Solitary games were the desperate resource for any game fanatic who was missing a group, even in the era preceding the PC (and the Commodore 64!): I spent months on a booklet by G. Dossena, "Solitary games with cards and others" ("Solitari con le carte e altri solitari" - Mondadori, 1976), finding out that there were tons of these games, besides the two games I once learnt with my family (one was a variation of "Napoleon", the other I don't know!). Among these games were the "Big Clock" and "Edvige", very very fun games.
Before that book, I only had one type of "solitary game" in my mind: just like the non-gamers, to whom you can explain your hobby and get a funny look back in their eyes, saying "Oh yeah, snakes and ladders".
I wish Dossena could convert all of them...
(DDG)

GiocAreA OnLine #18
- February 2006
next issue: 1 April 2006

 

Lonely director:
Domenico Di Giorgio
Exiliated chief redactor:
Silvano Sorrentino
One and only supervisor:
Roberto Corbelli
Separate redactors:
Roberto Corbelli,
Stefano Gaburri,
Luigi Saggese,
Giacomo Sorrentino,
Silvano Sorrentino.
Unique translations:
Stefano Gaburri,
Simone Maurilli,
Emiliano Sciarra,
Andrés Juan Voicu.
Single illustrator
for Zombie Nightmare:
Michele Saggese.
The only image
in the last page of
“The Lone Gunslinger” is by:
Eriadan (www.eriadan.it)

 

 

Our music for this month:
Negramaro,
Mentre Tutto Scorre (2005)
System of a Down, Hypnotize (2005)
Maximo Park, A Certain Trigger (2005)

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