The part that kept me coming back as a child was feeling of completely stonewalling my little brother and getting a "shut out"
Mille Bornes
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#22The last time our family played it became frustrating: one team being unable to even get their car rolling off the starting line — waiting, waiting for the magic cards to fix a flat, get a green light, etc. The opposing team had wonderful hands and were ruthless. I kept thinking that there's a fun game in here, but not with the current rules/deck. I think a driving game should have more driving ... less sitting aroun…
The whole "waiting for a green light to just start" is the problem, I think. We have house rules that limit the cases where you need a green light, and the pace is much better. And less frustrating.
New house rule : It's illegal to say you have a house rule without citing said house rule.
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#23One of the teens who baby sat my sister and I had this game. It's great reading comment of others who enjoyed this game as much as I did.
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#24We bought the 'Mario'-themed version of Mille borne: what a mistake!
The original version is much more understandable..
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#25If you have a BSD system, or if you have bsdgames installed, you can run "mille" to play Mille Bornes. This version was done by Ken Arnold, who also created the curses library. Even better, I seem to remember that Mille Bornes was the first program to use curses, but I can't find a citation for that now.
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#26We played this a lot with my babysitter growing up. It's fun for kids, and the graphic design on the older editions is so slick and jet set era. But I'm a little weirded out by this, because I've heard about Mille Bornes twice in the last week, and not a single time in the 30 years prior to it.
I'm weirded out because I thought about the game for the first time in about 15 years just a few days ago (after seeing a speed limit sign and a severe tire damage sign in close proximity to each other) only to have it pop up on HN.
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#27If you have a BSD system, or if you have bsdgames installed, you can run "mille" to play Mille Bornes. This version was done by Ken Arnold, who also created the curses library. Even better, I seem to remember that Mille Bornes was the first program to use curses, but I can't find a citation for that now.
And on Debian and presumably derivatives there are packages xmille as well as bsdgames which includes mille.
edited for reduced ambiguity.
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#28I remember playing this several years ago. I'm convinced that the Right of Way card is massively overpowered. It felt like whoever got it basically always won.
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#29I played many hours of this game with my brothers on a 1990's Shareware CD. Great memories, and we always had a great time playing!
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#30I remember playing this several years ago. I'm convinced that the Right of Way card is massively overpowered. It felt like whoever got it basically always won.
In more recent versions they changed the rules to not require a GO card after recovering from an incident card so the right of way card got nerfed a bit. It's still OP though.