Family Wars
''Family Wars'' is a closed-end, play-by-mail (PBM) game. It was published by Andon Games. Gameplay ''Family Wars'' was a closed-end, computer moderated play-by-mail game. Webber 1988. pp. 14–15. It was an organized crime game with players acting as the family leader. Wieck 1988. p. 54. 18 players led crime families in a 14 × 20-block city comprising multiple precincts. The setting was the 1930s. Webber 1988. p. 14. Players used "effort points" to conduct various actions. Wieck 1988. p. 55. Diplomacy was also a key part of gameplay. According to reviewer David Webber, "winning the game depend dupon your skill at recruiting family members, influencing public officials, increasing your income, and eliminating your enemy facilities". According to reviewer Patrick O. Dick, the three most important elements of gameplay were diplomacy, political influence, and warfare. Reception In a 1988 issue of ''White Wolf'', reviewer Stewart Wieck said that ''Family War''s was a "very enjoy ...
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Play-by-mail
A play-by-mail game (also known as a PBM game, PBEM game, or a turn-based game) is a game played through postal mail, email or other digital media. Correspondence chess and Go were among the first PBM games. ''Diplomacy'' has been played by mail since 1963, introducing a multi-player aspect to PBM games. Flying Buffalo Inc. pioneered the first commercially available PBM game in 1970. A small number of PBM companies followed in the 1970s, with an explosion of hundreds of startup PBM companies in the 1980s at the peak of PBM gaming popularity, many of them small hobby companies—more than 90 percent of which eventually folded. A number of independent PBM magazines also started in the 1980s, including '' The Nuts & Bolts of PBM'', '' Gaming Universal'', ''Paper Mayhem'' and '' Flagship''. These magazines eventually went out of print, replaced in the 21st century by the online PBM journal '' Suspense and Decision''. Play-by-mail games—becoming known as "turn-based games" in t ...
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