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1995 In Games
This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1995. For video games, see 1995 in video gaming. Games released or invented in 1995 Game awards given in 1995 * Spiel des Jahres: ''The Settlers of Catan'' * Games: ''Sharp Shooters'' Deaths See also * 1995 in video gaming {{DEFAULTSORT:1995 In Games Games A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool. Many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or games) or art (such ... Games by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Board Game
Board games are tabletop games that typically use . These pieces are moved or placed on a pre-marked board (playing surface) and often include elements of table, card, role-playing, and miniatures games as well. Many board games feature a competition between two or more players. To show a few examples: in checkers (British English name 'draughts'), a player wins by capturing all opposing pieces, while Eurogames often end with a calculation of final scores. '' Pandemic'' is a cooperative game where players all win or lose as a team, and peg solitaire is a puzzle for one person. There are many varieties of board games. Their representation of real-life situations can range from having no inherent theme, such as checkers, to having a specific theme and narrative, such as ''Cluedo''. Rules can range from the very simple, such as in snakes and ladders; to deeply complex, as in ''Advanced Squad Leader''. Play components now often include custom figures or shaped counters, and distin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everway
''Everway'' is a fantasy role-playing game first published by Wizards of the Coast under their Alter Ego brand in 1995. Its lead designer was Jonathan Tweet. Marketed as a "Visionary Roleplaying Game", it has often been characterized as an innovative piece with a limited commercial success. Wizards later abandoned the line, and Rubicon Games purchased it, and published several supplements. The line was sold again to Gaslight Press in February 2001. The line is currently with The Everway Company, which is working on both a Silver Anniversary Edition and 2nd Edition. The game has a fantasy setting of the multiverse type, with many different worlds, some of which differed from generic fantasy. It appears to have been heavily influenced by divinatory tarot, the four classical elements of ancient Greece, and mythologies from around the world. Everway was first with implementing, in a commercial game, several new concepts including much more picture-based/visual source materia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quest For The Grail
Quest for the Grail is an out-of-print collectible card game (CCG) by Horizon Games and Stone Ring in 1995. Publication history The game was released in with two editions: * the ''Preview Edition'', which consisted of 126 cards; * and the ''Limited Edition'' that was released in December 1995 and consisted of 280 cards. An expansion set named ''Knights of the Isle'', based on Scottish and Irish elements, was scheduled for release in April 1996. Delayed, the 135-card set was then planned for release in October 1996 in 14-card booster packs each containing 2 rare cards. Gameplay This CCG is based on Arthurian legend, with elements of Monty Python (although it preceded the '' Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' CCG released in June 1996.) Each player divides their cards into two decks: * The Court deck contains Kings, Knights, Rewards, Events, Domains, and Companions. * The Quest Deck has missions and encounters To complete a quest, each player deploys Knights and Kings to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OverPower Card Game
OverPower is an out-of-print collectible card game produced by Fleer Corporation originally featuring characters from Marvel Comics and later from DC Comics and Image Comics. The game was initially launched in August 1995. In the game, two players went head-to-head with teams of four heroes and villains. Unlike most other collectible card games of the mid-1990s, OverPower was very distinct strategically and structurally different from Magic: The Gathering. History Overpower was produced by Fleer from the game's beginnings in the middle of 1995 until October 1997, when Fleer decided to end production in favor of its other products. In early 1998, Marvel Interactive became the sole producer and distributor of Overpower, taking it over from Fleer. Marvel Interactive only produced two sets, Image and X-Men, both of which were fraught with delays and printing difficulties. After X-Men was released in 1999, Overpower enjoyed no more official support. Eventually, Marvel decided t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightbane
''Nightbane'' is a dark fantasy role-playing game and setting created by C. J. Carella and published by Palladium Books. Description The game was originally published as a 240-page softcover book in 1995, designed by Carlos J. Martijena-Carella with Kevin Siembieda. Interior art was by Vince Martin, Randy Post, Scott Johnson, and Roger Peterson, with cover art by Gerald Brom. Originally published under the title ''Nightspawn'', the game's name was changed to ''Nightbane'' after legal threats from the lawyers of Todd McFarlane, creator of the ''Spawn'' comic book. The world of ''Nightbane'' is a modern dark urban fantasy in which a secret cabal of supernatural beings from another dimension called the Nightlords and their shapeshifting minions have quietly seized control of the world's governments and corporate powers. The only beings standing in their way are the beings known as Nightbanes created by the players. The game uses Palladium's Megaversal system, which is also used b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Necromunda
''Necromunda'' is a skirmish tabletop war game produced by Games Workshop since 1995. It has been relaunched as ''Necromunda: Underhive'' in 2017. In ''Necromunda'', players control rival gangs battling each other in the Underhive, a place of anarchy and violence in the depths below the Hive City. As in its parent game ''Warhammer 40,000'', ''Necromunda'' uses 28 mm miniatures (approximately 1:56) and terrain (in this case, the Underhive – a heavily polluted, underground industrial environment). Necromunda allows players to develop their gangs between battles, gaining experience, gaining and losing new members or equipment, according to a set of rules. Gangs that frequently win games acquire more credits (money) and fewer injuries and so are able to grow throughout a campaign. ''Necromunda'' also stands out by having a more three-dimensional table layout, with buildings generally having multiple floors, interconnecting walkways, and bridges. The terrain is constructed to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murphy's World
Murphy's World is a humorous techno-fantasy role playing game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal a ... set in a world where ' Murphy's Law's rule: if something can go wrong, it will. Setting Murphy's World is actually the ''Realm of Faerie'', the ''Land of Myths and Legends'', the place of popular folklore and dreams (with a dash of pop culture) — comically twisted, yet maintaining an internal sense of 'logic'. It operates according to Murphy's Laws, which means that belief creates reality, and as a result reality is utterly fragmented. The real culprit is the planet's sun, Ludo. The strange distorting energies with which this amber orb assaults the little planet effectively toss any sense of predictability of natural laws or supernatural forces right out the metaphysi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mortal Kombat Kard Game
''Mortal Kombat Kard Game'' is an out-of-print collectible card game released in January 1996 by BradyGames in cooperation with Midway Games. It is based on the ''Mortal Kombat'' video game series but without excessive violence like its video game counterparts. Game The game featured all of the playable characters from the first two Mortal Kombat games (''Mortal Kombat'' and ''Mortal Kombat II''), as well as the hidden and boss characters. The game consisted of a set of 300 unique cards each with a rarity level of either bronze (common), silver (uncommon), or gold (rare). The cards were available in 60-card starter packs and 15-card booster packs. Rules Similar to the ''MK'' video games, the objective of the card game is to win the Mortal Kombat fighting tournament. Players must determine how many matches will make up a tournament, and the player who wins a majority of these matches wins the game. A player wins a match by defeating other Kombatants (players) two out of three rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle-earth Collectible Card Game
Middle-earth Collectible Card Game (MECCG) is an out-of-print collectible card game released by Iron Crown Enterprises in late 1995. It is the first CCG based on J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, with added content from ICE's Middle-earth Role Playing Game. The cards used in the game feature original artwork by a multitude of artists, many of them longtime Tolkien illustrators such as John Howe, Ted Nasmith, and Angus McBride. Overview In its basic form, it is a game for one to five players, each choosing one of the five wizards to represent themselves. A ''turn'' in the game consists of one player's wandering around Middle-earth with the help of famous characters of Middle-earth, trying to gather influence and power to aid in the battle against The Dark Lord, while another player tries to harass, and ultimately kill his ''characters'' with specific ''hazard'' cards. Then, for each player's turn, the roles change clockwise around the table (the player who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medici (board Game)
''Medici'' is a German-style board game by Reiner Knizia. Players buy cards in an auction and match in series and in sets to end up with most points from those formations. Before he was a game designer, Reiner Knizia was a quantitative analyst, a profession that manages and attempts to price risk for banks. This is fitting as the Medicis were bankers and traders who improved accounting standards and as such would have built their financial empire on judging risks. In this tradition, Medici the board game is based on the pricing of risk: each lot of commodities has an uncertain future value based on how cards are drawn from the deck, what other players buy, and other factors. In order to play the game well, players must judge and price the risk attached to each lot of cards, buying them for a price appropriate to their expected value and the riskiness of the investment. ''Medici'' placed 5th in the 1995 Deutscher Spiele Preis __NOTOC__ The Deutscher Spielepreis (, ''German Gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legend Of The Five Rings (collectible Card Game)
''Legend of the Five Rings'' (''L5R'') is an out-of-print collectible card game created by a joint venture featuring Alderac Entertainment Group and ISOMEDIA in 1995 and published until 2015, when it was announced that the game would be discontinued for a rules-incompatible successor that will be part of Fantasy Flight Games' Living Card Game line. ''L5R'' takes place in the fictional empire of Rokugan from the ''Legend of the Five Rings'' setting, where several clans and factions vie for domination over the empire. The card game shares some similarities with ''Magic: The Gathering'' but has its own game mechanics and flavor, providing "passive" win conditions like the Enlightenment Victory, as well as a version of ''Magics goal of destroying the opponent. Games can be very long, with some matches lasting hours. A major distinctive feature of the game is the importance of the storyline: new fiction pieces advancing the story of Rokugan are published on a weekly basis, in additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenga
Jenga is a game of physical skill created by British board game designer and author Leslie Scott and marketed by Hasbro. Players take turns removing one block at a time from a tower constructed of 54 blocks. Each block removed is then placed on top of the tower, creating a progressively more unstable structure. Rules Jenga is played with 54 wooden blocks. Each block is three times as long as it is wide, and one fifth as thick as its length – . Blocks have small, random variations from these dimensions so as to create imperfections in the stacking process and make the game more challenging. To begin the game, the blocks are stacked into a solid rectangular tower of 18 layers, with three blocks per layer. The blocks within each layer are oriented in the same direction, with their long sides touching, and are perpendicular to the ones in the layer immediately below. A plastic tray provided with the game can be used to assist in setup. Starting with the one who built the tower, pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
