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Asterix ''Asterix'' or ''The Adventures of Asterix'' (french: Astérix or , "Asterix the Gaul") is a ''bande dessinée'' comic book series about a village of indomitable Gaulish warriors who adventure around the world and fight the Roman Republic, wi ...
'' games of all varieties (book, board and video). The series sold more than 5 million units by 2003.


Gamebooks

*''Asterix Adventure Games'' — a series of game books in the style of the ''
Choose Your Own Adventure ''Choose Your Own Adventure'' is a series of children's gamebooks where each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's acti ...
'' books but with some randomization by way of dice and included props. Written by Stephen Thraves. *# ''Asterix to the Rescue'' (1986) — rescue the captured druid from Rome. *# ''Operation Britain'' (1987) — get mistletoe from Britain for the potion. *# ''Asterix Against All'' Odds (1992) — circumnavigate occupied Gaul (based on '' Asterix and the Banquet''). *''Alea jacta est!'' — a roleplaying system including attributes and combat. The reader plays the part of Justforkix from ''
Asterix and the Normans ''Asterix and the Normans'' is the ninth book in the Asterix comic book series, written by René Goscinny and drawn by Albert Uderzo. It was first published in serial form in ''Pilote'' magazine, issues 340–361, in 1966. It depicts a meeting be ...
'' in a series of scenarios moderated by the game books. Translated by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge. *# ''Le rendez-vous du chef'' (1988) — English: ''The Meeting of the Chieftains'' (1989) *# ''La vedette armoricaine'' (1988) — English: ''The Idol of the Gauls'' (1990) *# ''L'affaire des faux menhirs'' (1988) — English: ''The Roman Conspiracy'' (1991) *# ''Le grand jeu'' (1988) — English: ''The Great Game'' (not translated) *''Find Asterix'' (1998) — a ''
Where's Wally? ''Where's Wally?'' (called ''Where's Waldo?'' in North America) is a British series of children's puzzle books created by English illustrator Martin Handford. The books consist of a series of detailed double-page spread illustrations depicti ...
'' clone with Asterix as the object of the search in crowded scenes from the world of 50 BC.


Board games

In 2006, licensed versions of numerous board games were produced, including
Monopoly A monopoly (from Greek language, Greek el, μόνος, mónos, single, alone, label=none and el, πωλεῖν, pōleîn, to sell, label=none), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situati ...
,
Cluedo ''Cluedo'' (), known as ''Clue'' in North America, is a murder mystery game for three to six players (depending on editions) that was devised in 1943 by British board game designer Anthony E. Pratt. The game was first manufactured by Waddin ...
,
Draughts Checkers (American English), also known as draughts (; British English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Checker ...
, Ludo, Game of the Goose,
Trivial Pursuit ''Trivial Pursuit'' is a board game in which winning is determined by a player's ability to answer trivia and popular culture questions. Players move their pieces around a board, the squares they land on determining the subject of a question ...
,
Backgammon Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables games, whose ancestors date back nearly 5,000 years to the regions of Mesopotamia and Pe ...
, Pay Day, Snakes and ladders,
Quarto Quarto (abbreviated Qto, 4to or 4º) is the format of a book or pamphlet produced from full sheets printed with eight pages of text, four to a side, then folded twice to produce four leaves. The leaves are then trimmed along the folds to produc ...
, and others.


Video games


Europe and Australia PAL

There were releases made as European or Australian
PAL Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a colour encoding system for analogue television. It was one of three major analogue colour television standards, the others being NTSC and SECAM. In most countries it was broadcast at 625 lines, 50 fields (25 ...
. Most of the games were only released in
PAL Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a colour encoding system for analogue television. It was one of three major analogue colour television standards, the others being NTSC and SECAM. In most countries it was broadcast at 625 lines, 50 fields (25 ...
format for Europe and also Australia, because of the comic's acceptance in that region, opposed to the lower popularity in other regions.


Other regions


References


External links

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(Demian's Gamebook Web Page)
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(Demian's Gamebook Web Page)
Board Game GeekAsterix and Obelix games
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Asterix ''Asterix'' or ''The Adventures of Asterix'' (french: Astérix or , "Asterix the Gaul") is a ''bande dessinée'' comic book series about a village of indomitable Gaulish warriors who adventure around the world and fight the Roman Republic, wi ...