''Wabbit Wampage'' is a 1985

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published by

Pacesetter Ltd Pacesetter Ltd was a game company based in Delavan, Wisconsin, founded in 1984. Company founders included CEO John Rickets, and Mark Acres, Andria Hayday, Gaye Goldsberry O'Keefe, Gali Sanchez, Garry Spiegle, Carl Smith, Stephen D. Sullivan ...

Gameplay

''Wabbit Wampage'' is a game in which the players are titular Wabbits who war against both a farmer and each other to control the carrot crop and farm buildings, and the chance to cause mayhem.

Reception

Craig Sheeley reviewed ''Wabbit Wampage'' in ''

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'' No. 76. Sheeley commented that "''Wabbit Wampage'' is not worth he price It's a cute idea, and the mail-order shtick is worthy of ''TOON'', but that's all. Furthermore, ''Wabbit Wampage'' isn't in the same class as ''Star Ace'' or ''Chill'', and doesn't belong on the same shelves. It belongs in the same category as ''Monopoly'', ''Risk'', and ''Candyland''." Charles Vasey reviewed ''Wabbit Wampage'' for ''

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'' #72, giving it an overall rating of 6 out of 10, and stated that "I may even say it is better researched and more redolent of its subject than are most wargames or RPGs. This is the ''Bushido'' of wampaging wabbitdom. It's also rather tedious in play with lots of inconclusive dice-rolling." ''Wabbit Wampage'' won the

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for ''Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Game of 1985''.

Reviews

*1985 Games 100

In other media

In 1987,

Stephen D. Sullivan Stephen D. Sullivan is an American author and artist. He is a prolific author, having written more than twenty-five books. Career Sullivan worked for TSR as a writer and artist, where among other things he worked on the adventure modules ''Sc ...

of Pacesetter Ltd. wrote and drew a ''Wabbit Wampage'' humor comic for the publisher Amazing.

References

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