Bringing TV to the table
By Staff -- Playthings, 11/1/2005
Television inspires many things. It inspires shopping (ubiquitous commercial advertisements), education (just watch the news any day), and game play. The medium even inspires board game play, but with the help of a TV, of course.
The first-ever WWE DVD board game, from Specialty Board Games (SBG), Toronto, lets players take control of real-life wrestlers.
Players create their wrestling world on-board by buying and selling wrestlers, managing salaries, player fatigue and injuries. The game is for individual or multiplayer use and includes a DVD for added trivia and challenges as players make their way around the WWE.
Also from SBG is the CSI: Miami DVD game, the latest version of original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation series. The original CSI board game sold 700,000 copies when it was launched in 2004.
The game features crime stories, written in the same style as the series. Players roll the 12-sided CSI die to learn more about the evidence, identify the killers and finally reveal the truth. The first investigator, or player, to submit the correct arrest warrant wins.
The E! network is known for its paparazzi ways. Now players can bring it into their living room, literally. The E! Pop!-A-Razzi DVD game from Imagination Entertainment, Los Angeles, tests players knowledge of everything paparazzi with celebrity clips and trivia from the E! Entertainment’s 101 Countdown series.
