Media Watch: Rare World War II Game Bought by Essex Museum
From the BBC comes this story about the purchase of the 1941 game Adler Luftverteidigungs Spiel in an auction for £600:
“I’ve been looking for this particular game for over 40 years,” said the [House on the Hill Toy Museum] owner Alan Goldsmith....
“When [the Allies] bombed Dresden and burnt the factory down all the games went with it, other than the ones that were sold before them, so they’re extremely rare.”
He added: “You have 88m guns and one person is defending the Fatherland, the other person is the English bomber pilot.
Sounds like a good description of Friedemann de Pedro’s Duel in the Dark. Interesting to see game settings repeat like this over the decades…
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Mar 9, 2010 at 09:00 PM in Game News, Media Watch / 636
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So who is going to be doing the reprint of this game? ;) Posted by Kevin Rutherford on Mar 10, 2010 at 10:13 AM | #
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