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[prog]

Since rikchik can't do it (without working through a translator, anyway), what are some American-themed games to play on July 4th?

Some that come to mind:
• Empire Builder
• Ticket to Ride
• TransAmerica
• Bang!
• Memoir '44 (more or less)
• Baseball (the poker variant, that is)

Maybe I should start a GeekList about this over on the Geek, eh?

(And how would you refer to America in Rikchik, anyway?)

Comments

[magid.livejournal.com]

First thoughts: Monopoly and American Dream.

[prog.livejournal.com]

WRT Monopoly, I should amend the list to "American-themed games that a group of adult game snobs would actually play to completion." :) But I do encourage the list to have more games based on abstract yet quintessentially American virtues such as RAMPAGING CAPITALISM.

Combine that with RAMPAGING INVENTION and you get Cheapass's "The Big Idea", which is also a must, now that I think of it.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Chinese calls the USA "Beautiful Country", Japanese (when not using katakana) uses "Rice Country". I feel like I've investigated this before - let me check my notes. Ah, yes, I used "beautiful country" in a doodle before, so it's or "the home of homes that makes the eye happy".

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Battle Cry
New England
We the People
Early American Chrononauts
Cargo
Democrazy (or just Nomic)
10 Days in the USA
Harry's Grand Slam Baseball
Santa Fe Rails
Railroad Tycoon
Power Grid
Giganten
McMulti

There are a few presidential election campaign games (Road to the Whitehouse, Mr. President) but the only one I've played is the one in the Sid Sackson book "Calculate!".

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Detroit-Cleveland Grand Prix
Daytona 500
San Francisco
California
Mall World?

Western themes

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Go West!
Way Out West
One False Step for Mankind

[spatch]

You seem to not have enough railroad/capitalist games. Here, have 1830: Railroads & Robber Barons, or one of those 18xx variants that isn't set in Germany or Britain.

But I always liked Empire Builder better.

[radtea.livejournal.com]

The United States has 5% of the world's population, and 50% of the world's lawyers. From this it follows that Magic: the Gathering is the most purely American game there is.