Press Rewind: Games that require a VCR
Ryan Hackel
United States
Falls Church
Virginia
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Inspired by the thread http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/91518 about DVD games. There was quite some comparison drawn between DVD games and their VCR-based predecessors. The general concensus was that the VCR games were of mediocre quality at best, and left to a fate of obscurity and thrift store fare.
Having played one or two VCR games in the past, I looked for a Geeklist about VCR games, only to find none. This list fills that void. Please feel free to add to it.
And don't forget, Betamax counts, too!
(I've been trying to include images that show the tape itself.)
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Board Game: Nightmare IV
[Average Rating:6.67 Overall Rank:4146]
[Average Rating:6.67 Unranked]
Everyone wants to be Chad Thriftington III
United States
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
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Edmund Birnbryer
United States
Archer
Florida
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Here is another game requiring a VCR.
My copy has the tape but not the mini's
Oh, bother!
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Board Game: Nightmare II
[Average Rating:6.08 Overall Rank:4310]
[Average Rating:6.08 Unranked]
Everyone wants to be Chad Thriftington III
United States
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
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Ryan Hackel
United States
Falls Church
Virginia
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Be careful during extreme close-ups, lest you get a pawn stuck in your eye.
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Ryan Hackel
United States
Falls Church
Virginia
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This cannot be! Candyland... and television! Together! *gehg*
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Everyone wants to be Chad Thriftington III
United States
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
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Board Game: Dinoland
[Average Rating:6.00 Unranked]
Ryan Hackel
United States
Falls Church
Virginia
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From the designer of the "Wings of War" series.
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Board Game: Nightmare III
[Average Rating:5.90 Overall Rank:5739]
[Average Rating:5.90 Unranked]
Everyone wants to be Chad Thriftington III
United States
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
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Rob Robinson
England
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
My shadow's shedding skin. I've been picking my Scabs again
Forty six and two are just ahead of me
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Ryan Hackel
United States
Falls Church
Virginia
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Everyone wants to be Chad Thriftington III
United States
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
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Ryan Hackel
United States
Falls Church
Virginia
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Fred Barrett
United States
Alexandria
Virginia
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Ryan Hackel
United States
Falls Church
Virginia
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One of the more recent additions to the genre of VCR game. Even includes James Earl Jones as The Voice of Vader.
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Everyone wants to be Chad Thriftington III
United States
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
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Ryan Hackel
United States
Falls Church
Virginia
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gamemark wrote: derk wrote: Whether gamers or non-gamers regard them better/worse than standard boardgames. For instance, is the new Clue with an included DVD better than the original? Actually, it is. I had the privilege of playtesting the American version and find that it actually has less luck involved (though it's stil present) and the mysteries are more interesting. The animation isn't going to win any awards, but it helped put Clue back on my "playlist", so to speak.
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Ken Whitehurst
United States
Virginia Beach
Virginia
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We played this a fair amount back in the late '80s. You watch a quick series of pictures, then pick them out from your cards. It was fun, and good for all ages.
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Ryan Hackel
United States
Falls Church
Virginia
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I've played this one a few times. This is a cooperative game, with all players racing each other to defeat a common enemy, which hosed players via the videotape.
One of the games I remember best was due to one incident of foul language in front of children. The game was progressing slowly for us, and the interruptions from our VCR-generated Klingon adversary were becoming steadily more annoying. My father responded to one interruption by hollering out "What do you want, you Klingon a**hole?!?!?" in front of myself, my younger brother and his friend, all about 12 or under. My mother then turned to Dad with an exclamation of shock and a look that I now know to be "You will be sleeping on the couch tonight". Ah, my formative years!
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Fred Barrett
United States
Alexandria
Virginia
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Ryan Hackel
United States
Falls Church
Virginia
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It amuses me how the source material for this game predates the medium of gameplay. I wonder if there are film projecter games out there. "Laurel & Hardy: 8mm Memory Challenge"
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Ryan Hackel
United States
Falls Church
Virginia
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Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!
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Board Game: Myth
[Average Rating:5.12 Unranked]
Dean Glencross
Australia
Geelong
VIC
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Card battle game.
Was fun as a kid, but too simple for most older gamers.
The depictions of battle were pretty uninspiring and very brown.
A friend and I came up with a way to play without the video that was pretty fun, but I can't remember the rules anymore.
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THE MAVERICK
Afghanistan
(Currently far from) Herald
California
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A VCR horse racing game
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Ryan Hackel
United States
Falls Church
Virginia
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Just in time for the Torino games.
This sounds bizarre: "The game consists of a board, videotape, cards, plastic medals, and pawns. On your turn you watch a 10-15 second random video clip of one of the nine events. At the end of the clip is a section with rapidly changing point values. You then pause the VCR and score whatever points are shown, double them if the space on the board you are on matches the event you just watched."
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Ryan Hackel
United States
Falls Church
Virginia
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I wonder how well this idea works out in reality. It looks like a light wargame, and it has Battletech-style damage sheets for your plane. It sounds like the tape was merely there for chrome's sake.
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BrasÃlia
DF
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Akron
Ohio
West Haven
Connecticut
Somebody still owns a VCR?