 Abalone |
| The hexagonal board game
offers to the players an unusual and strategic war field. To win it’s necessary
to throw six of the twenty-eight opposing marbles out. |
| AD&D
-
Advanced
Dungeons & Dragons RPG |
| Role-play. Dungeons &
Dragons is the first and the most famous role-play. It became a cult because
it gave the players the opportunity to really live their imagination. The
advanced version offers the opportunity to compare with different scenes. |
| Aracnis |
| Miniatures game. In a fantastic
future world, you can live the clashes between the humans and the alien
insects, according to the film “Starship Troopers”. |
| Backgammon |
| Its
origins date back to the 2500 B.C. Travelling all over their world people
exported the original version of this game. Different cultures and peoples
changed it, transforming its rules. Edmond Hoyle fixed its definitive form,
in 1743. These rules are now used in all countries and international championships. |
| Basic
RPG |
| Role-play. It’s a fantasy
game according to which everyone can create and develop his own world.
At the moment, there are also some particular versions, for example dinosaurs’
world, ancient Egypt or Far West. |
| Blood
Bowl |
| Miniatures
game. A football match between the human team and the ogres’ one. Will
the long humans’ experience be victorious on the faith in violence of the
ogres? . |
| Boardgames |
| “Board-games” is a generic
way to define all the simulation games using pieces. They are the ancestors
of the computer strategic games. “Civilisation” was, originally, a board
game. |
| Bridge |
| Its
history goes back to the “Whist”, a very trendy card game in the England
of the 16th century. Later the first important change was made in creating
the “Russian Whist”, providing for a free or absent atout. In earlier years
of 20th the “Auction Bridge”, with its idea to auction the atout, spread
world-wide from India and in 1925 the Bridge’s rules was fixed definitively
by the co-operation among the London Portland Club, the New York Whist
Club and the Commission Française de Bridge. |
| Brain
Games/Cenerentoliadi |
| A charming and funny challenge
to the logic, the words, the numbers and the arts, that follows in Leonard’
s footsteps, through his dreams and his passions. |
| Burraco |
| Burraco is the one of the
best way to spend some hours with your friends playing cards. Its rule
is easy and the only capacity you need is to be in perfect harmony with
your partner. |
| Carrom |
| A
big wooden board-game is the first thing that attract you, but it’s the
players’ ability in holing their pieces using only a small disc, to conquer
you. |
| Cluedo |
| The
death of Mr Black is a mystery that interests deeply many players
since 1949. It’s the most famous detection game in the world and, in Italy,
it numbers four different editions, the last of which published only few
weeks ago |
| Confrontation |
| Miniatures
game. In the Aarklash’s world a lot of different races fight to conquer
the leadership on the other reigns. All the races have a lot of different
capacities to use during the battles that allow them to fight in a different
way. |
| Cyberpunk
2020 RPG |
| Role-play. “Blade Runner”,
Gibson, Sterling and Effinger’ s novels create the atmosphere of this game.
You can live in a future world in which technology generates new dimensions
to live or survive. |
International
Draughts
Italian
Draughts |
| Its
origins are very vexed. Some authors thinks it derives from the Latin “Latrunculorum”,
some other from the ”Alquerque”, a game played in 13th century B.C. . It’s
sure, however, that the modern version goes back to the earlier years of
16th century’s France. It developed differently, according to the local
cultures of playing people, so there isn’t only one rule. The creation
of an International Draughts tries to surmount the difficulty to have international
tournaments. |
DBA
- De Bellum Anticum
DBM
- De Bellum Multitudine |
| Miniatures game. “De Bellum
Anticum” and “De Bellum Multitudine” are two games in which the most important
aspect is the perfect historical reconstruction of some ancient battles. |
| Enigmistics |
| Solving puzzles is the most ancient way to spend your time. The challenge that riddles, rebus, crosswords propose are an interesting and funny training for your mind |
| Fantasy
Warriors |
| Miniatures game. In a very
far future, the destiny of a world is linked to the resolution of the battles
between eleven races that use all their fantastic abilities to be the winner. |
| GiRSA
RPG |
| Role-play. Inspired by J.R.R.Tolkien’
s “Lord of rings”, the leader-book of fantasy literature, it gives the
players the real possibility to interpret all the shades of their characters’
emotions. |
| Go
/ Baduk / Wei Chi |
It’s one of the most ancient
games and it has not yet been possible to produce a satisfactory software.
It was created in China,
4000 years ago. Its board represented something like a moon calendar. In
Japan it’s considered a way to improve one’s interior life, so it’s a real
martial art, with the subdivision in several levels and a handicap system
that permits matches between opponents of different strength. |
| The
call of Cthulhu RPG |
| Role-play. Your mission
is to investigate, but nothing seems to be what you expect. Every fact
drives you into a supernatural world in which you’ll find the real essence
of your research. |
| The
call of Cthulhu 1920 Live |
| This live role-play is inspired
by H.P.Lovecraft’ s literature. If you are looking for a horror atmosphere,
living in the earlier years of this century, this world is your one. |
| Magic:
the Gathering CCG |
| Collectable card game. Its
creation revolutionised the idea of card-game. The best fantasy artists
are called to illustrate the cards used to fight the magic battles. They
are edited in nine languages, even in Japanese, Chinese and Korean |
| Mah
Jong |
| The legend tells a Chinese
fisherman to distract the other members of the crew from all their problems
during an awful storm, created it in the 6th century B.C. It’s composed
by 144 wooden pieces, you have to collect in some different ways to obtain
the best possible score. Eight pieces show the seasons and the flowers
representing them, sixteen the winds, twelve the dragons and thirty-six
the numbers from 1 to 9. |
| Mancala
/ Oware |
| It’s not possible to find
another game having more variants and names all over the world. “Mancala”
or “Awele” indicates the family of all them. It’s the transposition of
the life cycle and, to be played, it needs only some holes, whose number
depends on the game variant, and some little stones or seeds. The version
considered for international competitions is the one having 12 holes, in
which to distribute 48 seeds. |
| Master
Mind |
| It’s an irresistible challenge,
reserved to the pure logic lovers. The coloured pieces show how many parts
of the mysterious combination are right. |
| Monopoly |
| Born in 1930 by Charles
B. Darrow, it plays on players’ greed to involve them into a rush to the
hoarding of everything. Its most interesting aspect is that it joins different
generations apart from age, education or particular capacity. |
| Murder
Party |
| To organize a “Murder Party”
is a nice way to spend your time with your friends. Someone is dead. All
of you have to investigate, but everyone could be the killer. Are you really
sure to be innocent? |
| Othello |
| To play it, you have to
know only this very simple rule: you have to put on the board game your
piece closing at least one opponent’s between two yours. The pieces captured
are temporarly in your hold, try not to loose them. |
| Pokemon
CCG |
| Collectable Card game. |
| Pokemon
Master Trainer |
|
Quarto!
Quarto!
Junior |
| Even though coming from
classic alignment games, it has some characteristics that make it very
strategic and interesting. |
| Quoridor |
| Crossing over the board
couldn’t be easy if you have to face not only the opponent piece but also
the barriers that both the players put on the way to obstruct each other. |
| Renju |
| In English the Japanese
word “Renju” means “to joint round stones ”. It’s also known as “Gomoku-Narabe”
and its aim is to create a five pieces of your own colour in a line |
| Risiko! |
| It’s one of the best known
games. Most of its charm, in Italy, is ascribed to a sort of more realism
created by the use of tanks instead of the anonymous pieces that don't
give you the same impression of conquering. |
| Role
Play (vari) |
| Role-play. The most important
target of a role-play is to communicate through the creation of fantastic
worlds. There’s no competition, only the will to have fun using your fantasy
and ability to transfer your emotions. |
| Chess |
| The first news about Chess
date back to the year 1000 and fix to the 6th century their invention.
The birthplace is unknown but there are many evidences that prove their
presence in many countries. Several scientists tried to reproduce the human
intelligence using it as a yardstick. “Deep Blue”, the computer that was
able to win Mr A. Kasparov, the World Chess Champion, is the first step
in the fulfillment of this dream.. |
| Chess
variants |
|
| Star
Trek Chess |
| Vulcanian Chess are Mr.
Spock most loved game. To play it, you need a particular and tridimensional
chessboard and a logical Vulcanian mind. |
| Scrabble |
| It’s the best-known word
game in the world. Its fame is testified by the 120 countries in which
it’s possible to find it and by the 31 languages, even the Braille, in
which it’s translated. |
| Shogi |
| Shogi represents the Japanese
development of the originary Chess game. Pieces and movement are very similar
but the originality of Shogi is that the captured pieces can be used against
the opponent. |
| Star
Trek CCG |
| Collectable card game. To
explore new worlds it’s necessary to have a crew and equipment that could
solve all your problems. This is your occasion to demonstrate you are a
perfect leader. |
| Subbuteo |
| To realise a perfect table-soccer
team is as difficult as a real one. It’s necessary to pay attention to
a lot of different, little particulars in selecting the pieces, according
to the technical characteristics, but it’s a lot of fun. |
| Star
Wars CCG |
| Collectable card game. The
Emperor’s army fights to control the galaxy. The rebels try to stop them.
The destiny of the universe is in your hands and your strategy will save
or condemn it. |
| Star
Wars RPG |
| Role-play.
This is the only official “Star Wars” role-play. The rebel’s army needs
your help to destroy the “Black Death”. Are you ready to fight for Galaxy’s
safety? |
| Stormbringer
RPG |
| Role-play. Inspired by M.Moorcock’s
dark-fantasy books, lets you live in Elric de Melniboné’s
world. It’s a very hard and wonderful life, because of the inhuman creatures
and the monsters that populate it. |
| Stratego |
| The very interesting aspect
of it is that it depends on the strategy you’re interested in developing
and on the opponent’s psychology. |
| Teenager
Manga Mutants RPG |
| Role-play. If you think
that Japanese comics are your ideal way of life, this role play can help
you to live in a perfect Japanese high school class in which a lot of students
are funny monsters. |
| Trivial
Pursuit Genus |
| When it was born in 1979,
it became immediately the founder of a new question-games category. Actually
you can find also some versions that represent a specialisation in some
specific fields, for example sport or food and drinks. |
| Twixt |
| Alex Randolph’ s best known
strategic game. You will be the winner, if you’ll join two opposite side
of the board using the L movement of chess’ knight. |
