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I Minneapolis Tribune Dec. 11, 1977 5F ALL INCLUSIVE TOURS GAMES: Some gamesters play out their fantasies have suffered. "I was married in January and divorced in March," said one player. On the other hand, it seems possible that the new-game level of experience might evolve into a psychiatric tool akin to group games and background literature, including history books. On the staff are manager Bruce Hanesalo and Tom Zwirn, president of the Old Guards club, which meets at the 2639 Nicollet community room.

Hanesalo thinks that the fantasy games currently lead new-games sales. "The biggest crowds come on urdays," he said, "when we sponsor a major game on the table in back. It looks like a train station. We start the setup about 10:30 a.m. and then the game is usually under way by 11." O'Leary said, "The big department stores don't even know what the new games are." For going marketplaces he cited Gager's, Jolly's, Kids, Toy City, Shinders and St.

Paul Book and Stationery. A Dayton's spokesman said they are watching the market. tion he has such as After the Holocaust (economics), Chitin I (alien creatures), Atlantis, Dixie (Second American Civil War), Invasion America (U.S. vs. everyone), Min-uteman (urban riots), Ogre (super-tanks) and more.

At a meeting of the'oid Guard in the Model City community room four participants were playing army miniatures at the front end of the room and at a big table in the rear 14 were warming up for the current session in a long-continuing game of Traveller. Four of the game's five referees were present: Jeff Knudsen, trumpet, keyboard and recorder player and student of musical composition; club president Tom Zwirn, who is also an artist; Rick Bjugan, chemical technician, and John Finsrud, West High School student. As some new game-joiners "roled up," Zwirn said, "Each player goes through the 'roling' process (which is done by rolling the dice, so it's a little confusing; it gives him his role identity). It gives him his I.Q., his various abilities, his branch of the service or nonservice. He may get ships, in which case he hires crews sometimes nonplayer and sometimes player characters are Continued from page IF very Close, comes fantasy gaming (some of it based on such things as J.

Tolkien's 'Lord of the some, like Chivalry and Sorcery, on medieval fantasy, and so on). Third, the science-fiction games, usually involving space I ship, and, finally, strategy games such as Diplomacy." The games have attracted cooks, cab drivers, doctors, lawyers, musiciansa full spectrum but they seem to appeal especially to the college crowd and to artists, perhaps because of the imaginative i imagery conjured up by the action. There are in-group communications media such as "Opponents Wanted" bulletin boards in game shops and clubrooms. Game clubs have popped up at the University of Minnesota, the College of St. Thomas and in some of the college towns such as St.

Cloud. In Minneapolis the two best known centers of play are The Little Tin Soldiers game shop at 818 Lake St. and a community room in the same building with the Model City Police Precinct Station, 2639 Nicollet Av." The Little Tin Soldiers, owned by T. F. Miller, an insurance broker, began as a center for war games involving "miniatures," that is, tiny ordnance and soldiers of various periods.

Today the store is profusely stocked with the new DflYTOn Game collecting is a secondary hobby among the gamesters. Michael Gray has a very big collection. Among those he classes "tactical" are Battlefleet Mars (Free Traders vs. Aries Outreach (colonization and expansion), Star-force (ship vs. ship), Triplanetary (humans, aliens, pirates, mer- 1 llf.

"The referee, having generated a scenario, states a purpose, and you take it from there. My purpose is based on H. G. Piper's 'Space Viking' and I start people out in four different areas of my galaxy. They go through what a space flight would be like colonizing, organizing a planet, creating trade and so on.

"In general they are defending their borders and increasing the boundaries of their empire. So you keep on until you die or get killed. Usually, the guy who died will role-in a new character while the game goes on and then join the situation at that time. "It's not really a win-lose type game. The whole game to simplifyboils down to how well you handle a given situation at a given time.

Satisfaction comes from the job well done. There are no verdicts from the refs. If the player is fairly well versed, he'll know whether he's done a good job, and so will nearly everyone else. "How long will it continue? As long as there's interest." "The referee," said another informant, 4'is a combination of god-small 'g' story teller and historian." So during the weeks or months that the game may last, the player may not only experience interstellar life but reincarnation. Meanwhile, in a few cases marriages All of the above games can be purchased at or through the Little Tin Soldier Shoppe, 818 W.

Lake Minneapolis. Several of these games can also be purchased from the large year-round selection of games at Kids at Ridgedale and Maplewood. Starship Troopers can be found at several small toy and hobby stores around the Twin Cities. Michael Gray is an electronic-data-processing analyst and games buff employed by the Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company. COME SOUTH WITH US GUATEMALA Feb.

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There are 19 different scenarios included. Game length varies from one hour to an entire evening. Starship Troopers ($10, Avalon Hill) This bookshelf game pits individual human star-soldiers against two types of aliens on their home planets. Giant intelligent spiders live in tunnels underground, only to pop out onto the crews. are 14 scenarios in the 24-page rtilebook.

Game length varies from several hours to several days depending on scenario. Traveller ($12, Game Designers Workshops) Here's a totally new kind of science-fiction game. It comes in the form of three 44-page rules booklets, which set a framework for an infinite number of adventures. One player, the referee, creates his own universe and controls the game for any number of other players. "Traveller" is a role-playing game.

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