  we already have
all 9 expansion sets to CE.  (Speaking of which, I've heard a rumor that
a new version is coming out.  Can anyone verify or elaborate on this?)

jrrt@mtuxo.UUCP (r.mitchell) (12/30/85)

Steven Grady wanted to know about rumors concerning a new version of
COSMIC ENCOUNTER.

I talked to a Marketing Rep from West End Games at ORIGINS last
year.  She told me that in the summer of 1986, WEG would be offering
a new "version" of CE that was merely re-packaging.  The basic game
would consist of the current original game, plus the first two
expansion sets.  There will be about four (5? ...failing memory...)
expansion sets in the future, which will be merely rebundled
versions of the current ones.  I specifically asked her if there was
any point in getting the new version, if I already had the basic set
and all the expansion sets.  Her answer: "Except to replace a worn-out
game, there'd be no good reason for you to get the new version."

Rob Mitchell  {allegra,ihnp4}!mtuxo!jrrt

Es un entreverado loco, lleno de lucidos intervalos.
(He is a muddled fool, full of lucid intervals.  *Don Quixote*)