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Tower of game by Phil Gyford.
The pile of games I brought back from my parents' on the last visit. So far, the WFRP rulebook has been sold and Blood Bowl, Car Wars and Battlecars are on eBay as I type.

I'm undecided about all the Judge Dredd stuff, although it'll probably end up on eBay as I was never wild about the game itself -- the scenarios were too linear and when players are being judges who must obey the letter of the law there's not much scope for fun role playing. Players should have been perps really...

Paranoia may get eBayed as the (good) joke soon wears off after playing it if I recall correctly.

The D&D scenarios will probably be sold as I can't see me ever using them again. Not sure about the Warhammer 40,000 rulebook. The WFRP campaign book 'The Enemy Within' may get used again... Either way, there will be more nostalgic photos from the Tower of Game to come.

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MildlyDiverting  Pro User  says:

omg, i also had at least three of those!
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bowbrick  Pro User  says:

Enlighten this old git who's too old to have encountered these things in his youth: what kind of games are these? Video games? Something else?
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Phil Gyford  Pro User  says:

Not video games. Some of them (Judge Dredd, D&D, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Paranoia) are role-playing games (RPGs): one person runs the game, kind of a storyteller, while others play characters in the story and try to succeed. Rules dictate how the world works, dice control chance events, and the storyteller ("Games Master") controls all the other characters in the world.

Battlecars and Blood Bowl are more kind of open-ended board games. If you took Subbuteo and replaced the physical action of flicking the ball with rules for how to pass the ball between players, and dice for chances of success, you'd be along similar lines.

Car Wars is perhaps between the two styles of game.

Warhammer 40,000 is a futuristic war game, like table-top historical battle games with miniature soldiers.

For size reference, those boxes/books are around A4. Does that help?
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bowbrick  Pro User  says:

Thank you! Lovely explanation. Sort of suspected as much. I find all this very confusing. Went into a shop called Games Workshop a while ago, expecting to find something for my boy's DS, but found lots of little figures. Felt very ignorant and disconnected (no change there then!).
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manarh  Pro User  says:

Wow. WFRP, Car Wars, Paranoia, Blood Bowl. You have a pile of my teenage years just there.
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Wake Carter says:

I never played the RPG, but the Judge Dredd board game that came out at around the same time was pretty good.
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