One of the best-selling hobby boardgames of the mid-80s, Richard Harris's Talisman, was recently republished by Black Industries, a subsidiary of Games Workshop. Despite its fantasy theme, it is intermediate in complexity between most of what appears in the hobby market and the sort of thing published by mass-market boardgame producers. You can almost imagine it being published in the late 19th or early 20th centuries, during the first flower of game design as a creative enterprise, under the aegis either of Mr. George Parker or Mr. Milton Bradley.
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