Help Me, My Aquatic Friends

[robotnik2004]

Calling on the LazyWeb here: Does anybody remember a board game, I think it was called "Disaster!", in which the board had four disaster areas—an earthquake, a burning building, a crashing airplane, a sinking ship—and you went around the board trying to escape each disaster in turn while trapping your opponents therein? We had this game when I was a kid, and I loved it. The plastic pawns were excellent. I think they were (understandably) nervous-looking little hunchbacks. I went Googling for images of this game to illustrate a post over at Old is the New New about the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (today's the 100th anniversary) but I can't find it anywhere. Anyone? Bueller?

Edit: Well, that didn't take long. head58 hied straight to Boardgamegeek.com and found it, and mgrasso might've beat him back here if he hadn't stopped to type in the "img" tag:





Man, does that bring back memories. I'd forgotten it was bilingual. Tremblement de terre! Ecrassement! Fire, fire, incendie! "Sunk... Naufrage!" sounds like it oughta be a leet-speak putdown, like own3d. Thanks, guys.

Comments

[moxieholic.livejournal.com]

This sounds vaguely familiar.

I had a Bermuda Triangle board game, where you had to deliver goods around the Caribbean without having your boats sucked up by a giant magnetic cloud.

[head58.livejournal.com]

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/11384

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Damn you. :(

[head58.livejournal.com]

In your FACE Matt Grasso!

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Time elapsed: 6 minutes! Awesome.

Why does anybody ever do any of their own research ever?

[kniedzw.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard of it, but it sounds like it was an awesome game.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Is this your card?

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

That was fast. What search terms did you use?

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

I knew boardgamegeek.com would have it; they have EVERYTHING. [/blues brothers]

[foogie.livejournal.com]

Didn't we play this back in grade 6 or something? Or at your cottage? I definitely remember playing this game.

And I would have found it too, if it hadn't been for those meddling kids and that blog.

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

We totally did.

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Totally.

[foogie.livejournal.com]

Whoa, man. That is totally weird. I originally typed "I totally remember playing that game." But then I got self-conscious about the "totally..." so I changed it. I applaud you, sir.

So... no baby yet, I guess?

[shiffer.livejournal.com]

I like how it says "INCENDIE! INCENDIE!". I'm guessing that's an actual language to some people (Canadianian, maybe?), but for me it's just funny.

[harmfulguy.livejournal.com]

Gee, I wonder what decade that was designed in.