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The best board game games

Classic board games like Backgammon, Othello, Checkers were an inspiration to the first wave of developers for their simplicity and appeal. In time, modern board games like Diplomacy, Risk, Monopoly or Scrabble were also adapted in a number of games. And let's not forget the strategy games NOT based on actual tabletop games which gameplay is clearly inspired by board games (like the excellent Archon).
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Felony!

DOS19844/5 BrainBank
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Fooblitzsky

DOS19864/5 Infocom
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Global Conquest

DOS19924/5 Ozark Softscape
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Advanced Civilization

DOS19954/5 Avalon Hill
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Acquire

DOS19893.9/5 IBM
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Harpoon

DOS1989protected3.9/5 Three-Sixty Pacific
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Global Thermo War

DOS19853.9/5
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5th Fleet

DOS19943.9/5
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HeroQuest

DOSMac19913.9/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
HeroQuest is a classic video game adaptation of the popular board game HeroQuest, released in 1991 by Gremlin Interactive. HeroQuest faithfully recreates the turn-based, dungeon-crawling, and role-playing gameplay of the board game. Players take on the roles of different heroes, including a barbarian, dwarf, elf, and wizard, as they explo...
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Space 1889

DOS19903.9/5 Paragon Software
Space 1889 is an abandoned top down RPG developed by Paragon Software and released in 1990 for DOS, Atari ST and Amiga. Space 1889 setting is classic science fiction, but is set in the Victorian. It's worth noting that Space 1889 is loosely based on the tabletop game of the same name.
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Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace

DOS19893.9/5 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
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A Line in the Sand

DOS1992protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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4Play

Windows 3.x1995NSFW3.9/5
4Play is a multi-player board-like strategy party-game for adults released for Windows 3.1 in 1995. 4Play is a board-game very similar to Monopoly in which players have to perform certain (adult) actions in response to events happening on the board.
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Monopoly

DOS19853.9/5
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Full Metal Planete

DOSMac19903.9/5 Hitech Productions
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Mission: Mainframe

DOS19873.9/5
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The Ball Game

DOS19913.9/5 Esprit Software Programs
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Risk: the World Conquest Game

DOS19893.8/5 Mastertronic
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Black Crown

DOS19953.8/5
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Risk

Windows 3.x19913.8/5 Azeroth
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Trivial Pursuit Deluxe

DOS19923.8/5 Oxford Digital Enterprises
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Bureau 13

DOS19953.8/5 Take-Two Interactive
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Autoduel

DOS19853.8/5 Origin Systems
Autoduel is an abandoned top-down open world post apocalyptic RPG/driving game hybrid designed by Chuck Bueche and Richard Garriott of Ultima fame. Autoduel was developed by Origin Systems and was released in 1985 for DOS, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, C64, Apple II, Macintosh, Amiga. Autoduel is based on a board game designed by Steve Jackson himself.
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Battle for Atlantis

DOS19903.8/5
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Robot Rascals

DOS19873.8/5 Ozark Softscape
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Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World

DOS19893.8/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Ishido: The Way of the Stones

DOSMac19903.8/5 Publishing International
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La Colmena

DOS1992NSFW3.8/5 Opera Soft
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Mario's Game Gallery

DOSMac19953.8/5 Presage Software