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List of games ported from video to tabletop

January 29th, 2008 (Visited 2912 times) Tags:

Yehuda has a wonderful post up, “A Guide to Board and Card Games Based on Video Games (1971 to 2007).”

Though I did get tired of the words “the game is a CCG” — which I attribute almost entirely to Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Pokemon.

FWIW, as a kid, I did board game ports of Pengo and Q*Bert.

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Yehuda wrote on January 31st, 2008 at 8:30 am:

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Sean ' Arrakiv' Bulger said on January 29th, 2008 at 11:05 pm:
Yeah, that is certainly a lot of CCGs - which has certainly come to be popular, wouldn’t you say? There’s definitely a fair number more of them than I had actually expected. It is interesting to glance over the list - a few on there that I wouldn’t have expected.
argonaut said on January 30th, 2008 at 12:03 pm:
FWIW, as a kid, I did board game ports of Pengo and Q*Bert.

Is is a common trait among game developers? I remember making a dice based “Spy Hunter” with Hot Wheels and a game based on “Yar’s Revenge” made out of Lego bricks and the missile-launcher from a Battlestar Galactica toy.
Michael Chui said on January 31st, 2008 at 12:26 am:
I turned my Magic: the Gathering decks into chess. Ish.

There weren’t actually any rules, though. Then I ran out of people who knew what M:tG was.
Tina Anderson said on February 7th, 2008 at 7:52 am:
Hey, game developers have to get their ideas from somewhere. It makes sense to use things like toys and board games to inspire video game ideas.