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Flounder with Public  Doomed from the Start: Games about Titanic
Tragedy Flounder with Public  by Michael Barnes (04/18/12).
Because of an outcry of those offended by the game in the United
Kingdon, the board game The Sinking of the Titanic’s name was
changed for U.K. distribution to Abandon Ship. But the same
image of the Titanic was used for that game, too.  April 15th,
2012 marked the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
The facts in the case should be well known by now, but in case
you missed it, filmmaker and deep sea submariner James Cameron
made a little movie about it a couple of years ago that was kind
of popular. The long and short of it—icebergs and ocean liners
don’t mix. Despite the perennial interest in the Titanic, there
really haven’t been too many board games about the subject; it’s
just not a very “gameable” subject, and the iceberg is going to
win every time. B