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A board game is a game in which counters or pieces that are placed on, removed from, or moved across a "board" (a premarked surface usually specific to that game). Like other forms of entertainment, board games can represent nearly any subject.
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Go
Go (碁) is a board game for two players, noted for being rich in strategic complexity despite its simple rules.
The game is played by two players who alternately place black and white stones (playing pieces, which are now usually made of glass or...
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Clue
Clue (known as Cluedo outside of North America) is a computer game based on the board game of the same name. Its formal name is Clue: Murder at Boddy Mansion or Cluedo: Murder at Blackwell Grange. It runs on Microsoft Windows. It was developed in...
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- 1998
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Archon
Archon: The Light and the Dark is a computer game developed by Free Fall Associates and distributed by Electronic Arts. It was originally developed for Atari 8-bit computers in 1983, but was later ported to several other systems of the day,...
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GNU Go
GNU Go is a free software program by the Free Software Foundation that plays Go. Its source code is quite portable, and can be easily compiled for GNU/Linux, as well as other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X; ports exist for other...
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Chessmaster
Chessmaster is a chess playing computer game series which is now owned and developed by Ubisoft. It is the best-selling chess franchise in history, with more than five million units sold as of 2002.
The Chessmaster series started in 1986 with The...
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- Oct 27, 2004
Mario's FUNdamentals
Mario's FUNdamentals (also known as Mario's Game Gallery) is a PC game developed by Brainstorm and published by Mindscape in January of 1997. Its gameplay consists of the player competing against Nintendo's Mario in games of checkers, Go Fish,...
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- Jan 1997
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Archon II: Adept
Archon II: Adept is a 1984 computer game developed by Jon Freeman, Paul Reiche III and Anne Westfall, and distributed by Electronic Arts (and Ariolasoft in Europe) for various platforms.
Adept is a hybrid of a tactical board game and action. It's...
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- 1984
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Fooblitzky
Fooblitzky is a board game-style computer game published by Infocom in 1985 and designed by a team including interactive fiction authors Marc Blank and Michael Berlyn. It is unique among Infocom titles because (among other reasons) it was the first...
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- 1985
ABPA Backgammon
ABPA Backgammon is a backgammon video game for Intellivision (ABPA stands for American Backgammon Players Association). This was one of the original four games introduced with the Intellivision system and is in the Intellivision Lives! game package...
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- 1979
Culdcept
Culdcept (カルドセプト, Karudoseputo) is a turn-based strategy video game. It has drawn comparisons to other modern strategy titles, and also shares features with non-video games Monopoly and Magic: The Gathering. The first installment to reach North...
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- Dec 8, 2003
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Dice de Chocobo
Dice de Chocobo is one of the three titles in the Chocobo Collection of Final Fantasy spin-off video games from Square Co., Ltd. The game was released on the PlayStation in 1999 and was to be re-released on the WonderSwan Color.
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Bing Bing Bingo
Bing Bing! Bingo (ビンビン！ビンゴ, "Sweet! Bingo") is a Japanese Bingo game released on December 22, 1993 for the Super Famicom system. The player can play Bingo through a slot machine, while skydiving, and he or she can even play a game of Bingo with...
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- Dec 22, 1993
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Tower Dream
Tower Dream (タワードリーム, "Tower Dream") is a Super Famicom strategy game where the player rolls the dice (that has 10 sides), places properties in the center of the gaming board, and uses Japanese currency in order to make towers that attract revenue...
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- Oct 25, 1996
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Pictionary
Pictionary, also known as Pictionary: The Game of Video Quick Draw, is a NES puzzle game, written by Software Creations Ltd., and released by LJN Toys Ltd., and Pictionary Incorporated in 1990. Players may play in up to 4 teams of unlimited players....
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Culdcept Saga
Culdcept Saga (カルドセプト サーガ, Karudoseputo Saaga) is a video game developed exclusively for the Xbox 360 video game console. It is the first entry for a Microsoft console in the Magic-meets-Monopoly game franchise that included previous installments on...
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- 2006
Monopoly
There have been more than a dozen video game adaptations of Parker Brothers' highly successful board game Monopoly.
The first of the adaptations were released in 1985 with the release of Monopoly for the BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum. Over...
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- 1985
Eisei Meijin VI
Eisei Meijin VI (永世名人VI, lit. Imortal Master VI) is a traditional video game released in 2002 by Konami. The game was only released in Japan. The game is based on the traditional board game shogi.
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64 de Hakken! Tamagotchi Minna de Tamagotchi World
Tamagotchi 64: Minna de Tamagotchi World is a Nintendo 64 game released only in Japan in 1997. It is a virtual board game based on the tamagotchi toy.
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AI Shogi 3
AI Shogi 3 (AI将棋3) is a Japanese virtual board game for the Nintendo 64, it was released only in Japan in 1998. Versions of the game have recently been released for the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable. The AI standing for Artificial...
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Bakushou Jinsei 64: Mezase! Resort Ou
Bakushō Jinsei 64: Mezase! Resort Ō (爆笑人生64 めざせ!リゾート王 translates to "64 Mezase life burst into laughter! Wang Resorts") is an interactive board game for the Nintendo 64 based on The Game of Life. It was released only in Japan in 1998.
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Monopoly 2
The Monopoly Game 2 (ザ・モノポリーゲーム 2, Za Monopori Gemu 2) is a Super Famicom game that is exclusive to Japan. Artwork for this game is considered to be a bunch of U.S. dollars and a pair of standard six-sided dice (representing the player's movement in...
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- Mar 31, 1995
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Saikyou Haniu Shogi
Saikyō Habu Shōgi (最強羽生将棋, lit. Strongest Habu Chess) is a Japanese virtual board game for the Nintendo 64 developed and published by Seta. It was released exclusively in Japan on June 23, 1996 as one of the Nintendo 64's three Japanese launch games...
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Ganbare Goemon: Mononoke Sugoroku
Goemon: Mononoke Sugoroku (ゴエモンもののけ双六, lit. "Goemon Sugoroku of Mononoke) is a video game for the Nintendo 64, released in 1999. The game is based on the Ganbare Goemon series and despite the series' relative popularity in the west for the system,...
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- Dec 25, 1999
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Jinsei Game 64
Jinsei Game 64 (人生ゲーム64) is a virtual board game for the Nintendo 64 based on the The Game of Life. It was released only in Japan in 1999.
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Morita Shogi 64
Morita Shogi 64 (森田将棋64) is a Japanese virtual board game for the Nintendo 64. It was released only in Japan in 1998.
It has a built-in RJ-42 Modem Connection port with which you were able to connect to (now dead) servers to play against other...
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Hikaru no Go 3
Hikaru no Go 3 is a board-game based video game released in 2003 by Konami. The game is the third game in the Hikaru no Go series.
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Special Life Game
Special Jinsei Game is a board game-based video game released in 2003 by Takara.
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- 2003
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Chibi Maruko-chan - Harikiri 365-Nichi no Maki
The Super Famicom video game Chibi Maruko-chan: Harikiri 365-Nichi no Maki (ちびまる子ちゃん はりきり３６５日の巻, lit. "Little Chibi Maruko's volume of 365 days") is based on the shōjo anime of the same name.
The four players must progress through a calendar, either...
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- 1991
Board Game Top Shop
BOARD GAME Top Shop is a video game for the PlayStation. This title was released in 1999 by A1 Games.
The game play of Top Shop mimics that of Monopoly, but expands on the property management aspect of that game. As in Monopoly, players move across...
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- Jul 21, 1999
Laser Chess
Laser Chess first appeared in Compute!'s Atari ST Disk & Magazine in 1987, written in Modula-2. It won the $5,000 first prize in a programming competition held by the magazine. Ports of the game written in BASIC and machine language were published...
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- 1987
Bible Buffet
Bible Buffet is a video game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993 by Wisdom Tree, a company which specialised in Christian-themed video games. Like many of their games, Bible Buffet was not licensed by Nintendo. Despite being...
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Talisman
Talisman is the name of several video games, all attempts to recreate the the board game of the same name.
The first and probably most successful attempt was the 1985 version for the ZX Spectrum. It was developed by SLUG and produced by the board...
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- 1985
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Spyglass Board Games
Spyglass Board Games is a video game developed by independent software developers Freeverse Software and Strange Flavour for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service. It is a compilation of board games, comprising of Chess, Checkers, Mancala and...
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- Aug 1, 2007
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1999: Hore, Mitakotoka! Seikimatsu
1999: Hore, Mitakotoka! Seikimatsu (1999ほれ、みたことは!世紀末, "1999: Look, Do you see that?! It's the End of the Century") is a Family Computer game that takes place in the year 1999. The player moves around in a board game trying to prevent space aliens...
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- Sep 18, 1992
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Monopoly/Boggle/Yahtzee/Battleship
Monopoly/Boggle/Yahtzee/Battleship is a video game compilation of the 4 popular Hasbro title board games for the Nintendo DS:
Players can play each game solo or link with others and play a multiplayer game. The game received decent reviews and sales...
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- Dec 4, 2005
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RPG Jinsei Game
RPG Jinsei Game (ＲＰＧ人生ゲーム, "RPG Life Game") is a Japan-only role playing game for the Family Computer that is similar to Jinsei Game, which is the Japanese version of The Game of Life. The object is to explore a city full of stores, places of...
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- Nov 26, 1993
Bakushou!! Ai no Gekijou
Bakushou!! Ai no Gekijou (爆笑！！愛の劇場, "A Hearty Laugh!! Theater of Love") is a Nintendo Family Computer board game simulator.
Tests of strength and intellect are offered to the player at certain points in order to develop the player's avatar. These...
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- Dec 29, 1990
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Bakushou! Star Monomane Shitennou
Bakushō! Star Monomane Shitennou (爆笑! スターものまね四天王, "A Hearty Laugh! Imitation of the Four Heavenly Kings Star") is a Nintendo Family Computer life simulation game that portrays the life of either a musician or a famous performer of the monomane ...
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- Sep 14, 1990
Clue
Clue (Cluedo outside the US) is a game released in 1992 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis based on the popular board game of the same name.
Up to six players can play, using any controller. The object of the game, as in...
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- 1992
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Shotest Shogi
Shotest Shogi is a shogi AI engine made by Jeff Rollason made into a video game for the PC and Xbox Live Arcade developed by AI Factory and Rubicon Development. It is based on the Japanese version of chess Shogi, and provides a 3D environment...
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Super Okuman Chouja Game
Super Okuman Chouja Game (スーパー億万長者ゲーム, "Game of Billionaire") is a Super Famicom game about living the life of a billionaire businessperson. The object is to purchase as much real estate as possible and eventually develop a global empire. Anime...
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Yuujin no Furi Furi Girls
Yuujin no Furi Furi Girls (遊人のふりふりガールズ, "Yuujin's Furi Furi Girls") is a game where the player has to hunt monsters and the other players for the key to open the mystical seal at the far side of the maze. Battles in the game are solved using rock...
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Culdcept Second
Culdcept Second (カルドセプト セカンド, Karudoseputo Sekando) is a turn-based strategy video game for the Dreamcast. It is the sequel to the Saturn title Culdcept. An expansion for the game, Culdcept Second Expansion, was released for the PlayStation 2 on...
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- Jul 12, 2001
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Mahjong Taikai IV
Mahjong Taikai IV is a game for the PlayStation 3. It includes some famous Asian figures.
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- Nov 22, 2006
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Puppet Guardian
Puppet Guardian is a Flash-based MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) created by the Japanese game developer, Cold Breath, Co., Ltd.. The game is operated in the United States through a partnership between Policros, LLC and...
Monopoly
The first computer game version of Monopoly, released in 1985 by Leisure Genius for the Amstrad CPC, BBC and ZX Spectrum home computers.
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- 1985
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Tsuushin Taisen Mahjong Touryuumon
Tsuushin Taisen Mahjong Touryuumon is the first Mahjong game designed for the Xbox 360 system, based on Yuki's arcade hit game. The game was released on January 26, 2006 and developed and published by AQ Interactive
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Janline
Janline (ジャンライン) is a Mahjong game developed and published by Recom for the Xbox 360 system. The game was released on September 25, 2008
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PictureBook Games: Pop-Up Pursuit
PictureBook Games: Pop-Up Pursuit (Asoberu Ehon Tobida Sugoroku! in Japan) is a party video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii's WiiWare download service. It was released on March 26, 2009 in Japan for 1000 Nintendo Points, on...
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