Take a Seat for Tour de France, Oversee Miller Zoo, and Become the Law in Judge Dredd | BoardGameGeek News

Bit by bit, the real world continues to be transformed — or in one case re-transformed — into tabletop games by designers and publishers who want to give you a chance to relive an experience at home:

• Miller Zoo in Québec is, as I understand it, more like a wildlife rehabilitation center for abandoned and rescued animals than a traditional zoo, although it still has plenty of animals on hand in natural environments for visitors to see — and now Decrypto designer Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance and publisher Randolph have released a licensed co-operative game called Miller Zoo in which 1-6 players equip their location, meet the animals’ needs, and manage crises as best as they can.

The game includes six envelopes with new animals and challenges so that add new elements to the game as you master your managerial skills.

Randolph plans to release an English-language version of Miller Zoo in time for Gen Con 2023.

• Contra: The Board Game from Adam and Brady Sadler, and Mega Man Adventures from Peter Gousis and Michael D. Kelley — each of which is a tabletop adaptation of a video game — are finally making their way to the retail market.

The two games were first announced by Blacklist Games, with pre-orders for Contra: The Board Game having opened in July 2020, and co-publisher Kess has let me know that these games are rolling out to stores now.

Side note: On October 19, 2022, Brady Sadler announced that he has decided to leave the board game industry:

• Ravensburger continues to find new ways to gamify Disney, with Disney Space Mountain Game: All Systems Go from designers Chris Leder and Kevin Rodgers giving you a way to skip the lines and emulate the amusement park ride.

The game is a press-your-luck design, with you trying to visit five spaceports and complete five mission cards, but if you can’t afford to fuel the navigation dice rolled on a turn, you lose any current progress.

• At SPIEL ’22, Czech publisher RC Games showed off Tour de France Board Game, the second sports game in its catalog after 2021’s SuperAce Tennis.

The game includes track to recreate stages of the 109th Tour de France, with players using dice to determine movement for their six-person team. For more details, head to the publisher’s website for this game.

• Ian Livingstone‘s Judge Dredd board game, first released in 1982 by Games Workshop, will be updated in a new edition from UK publisher Rebellion Unplugged for release in November 2022 — forty years later! — under the name…Judge Dredd.

The gist of the game remains the same:

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This edition features updated cards and rules, re-colored art from Brian Bolland and Ian Gibson, a refreshed graphic design, and the introduction of Specialist Judges. From the publisher: “Each has a special ability that will change how players approach the game, whether that be the brute strength of the Mechanismo droid, the innate abilities of the Psi Judge, the unrivalled authority of the Chief Judge, the added support available to the fresh-faced Cadet, the brutal methods of the Special Judicial Squad, or the…unique skills of the undercover Wally Squad!”

Game on display at SPIEL ’22