First Boardgame in Eagle’s new line of Euro – American Hybrids Plainfield, IL – September 8, 2004 – Eagle Games, Inc., today announced that it will be publishing the first game in its exciting new line of Euro – American hybrids this October. Bootleggers, designed by the hot new design team, SDR, will blend the best aspects of American gaming with the strongest traits of Euro-style games. European games, which feature fast playing times and interesting game mechanics, have been growing in popularity over the last few years. Thousands of fans eagerly seek out the newest games from Europe and even purchase them in non-English language versions from online retailers. To date, the Euro-game craze has been limited in the U.S. by lack of mainstream distribution and American-friendly designs and packaging. Euro games have also been criticized as too abstract and suffering from “pasted on” themes. Eagle Games plans to leap these hurdles and bring the best of European-style gaming to mainstream America. “I was extremely excited to meet a team of very talented designers that shared my vision,” related Glenn Drover, President of Eagle Games. “The guys at SDR really nailed the concept of a Euro-American Hybrid with Bootleggers. It contains some truly unique play concepts that are in the spirit of the best Euro-style games, while simultaneously immersing the player into the theme of prohibition-era speakeasies and bootlegging operations.” Bootleggers allows players to become a “family boss” and run a bootlegging business during the era of prohibition in America. They must simultaneously increase their production of whisky crates, build their fleet of truck transport, and muscle their way into the speakesies that pay the best profit for their “hooch”. The game encourages player interaction through trading, deal-making, and the play of Thug cards on other players. Naturally, good planning and strategy are rewarded, but a bit of clever diplomacy is required to deal with the aspirations of the other Bootlegger families. Bootleggers is designed for 3 to 6 players, with a playing time is 60 to 90 minutes, and is currently scheduled for an October, 2004 launch. Assets and reviews of current products may be viewed on the company’s website: www.eaglegames.net Back to 3rd Quarter 2004 List of News Items Back to Master List of News Items Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2004 by Coalition Web, Inc. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com