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R. N. Dominick
United States
Cincinnati
Ohio
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Tonight we played two S games, one from the list, one not.
Streetcar is one of the oldest games in my collection. All at the same time, I bought the original Mayfair releases of Settlers, Streetcar and Manhattan, and went to that year's Origins where I bought Give Me The Brain and Fluxx, back when that was distributed by ICE. We played all these games quite a bit for a little while, and a few more as well, but then didn't do much in the way of boardgaming for years.
Streetcar is from the bad old days of Mayfair, with half-shoddy components and immensely ugly graphic redesigns. The tiles used to lay track are very thin, and the stickers wrapped around wooden blocks to represent streetcars came apart even when the game was new, much less now.
Good thing the game is so fun. Plenty of frustration as people maneuver around in the tight confines of the board, putting stations for stops where you don't want them to go, forcing you to upgrade track instead of just slapping it down... I'd forgotten that with three you should play with the three-station routes, but we're probably going to play it again soon like that just because we had so much fun this time.
Oh, yeah. J-- got himself stuck in a figure eight neither C-- nor I looked closely enough at when he was demonstrating his route. Poor guy.
We also played S'quarrels, a much more recent card game we have had hanging around since I bought it. J-- loves squirrels, and the game is pretty fun, besides, a bit chaotic, a bit tactical and a bit random. It's the only game I've ever seen C-- play which involves slapping cards.
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