Board To Death

Released in 1976 by Milton Bradley, with absolutely no designer or artist credits that can be dug up, Breaker 19: The CB Truckers Game is easily one of the oddest board games I've seen thus far, and that includes things like Squatter. Imagine Truck Driving Simulator but in board game fashion. According to Board Game Geek, it's extremely straight forward and sounds somewhat bland: Players move around the board delivering loads and trying to earn money to pay off their "rigs". The rules are printed on the inside of the box top, and the components are relatively light - two types of cards, player markers, and play money. Not to mention they only have 3 photos of this game, when they usually have a good few handful of photos for each game I cover. That's how exceedingly unknown this thing is. In fact, when doing research for this post, I began to question whether or not there was even enough to work with to warrant an entire post about it, but I have dedicated mys...

Town Dump might just be the single most obscure board game I've featured on this blog thus far, and that includes "Across The Board: A Horse Racing Game" , so that says something. Can I make an admission? I'm a sucker for dumpster diving. Growing up, my best friend's mom managed a series of apartment complexes, and because of that, he and I had the absolute run of the mill of the places, getting into unused apartments to film early short films and, of course, going dumpster diving. It was just a fantastically good time, and even in 2014 when I lived in Santa Cruz in a complex populated mostly by college students, I dumpster dove all the time, because the thing about college kids is they throw a lot of things away when they move home after college ends, and so you find a lot of excellent stuff for zero dollars. Once, my friend and I discovered a virtually new acoustic guitar in one of the dumpsters at his apartment complex, and you wouldn't believe some of the ...