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From: rlw@philabs.UUCP (Richard Wexelblat)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: Dr. Who board game
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Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 10:03:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 28 10:03:30 1986
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> Attention game lovers, I purchased the DR. WHO board game (c) 1980 BBC TV.
> I have found it to be a very good game.  It is a medium complexity, medium
> luck game which non DR. WHO fans can enjoy.  In fact my friends I play with
> In PA. do not watch DR. WHO, but they bitch and moan if I don't bring the
> game with me when I visit.
> 
> The game doesn't get into trivia or the sort, if that is !WHAT! you like, but 
> it does utilize a lot of The Doctors powers (with jelly babies and all !NEAT!
> kinds > of things  to use).  There are from two to six incarnations of the 
> doctor (hence two to six players) who move around a board trying to build a
> Key of Chronos to get into the Domain of the Time Lords.  Key parts are 
> protected !BY! various "aliens" such as Daleks, Androids, Cybermen, etc.  
> Those aliens
> also protect items which are used for strength, mobility, etc.  When attacking
> aliens one rolls a !DIE! (but don't worry, it isn't all chance) and, using
> various weapons, strengths, and tricks one has up one's !SLEEVES! one attempts
> to defeat the alien(s) and snatch his belongings.
> 
> On a scale of one to ten for board games, I give DR WHO a NINE (though I must
> admit, the only other board game that comes close to matching DR WHO's rating
> is Cosmic Encounters, which I would give an eight.)  I have nothing bad to
> say about the game, and the game is flexible in that one can create new aliens
> new rules, new powers, etc with some blank game pieces that come with the set
> (although the instructions don't suggest keeping these pieces or using them
> for such purposes).  Hope I don't mislead anyone.  Enjoy.
>        /_______/|
>        |[] | []||     Glenn H Robitaille
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I was in London several Christmases ago and happened to see the Dr. Who game
in Hambley's, a large toy store.  The salesman said it really wasn't selling
as it was neither fish nor fowl:  too complex for children, too repetitive for
adults.  Later, at the Games Centre, a major UK games chain, the salesman said
that they dropped it because it wasn't considered challenging.  I'm glad to
hear from Glenn that it is playable after all.

PS. Glenn: don't you have a spelling checker?

--Dick Wexelblat (philabs!rlw)