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'''16 THURSDAY - MARCH 1972''' | '''16 THURSDAY - MARCH 1972''' <br> | ||
76TH DAY - 290 DAYS TO COME | |||
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To Ideal Toy in Jamaica Queens for meeting with <u>Jules Cooper</u>. <br> | To Ideal Toy in Jamaica Queens for meeting with <u>Jules Cooper</u>. <br> | ||
<u>Charlie Light</u> (spelling?) who used to be with <u>E.S. Lowe</u> <br> | <u>Charlie Light</u> (spelling?) who used to be with <u>E.S. Lowe</u> <br> | ||
was there. Charlie recognized me as the author of <br> | was there. Charlie recognized me as the author of <br> | ||
a book (<u> | a book (<u>A''GOG''</u>). Discussed the Ideal line. They were <br> | ||
both very enthused about <u>THE BOSS</u>. Altho it is a lot luck it <br> | both very enthused about <u>THE BOSS</u>. Altho it is a lot luck it <br> | ||
is very emotionally involving. <u>DEAR ABBY</u> consists of 60 <br> | is very emotionally involving. <u>DEAR ABBY</u> consists of 60 <br> | ||
letters with 3 different answers for each. Players in turn <br> | letters with 3 different answers for each. Players in turn <br> | ||
read one and then the others decide which answer <br> | read one and then the others decide which answer <br> | ||
they will give and mark it secretly. | they will give and mark it secretly. Score for guessing, and for <br> | ||
fooling. <u>BATTLEBOARD</u> has holes lined up with passages. <br> | |||
When the bellows (see catalog) is depressed if an opponent <br> | |||
is in proper hole it is blown up and captured. Objects is <br> | |||
to get two men to the wall. If a king reaches the <br> | |||
wall a captured knight is returned. A man at the wall <br> | |||
can also be captured. <br> | |||
<u>AUCTIONEER</u>, <u>THE BOSS</u>, and <u>DEAR ABBY</u> are not in production <br> | |||
yet. When they are Jules will send me copies for review in <br> | |||
''<u>S & T</u>''. (He'd like to see a copy and I promised to send him one.) <br> | |||
For the Xerox exhibit he's sending me <u>REBOUND</u>, <u>CRISS CROSS</u> <br> | |||
<u>LOGUS SR.</u>, and <u>TRAP</u>. Also he'll send me a review <br> | |||
copy of <u>TRAP</u>. <br> | |||
Discussed <u>GO</u> and I said that the white player was given an <br> | |||
advantage with a 1/2 stone included so that a tie was impossible. <br> | |||
Jules said no. I said I'd look it up. <br> | |||
<u>Jules</u> said that his war <u>GAME</u> was the best ever and someday, <br> | |||
when the time is right, he'll come out with it. He told us <br> | |||
something about it. The battle is between two equal sides on <br> | |||
an island. They have no airplanes, artillery, etc., but do have <br> | |||
boats for transporting troops only. The game lasts a maximum <br> | |||
of 40 moves. Each player writes out a complete campaign of <br> | |||
what he intends to do with his offensive armies for each <br> | |||
move. There are also defensive armies which can be moved <br> | |||
to meet the contingencies of the situation. (Rough idea.) <br> | |||
We were talking about war games and the old Corey <br> | |||
game <u>STRATEGY</u> came up. Jules still has a copy of it. (Yesterday <br> | |||
my druggist mentioned it. He would love to get a <br> | |||
copy. He has a friend who he thinks has one. If not I <br> | |||
will give him a diagram of the board.) <br> | |||
<u>Jules</u> asked when I was going to submit games to them. I said <br> | |||
that I have tried, but haven't come up with any action games <br> | |||
like they do. He said that strategy (or rather tactical) <br> | |||
games are fine as long as they are dimensional. That's <br> | |||
what <u>TRAP</u> is. <br> | |||
In talking about <u>THE BOSS</u> Jules said that only the premise <br> | |||
had been presented. They had worked harder in developing this <br> | |||
than any other game. | |||
Met <u>Rudy Lopez</u> at a factory where he was working on <br> | |||
some machinery. Gave him the difficult <u>LIVE WIRE</u> copy. <br> | |||
He is thinking of printing up several hundred and trying to <br> | |||
(cont. on 3/17) | |||