| Well, if you all are into old games vs PC other than just Tetris, there's always Acquire which was originally a 3M board game from the 1960's. That was when I played it as a young teenager in the Academic Games Club at our interesting high school. It's a financial game, but better and faster than Monopoly,
the highest performer (best investor/player) still wins, but
at least everybody makes money, hell everybody starts with
capital. Each the same amount of capital, how often do you see that :-) Growth stocks are involved, with bonuses (which can almost be regarded as follow-on rounds adding to exits, until game-end liquidation) rather than dividends. Quite easy to learn In the '70's, it appeared for the Apple and the Commodore PET. There was also a slightly more modern DOS version which was from Avalon-Hill, the successor to 3M for their games: http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sid/acquire.zip There is also another version from Bill Humphrey, the 1966 playing rules are in a DOC file within this ZIP (tailored to his PC version): http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sid/acquire2.zip Each player also is issued an information card you will need
for proper financial planning: http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sid/acquirecard.htm The numbers on top in the blue header are the size of the hotel chain.
The upper number (low $) in each cell is the share price for the named chains in the left-hand cell.
The middle number (high $) in each cell is the bonus amount for majority holder of the named chains upon exit/liquidation.
The bottom number (not-as-high $) in each cell is the bonus amount for second-majority holder of the named chains upon exit/liquidation. Here's an alternate: http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/44033/acquire-3m-version-c... and another: https://megacquire.com/zencart/images/Six-Info-Cards-+-Lg-Ca... and another: https://megacquire.com/zencart/images/Enlarged-Info-Card-B.j... While I was looking for my original 3M hard copy edition to bring to my local makerspace for the young board gamers I did find a better user vs PC version from G.C.Crawshay, also DOS but have confirmed it will play in WinXP or Win7 if you have a 32-bit PC: http://www.george.crawshay.com/cgi/products.pl?game=Acquire Naturally it will play from a bootable DOS floppy as well.
Some are surprised when you can fire up any old surplus PC having a floppy drive and it works ideally without having to have a working HDD in the system. No mouse either. USB floppy drives work too. EDIT: I believe the floppy will also play on a 64-bit PC |
