In Honour of Boga-Ten: A Geeklist of Octopuses, Squid, and other Tentacled Monstrosities.
Mark Chaplin
United Kingdom
Nottingham
Ice-choked tower, Mondavia, Nanglangka.
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This list is an attempt to catalogue games featuring octopus-like creatures, either in picture form or as actual game components.
Why would I want to do such a thing, you might well ask.
Well, having a fascination with sea monsters has certainly stoked my fires on the subject of giant squid, et cetera, but I suppose the real reason, is that an octopus features prominently in one of my novels, and this set me on the road to writing a fun Geeklist.
Please feel free to add and expand upon my list.
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Mark Chaplin
United Kingdom
Nottingham
Ice-choked tower, Mondavia, Nanglangka.
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A recent purchase, this game seems to be a great family game and also a great gateway-type game - an ideal way to break in new players to the magnificent world of real boardgames.
The game reminds me of that wonderful movie Warlords of Atlantis. That also featured a ruddy great octopus.
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Mark Chaplin
United Kingdom
Nottingham
Ice-choked tower, Mondavia, Nanglangka.
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A poor game, by all accounts, this could have been the greatest game ever!
Jules Verne was the grandfather of modern sci-fi, and 20,000 Leagues his crowning achievement.
The Disney movie is a masterpiece of cinema, and of design; the Disney Nautilus has never been bettered.
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Mark Chaplin
United Kingdom
Nottingham
Ice-choked tower, Mondavia, Nanglangka.
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This game, and expansion, is on my most-wanted list. Any game featuring giant beasts on the box cover has got to be a blinder!
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Mark Chaplin
United Kingdom
Nottingham
Ice-choked tower, Mondavia, Nanglangka.
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Arise, great Cthulhu!
I've been a fan of the Cthulhu mythos for a long, long time. I've read all of the Master's works, and a few by Derleth. I'm a confirmed lover of the RPG. If you haven't played in the adventure Beyond the Mountains of Madness you haven't lived...
A friend has recently purchased this game so I haven't had time yet to taste its delights.
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Mark Chaplin
United Kingdom
Nottingham
Ice-choked tower, Mondavia, Nanglangka.
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I really don't do collectable card games anymore, but this game looked interesting...
Plenty of Cthulhu-inspired monsters, to be sure.
Is it a great game?
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Mark Chaplin
United Kingdom
Nottingham
Ice-choked tower, Mondavia, Nanglangka.
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The title says it all.
I can just spy with my little eye, a family of tentacled beasties, loitering in a cave-mouth.
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Mark Chaplin
United Kingdom
Nottingham
Ice-choked tower, Mondavia, Nanglangka.
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Looks like nobody on the Geek owns this game!
It could be better than BattleLore for all we know...
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Mark Chaplin
United Kingdom
Nottingham
Ice-choked tower, Mondavia, Nanglangka.
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Tentacles of Martian steel!
If any game could do with a new version, true to the book, then this is it.
The petition for someone to design the game starts here!
Am I alone on this one folks?
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Mark Chaplin
United Kingdom
Nottingham
Ice-choked tower, Mondavia, Nanglangka.
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Blue-ringed octopus... sounds nasty.
This game looks cool.
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Mark Chaplin
United Kingdom
Nottingham
Ice-choked tower, Mondavia, Nanglangka.
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Please feel free to add any games featuring tentacles, that might have curled themselves about your mind.
Thanks for reading.
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Dave Lartigue
United States
Springfield
Massachusetts
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There is a "Giant Squid" card in this set. One rule of thumb for us is, if I'm the judge and someone plays "Giant Squid", it will be chosen 95% of the time.
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Teh Slipperboy
United States
Allen Park
Michigan
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The octopus/squid appears on one of the tiles. You can see it on the bottom of the left side in this picture.
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United States
Lincoln
Nebraska
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You can't leave out the sea monsters from this game.
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Dave Lartigue
United States
Springfield
Massachusetts
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House #13
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Bruce Baskir
United States
Missouri
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One of the encounters is a giant octopus.
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A Spotlight on Games
United States
Bay Area
California
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Don't have a picture of it, but one of the biome cards in this game is rated MM (takes two Marine genes to exploit) and is named Cold Teuthoids Squid. Types with Nocturnal ability are favored in this biome.
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Chris B
United States
Schenectady
New York
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Kraken and other sea serpents patrol the depths in an effort to ruin your submarine fleet
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A Spotlight on Games
United States
Bay Area
California
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There is a Kraken card in this one.
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Board Game: Krill
[Average Rating:4.33 Unranked]
Michael B.
Canada
Stratford
Ontario
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Educational chaining card game.
Zooplankton (pictured) is eaten by squid (not pictured).
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Mark Chaplin
United Kingdom
Nottingham
Ice-choked tower, Mondavia, Nanglangka.
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I spy an octopiod monstrosity in the background!
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Board Game: Hentacle
[Average Rating:6.39 Unranked]
Dan
Canada
Alberta
Yeah... I see what you did there.
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I'll keep this PG.
This is what happens when you make it illegal to draw man-bits in adult manga. You must come up with a substitute...
However, I seem to recall a very old woodcut of a Japanese woman being ravished by an octopus, so this is probably a very old theme.
Darn, devil-fish! Stealing our women!
On a related note, I could never eat octopus when I was in Japan. Too intelligent, too clever. I felt sorry for them. 
However, squid is DELICIOUS.
I called it the other, other white meat. 
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From the BGG description of this Insecta expansion:
Quote: New rules and design cards cover grasping tentacles, camouflage, electric batteries, water jet siphons, pistol claws, proboscis, rear-attack spines, echo locating organs, suction feet, ink sacs, swim bladders, and more.
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...I could add any Cthulhu related game here, but I'm too lazy, and there are already several lists full of them, so I confine myself to Cthulhu 500, a game which combines Cthulhu Mythos and stock car racing in a truly funny way. Get into the Car of Cthulhu, and mount the Giant Tentacle of Gripping and Crushing!
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Pleasantville
Massachusetts
http://tolweb.org/Vampyroteuthis_infernalis
Zaragoza
Zaragoza
Poulpe Pulps,
http://www.cyrune.com/pulp.html
(Vintage Octupus Pulp Covers)