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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 11244
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Every once in a while it is interesting to see how things are trending here with the forum population.
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Pandajuice
Title: The Power of Grayskull
Joined: Oct 30 2008
Location: US and UK
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One of the best board games of all time. I still love my uncle for buying me the game for my 12th birthday.
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@om*d
Title: Dorakyura
Joined: Jul 10 2010
Location: Castlevania
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Holy shit, I used to love playing this game with my friends years ago. Ah, memories. Definitely one of my favorite games as a kid.
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Rogue Hippo
Title: Lone Wolf Hippo
Joined: Jun 28 2010
Location: America's Wang
Posts: 245
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Sweet game! My brother and I got it as kids and my mom was the DM (I forget what the wizards name was???). Mom always got pissed that our characters were so much stronger than her monsters. She played to win! We also had 2 or 3 expansions which are pretty rare these days but everything got destroyed because we were stupid kids.
A friend of mine has a working copy and we played through it a few years ago and we had a blast. It's still a great game!
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Methid Man
Title: Spawn of Billy Mays
Joined: Nov 23 2010
Location: Hackensack, NJ
Posts: 540
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I don't think I heard of this game...(either that I don't remember it) How did it play?
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Sehkmaenzo
Joined: Jun 29 2010
Posts: 1818
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I had this as a kid. I still can't believe they made a translated version in Portuguese, our choices for board games haven't been all that great (Hell, still aren't. I make do with imported card games). We didn't get any of the expansions, though 
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
Posts: 7565
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There's a freeware PC version of the game out there. It's kind of cool.
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Fernin
Title: Comic Author
Joined: Dec 12 2008
Posts: 1179
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Loved this game as a kid, still have it (or at least, about 75% of it) in my old games closet. I only just recently found out that there was gonna be a Hero Quest game on the NES, but it was never released. It did get to a completed prototype stage, at least, and it's fully playable, with 1 or 2 player support, even. It's a lot like the PC version the rabbit mentioned, from what I remember of it.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Loved this. Wish I still I had it. A good condition, complete copy of the game is worth a decent amount of money.
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
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My housemate has that as well as Weapons & Warriors and DragonStrike (which came with a VHS; Spoony even did a review of it). Most of their pieces are missing though.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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I also had Battle Matters, which would have been cool if I had had a game room where I could have left it permanently set up. Disassembling everything to fit back in the box after playing (and subsequently reassembling everything) was such a pain in the ass that we probably only played it like five times.
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Pandajuice
Title: The Power of Grayskull
Joined: Oct 30 2008
Location: US and UK
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Battle Masters was awesome too but yeah, you needed a huge room to play it in.
Methid Man : Hero Quest was basically a dumbed down version of AD&D but it used a board and plastic pieces of furniture instead of relying on player's imaginations to provide the setting. There were 4 different heroes for the players to play and the dungeon master controlled all the monster pieces.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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| Pandajuice wrote: |
| Methid Man : Hero Quest was basically a dumbed down version of AD&D but it used a board and plastic pieces of furniture instead of relying on player's imaginations to provide the setting. There were 4 different heroes for the players to play and the dungeon master controlled all the monster pieces. |
You say it like it is a negative. D&D is incredibly complicated and time consuming. This game was a beautiful way to enjoy a shorter campaign and it allowed for a younger crowd to enjoy a fantasy style adventure.
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aeonic
Title: Sporadic Poster
Joined: Nov 19 2009
Location: Kissimmee, FL
Posts: 2747
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I played Hero Quest at a kid's birthday party where I was like the only person to show up. It was the day that Kurt Cobain killed himself. So now the two are sort of indelibly linked in my mind.
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Dr. Jeebus
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Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
Joined: Sep 03 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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I like how the poll doesn't give you the option and having played the game and just not enjoyed it. Granted I love the game and bought some dice for use in MTG games (Dice with 50% of the sides as skulls are very convenient), but still a leading question.
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Pandajuice
Title: The Power of Grayskull
Joined: Oct 30 2008
Location: US and UK
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| GPFontaine wrote: |
| Pandajuice wrote: |
| Methid Man : Hero Quest was basically a dumbed down version of AD&D but it used a board and plastic pieces of furniture instead of relying on player's imaginations to provide the setting. There were 4 different heroes for the players to play and the dungeon master controlled all the monster pieces. |
You say it like it is a negative. D&D is incredibly complicated and time consuming. This game was a beautiful way to enjoy a shorter campaign and it allowed for a younger crowd to enjoy a fantasy style adventure. |
No no, I agree that it is a good thing. That was just the phrase that popped to mind.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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| Dr. Jeebus wrote: |
| I like how the poll doesn't give you the option and having played the game and just not enjoyed it. Granted I love the game and bought some dice for use in MTG games (Dice with 50% of the sides as skulls are very convenient), but still a leading question. |
Please... like anyone could ever play it and dislike it.
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i'll_bite_your_ear
Title: Distillatoria
Joined: Jun 09 2010
Location: van down by the river
Posts: 3707
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Fuck yeah! Thanks for reminding me of this awesome game.
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