The first of a new two-part adventure by Triple Ace Games has players tracking a missing scientific mission on a jungle-covered island inhabited by savages, dinosaurs, and Nazis—all the requisite features for a satisfying pulp experience. Island of Terror is an electronic product for the Savage Worlds roleplaying system.

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I see articles about local game groups all the time, and the best ones come from university newspapers.

The Maine Campus of the University of Maine profiles “hardcore gamers”, including players aged 2 to 50, games including RPGs, Magic: the Gathering, Apples to Apples, Warhammer 40K, Werewolf, and World of Warcraft, and the recent SnowCon convention.

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Bridge tournaments are a dime a dozen. It may interest you to know that players of other card games that are played with a standard deck (or two) of playing cards are not sitting idly by.

The Grand Prix tournaments are organized by Bicycle (a well-known playing card manufacturer), as well as various single-game organizations (such as the home for Euchre and Spades) and online gaming sites that facilitate these games over the Internet. Over $20,000 in prizes are awarded.

Games include Spades, Hearts, Euchre, and Pinochle.

Grand Prix is a multi-game tournament, but single-game organizations are moving forward with their own events. As just one example, The Spades Connection is looking forward to a tournament in Knoxville in March.

Card Sharks represents Bid Whist. I knew that Whist was played a century ago by New york socialites and retains some small popularity today. Apparently Bid Whist (specifically) is “one of the truly original African American pastimes.” It was supposedly invented by the black Pullman porters over a century ago.

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Paper Pong is the game of Pong ported to analog format, namely a Choose-Your-Own Adventure book format. To move the paddle up or down, turn to the appropriate page.

Available in a nice coffee-table book edition.

On the developer’s website, you can also find an electronic version of PacMan, ported to a Zork-like text adventure. Wild.

Pac-Txt!
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You awaken in a large complex, slightly disoriented. Glowing dots hover mouth level near you in every direction. Off in the distance you hear the faint howling of what you can only imagine must be some sort of ghost or several ghosts.

> eat
You have eaten the glowing dot!

> forward
You have moved.

> where
Location: 12, 23 (W)

> eat
You have eaten another glowing dot!

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Following up on its claim to sole distibution rights despite a loss in court (scooped by Purple Pawn back on January 3rd), Konami Digital Entertainment will be launching the eagerly awaited Crimson Crisis booster set with sneak peak events at participating hobby retailers February 28th and March 1st. A general nationwide product release will follow March 3rd. Crimson Crisis will include new cards from the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s TV series and feature Assault Mode Monsters and Synchro Monsters (which can convert to Assault Mode). Also part of the 100 card booster set will be new themes, such as Dark “Blackwing” monsters.

Participants in the sneak peek events will receive five packs of Crimson Crisis boosters and a Colossal Fighter/Assault Mode promotional card.

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