Travel game
As travel games are board games , dice and card games called developed due to their size and amenities for traveling on the train, plane or car. As a rule, these are smaller versions of classic and modern board games; the game material is often additionally protected from falling down by insertable pens, magnets or similar techniques. Games are less often designed directly as travel games, but many smaller games offer themselves as travel games.
Implementations
Travel games are offered by numerous publishers. Classic travel games are known from MB games , for example , which published games such as Fleet Maneuver , Connect Four , Slotter , Alle Neune or Paari as travel games back in the 1980s. There were also classic board games such as Halma , backgammon , mill , checkers and chess . From Parker appeared in the early 1990s travel game conversions of Cluedo and Monopoly on scale game plans and with magnetic plates as pawns. Spear Spiele and later Jumbo Spiele published Scrabble as a travel game, whereby Spear designed the letters from a special adhesive film and Jumbo designed the same as magnetic plates on a magnetic tablet.
The Swiss publisher Peri Spiele also published a series of travel games in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These compact games were packaged in the cover of a CD , and the series also included mainly classics such as mill , backgammon , checkers , solitaire , tangram , ludo and snakes and ladders . In these games, the game board is a magnetic disk and all the game pieces are magnetic. As a result, similar implementations for individual classic games and game collections appeared at numerous publishers, including Schmidt Spiele .
In recent years in particular, successful games from various publishers have been implemented by them as travel games in miniature boxes. This is how mini-game series in particular came into being for larger publishers such as Ravensburger , Kosmos Spiele or Pegasus Spiele , although often only miniaturization is the focus.
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c Uwe Petersen: Travel games under the microscope: Small format for globetrotters. Spielbox issue 3 June / July 1991, pp. 25-26.
literature
- Uwe Petersen: Travel games under the microscope: Small format items for globetrotters. Spielbox issue 3 June / July 1991, pp. 25-26.