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

[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?