The War of the Worlds (board game)

The War of the Worlds is a 1980 board wargame published by Task Force Games.

Gameplay

The War of the Worlds is a game in which humans defend Victorian London from Martian invaders.[1]

Video game

Task Force Games developed a 16K computer version of The War of the Worlds.[2] It was published in 1983.[3]

Reception

Tony Watson reviewed The War of the Worlds in The Space Gamer No. 35.[1] Watson commented that "TWotW does a good job of taking an interesting but very unbalanced situation and making it into a fun game."[1]

Eric Goldberg reviewed War of the Worlds in Ares Magazine #9 and commented that "If the players can accept the radical revisions to the plot of the novel, they have a game which should prove tense for the first five or so plays. After that, War of the Worlds is a solved puzzle."[4]

References

1. Watson, Tony (January 1981). "Featured Review: The War of the Worlds". The Space Gamer (35). Steve Jackson Games: 19.
2. "Computer World 3 1983 USA".
3. "The War of the Worlds (1983)".
4. Goldberg, Eric (July 1981). "Games". Ares Magazine (9). Simulations Publications, Inc.: 26.