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10/18
17 Friday - October 1975
290th day - 75 days to come

Rcd. the manuscript for my part of the FAMILY CREATIVE WORKSHOP for my comments. Also the copy of MARIE-CLAIRE Magazine.
Rcd. TOYS (Oct.). "Toy New Products" lists PROJECT CIA, which is the same as PROJECT KGB; ODYSSEY, which has been completely redesigned.
Rcd. catalog from "Publishers Central Bureau." One book - THE MAGIC OF LEWIS CARROLL - seems interesting. (Filed in '75 misc.)
Rcd. SUPERNOVA #26. Mentions of SPACESHIP STRATEGY by Richard Glaser and SPACE CENTURIANS V. Ad for CREATIVE COMPUTING Magazine with mentions of LUNAR LANDER, SPLAT, and other games. Survey result mentioning STARFORCE, ALIEN SPACE, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, STARLORD, TRIPLANETARY, SPACE CENTURIANS V, SPACE HUK, EMPIRE I, LENSMAN, STELLAR CONQUEST. Descriptions of STELLAR CONQUEST and STELLAR EMPIRE. Some changes in TRIPLANETARY. Complete rules for THE MONSTER SLAYERS.
Rcd. letter from Paul A. Belford together with revised rules for CONCEAL.
Call from Howie Barasch. Discussed various game classifications, starting with the one I use in AGOG. They are mainly in- terested in how their share of the market compares with the total market so this breakdown is much too elaborate for their needs. Possibly they'll just use war and non-war.
He said that they would be conducting a telephone survey of a certain number of males. I said that I read somewhere that women do most of the game buying - and that by polling males only they would slant the poll in favor of war-games. He asked if I could give him the survey. Said it would be much too much work to locate it, but maybe the A.M.A. T.M.A. could help him.
Sent $7 for my NOST dues.
To garage sales, bazaars, etc. with BB, Anne, and Claude. At the church bazaar Claude got me a copy of PIT with two decks.
The red deck is missing 2 "wheat" cards. The blue deck is missing 1 "oats" and 1 "rye" card. Has copy of 1919 rules and 1947 rules.
At a garage sale bought a copy of BIRD CENTER ETIQUETTE (Home Game Co. - 1904) - one card missing ($3.50).
He had a copy of an 1893 Parker game - AMERICAN CITIES for $6. It was in bad shape and without rules so didn't buy. For 50¢ bought a copy of PARADISE OF CHILDHOOD (Publ. by M.B. in 1910.)
At a church rummage sale bought a partially used JOTTO pad for 20¢. Thought that it was in its case, but then discovered that half was missing.
At a "discount" store saw BALL BUSTER (Mego) a family game (and named without any thought of the vulger [sic] meaning). A plastic board has a quadrille of holes. Each player has a number of plastic balls at the end of flexible wires, These are moved (I believe a rooks move). A player, instead of moving, can try to bust an opponent's ball. This is done by bending back one of his own balls, striking one or more intermediate balls,
[drawing of two balls attached by a vertical lines to a rectangle base]
(cont. on 10/18)

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