A strange game from the West Indies
Apr 05, 2008
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Just surfing around and discovered this little oddity from the West Indies. A board game called QuickIt which is described thus:
“From the Paradise Islands of Trinidad and Tobago, to the Cricket Lovers of the World. A Parody with Dice by Parodice Games. Experience the ‘glorious uncertainties’ of your favourite sport,
with an exhilarating board game the whole family will enjoy. Excellent ground, weather and light conditions all year round. At last, PLAY IS GUARANTEED.”
There’s also a free computer version of it (apparently) though it all looked a bit dodgy so I didn’t download it. Very odd indeed and would love to hear if anyone has actually bought this game?
You can find it here: www.pg-cricket.com
Thank you for highlighting our board game, QuickIt. Now called “Parodice Games Cricket” or PG-Cricket for short, ‘Quickit’ has not been produced commercially, as yet.
The game shown in the captioned photograph was one of 3,000 copies made for product/market testing and to hand out as samples at a trade show in London many years ago.
I encourage you to download a copy of the computer version of our board game -it is only 200K, but requires that you have Java’s Virtual Machine software installed on your computer. I will admit that it is far from perfect, but, for the price, it gives you a good idea of what the board game is about.
Again, thank you.
Raul Bermudez
toymaker@parodicegames.com