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Re: Mille Bornes

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Post by adrianmonk »

082349872349872 wrote: post #20
Waterluvian wrote: post #11

When I was in 7th grade I used ResEdit to do a total conversion of the Macintosh version of Mille Bornes for a French class project. The provided theme was “La Vie Est (Et?) Belle.” My French teacher really had no clue how to receive it. He didn’t really understand how I made an entire computer card game. My more tech aware home room teacher went to bat for me and eventually I won a school award and got to eat lunch…

There are even games which are basically ResEdit'ed Mille Bornes. One is Grass[0]; what are others? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_(card_game) ... which leads to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touring_(card_game)

I've played Touring many times!

My grandparents had it, and we used to play all the time in the 1970s and 1980s. The deck they had was a real antique even back then.

I think they actually had two decks. Based on photos from BoardGameGeek[1], one deck was probably from the 1940s and the other from the 1920s or 1930s.

It was a fun game, and even as a kid I enjoyed the cool retro art.

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[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2253/touring/versions

Re: Mille Bornes

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Post by loulouxiv »

I used to play a lot of this with my grandmother and cousins when I was a child. Later I happened to work in the factory mentionned in the article, which was at the time rented as warehouse and office for an E-commerce company. There was a huge Dujardin logo painted on the outer wall, which was preserved when they repainted the building [0]

[0] https://maps.app.goo.gl/2HMq4m4qkCH6FtYa6

Re: Mille Bornes

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Post by twic »

Never played it, but as a child i played a lot of a very similar (i believe) game called Nautic Miles, in which you try to get your convoys across the ocean in the face of various attacks from your enemy. The moves (that i can remember) are to play a convoy card of some value from your hand, face down; to add a miles card to a convoy (scoring it if it reaches 4000 miles); to expose one of your opponent's convoys using a radar card; to stop one of your opponents' convoys using a storm card; to release one of your storm-bound convoys using a fair weather card; to sink one of your opponent's convoys using a mine card (unless they can counter with a minesweeper card); to attack one of your opponent's convoys with a warship card (which they can counter with a stronger warship card, which you can counter with a yet stronger warship card, etc); and some form of air attack, which could be foiled if your opponent had an aircraft shot down card. There was also something about alerts; maybe you had to lay an alert card on a convoy before you could attack it (except with a mine!).

How many times did i successfully press an attack, at the expense of multiple cards, only to discover that i had sunk the worthless chalutier?

It dates from the '80s, but has rather elegant art deco card designs:

https://boardgamegeek.com/image/540087/nautic-miles

https://paille-editions.com/V2/produit/nautic-miles/

Re: Mille Bornes

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Post by brfox »

I have a deck of these cards from the 80s in very good condition (except the box is not in good shape). Let me know if you want it and if you live in Seattle I'll give it to you (or I can mail it if you want to pay shipping).

Re: Mille Bornes

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Post by Sporktacular »

mcphage wrote: post #7

We played a lot of this when I was a kid… our edition had the 1960s French artwork. When my sister bought a new copy a few months back to play while my dad was in the hospital, she made sure to find one with the classic artwork. It really is a lot more charming than newer styles.

Could you maybe give a link to where she found it? Thanks.

Re: Mille Bornes

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Post by munificent »

pdw wrote: post #25

If 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.

I'm not sure if it was first, but I know curses was instrumental in making Rogue possible (which in turn eventually inspired an entire genre of games). The Rogue authors used curses and Ken Arnold eventually ended up contributing directly to the game.

Re: Mille Bornes

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Post by Bakary »

karaterobot wrote: post #5

We 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.

It's weird because we don't notice the millions of times coincidental real-world follow ups don't happen

Re: Mille Bornes

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Post by mcphage »

Sporktacular wrote: post #47
mcphage wrote: post #7

We played a lot of this when I was a kid… our edition had the 1960s French artwork. When my sister bought a new copy a few months back to play while my dad was in the hospital, she made sure to find one with the classic artwork. It really is a lot more charming than newer styles.

Could you maybe give a link to where she found it? Thanks.

She got it off of Amazon, but I'm not sure which of the ones listed was the one she ordered. Sorry :-(. This one looks most similar: https://www.amazon.com/Classic-Fast-Paced-Strategy-Playtime-... but I'm pretty sure it had the French text on it, not English.
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