Cyborg: The Ultimate Adventure

Cyborg: The Ultimate Adventure. Excalibre Games, Inc. 1978. R. P. Winters, graphic design.

According to front cover, removing capitals: "Game Class—Sci Fi [sic on spacing] character to character adventure wargame," in current terminology, boardgame (William Howe). "210 die cut counters[,] 2 color map[…]." The "Introduction," however, clarifies that it's "a two player fantasy game," with mostly fantasy characters, supplemented with Mutants and the Cyborgs of the title, and the very much non-high-fantasy location of "Radiation zones," and lighter-than-air Airships. Cyborgs side with "the forces of the Princess and the Holy City" against "the forces of Aemulatio and her Necromancers" ("Cyborg Introduction"). For the mixing of elements cf. and contrast the Oz works of L. F. Baum (listed under Fiction in Clockworks [1]), and THE WIZARD OF OZ film (1939).

7. GRAPH, RDE, William Howe, 25/09/06, 26/09/06

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