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1985 In Games
This page lists board game, board and card games, Wargaming, wargames, Miniature wargaming, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1985. For video games, see 1985 in video gaming. Games released or invented in 1985 Game awards given in 1985 * Spiel des Jahres: ''Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective'' Deaths See also * 1985 in video gaming {{DEFAULTSORT:1985 In Games 1985, Games Games by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orient Express (board Game)
''Orient Express'' is a crime fiction board game published by Jumbo Games, Jumbo and Just Games, released in 1985 in games, 1985. The game is based on the 1934 novel ''Murder on the Orient Express'' by Agatha Christie. The game was designed by Jeff Smets and R. Wayne Schmittberger. The game contains 10 different murder cases, each of which can be played only once. Five new plots were released in 1987. Development The board game was first released in 1985 by Just Games and by Jumbo in 1986. The game has been translated into numerous languages, e.g. English, German, Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish and Danish. Gameplay The game is set on the train Orient Express, going from Paris to Istanbul. The players choose one case among the 10 possible cases. On each case a murder has been committed by one or more of the 8 suspects on the train. The suspects are handily named so that the first letter of each forms a successive list of the first eight letters of the alph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Scarne
John Scarne (; March 4, 1903 – July 7, 1985) was an American magician and author who was particularly adept at playing card manipulation. He became known as an expert on cards and other games, and authored a number of popular books on cards, gambling, and related topics. Early life He was born Orlando Carmelo Scarnecchia in Steubenville, Ohio, United States, and at some point anglicized his name to John Scarne. He grew up in the New Jersey communities of Fairview and Guttenberg. When he left school after the eighth grade, he learned from a local card sharp how to perform such swindles as The Three Card Monte, and how to cheat in gambling card games by manipulating the cards. Scarne began practicing sleight of hand with the goal of becoming a card sharp, but his Roman Catholic mother dissuaded her son from gambling in general, and cheating others in particular. She persuaded him to practice magic instead. One of Scarne's influences was Nate Leipzig. Of Leipzig, Scarne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Horrocks
Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, (7 September 1895 – 4 January 1985) was a British Army officer, chiefly remembered as the commander of XXX Corps in Operation Market Garden and other operations during the Second World War. He also served in the First World War and the Russian Civil War, was taken prisoner twice, and competed in the modern pentathlon at the 1924 Paris Olympics. Later he was a television presenter, wrote books on military history, and was Black Rod in the House of Lords for 14 years. In 1940 Horrocks commanded a battalion during the Battle of France, the first time he served under Bernard Montgomery, the most prominent British commander of the war. Montgomery later identified Horrocks as one of his most able officers, appointing him to corps commands in both North Africa and Europe. In 1943, Horrocks was seriously wounded and took more than a year to recover before returning to command a corps in Europe. It is likely that this per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
''Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective'' is a full-motion video game released in 1991. It is based on a tabletop game-gamebook hybrid of the same name first published in 1981, and features the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by Arthur Conan Doyle. The video game was originally developed by ICOM Simulations for the FM Towns computer and later ported to DOS, Macintosh, Commodore CDTV, TurboGrafx-CD, Sega CD and Tandy Video Information System with all versions being distributed on CD-ROM. The game was re-released as a DVD for use with a standard DVD player and television in 1999. A high resolution and re-mastered version of the game for iPad, Microsoft Windows, and OS X was released in September 2012. Premise The game uses live actors and sets as the player controls Sherlock Holmes and his longtime partner Dr. Watson, trying to solve three separate crimes by visiting various locations, listening to the dialogue, reading the included mock London newspapers, and, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spiel Des Jahres
The Spiel des Jahres (, 'Game of the Year') is an award for board and card games, created in 1978 with the purpose of rewarding family-friendly game design, and promoting excellent games in the German market. It is thought that the existence and popularity of the award was one of the major drivers of the quality of games coming out of Germany, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s. A ''Spiel des Jahres'' nomination can increase the typical sales of a game from 500–3,000 copies to around 10,000, and the winner can usually expect to sell as many as 500,000 copies. Award criteria The award is given by a jury of German-speaking board game critics from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, who review games released in Germany in the preceding twelve months. The games considered for the award are family-style games. War games, role-playing games, collectible card games, and other complicated, highly competitive, or hobbyist games are outside the scope of the award. Since 1989, there h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World In Flames
''World in Flames'' is a grand strategy game on the Second World War which was first released in 1985 by the Australian Design Group, and currently holds the title of the world's largest commercially available board game. It was designed by Harry Rowland and is currently in its eighth edition, ''World in Flames - Collector's Edition''. Each new edition features changes to the rules, maps and counters. The game is a strategic-level recreation of both the European and Pacific theatres of World War II. The grand campaign begins with the German invasion of Poland, although several other scenarios are included. The game contains rules determining when the Soviet Union, United States, and Italy may choose to enter the conflict. Game mechanics ''World in Flames'' game mechanics take into account many aspects of the World War II conflict. There are three main combat types; land combat, air combat and naval combat. The game is designed in such a way that these different combat ty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness
''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness'' (''TMNT'') is a present-day comic-book role-playing game published by Palladium Books in 1985 that is based on the ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' comic book created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird and published by Mirage Comics the previous year. Description ''TMNT'' is a role-playing game in which the players take on the roles of anthropomorphic animals that have mutated and become self-aware, taking on human characteristics and interests. The game uses Palladium's Megaversal system first developed for '' Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game'' and ''Heroes Unlimited'' in 1983. Character generation Character generation is completely random, and uses a long list of animals; some species have different varieties (most notably dog breeds). Other random determinations are * The reason for the animal's mutation (which can be due to a variety of causes both natural and man-made.) * The animal's mutations (intelligence, human ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spacemaster
''Space Master'' is a science fiction role-playing game produced by Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) in 1985. Contents ''Space Master'' is a science-fiction space-adventure system, fairly complex, and compatible with ''Cyberspace'', ''Rolemaster'', and to a lesser extent ''Middle-earth Role Playing''. The first and second editions included the "Future Law" and "Tech Law" book, a booklet of spaceship plans, plus maps and counters for spaceship combat. The third edition (which the publisher calls the second edition) is revised and expanded, with three new booklets. The "Player Book" (128 pages) covers: character creation (a detailed class-and-level system); a complex and comprehensive combat system; skills and activity resolution; and extensive psionic powers rules. The "GM Book" (80 pages) covers: star system and planet creation; 40 pages of background data on the Empire, a far-future interstellar realm; guidelines for alternate milieus; how to run adventures and create encounters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dream Ouroboros
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pictionary
''Pictionary'' (, , ) is a charades-inspired word-guessing game invented by Robert Angel with graphic design by Gary Everson and first published in 1985 by Angel Games Inc. Angel Games licensed Pictionary to Western Publishing. Hasbro purchased the rights in 1994 after acquiring the games business of Western Publishing. Mattel acquired ownership of Pictionary in 2001. The game is played in teams with players trying to identify specific words from their teammates. Its name is a portmanteau of "picture" and "dictionary". History The concept of ''Pictionary'' was first created by Robert Angel and his friends in 1981. Angel and his roommates came up with the concept of the game, which proved to be very popular between them. While originally hesitant to pitch the idea, Angel was inspired by ''Trivial Pursuit'', the gameplay of which was similar to his concept and proved to him that such gameplay could work and be successful. Angel and his business partners Terry Langston and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pendragon (role-playing Game)
''Pendragon'', or ''King Arthur Pendragon'', is a Tabletop role-playing game (RPG) in which players take the role of knights performing chivalric deeds in the tradition of Arthurian legend. It was originally written by Greg Stafford and published by Chaosium, then was acquired by Green Knight Publishing, who in turn passed on the rights to White Wolf Publishing in 2004. White Wolf sold the game to Stewart Wieck in 2009. Wieck formed Nocturnal Media, who updated and reissued the 5th edition originally published by White Wolf. In 2018, it returned to Chaosium. After it was published in 1985, ''Pendragon'' won several industry awards, and reviewers highly recommended it; in following years, it was included in several "Best of" industry lists. Setting Like several other RPGs from Chaosium (most notably '' Call of Cthulhu''), ''Pendragon'' has a literary basis, in this case the fifteenth-century Arthurian romance, ''Le Morte d'Arthur''. It studiously avoids fantasy RPG cliches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
