Steve Jackson games are of great amusement to me. They do come up with some of the most amusing ideas.
Way back when the Car Wars phenomina started with miniatures, maps, complex rules and making my grandmother mad as my cousins and I played all over her kitchen table for hours. Sooo...when my new coworkers suggested we play during lunch I boggled. How could such a monstrosity be boiled down to less than an hour? Come to find out it'd been taken care of with a card game option.
Each player gets a car card, 12 points of armor on front, rear, left and right. 5 points on the driver. The point of the game...use the machine guns, auto cannons and flamethrower cards in your hand to toast the other players and put them out of the game. They, of course, can armor, spin, swerve, dud missile, and jam your guns right back at you. Last player standing takes home honors. It's a quick moving little game and very fun. We're playing for points, 10 per kill and 20 for winning the match, first player to 250 gets lunch on everyone else's dime.
Anyone else ever tried it?
~J