Friday, October 23, 2009

Tom Wham

Tom Wham's games were entertaining. They injected whimsy into Dragon Magazine. I owned Snit's Revenge and played several other games, but my favorite was Elefant Hunt, in which you tried to obtain animals for a zoo. I have the game pieces but lost the board.

Also excellent was King of the Tabletop -- but it requires at least three serious players.

Snit's revenge, in which one player is the invading snits and the other is the creature's defence system, was finely balanced.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Gothic II

Gothic II was a very good game. Unlike many US games, this German-designed world allows you to play a key role, but only to save your village, not the whole world. The scale of the environment is believable, and you walk it back and forth several times in a way that does not feel forced.

However my internal CD failed recently and I'm using an external drive. All of my other games work but this one no longer does.

Anyone know how to make Gothic II recognize a legit CD in drive G?