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Monster Mash: The Creature That Ate Sheboygan
By Mark | July 22, 2007
Having grown up surrounded by games such as ‘The Art of Seige’ and Jacquinto’s ‘Thin Red Line’, there was very little need as a child to actually own a game of my own. However the first game ever bought exclusively for me was SPI’s quirky classic board wargame ‘The Creature That Ate Sheboygan’.
I had forgotten all about the game really, until searching for images to build this site. There it was in all of it’s obscure glory. There are many great images of the game on BoardGameGeek, some obviously of an earlier print of the game than the one I owned.
It was a fascinating game, not least because it was played street by street on city map with mishapen rectangles rather than hexes for movement. Simplistic but not without it’s enjoyable aspects, you had creatures which could stomp buildings to rubble or set them on fire, along with corresponding fire brigade and police units to protect the buildings and the population.
Fantastic fun. I’ve come over all nostalgic now.
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