Discovering Europe board game

simu

Do ye remember this board game? I used to play it every day one summer. So much so that i still think of the number some of the cities had when i hear of the cities in completely different contexts! e.g. "Ankara 49".

I also played Discovering Ireland and Globehopping(trotting?) by the same company but they weren't as good.

Do they still make them? (Twould be a good way to plan your summer holidays):)

zAbbo

was it not called "Journey Through Europe" can in a yellowish box with a fair amount of cards. Or maybe i had the cheap imitation

simu

I found a pic of it on google:



Ahh! The memories!

TheSonOfBattles

I remember we had now that you mention the name. Forgotten about it completely. I think it had a huge **** off dice, and you got a certain amount of locations you had to land on during the course of the game through the cards, and could receive another location part way through the game. Used to play it a lot with my younger sister for a while, was fun to.

Agent Smith

i played that game last monday night!


it rules

D-Generate

I played it with a big group of friends recently. Fantastic game and it carries those little tid-bits of history about the cities and the wonders of the stop-signs. People didn't take too kindly to my planning of the best route around to win it and being quiet while i calculated my next movement. Apparently I was being too competetive. What would they know the losebags

thetis

Would you believe that this is still on sale. We used to have it at home about 14 years but I have a ten year old brother who received it as a birthday gift in January. Now either someone buys presents and keeps them for years (unlikely as it was from another 10 year old), or it's still available in shops. I must admit I haven't played it again since he got it, but I will

sceptre

Originally posted by bazH
was it not called "Journey Through Europe" can in a yellowish box with a fair amount of cards. Or maybe i had the cheap imitation

Discovering Europe (from 1989ish) was a sequel to Discovering Ireland (from 1987), brought out by Gosling Games from Castlefreke in west Cork (& a nice part of the world it is too). They brought out Discovering London too, with some nice painted pewter London characters as playing pieces.

Journey Through Europe was brought out by Ravensburger in 1982 (though we probably got ours around 1988 when Fisher Price did a UK distribution) and was a similar idea but a slightly different type of game. It was far less restrictive route-wise than any of the Gosling offerings. Slightly better design on the whole in my opinion.

We used to have them all at home except for Discovering Europe. I was never beaten at Journey Through Europe by my siblings (I suppose I turned out to be rather good at graph theory in maths as well so the two may tie in together). Still have them in the middle room - when we did the big clear out of the old house a few years ago I held on to those three and that soccer game with the cards (damned if I can remember what that's called - it's under a pile of stuff somewhere). I kept them on the basis that they weren't available any longer as far as I could tell and probably wouldn't ever be. I'd have kept my old GAA-endorsed "Páirc" game but tossed it on the basis that it was crap.

oneweb

We have one here (I think Discovering Europe), and the grandparents have the other (Ireland). Great game, played it not too many moons ago and still enjoyed it