There is a board game based on the Wolfenstein video games coming to kickstarter soon.
They make board games based on video game properties all the time, I used to own a copy of the Starcraft board game that came in a box that conveniently could double as a casket for you after you were crushed by the game falling off a shelf.
The Wolfenstein news only caught my eye because of one of the photographs that accompanied the news article
Yeah, there’s a miniature of the final boss from Wolfenstein: MECHA-HITLER. This is tremendous.
One of my fondest early gaming memories is of fighting Mecha-Hitler at the end of Wolfenstein, which was also the first first person shooter I ever played. DOOM is probably objectively a better game in every way, but I played a lot more Wolfenstein at the time of their initial releases.
This ‘Mecha-Hitler-Induced-Nostalgia” (which is a phrase I never expected to type) brought on memories of other early gaming experiences:
A friend of mine’s family had several Mackintosh II computers in different rooms of their house. I don’t remember what specific models they were, nerd. What I do remember is that they were all networked together in the house and myself, my friend and his two brothers would all take a machine and we’d play gigantic LAN games of BOLO (1987).
BOLO was a tank battlefield game and wikipedia informs me it was one of the earliest simultaneous multiplayer networked games. Looking at screenshots now it seems incredibly primitive compared to the memory I have of it in my head, but such is memory I suppose. We spent hours upon hours attempting to capture each other’s “pillboxes” and blowing each other up with “hidden mines”.
I’ve played thousands of hours of multiplayer games since then, on many games that are objectively better than BOLO by every conceivable metric, but none has ever matched the sheer sense of exhilaration and awe that those early networked rounds of BOLO provided.
Currently Playing: The Soulless Party – “The Black Meadow Archive, Volume 1”
Currently Reading: GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY, M.R. James
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