Dwarfstar Games, a former division of Heritage USA, that was recently (as in 2003) saved from ultimate financial doom by Reaper Miniatures, was quite the board game creator back in the early 80s. They released solo-games, micro-games, epic-games, goblin-games, strategy-games, even 2-player games (!), with such lovely 80s names as Barbarian Prince, Dragon Rage, Goblin, Demonlord or Star Smuggler. Good news is you can download all these games for free, print them out and play them. Or just browse through their PDF manuals, tokens and maps and have a glimpse at gaming history...Anyway. Just visit this beautiful and cozy corner of the web for you downloads. Ah, don't thank me. Thank Mr. Forbeck instead (who actually thanked Mr. Costikyan for first discovering this little treasure).
[UPDATE]: The excellent Vintage Gamer blog has reviews of both Barbarian Prince and Demonlord. Check them out, you really should...
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Of course, you dig up more of that good stuff. Nice job! Games had such simple box art and fun gameplay back then.
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Thank you oh most lovely anonymous... xxx
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Cant remeber the number really... Care for the keys perhaps?
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(drooling...staring at Gnome intently and rubbing his hands gleefully)
....keys you say....? keys for
(can't say the words...)
a certain place perhaps.....
A certain place's doors to be precise...
ReplyDeleteFor those interested, I have reviews of two of these on my Vintage Gamer show: Demonlord and Barbarian Prince.
ReplyDeleteAnd happy belated!
Ah, yes! Excellent, brillinat, guess I'll have to update the post and link to 'em reviews...
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