Each Candidate’s home state and the issues he is identified with are also found on the cards.īoth sides also get their color-coded President and Vice-President Ballot Card Decks.
Each Candidate is rated for various abilities such as Campaign Ability, Financial Support, Press Support, Fund Raising and Advertising. Candidate Cards represent the politicians available to represent your party. The Democrats get the red-backed Candidate Cards the Republicans receive the blue-backed ones. Players are either Democrats or Republicans. For two to four players, a game takes less than an hour to play. President contains two Tally Boards, two decks of Candidate Cards, two sets of President and Vice-President Ballot Decks, Campaign HeadquartersCards, a Ballet Box lid (when, when placed over the plastic game try, becomes the Ballot Box), a pair of dice and two grease pencils. The first edition was a highly stylized election game followed by a mild revision in 1966 but then underwent a radical improvement in 1967 which was then fine-tuned in the 1971 edition (my own favorite and the one featured here). It appeared in four different editions – 1965, 1966, 19. President was a 3M bookshelf game that evolved through the years. To illustrate the point, we offer, in the fourth installment of our Classic Games Series, a quality election game of the past, Mr. But the truth of the matter is that a quality game is a quality game no matter what the year. That accounts for the plethora of election games that appear (and disappear) on a quadrennial basis. PRESIDENT (3M Games, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1971 editions out of print)Ĭonventional wisdom states that election games only sell during election years. President in the Summer 1992 issue of Gamers Alliance Report – with a few additional comments thrown in!) MR. As the 2004 election approaches, it seems appropriate to “flashback” to TWO election games from that series: The Game of Politics and Mr.
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In our series of Game Classics, we’ve highlighted some great games that have brought the race for president to the gaming table. (In this issue, Ben Baldanza eyes Election USA, an English take on the US Presidential election.
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