Saturday, October 09, 2010
Pop Art: Board Game Edition
award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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50 Years Ago: The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
Fifty years ago, I was five years old, and at that tender young age I dreamed of "lost worlds of fantasy," as I call them as a cri...
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Last year at around this time (or a month earlier, perhaps), I posted galleries of cinematic and TV spaceships from the 1970s, 1980s, 1... -
The robots of the 1950s cinema were generally imposing, huge, terrifying, and of humanoid build. If you encountered these metal men,...
Your lovely little post takes me back in time and makes me want to go back there. Save for maybe the Jar Jar Binks game. : )
ReplyDeleteGosh love that Six Million Dollar Man and Space:1999 Game. Very cool.
I bet that Jar Jar Bibks game was a big seller !!!
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ReplyDeleteSci-Fi Fanatic: My parents are yard-sale regulars and found that Six Million Dollar Man game in mint condition. For five dollars! This is, I'm sure, fate's way of telling me to spend 250.00 for the DVD set. Right?!
Andrew: I got that Jar Jar game for a dollar about ten years ago, and it's actually kind of cool, believe it or not The game board is a diorama of Naboo, with imagery from the Phantom Menace!
Thanks for commenting, my friends,
best,
JKM
Oh man, that RAIDERS board game looks pretty sweet! I still treasure my NIGHTMARE BEFORE XMAS board game!
ReplyDeleteTo really wax nostalgic, you should've opted for the Star Wars: Escape From the Death Star game!
ReplyDeleteThe Kojak game was fun, too, especially when one put up the cardboard buildings on the gameboard that approximated the city, with police headquarters in the center (no building for that, however)!
Fang,
ReplyDeleteI wish I still had my Escape from the Death Star Game. I played that thing out. It's long gone, alas (and surely, my son would enjoy it these days).
Never saw the Kojak game, but it sounds very, very cool...
thanks for the comment,
John
J.D. I am still jonesing over that Escape from New York board game you posted during John Carpenter week. I think that's what got me thinking about board games in the first place, my friend!
ReplyDeleteAll my best,
John
Where the hell do I get that Alien game. Give to me! NOW!
ReplyDeleteWill:
ReplyDeleteThe Alien game is awesome. You not only control four astronauts of a given color (red, yellow, blue, green), you control an Alien that you send out to kill the astronauts of the other players.
My son Joel and I play this all the time...
best,
JKM
The only 'Alien' game wirth playing is 'Awful Green Things From Outer Space'.
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