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The Creature That Ate Sheboygan box art
1979 Ranked #5,693

The Creature That Ate Sheboygan

A monster mayhem game has one player design a creature and destroy a city while opponents evacuate civilians and deploy defenses. Escalating resistance from police and the army challenges every rampage.

Wargames Movies / TV / Radio theme Science Fiction Area Movement Grid Movement

Players

2

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

1.64/5

Rating

6.45

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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The Creature That Ate Sheboygan is a fabulous game where one gets to "wreak havoc with the monster of your choice".

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The Creature That Ate Sheboygan is a fabulous game where one gets to "wreak havoc with the monster of your choice". You design a monster (Godzilla, Mothra, The Really Big Slug, etc.) and then try to destroy as much of Sheboygan as possible; the opponent scrambles civilians out of the way, then sends in the police and eventually the Army. Great fun! Spawned numerous imitators, such as the old Epyx computer game "Crush, Crumble & Chomp", or more recent games such as "Super Giant Monster Showdown".

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Play and group

Players
2
Best with
1
Play time
90 min
Age
10+
Complexity
1.6/5
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Credits

Designers

1
Greg Costikyan

Artists

2
Redmond A. Simonsen Charles Vess

Publishers

5
Encore Hobby Japan Kokusai-Tsushin Co., Ltd. (?????) Simpubs Ltd. SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.)

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