Wanna play a (1500 hour) game?
6I just came across a game from 1979 entitled The Campaign for North Africa.
According to Kotaku, the game can take 1500 hours.
https://kotaku.com/the-notorious-board-game-that-takes-1500-hours-to-compl-1818510912
The game sounds interesting, but with a 1500 hour game which needs 10 people to play, I’d need to find 9 other people interested before I consider looking online at the prices.
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FROM 1797!?
edit… Oh ok that makes way more sense. I was kind of interested in how intense the nerds from the 18th century were…
@raynich
Fixed.
It was considered futuristic at the time.
I saw the article earlier today, and immediately tried to think of who I could trick into it. Family members, mostly. We had a month long game of Monopoly with my uncle once. And a homebrew Risk Legacy back before it was an official game that technically is still running. I bet I could rope him in. But with my sisters and his kids, we’d be stuck at 6. I can’t think of 4 more we could get and trust to play to the end.
Sounds tempting.
I’m in. How would we play?
So it’d be as long as this?
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/i-did-have-other-plans-this-decade?ref=meh_com
I couldn’t even finish the write up about it.
I mean, I have around 270 hours invested in Skyrim and that has moving pictures.
I live in a world where it is impossible to coordinate the free time of even three people. And that’s talking about a single evening.
yes, as long as we get to change the rules as we go
@Yoda_Daenerys
But the included rules are fun, especially the one demanding that the Italians are given water so as to cook their pasta, otherwise the player is penalized.
Step 1: Get yourself and 9 friends incarcerated for 4-5 years minimum security. Perhaps some sort of embezzlement or investment scheme?
Step 2: Play for an hour or two a day until one of your friends makes parole then recruit a replacement from the prison populace.
Step 3: Continue replacing your friends as they leave while committing small, sentence-lengthening offences yourself. Repeat this step as necessary.
Step 4: Die in prison having still not finished a single game, despite the captive populace.
@sammydog @djslack
Now to locate a truck carrying those specially marked boxes of General Mills cereal.
Again, not that I’m encouraging the plan.
@Thumperchick
Any chance you and @ThomasF could take turns covering for each other so that at any given time, one of you would be playing this game?
@gumtreertmug
My sources say no
/8ball Any chance @ThomasF and I could take turns covering for each other so that at any given time, one of us would be playing this game?
/8ball Did @Thumperchick manipulate your answer for her question?
Better not tell you now
@gumtreertmug I would never admit to doing that.
psshhh… i’ve been playing this damn swarm simulator for 2 years.
@carl669
Does that simulation require you give the Italians water so that they could cook their pasta, and if you don’t, you get penalized?
@gumtreertmug i don’t really like pasta, so no water for the italians!
@carl669
You probably shouldn’t command the Italians then.
@carl669 Me too, I have been playing since it was mentioned here.
I thought they cooked their pasta in the sauce.
@Pavlov
I have no interest in playing a war game, but I would do so happily, and with vigor, if it avoided the real thing.
Rules of engagement that require the parties to a dispute be engrossed in a board game with each other for three hours a day over the course of twenty years sounds like an appropriate solution to the problem of finding patience, respect and love for yourself and others.
Avoiding the deliberate destruction of another’s consciousness within the cosmos? I’m good with that.
A 1500 hour game? Sounds like coaching FIRST Robotics for a year. Except a FIRST Robotics team involves more than 10 people. If you do it well, some of the kids will win tens of thousands dollars in scholarships.
It sucks you in and eats all available time. You spend summers fund raising and doing demos. Preseason is spent teaching the kids how use the tools. Build season runs from the time school lets out until 10 or 11pm, plus all day Saturday and Sunday. It calms down to only a few hours a day after the last competition.