Strip Campaign for North Africa: the game for all ages, since by the time anyone is required to take their clothes off they'll all be well into retirement.
The sad part is that if I was the sort of person who wanted to play Strip The Campaign For North Africa, I would probably actually like that rule. Did I say sad? I meant brilliant.
I think STT was originally made for a husband and wife (not acknowledging alphabet soup couples because this was 1969) to play in private, still a bad idea though.
Those Diplomat board games were 100% made to be sold in sleazy sex shops to people too horny to apply some forethought. They'll see the cover, quickly browse over the box, briefly think to themselves "Hey, that sounds like a fun time!" without any further consideration, slap some bucks on the table, and by the time they've gotten home and cooled off they will realize it's stupid and predicates on situations that basically no one would subscribe to. By then, Diplomat would have made off with their money. Or at least, that's the idea. I get the feeling that, in the end, cooler heads prevailed and these games saw next to no success other than maybe as novelties or gag gifts. Which is probably why you can't find anything about them online. That, and nearly 60 years having passed since its release.
Just like 99% of things in those places. The only thing that is generally useful at all times you can’t find anywhere else cheaper is probably dental dams (unless CVS has them), and even then good luck finding those. You buy a movie, then realize the internet exists. You buy a sausage storage device, then realize it’s made of materials that aren’t made for reuse at all. You buy a big honking doll, and then realize it cost more than your rent and that there’s no way to get rid of it that doesn’t look like murder
@@lancesmith8298 there are some people that seek out certain porn films and don't really care about watching random people online get naked and i'm one of em.
I think adultry is the worst it's not difficult to come up with spicy things you just have to not actively shoot yourself in the foot by making the entire time awkward for most people.
When I was a kid, I saw an ad for Doggie Doo on TV and begged my mom for it. She said no and insisted that the doo would get stuck inside the dog. I asked my grandma for the game instead and she brought it over while babysitting me. First play-through, the doo got stuck. When my mom got home, she was _furious._ She had to use a chopstick to fish the doo out of the dog. She then confiscated the game.
I can't understand why anyone would play a strip game by candlelight: you're using a light source that makes it impossible to see anything to play a game where the point is what you end up seeing.
"What shall I be" was released in 1966. By which time women had gone to space, become flying aces, taught at aviation academies, with every rational expectation that by the time the target age demographic grows up around the late 70s, things were going to change even more... But yes, "airline hostess"
Now, to be fair, the US was not really leading the charge on female career options in the 1960s. That being said, that was rapidly changing and the people who developed this game should definitely have seen that happening.
Teachers and Nurses are still the most common female occupations, numbers for airline hostesses are up in the air(hehe). Trying to find numbers for the others on google just gives me articles saying "trans people are breaking the mold" without saying what "the mold" is. I love Google. If the issue is that it doesn't reflect the lofty goals of kids nowadays, sorry it didn't have youtuber?
In the US, we wouldn't have a woman astronaut until *1983*, when Sally Ride was on STS-7. She still beat the first black American astronaut, Guion Bluford, who flew a couple months later on STS-8.
Still, it wouldn't surprise me if those were the actual top 6 most popular career choices for young girls at the time. The makers of the game obviously weren't trying to change society or anything.
This topic reminds me of the Titanic board game I used to play as a kid, where you raced against your family and friends to make it into the lifeboats before them, leaving them on the sinking ship.
Considering how long a Campaign for North Africa lasts, your version will force multiple people to endure the winter months without heavy clothes on. So, all that is left to say is... welcome to the "Games that can kill people" Club!
Advertising as a theme works in games about fake products - Jackbox’s Patently Stupid comes to mind. Attaching real and currently running ad campaigns to a board game is just gauche.
Oy Vey was aimed at a specific demographic, probably the children of the stereotyped Jewish mother. This kind of thing runs through so much Jewish humor, though not so much today as the family structure has changed. I can imagine my warped sense of humor would love the game. Also, overthrowing a HOA sounds fun.
I think power lunch could work with its premise if you just substitute celebrities for 'popular fictional characters' since those tend to age more gracefully. I dunno have disney make it, they own enough of everything to get a varied cast for it.
I think warner would be even better, since then you can sit the ultraviolent r@pe gang from a clockwork orange next to bugs bunny. You know, like they did in space jam 2!
Yeah, kind of like that obscure card game Slash: Romance Without Boundaries minus the whole shipping fanfic angle. Alternatively, if you don’t want the logistical headache of dealing with characters licensing issues, you could make a vast of distinctive original characters with character profiles on their cards. For example, a highschool themed game where you have to come up with scenarios for why all these wacky teens from vastly different cliché highschool cliques like jocks, preps, nerds and goths etc are sitting at the same table. I’d say there’s potential with either route though.
The Diplomat games are crazy to me because they also just dont consider outfit differences at all. Some outfits will total like 3 pieces of clothing at most, and others will have like 8 or more, depending on how players count it
These last two videos have made think that a tournament bracket should be done but for worst theme and worst mechanics seperately. So it's fair since comparing a bad mechanic to a bad theme is a lot more subjective.
@@tarotsport1451 I dunno I don't get the intense hate for War. There are worse crimes than being boring, just don't play it. Oy Vey is a crime just sitting on the shelf
Before watching all the way through this video I thought you were just calling anyone who likes board games nerds. I think I would like to go back to this time in my life.
Hey man, I just gotta say your writing on these scripts is incredible. You could describe the contents of my backyard and I would probably be entertained as long as you had enough time to write a script.
There’s this really weird game me and my friends played last year called “redneck life”, which is basically the game of life if it hated (poor) southerners. The winner at the end is the person with the most teeth left and there’s spaces that give you… babies from hooking up with your cousin. If it’s not already on ur radar i’d love to see a video on it!
The "do a no-no" card in bumps and grinds is probably a smart reference to ULTRAKILL where a +NO-NO style bonus is awarded for killing an enemy with a chainsaw
You are aware Charm School was a thing that existed right? You know the stereotype of there being all these extra etiquette rules for rich people like eating with the right silverware, the books on the head thing for posture, sitting properly and all that? Charm school is where they taught those things.
I remember someone from my high school that had a copy of PIMP: The Backhanding. We were dumb teenagers then, so we never gave the controversy much thought or consideration.
I gotta say, going through your history of videos, it's been really interesting seeing your evolution from depicting yourself as a simple cartoon man, to only having your arms and hands on camera to illustrate a physical board game, to being fully on camera to do more involved bits and jokes alongside your explanations. it feels like you've become a lot more confident with yourself as you make more videos, and I think it just makes each one better than the last. You're doing a great job and I appreciate all the work you put into the channel!
Okay that final joke really hit for me because me and my friends have been joking about Campaign for North Africa being the "Perfect Orgy Boardgame" for a few months now
It was still considered a mental illness in 1969 USA....if you were LGBT in a 1969 TV or movie you were either a criminal or un-alived yourself "in shame" (w/very rare exceptions mostly in B or "foreign art" movies). But yeah what a lame sex party game, restrictive, uptight & limiting doesn't sound like a sex party to me.
@@Luigi-Board LOL, well that's embarrassing for me! 🤦🏻♀️ ....this is what happens to you when you don't play any proper "party games" for fat too long 😜
Me with my five shirts, two jackets, three pairs of shorts, two pairs of sweats, 7 hats, 12 total socks, 6 gloves, and 20 watches on: hey let's play strip tac toe
I still think the claim of Adultery being a crime game is silly, no one's getting arrested for adultery in 2024 in the US, and some of the states that have laws against it are repealing them (Minnesota and Idaho did in the last couple of years, and New York is in the process of it), and unless you're in a very fundamentalist country I doubt it'll result in much. But still, it looks like more of a novelty joke or a gag gift than an actual game, for the reasons stated in the video. I guess there might be some people who could be into the strict rules as some sort of kink, but even then there are much better ways to do that lmao
"So you have an idea for a board game for me?" "No sir, I don't. My ideas are dogshit. I'm here to be a janitor, see i was fired by the movie producer guy from..." "...wait wait wait what did you just say?" "...i'm here for janitor job because i was fired..." "No, before that" "My ideas are dog shit" "WOW WOW WOW WOW! Let's go with that. You're hired"
The funniest part about pimp: the backhanding is the fact that it follows the same naming scheme for the world of darkness and chronicles of darkness rpg's
I feel like the base concept of Power Lunch, where a bunch of miscellaneous wacky characters are placed at different tables and players have to come up with fun scenarios for why they’re there, could work well re-skinned with more relevant characters. Not just modern day celebrities and politicians, but maybe even fictional characters. Imagine a game that’s a hodgepodge crossover of pop culture characters and real word figures and players have to figure out why, I dunno, Princess Celestia from My Little Pony, Jack Skellington form Nightmare Before Christmas, former President Abe Lincoln and Dyneres Targerian from Game of Thrones are sitting at a table together. Kinda like the lesser known card game Slash; Romance Without Boundaries minus the whole shipping fanfic angle. Alternatively, if you don’t want the logistical headache of licensing issues, you could come up with a wholly original cast of distinctive characters with thier own profiles on each card to pair together on a table. Like, for example a highschool themed game where you have to figure out why some of these original high schooler characters form different cliche high-school cliques like the goths, nerds, preps and jocks etc are sitting together. I’d say there’s potential.
My favourite defunct trivia question is the who wants to be a millionaire question that is unsolvable because it had Robert Patterson as the only person of the 4 answers not to have played batman before
Surprised there was no mention of Brenda Romero’s “Train”. It’s a board game about getting as many passengers on a train as possible, it’s also about the holocaust.
That wasn't mass-produced, and was made as art, not a product. Not saying board games aren't art, but I am saying that Train was never really meant to be played for fun.
The NBC game's premise reminds me of "Trivial Pursuit," a game I have never, ever played, despite the fact that I love trivia and would like to be on _Jeopardy!_ someday. Hardly anyone is going to remember who won the silver medal in swimming in the 1980 Summer Olympics, or who co-starred with an obscure actor in a TV show that ran for three seasons in the late 1990s. Sure, they can update them, but most of the stuff is pretty obscure.
Unfortunately none of Diplomat's games seem very mechanically interesting. Maybe fun for the right group, but it you have that group, is the game actually adding anything?
I think a rerelease of Power Lunch with "timeless" celebrities or notable people like Elvis, Albert Einstein, Shakespeare, etc. would be a really solid party game.
You forgot “Juden rauẞ”, a board game that was OBVIOUSLY created and sold in Nazi Germany, but then the SS was like “ooohhh no no no noooo, you have to leave that shit to UUUSSS!!” And banned the game for “challenging their movement” because of the goal to capture the “Jews” and place them in the various “collection points” until six “Jews” are captured by the first person to do so.
The Pimp game reminds me of the Italian game Squillo. Its essentially the same thing but its longer. Too long and it also has 2 expansions one that adds gigolos.
The thing about Adultery is that it was probably made to be played with a polycule rather than a game group. I can see a bunch of consenting people doing this on a boring night - note the word "consenting".
When I saw the games from Diplomat, I immediately thought "Those look like games you'd see on the shelf at Spencer Gifts." I checked Wikipedia, and Spencer Gifts opened their first retail store in 1963.
Just remember there was a 2000's "ghetto monopoly" game called Ghettopoly that got the creator sued by Hasbro, was once sold at Urban Outfitters before being pulled for racism, and apparently made the creator $8.9 million if Wikipedia is correct.
Goddamn the end got me. Imagine a 15-year game of stripping. Do you have to stay stripped over those years or do you just have to roll up to your friend’s twice a month and throw off clothes at the door from the previous sessions like “hey guys I don’t remember where we were in this game we’re gonna have to backtrack”
Just found this channel yesterday, and have already watched most of the board games videos (still have yet to watch the tournament). Glad to be along for the ride!
Was hoping you'd mention the toilet or fart themed games, that are just kids' Russian Roulette, with no real gameplay or strategy! In fact, that would be good as its own video, all the games like Pie Face, Toilet Trouble, or Gas Out, that are just RR!
I have a lead for you. Toons is a GURPS system RPG where you all becomeblooney toon like characters. It was nitch as heck but still got a couple of expansion books. I think you would find it fascinating. I have the game book if you want pictures of it.
love the video but the 1 frame stuff is bothering me. its not at an exact second in the video so i cant pause the video and click the timestamp. i have to go to 0.5x, click 8:30, spam play and pause button and miss it by a few frames every time. i dont understand the point of including information in a video thats nearly impossible to read. cant you just put a link in the description or put it on-screen for more than just 1 frame. its frustrating having to continue the video knowing i missed a piece of information
you can use , and . to go back and forth one frame at a time while the video is paused. This makes it way easier to read these things. Just for anyone who didn't know that information since it's not readily available.
The problem with S#### Tac Toe is that it uses the Tic Tac Toe foundation, Tic Tac Toe is garbage, they should've done Chess instead. Introducing Chexx, it's just like Chess, but with a twist. Everytime you take the opponents piece, the opponent takes removes an article, everytime you check a king, you do something with yourself, you know what, and whenever you get a checkmate, you are the one on top and do the activity with all the remaining articles still on. A perfect game to play with your love one.
glad youve been riding the wave of subs from the tournament with so many new videos. it's been very smart on your part and ive really enjoyed the content. keep it up 👍
your channel got into my recommended feed a few weeks ago, and i enjoy your stuff IMMENSELY! i’d honestly love to play a game like Power Lunch if you could get a cheat sheet for the celebrities. maybe you could do a game like that but a fantasy setting? and you’d get maybe their title and a short quote from them, and you’d have to make up a story based on that. yes it’s just extended improv storytelling, but if you get the right group of people it could be very fun!
Diplomat games definitely seem like a weird artifact of a certain sort of free love hippy culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It definitely gives me the same vibe as a TV show lile "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in"
Bro love this channel just found it a couple days around and it's great didn't know I needed to learn about board games from a random guy on the internet. Very good 10/10 channel
13:00 Actually Kam, Diplomat / Topco were a bit more prolific than just those 3 games! 1969: Office Party, Risque!, Around the World in Bed, some Diplomat, some Topco! 1983: Chippendale's After Hours Game! 1989: Around the World in Bed New More Daring Edition, publisher Neo Art Inc. Topco also did Drink Tac Toe, French Cards, Ring A Ding! Some on BGG, some Ebay! Hope U can talk about these someday too, though info & pics are quite scarce!
Appreciate the fact the makers of Adultery knew that every good polygamous group of three or more friends of mixed genders has a token non-binary Asexual willing to mediate between their romantic escapades. Like they forgot about gay people but at least they managed to include a Homestuck reference in their game exactly 50 years before the webcomic started. Which honestly does feel like a plotpoint that *would* be in Homestuck, so good work there, boys!
I just found this channel and I can only describe it as Scott the woz for board games. The pacing is absolutely perfect and the delivery of every single joke is on point
7:47 The way you describe the two games is so ironic. Because if you look at how society actually works... Gaming your way through the justice system requires strategy, good lawyers, and certain tactics that might be frowned upon. Whereas living a life on Welfare really is down to luck and circumstance. So... Maybe they really did what they set out to?! Nah, no way they were that clever. Just inconsistent game design!
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Strip Campaign for North Africa: the game for all ages, since by the time anyone is required to take their clothes off they'll all be well into retirement.
"All ages"
Yeah nice try Epstein
And also probably skeletonized after removing their clothes, skin, undergarments, sinew, glasses, and internal organs
It’s more like slow burn for North Africa
Strip The Campaign For North Africa is just FATAL: The Board Game Adaptation.
Imagine rolling for potential pasta circumference
Nah, at least CfNA’s systems actually like… interact with each other and mean something to use.
unlike FATAL, TCFNA has more than one playable team
I wonder what the FATAL equivalent to CFNA’s air combat is
NOT FATAL LMAOOOO
In Strip The Campaign For North Africa, Italian players have to strip twice on upkeep due to the infamous pasta rule.
The sad part is that if I was the sort of person who wanted to play Strip The Campaign For North Africa, I would probably actually like that rule.
Did I say sad? I meant brilliant.
Give Diplomat some credit: They released two of their sex-themed games in the best year possible: '69.
It certainly helps how that was a key year in the free love movement.
Nice.
niiiiiiice.
I think STT was originally made for a husband and wife (not acknowledging alphabet soup couples because this was 1969) to play in private, still a bad idea though.
I would unironically play a Coupe game set in an HOA. That sounds so goofy
I block your foreclosure with my Contessa.
I would ironically play it
I’m sure there’s a HOA that hired an assassin at some point
isn't that the plot of Hot Fuzz?
I feel like that would take off as a parody version of Coupe once people already know of the game's reputation. Like licensed Clue or Monopoly
Competitive Strip-tac-toe tournament struck with tragedy as player dies of heatstroke under 37 layers if clothes
Lol
Lmao
Roflmfao
I did a nose exhale
Almost as big as a tragedy as when you’ll take your life at 35.
Full marks for the "Yu-Gi-Ho" joke.
Those Diplomat board games were 100% made to be sold in sleazy sex shops to people too horny to apply some forethought. They'll see the cover, quickly browse over the box, briefly think to themselves "Hey, that sounds like a fun time!" without any further consideration, slap some bucks on the table, and by the time they've gotten home and cooled off they will realize it's stupid and predicates on situations that basically no one would subscribe to. By then, Diplomat would have made off with their money.
Or at least, that's the idea. I get the feeling that, in the end, cooler heads prevailed and these games saw next to no success other than maybe as novelties or gag gifts. Which is probably why you can't find anything about them online. That, and nearly 60 years having passed since its release.
Just like 99% of things in those places. The only thing that is generally useful at all times you can’t find anywhere else cheaper is probably dental dams (unless CVS has them), and even then good luck finding those.
You buy a movie, then realize the internet exists.
You buy a sausage storage device, then realize it’s made of materials that aren’t made for reuse at all.
You buy a big honking doll, and then realize it cost more than your rent and that there’s no way to get rid of it that doesn’t look like murder
Post-nut clarity
@@lancesmith8298 there are some people that seek out certain porn films and don't really care about watching random people online get naked and i'm one of em.
I think adultry is the worst it's not difficult to come up with spicy things you just have to not actively shoot yourself in the foot by making the entire time awkward for most people.
When I was a kid, I saw an ad for Doggie Doo on TV and begged my mom for it. She said no and insisted that the doo would get stuck inside the dog. I asked my grandma for the game instead and she brought it over while babysitting me. First play-through, the doo got stuck. When my mom got home, she was _furious._ She had to use a chopstick to fish the doo out of the dog. She then confiscated the game.
Real "you'll shoot your eye out" moment
You deserved to go through that for thinking the game looked appealing tbh
SHE WAAAAARNED YOOOOUUU!!!
Holy shit it's board game Scott The Woz
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You should've seen him when he was board game Sam O'Nella
Reminds me more of Huggbees than Scott The Woz
Wench! is basically just a card game version of The Guy Game (only, at least the former doesn't have anyone underage in it, I hope)
That's what I thought too lol
These games range from 'oopsies' to 'how far can we go before we get in legal trouble'.
unfortunate accidents to gambling with law
"Pimp: The Backhanding" sounds like a World of Darkness TTRPG
it sounds like a fictional game that would be mentioned in an Adult Swim cartoon
I thought the same thing lmao.
Honestly I did too
ah yes all the supernatural creatures, like vampires, werewolves, mages, and…. Pimps
and indeed it was published by a subsidiary of White Wolf :)
I can't understand why anyone would play a strip game by candlelight: you're using a light source that makes it impossible to see anything to play a game where the point is what you end up seeing.
"What shall I be" was released in 1966. By which time women had gone to space, become flying aces, taught at aviation academies, with every rational expectation that by the time the target age demographic grows up around the late 70s, things were going to change even more... But yes, "airline hostess"
Now, to be fair, the US was not really leading the charge on female career options in the 1960s. That being said, that was rapidly changing and the people who developed this game should definitely have seen that happening.
Teachers and Nurses are still the most common female occupations, numbers for airline hostesses are up in the air(hehe). Trying to find numbers for the others on google just gives me articles saying "trans people are breaking the mold" without saying what "the mold" is. I love Google.
If the issue is that it doesn't reflect the lofty goals of kids nowadays, sorry it didn't have youtuber?
'Pretty' and 'overweight' aren't even personality traits, what are they doing in there?
In the US, we wouldn't have a woman astronaut until *1983*, when Sally Ride was on STS-7.
She still beat the first black American astronaut, Guion Bluford, who flew a couple months later on STS-8.
Still, it wouldn't surprise me if those were the actual top 6 most popular career choices for young girls at the time. The makers of the game obviously weren't trying to change society or anything.
This topic reminds me of the Titanic board game I used to play as a kid, where you raced against your family and friends to make it into the lifeboats before them, leaving them on the sinking ship.
Oof that’s dark
Considering how long a Campaign for North Africa lasts, your version will force multiple people to endure the winter months without heavy clothes on. So, all that is left to say is... welcome to the "Games that can kill people" Club!
Advertising as a theme works in games about fake products - Jackbox’s Patently Stupid comes to mind. Attaching real and currently running ad campaigns to a board game is just gauche.
Snake Oil can attest, that game is a blast
Gorilla Marketing is an okay board game with the same concept. I love the monkey theme more than the gameplay, though.
Oy Vey was aimed at a specific demographic, probably the children of the stereotyped Jewish mother. This kind of thing runs through so much Jewish humor, though not so much today as the family structure has changed. I can imagine my warped sense of humor would love the game. Also, overthrowing a HOA sounds fun.
It's not overthrowing a HOA, it's winning the brutal power struggle of a HOA.
I think power lunch could work with its premise if you just substitute celebrities for 'popular fictional characters' since those tend to age more gracefully. I dunno have disney make it, they own enough of everything to get a varied cast for it.
I totally agree! I think that would be really fun to play.
I think warner would be even better, since then you can sit the ultraviolent r@pe gang from a clockwork orange next to bugs bunny. You know, like they did in space jam 2!
Yeah, kind of like that obscure card game Slash: Romance Without Boundaries minus the whole shipping fanfic angle.
Alternatively, if you don’t want the logistical headache of dealing with characters licensing issues, you could make a vast of distinctive original characters with character profiles on their cards. For example, a highschool themed game where you have to come up with scenarios for why all these wacky teens from vastly different cliché highschool cliques like jocks, preps, nerds and goths etc are sitting at the same table.
I’d say there’s potential with either route though.
Putting bill cosby near anyone in power lunch is instantly going to end the board game in a fight
i love the adultery cover art, this balkan man with the clock looks so smug lmao
I love him so much he's my favorite part
The Diplomat games are crazy to me because they also just dont consider outfit differences at all. Some outfits will total like 3 pieces of clothing at most, and others will have like 8 or more, depending on how players count it
Yes! The real problem with diplomat games is the game balance.
These last two videos have made think that a tournament bracket should be done but for worst theme and worst mechanics seperately. So it's fair since comparing a bad mechanic to a bad theme is a lot more subjective.
The winner did have a perfect storm of both though so neither camp can complain too much
@@woodfur00 Yeah but trying to compare war to oy vey is pretty hard
@@tarotsport1451 I dunno I don't get the intense hate for War. There are worse crimes than being boring, just don't play it. Oy Vey is a crime just sitting on the shelf
10:12 Putting aside literally everything else about these cards, can I just say that this is the most 2005 art-style I've ever seen?
7 minutes in heaven is free. Literally free. Who would spend money on a boardgame.
Before watching all the way through this video I thought you were just calling anyone who likes board games nerds. I think I would like to go back to this time in my life.
@@sarahgent2674 I am sorry
You could also play "spin the bottle" or just, you know, the old car key party thing.
And, unlike the board game, doesn't require a cuckold to be the "neutral referee"
Hey man, I just gotta say your writing on these scripts is incredible. You could describe the contents of my backyard and I would probably be entertained as long as you had enough time to write a script.
To be fair, you do have a very interesting backyard
There’s this really weird game me and my friends played last year called “redneck life”, which is basically the game of life if it hated (poor) southerners. The winner at the end is the person with the most teeth left and there’s spaces that give you… babies from hooking up with your cousin. If it’s not already on ur radar i’d love to see a video on it!
also if you roll a 1 on your first turn (you can't) you get born into a wealthy family
Oh I love that game! I’ve played that with my family
19:05 I am convinced Diplomat is a front for Big Candle
The "do a no-no" card in bumps and grinds is probably a smart reference to ULTRAKILL where a +NO-NO style bonus is awarded for killing an enemy with a chainsaw
OHHHH that clears up so much
So you have to kill one of the players with a chainsaw?
@@aynohalopesdealmeida9932 exactly
@@aynohalopesdealmeida9932exactly.
@@aynohalopesdealmeida9932With a chainsaw throw, to be specific. Otherwise, it's just +GROOVY
I ate the "doggie doo" of the game "doggie doo" one time when I was a kid. Almost died after, but that shit was good
YOU ATE THE DOG SHIT?????
I am scared of you
I would like to ask "what the fuck?" Thank you
Is this how Eve felt after eating the forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden?
I doubt doogie doo doo is actually toxic... I don't think this story is true
You are aware Charm School was a thing that existed right? You know the stereotype of there being all these extra etiquette rules for rich people like eating with the right silverware, the books on the head thing for posture, sitting properly and all that? Charm school is where they taught those things.
"Pimp: The Backhanding" sounds like a White Wolf World of Darkness title.
I remember someone from my high school that had a copy of PIMP: The Backhanding.
We were dumb teenagers then, so we never gave the controversy much thought or consideration.
It really is a technically sound game with a controversial theme.
I gotta say, going through your history of videos, it's been really interesting seeing your evolution from depicting yourself as a simple cartoon man, to only having your arms and hands on camera to illustrate a physical board game, to being fully on camera to do more involved bits and jokes alongside your explanations. it feels like you've become a lot more confident with yourself as you make more videos, and I think it just makes each one better than the last. You're doing a great job and I appreciate all the work you put into the channel!
when you said “ad time” i instinctively tried to skip through the video for a solid second
I knew I'd get at least one person
SAME
Okay that final joke really hit for me because me and my friends have been joking about Campaign for North Africa being the "Perfect Orgy Boardgame" for a few months now
It's goin good, dudes
It be runnin well lads
The moment we are in is moving well, males
It proceeds well, fellows.
as it proceeds, for how it proceeds, when it proceeds. good.
The situation that I am in is exponentially getting exceedingly great and beneficial, plural slang human male
0:21 A mystical journey through a living nightmare perfectly describes candy land.
I mean Adultery sounds like a good game for the worlds most dorky swingers
I can’t believe adultery isn’t LGBT inclusive
It was still considered a mental illness in 1969 USA....if you were LGBT in a 1969 TV or movie you were either a criminal or un-alived yourself "in shame" (w/very rare exceptions mostly in B or "foreign art" movies). But yeah what a lame sex party game, restrictive, uptight & limiting doesn't sound like a sex party to me.
@@u-neekusername4430 I know I was being sarcastic
@@Luigi-Board LOL, well that's embarrassing for me! 🤦🏻♀️
....this is what happens to you when you don't play any proper "party games" for fat too long 😜
@@u-neekusername4430 it’s okay! It happens to us all
Diplomat presents: Biogenics could just become a game of "make a board game baby, then make one for real"
Me with my five shirts, two jackets, three pairs of shorts, two pairs of sweats, 7 hats, 12 total socks, 6 gloves, and 20 watches on: hey let's play strip tac toe
I am glad Board Game Scott the Woz taught me what not to make. Now time to combine it all. Except the Diplomat ones.
*Especially the Diplomat ones
I still think the claim of Adultery being a crime game is silly, no one's getting arrested for adultery in 2024 in the US, and some of the states that have laws against it are repealing them (Minnesota and Idaho did in the last couple of years, and New York is in the process of it), and unless you're in a very fundamentalist country I doubt it'll result in much.
But still, it looks like more of a novelty joke or a gag gift than an actual game, for the reasons stated in the video. I guess there might be some people who could be into the strict rules as some sort of kink, but even then there are much better ways to do that lmao
"Public Punishment"
Ah, I see what you did there...
Capital Assistance
I can't lie at 4:16 knowing who Oliver North is makes this actually potentially funny
what is it?
"So you have an idea for a board game for me?"
"No sir, I don't. My ideas are dogshit. I'm here to be a janitor, see i was fired by the movie producer guy from..."
"...wait wait wait what did you just say?"
"...i'm here for janitor job because i was fired..."
"No, before that"
"My ideas are dog shit"
"WOW WOW WOW WOW! Let's go with that. You're hired"
The funniest part about pimp: the backhanding is the fact that it follows the same naming scheme for the world of darkness and chronicles of darkness rpg's
Hammerhead's logo should probably be a guy hammering himself in the head after playing one of their games.
Strip For North Africa has a better ring to it and without context sounds like an activism thing
If you ask Oliver North why he was having lunch with Ted Koppel and Helmut Kohl, he'll just say "I don't recall"
2:42 What? Why? Lepracy is really quite exiting -- waking up in the morning, hoping everything is still in place; and so many betting opportunities...
I feel like the base concept of Power Lunch, where a bunch of miscellaneous wacky characters are placed at different tables and players have to come up with fun scenarios for why they’re there, could work well re-skinned with more relevant characters. Not just modern day celebrities and politicians, but maybe even fictional characters.
Imagine a game that’s a hodgepodge crossover of pop culture characters and real word figures and players have to figure out why, I dunno, Princess Celestia from My Little Pony, Jack Skellington form Nightmare Before Christmas, former President Abe Lincoln and Dyneres Targerian from Game of Thrones are sitting at a table together. Kinda like the lesser known card game Slash; Romance Without Boundaries minus the whole shipping fanfic angle.
Alternatively, if you don’t want the logistical headache of licensing issues, you could come up with a wholly original cast of distinctive characters with thier own profiles on each card to pair together on a table. Like, for example a highschool themed game where you have to figure out why some of these original high schooler characters form different cliche high-school cliques like the goths, nerds, preps and jocks etc are sitting together. I’d say there’s potential.
The adult themed ones reminds me of that one random giant adult-themed monopoly board found underneath someone's floor.
0:15 WHY ARE THERE SO MANY SHIT THEMED BOARD GAMES
Id assume the logic is toilet humor appeals to most kids very easily?
Well, everybody poops.
"Nobody poops. It's only you. Feel ashamed".
My favourite defunct trivia question is the who wants to be a millionaire question that is unsolvable because it had Robert Patterson as the only person of the 4 answers not to have played batman before
I remember seeing the Ben Affleck one too.
To be fair, I wouldn’t be surprised if in the 60s models did go to charm school, I think it used to be much more of a thing back then
Surprised there was no mention of Brenda Romero’s “Train”. It’s a board game about getting as many passengers on a train as possible, it’s also about the holocaust.
That wasn't mass-produced, and was made as art, not a product. Not saying board games aren't art, but I am saying that Train was never really meant to be played for fun.
you know what naughty game would sell? stript twister.imagine that
Stripster exists!
The NBC game's premise reminds me of "Trivial Pursuit," a game I have never, ever played, despite the fact that I love trivia and would like to be on _Jeopardy!_ someday. Hardly anyone is going to remember who won the silver medal in swimming in the 1980 Summer Olympics, or who co-starred with an obscure actor in a TV show that ran for three seasons in the late 1990s. Sure, they can update them, but most of the stuff is pretty obscure.
The idea of a games company that just exclusively made games for swingers and polyamorists is amazing
Unfortunately none of Diplomat's games seem very mechanically interesting. Maybe fun for the right group, but it you have that group, is the game actually adding anything?
The Career Girl board game is actually pretty cute. Love those old illustrations.
I agree! That retro art style is so charming.
It doesn't look bad or anything, it's just... Airplane hostess
I love the stock footage of the businessmen fighting in an abandoned warehouse. They didn't bother to make it look like a single blow actually hit
I think a rerelease of Power Lunch with "timeless" celebrities or notable people like Elvis, Albert Einstein, Shakespeare, etc. would be a really solid party game.
You're wrong, Coup but with the Homeowners Association would be magnificent, "For The Greater Good"
10:13 must say the art style is so 2000s it carries a certain charm.
You forgot “Juden rauẞ”, a board game that was OBVIOUSLY created and sold in Nazi Germany, but then the SS was like “ooohhh no no no noooo, you have to leave that shit to UUUSSS!!” And banned the game for “challenging their movement” because of the goal to capture the “Jews” and place them in the various “collection points” until six “Jews” are captured by the first person to do so.
The Pimp game reminds me of the Italian game Squillo. Its essentially the same thing but its longer.
Too long and it also has 2 expansions one that adds gigolos.
20:22 you forgot the best part--the game involves drinking! So it's all the fun of a fire hazard with all the clumsiness of being drunk!
The thing about Adultery is that it was probably made to be played with a polycule rather than a game group. I can see a bunch of consenting people doing this on a boring night - note the word "consenting".
diplomat :
exists
drops 3 banging games
gives no explanation
unexists
*" B R O T H E R . "*
My same thoughts exactly.
When I saw the games from Diplomat, I immediately thought "Those look like games you'd see on the shelf at Spencer Gifts." I checked Wikipedia, and Spencer Gifts opened their first retail store in 1963.
Kam was looking up the biggest news stories of 1962 on his phone when he got scared.
Nope, I know all of those by heart ❤️
Just remember there was a 2000's "ghetto monopoly" game called Ghettopoly that got the creator sued by Hasbro, was once sold at Urban Outfitters before being pulled for racism, and apparently made the creator $8.9 million if Wikipedia is correct.
Of fucking course it was Urban Outfitters…
guys i think diplomat may have been an alien social experiment to study human sexuality
Maybe
5:37 I love how half of the "personality traits" aren't personality traits
Ah yes, the greatest flaw in my personality; overweight!
Goddamn the end got me. Imagine a 15-year game of stripping. Do you have to stay stripped over those years or do you just have to roll up to your friend’s twice a month and throw off clothes at the door from the previous sessions like “hey guys I don’t remember where we were in this game we’re gonna have to backtrack”
You're telling me a trivia game released in 1962 is out of date? No flippin' way!
Just found this channel yesterday, and have already watched most of the board games videos (still have yet to watch the tournament). Glad to be along for the ride!
Thank you for checking out the stuff!
Was hoping you'd mention the toilet or fart themed games, that are just kids' Russian Roulette, with no real gameplay or strategy! In fact, that would be good as its own video, all the games like Pie Face, Toilet Trouble, or Gas Out, that are just RR!
4:18 Oh I know Oliver North! He's a soldier, and a hero, and a novelist, and now he's on fox neeeeeeeews
I have a lead for you. Toons is a GURPS system RPG where you all becomeblooney toon like characters. It was nitch as heck but still got a couple of expansion books. I think you would find it fascinating. I have the game book if you want pictures of it.
Toon was its own system, no connection to GURPS except for the same publisher. Well, okay, and it only uses d6s, but not in the same way GURPS does.
love the video but the 1 frame stuff is bothering me. its not at an exact second in the video so i cant pause the video and click the timestamp. i have to go to 0.5x, click 8:30, spam play and pause button and miss it by a few frames every time. i dont understand the point of including information in a video thats nearly impossible to read. cant you just put a link in the description or put it on-screen for more than just 1 frame. its frustrating having to continue the video knowing i missed a piece of information
you can use , and . to go back and forth one frame at a time while the video is paused. This makes it way easier to read these things. Just for anyone who didn't know that information since it's not readily available.
I agree the 1 frame stuff makes me want to click off most times
@@AnarchoKeksYeah, but that only works on desktop. If you’re watching on mobile, it’s harder.
Does anyone happen to know what that frame says? I'm really curious, but I'm on mobile :(
The decision on editing the covers for Public Assistance and Capital Punishment together was brilliant imo
I can see the 1962 news thing being big with 20th century history buffs
I have never seen Pimp: The Backhanding anywhere other than the copy a friend owned, or heard it discussed. I was so glad to see it on the list.
Why did they decide that a candle was integral to the gameplay?!?
Romance?
The problem with S#### Tac Toe is that it uses the Tic Tac Toe foundation, Tic Tac Toe is garbage, they should've done Chess instead. Introducing Chexx, it's just like Chess, but with a twist. Everytime you take the opponents piece, the opponent takes removes an article, everytime you check a king, you do something with yourself, you know what, and whenever you get a checkmate, you are the one on top and do the activity with all the remaining articles still on. A perfect game to play with your love one.
you want to be the one who gets the doo in doggie doo? I thought it was you didn't want the doo
glad youve been riding the wave of subs from the tournament with so many new videos. it's been very smart on your part and ive really enjoyed the content. keep it up 👍
It took 4 videos for me to realize this whole channel is about board games and not just a series
your channel got into my recommended feed a few weeks ago, and i enjoy your stuff IMMENSELY! i’d honestly love to play a game like Power Lunch if you could get a cheat sheet for the celebrities. maybe you could do a game like that but a fantasy setting? and you’d get maybe their title and a short quote from them, and you’d have to make up a story based on that. yes it’s just extended improv storytelling, but if you get the right group of people it could be very fun!
Diplomat games definitely seem like a weird artifact of a certain sort of free love hippy culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It definitely gives me the same vibe as a TV show lile "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in"
Bro love this channel just found it a couple days around and it's great didn't know I needed to learn about board games from a random guy on the internet. Very good 10/10 channel
13:00 Actually Kam, Diplomat / Topco were a bit more prolific than just those 3 games!
1969: Office Party, Risque!, Around the World in Bed, some Diplomat, some Topco!
1983: Chippendale's After Hours Game!
1989: Around the World in Bed New More Daring Edition, publisher Neo Art Inc.
Topco also did Drink Tac Toe, French Cards, Ring A Ding!
Some on BGG, some Ebay!
Hope U can talk about these someday too, though info & pics are quite scarce!
Appreciate the fact the makers of Adultery knew that every good polygamous group of three or more friends of mixed genders has a token non-binary Asexual willing to mediate between their romantic escapades.
Like they forgot about gay people but at least they managed to include a Homestuck reference in their game exactly 50 years before the webcomic started.
Which honestly does feel like a plotpoint that *would* be in Homestuck, so good work there, boys!
It's us man. The baby was us.
I was hoping that the “bumps” in bump and grind was going to be cocaine and that’s why it was deadly.
I just found this channel and I can only describe it as Scott the woz for board games. The pacing is absolutely perfect and the delivery of every single joke is on point
7:47
The way you describe the two games is so ironic. Because if you look at how society actually works... Gaming your way through the justice system requires strategy, good lawyers, and certain tactics that might be frowned upon.
Whereas living a life on Welfare really is down to luck and circumstance.
So... Maybe they really did what they set out to?!
Nah, no way they were that clever. Just inconsistent game design!