‘Go to Jail’: the murders caused by Monopoly
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Games
Ian Dury portrays a sperm in a video game, 1984
I’ve never played the video game Deus Ex Machina, released in 1984 by Automata UK for the ZX Spectrum system–not only did I not own…
Title screens for made-up Nintendo games we’d like to see
After the video game crash of 1983, it was Nintendo more than any other manufacturer that showed the way forward for video games. Today there…
Amazing ‘naughty’ French card game about sex from the 1960s
Est-ce que celà vous regarde? // Does this concern you? Here’s a ribald glimpse of the swinging Sixties from the land of yé-yé, la France!…
Big in Japan: Cheesy vintage ads for arcade and video games from the 1980s
That moment in Field of Dreams when Kevin Costner hears a voice saying “If you build it, he will come” was really bad financial advice.…
Buy your very own Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup can chess set
According to Hans Ree’s book The Human Comedy of Chess, there was an occasion in the mid-1960s when Marcel Duchamp played a game of chess…
‘Aliens are never eliminated’: Amazing 1979 ‘Alien’ board game
We’ve noted before that the merchandising arm connected with Ridley Scott’s original Alien movie of 1979 didn’t seem to know anything about the movie. (For…
Board game based on John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ looks AMAZING
T-shirt design company Mondo has announced a product it will be releasing for Halloween, and it’s a reeeeeal good one: a board game version of…
In this Motörhead video game, Lemmy thwarts enemies with his Jack Daniels-fueled bad breath!
In 1992 Kaitsu Software, in what seems to have been the only game they ever put out, released a game for the Commodore Amiga using…