Ahhh, yes I have Quebec with another map.
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I am reasonably sure that this is Sheepy Time in French:
(I was surfing French boardgame shops for reasons)
So many covers are different and really, I liked “Insomnia” it is so much more foreboding. (Weirdly this version is not on BGG–yet?)
PS: Letterpress is called Gutenberg in French and Village Green is called Jardins Anglais
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The Asian editions of some old games often look better (from my POV)
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The Japanese edition of Trendy is better than both the old German and Grail Games’ Whale Riders: the Card Game (rethemed) is just awful. Plus, this edition is cute.
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Korean, Japanese, and Taiwanese edition of Modern Art. Most of you know that art is subjective. As I prefer the German Oink Games edition. But I would love to see Stamps or the Taiwanese edition with my own eyes.
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Treasures of Summer looks better than Grail Games’ Circus Flohcati. Although I know someone who prefers the latter
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Japanese edition of Tindahan looks nicer than Indie Board & Cards’ Filipino Fruit Market. The 3D lady on the box cover looks weird lol
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I prefer the art of Stephenson’s Rocket from Group SNE, but the usability from Grail Games is just ACE!
EDIT: I will have to start posting here again. I have some that I encountered since I last post here
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The New Games Order of Wildlife Safari / Botswana has wooden giraffes!
Can’t find it on Amazon Japan unfortunately
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Not strictly on-topic, but the internet has just shown me this box cover for Clue (I’m in the UK so it’s Cluedo, why is this so difficult) and the comments from the public include
“Hasbro’s new version of Clue officially comes out today and I look forward to a generation of kids pointing to the new Chef White as their sexual awakening.”
“Honestly everyone on this box art can get it.”
“Is that Jonathan Frakes as Green?”
Anyway, all the characters are now ridiculously hot compared to my 1980s version.
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Although it could conceivably count as the most beautiful edition too, as the meeples are now full models that match the cover images and there’s “gold” weapons:
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I accuse!
Doctor Black was killed by Francisco Scaramanga in the funhouse with the golden gun.
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Wow. I mean, the Waddington’s 1990 edition which we had as kids was just a picture of the components on the cover. I was going to say that even for the time, that seemed uninspiring. Then I remembered that the Waddington’s edition of Monopoly was just a red and white box with MONOPOLY written on it in big letters.
Our version had the ‘gold’ weapons (apart from the lead piping and rope, naturally), but those little coloured pawns. I think there was both a later and earlier Waddington’s edition which had plastic moulded characters though, but with only the bases being colour.
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It probably qualifies for the the empty boxes thread as well, as inside it’s got the same insert as Monopoly, leading to a load of wasted space.
(This is the Critical Role version that someone posted on Reddit, but I’d assume regular Clue(do) is the same.)
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Looks like I grew up with the 1970s UK version:
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Those are atrocious!
My copy looked like this:
All the cards for rooms and weapons were photos as well.
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That’s the version I still play at my parent’s place.
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That’s the Waddingtons art - they used it on the cards throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s in various editions.
Honestly, I don’t mind it.
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Letterpress was an update of Moveable Type, and my goodness does the older game look prettier than the newer one. I would have loved it if the new version had kept the old card designs, with just legibility improvements to make the letter ‘pop’ better against the background designs.
(The more-boring design is probably better for gameplay, mind, but it still seems like a shame…)
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Having picked up a copy of stephensons rocket the SNE version (due to the nicer aesthetic of the board, although paper money yuck!) I’m a bit confused what the player map pins are for. Anyone know? Is it used to allow veto voting before you move the train?
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I have no idea what those pins are. I dont remember havin them in my copy. Can you post photos?
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