The War of the Worlds (board game)

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The War of the Worlds is a 1980 board wargame published by Task Force Games.

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Gameplay

The War of the Worlds is a game in which humans defend Victorian London from Martian invaders. [1]

Video game

Task Force Games developed a 16K computer version of The War of the Worlds. [2] It was published in 1983. [3]

Reception

Tony Watson reviewed The War of the Worlds in The Space Gamer No. 35. [1] Watson commented that "TWotW does a good job of taking an interesting but very unbalanced situation and making it into a fun game." [1]

Eric Goldberg reviewed War of the Worlds in Ares Magazine #9 and commented that "If the players can accept the radical revisions to the plot of the novel, they have a game which should prove tense for the first five or so plays. After that, War of the Worlds is a solved puzzle." [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Watson, Tony (January 1981). "Featured Review: The War of the Worlds". The Space Gamer . Steve Jackson Games (35): 19.
  2. ↑ https://archive.org/details/19830304Issue9/page/n11/mode/2up
  3. ↑ https://www.mobygames.com/game/war-of-the-worlds___
  4. ↑ Goldberg, Eric (July 1981). "Games". Ares Magazine . Simulations Publications, Inc. (9): 26.
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