Which board game was released first, Lord of the Rings or Castle Risk?
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Lord of the Rings (board game) Lord of the Rings is a board game based on the high fantasy trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien. Published in 2000 by Kosmos in Germany, Wizards of the Coast in the U.S., and Parker Brothers in the U.K., the game is designed by Reiner Knizia and features artwork by illustrator John Howe. It won a Spiel des Jahres special award for "best use of literature in a game" and in 2004 it won the Games Magazine Games 100 Honor in the Family Strategy category. A slightly revised version was later published by Fantasy Flight Games.
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Castle Risk Castle Risk is a version of the board game Risk that is played on a map of Europe. It was first released as a stand-alone game by Parker Brothers in 1986 and later appeared on the reverse side of the board in an early 1990s version of the standard Risk game.
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Albert Lamorisse Albert Lamorisse (] ; 13 January 1922 – 2 June 1970) was a French filmmaker, film producer, and writer, who is best known for his award-winning short films which he began making in the late 1940s, and also for inventing the famous strategic board game "Risk" in 1957.
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Lego Batman: The Videogame Lego Batman: The Videogame is a Lego-themed action-adventure video game developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, released in 2008 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, OS X and Wii video gaming platforms. It is the first "Lego Batman" video game. The game is based on the comic book character Batman and the Lego Batman toy line, who also handled marketing and financial aspects of the game.
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Moria (video game) The Dungeons of Moria, or just Moria, is a roguelike computer game based loosely on J. R. R. Tolkien's novel "The Lord of the Rings". The game's objective is to kill a Balrog, presumably Durin's Bane, deep within the Mines of Moria. A later port of Moria called "Umoria" (UNIX Moria) inspired the "Angband" roguelike game. This game influenced the preliminary design of Blizzard Entertainment's "Diablo".
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Lord of the Rings Adventure Game Lord of the Rings Adventure Game is a role-playing game based on the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien (specifically "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit") under license from Tolkien Enterprises. Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) published the game until they lost the license on 22 September 1999.
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Kingdoms (board game) Kingdoms is a German-style board game for 2-4 players designed by Reiner Knizia and released in 2002 by Fantasy Flight. The game is based on Knizia's original German game "Auf Heller und Pfennig", but has been given a Medieval Fantasy theme.
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Space Crusade Space Crusade is an adventure board game produced by Milton Bradley together with Games Workshop and was first made in 1990. While produced in the UK and available in some other countries including Finland, Ireland, France, Spain, Denmark, Australia and New Zealand, it was never sold in North America. In Germany, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands, it is known as Star Quest.
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Lankhmar (board game) Lankhmar was a fantasy board wargame published by TSR in 1976.
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Telengard Telengard is a 1982 role-playing dungeon crawler video game developed by Daniel Lawrence and published by Avalon Hill. The player explores a dungeon, fights monsters with magic, and avoids traps in real time without any set mission other than surviving. Lawrence first wrote the game as "DND", a 1976 version of "Dungeons & Dragons" for the DECsystem-10 mainframe computer. He continued to develop "DND" at Purdue University as a hobby, rewrote the game for the Commodore PET 2001 after 1978, and ported it to Apple II+, TRS-80, and Atari 800 platforms before Avalon Hill found the game at a convention and licensed it for distribution. Its Commodore 64 release was the most popular. Reviewers noted "Telengard"'s similarity to "Dungeons and Dragons". RPG historian Shannon Appelcline noted the game as one of the first professionally produced computer role-playing games, and "Gamasutra"'s Barton considered "Telengard" consequential in what he deemed "The Silver Age" of computer role-playing games preceding the golden age of the late 1980s. Some of the game's dungeon features, such as altars, fountains, teleportation cubes, and thrones, were adopted by later games such as "Tunnels of Doom".
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Gondor: The Siege of Minas Tirith Gondor is a 1977 board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc.
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Lords of Waterdeep Lords of Waterdeep is a German-style board game designed by Peter Lee and Rodney Thompson and published by Wizards of the Coast in 2012. The game is set in Waterdeep, a fictional city in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game. Players take the role of masked rulers of Waterdeep, deploying agents and hiring adventurers to complete quests and increase their influence over the city.
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Finance (game) Finance, or The Fascinating Game of Finance or Finance and Fortune, is a board game originally released in 1932. The game is based on "The Landlord's Game" in the movement of pieces around the board, the use of cards, properties that can be purchased, and houses that can be erected on them. The game also has railroads, however these may not be purchased. The game is actually a predecessor to "Monopoly".
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Valhalla and the Fortress of Eve Valhalla and the Fortress of Eve, also known as Valhalla 3, is an adventure game developed and released by Vulcan Software in 1995 for the Amiga. It was later ported to PC Windows in 2004 and to the BlackBerry mobile in 2013. It is a sequel to 1994's "Valhalla and the Lord of Infinity" and 1995's "" in which the protagonist King Garamond II has to rescue the kidnapped ladies from an evil witch Eve's castle and find himself a woman of his dreams.
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Guardians of Middle-earth Guardians of Middle-earth is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed by Monolith Productions and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The setting of the game is Middle-earth, derived from "The Lord of the Rings" series, with various tie-ins to the film series of the same name. "Guardians of Middle-earth" was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles on December 4, 2012, via the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade respectively. A retail package is also released, which includes a download voucher for the game as well as a "Season Pass" for future downloadable content. It is no longer available on the PlayStation Network and the servers are down as well.
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Magic Realm Magic Realm is a fantasy adventure board game designed by Richard Hamblen and published by Avalon Hill in 1979. "Magic Realm" is more complex than many wargames and is somewhat similar to a role-playing game. It can be played solitaire or with up to 16 players and game time can last 4 hours or more. The game board is a type of geomorphic mapboard constructed of large double-sided hexagon tiles, ensuring a wide variety of playing surfaces.
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Quest for the Rings Quest for the Rings is a boardgame/video game hybrid for the Videopac. It is the first game in the Odyssey² "Master Strategy Series", and it was considered particularly innovative at the time of its release.
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To Court the King To Court the King is a dice-based board game designed by Tom Lehmann. It was published in German by Amigo Spiele and in English by Rio Grande Games in 2006. The basic mechanics of rolling and re-rolling dice have drawn comparisons to the game of Yahtzee.
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Babylonian Castle Saga Babylonian Castle Saga, also known as The Tower of Druaga, is a media franchise owned by Namco Bandai. It primarily consists of and action role-playing video game series created by Masanobu Endō and released by Namco, beginning with the 1984 arcade game, "The Tower of Druaga". The franchise went on to spawn an anime series, also called "The Tower of Druaga", in 2008. Much of the setting and many of the characters in the franchise are taken from Babylonian mythology, including the protagonist Gilgamesh, the goddess Ishtar, and the Tower of Babel.
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Jewels of Darkness Jewels of Darkness (formerly the Middle-Earth Trilogy) is a trilogy of text adventure games by Level 9. The individual games were initially released separately in 1983. They featured some themes inspired by the books of J. R. R. Tolkien and so became known as the "Middle-Earth Trilogy".
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BattleLore (board game) BattleLore is a strategy board wargame for two players, created by Richard Borg and initially published by Days of Wonder in 2006 (and later by Fantasy Flight Games). The game is based on the same mechanics as "Battle Cry", "Memoir '44" and "", but has a fantasy and medieval theme.
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Elfenland Elfenland is a German-style board game designed by Alan R. Moon and published by Amigo Spiele in German and Rio Grande Games in English in 1998.