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Stephenson's Rocket
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Sat, 15 Apr 2000 00:37:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
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> > Tikal is my current favorite.
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> Have you played Stephenson's Rocket? I can't get enough of it.
What, pray tell, is this? By the title, I'd adjudge it to do with railroads,
but is it a PC game, a board game, or what?
My faves in the RR genre:
PC: Railroad Tycoon (original, strangely enough)
Board: 1830 when serious, Eurorails or Iron Dragon, when just for fun, although
Streetcar is also challenging
++Lar
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| (...) Board. It is of German origin. It's by Reiner Knizia and distributed in English in the US by Rio Grande Games. It's a fairly abstract board game, but is very very challenging. I most highly reccommend it. (...) I've played a few hundred hours (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I got a copy of the original from ebay for $2, on the grounds that I remember spending hours with it years ago. To my great dismay, it seems to _require_ a numeric keypad -- something my Libretto subnotebook lacks. :( (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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