Posted on 01/11/2022 10:02:14 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Matrix Games makes a game called “Tigers on the Hunt” which is basically Squad Leader.
As a teenager, I learned manual on a '65 VW Beetle. But I also had an after-school job driving delivery for an outfit that had a beat-up, poorly maintained Renault 8, with not only a shaky-loose, barely-functional automatic tranny, but pushbutton shift mounted on the dash. It was a horror to drive:
That d@mn car put me off automatic trannies for three decades after that.
Obviously, that picture is of a nice red one made a few years after the one I drove, which was patchy gray and falling apart. The photo is only for illustrative purposes.
They make great stuff (along with their sister corp Slitherine).
I prefer pushing cardboard on paper maps. It’s tricky on a sailboat, but, I can do it with smaller map games.
“I prefer pushing cardboard on paper maps.”
So do my cats
When we owned a house, I had a 4x8 sheet of plywood for a gaming table (and of course the cats loved it).
I happened to have a large sheet of foam board that I started putting over games with several blocks strategically placed so as to not move the counters when the cats decided to sit on it. Worked like a charm.
Don’t have the house, plywood, nor cats now. :( Miss the cats.
I work for 3 cats, which is nice.
IOW, HE'S a male lesbian...No chopitoffame (chop-it-off-a-me) mentioned.
When I was a kid I remember seeing a Renault 8 with the “high performance” Gordini package at the 1971 NY Auto Show at the old Coliseum. The European ones actually ran good, but the few sold in the US were sh*t boxes.
Roger that. And even worse if you didn't do any maintenance, which my bosses did not. Aside from the lame pushbutton shift, it also had extremely weak brakes, and one time I exited from the NJ Turnpike (yes, I had to take this junkheap on the NJ-TP, going 45mph in the slow lane with flashers on), and as I approached the toolbooths, the brake pedal went to the floor, and I breezed through a tollbooth lane at about 20mph, set off the alarms and everything. Thank god nobody was in my way. I stopped, turned around, and squared up with the tollbooth guy. He thought it was funny; I was terrified.
But as with all such experiences, as long as you survive it, it makes a great story.
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