https://www.booyakajuice.com/collections/all.atom booyakajuice 2017-04-24T22:45:56-04:00 booyakajuice https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/9752035021 2017-04-24T22:45:56-04:00 2017-04-24T22:45:56-04:00 Virus Board Games Giochix.it

Vendor: Giochix.it
Type: Board Games
Price: 69.95

Designer Michele Quondam
Publisher Giochix.it
Players 1-6
Playtime 30-120 mins
Suggested Age 14 and up
Expansion Virus: Walls System Expansion

A frightening virus, Virus Q, is spreading in the major cities of the planet. Infected people and animals change rapidly, becoming horrible bloodthirsty and almost unstoppable creatures. Our only hope is to find the zero patient and the place where everything originated. There, perhaps, we can find an antidote and return the hope to the dying humanity.

But not everyone agrees. There are those who want to take advantage of the chaos and terror in order to gain power and establish a new form of government, trying to maneuver and control the monsters generated by the virus. A cure would ruin their plans forever.

The virus was created in a secret military lab, in a space that's practically inaccessible. Inside, Virus Q spread for the first time, accidentally, maybe; the creatures that now inhabit the Lab are difficult even to imagine...

In the innovative lab crawler game Virus, players are the team that infiltrates the Lab looking for the antidote to Virus Q. They will collect the few and fragmentary bits of information scattered in the laboratory, avoiding or fighting the monsters that populate it.

The map generation and the movement/placement of monsters depends on the player actions with a semi-automatic mechanism controlling what takes place where. The fighting requires some dexterity elements as well as players must plan their tactics by combining their shooting power with available movement, achieving successes by rolling cubes.

Also, the game takes place in real time!

In sum, you can play Virus cooperatively, semi-cooperatively or competitively. The "infiltrator" option makes the game even more exciting and unpredictable!

]]> Age_12+ Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set Category_Cooperative Discount_On Sale Google-True INV-0-L INV-V Players Maximum_6 Players Players Minimum_1 Player Playtime Maximum_120 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Sale Type_Regular Stocky-Clearance Year Published_2010s https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/9752035021 Default Title 69.95 GX041 2644 https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/374393017 2014-11-09T02:59:00-05:00 2014-11-09T02:59:00-05:00 Rio de la Plata Board Games Rio Grande Games

Vendor: Rio Grande Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 54.95

Designer Michele Quondam
Publisher Rio Grande Games
Players 2
Playtime 150 mins
Suggested Age 13 and up

In 1536 Pedro de Mendoza founded the city of Buenos Aires along the river Rio de la Plata. After 5 years the settlers were forced to leave the city, exhausted by the difficulties and by the continuous attacks of the indigenous Querandies. The city was destroyed by the natives some weeks after.

Almost fifty years later Juan de Garay leads a new expedition and founds a new city. As before, resources are low and the natives are angry!
But not only that: now the Corsairs paid by the English Crown threaten the new Spanish settlement!

Rio de la Plata is a strategy game where players represent the chiefs of the families of Spanish settlers of Buenos Aires. They must work together to defend and develop the city, but also look to gain sufficient prestige for themselves to take the most important political offices. At the end only one will be the new Governor! Will it be you?

First game needs about 3-4 hours.
Normal game needs about 150 minutes (4 players).

Essen 2010 Release.

]]> Age_12+ Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set Category_Strategy Google-True INV-M-Z INV-R Players Maximum_5 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_90 Minutes Playtime Minimum_90 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20220321 Stocky-Clearance Vintage-Exclusion Year Published_2010s https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/374393017 Default Title 54.95 974160621 2077 https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/188573433 2013-12-05T02:16:00-05:00 2013-12-05T02:16:00-05:00 Romolo o Remo? Board Games Giochix.it

Vendor: Giochix.it
Type: Board Games
Price: 62.95

Designer Michele Quondam
Publisher Giochix.it
Players 1-4
Playtime 150 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up


Central Italy in the year 753 B.C.: Many new villages have been founded in the region of Latium. This land is prosperous and a strong city here can easily control the trades between the Etruscan cities of the North and the Greek colonies of the South. The region is also rich in salt ponds, and the salt in this period is worth more than gold. There doesn't exist a better place for a new city!

The two grandsons of the King of Albalonga – the twins Romolo and Remo, descendants of Enea of Troy – don't want to miss an opportunity to dominate the region and, acting against each other, try to establish two cities close to the Tiber river. Their enterprise is not easy as the King of Antemnae and the King of Crustumerium will also fight to dominate this area! Who will prevail?

In Romolo o Remo?, players act as Kings of the new cities in the Latium and have to compete with each other in order to gain control of the whole Region. Players must manage their kingdom and their growing settlement. Two aspects are crucial: the citizens, as players act with citizens to take many different actions, and the territory, as players can act only in the territories they are able to control – excluding when they go to war, of course! If the population grows, they can take more actions, but they must feed all of them as well. Money, resources, trades, city buildings, and specialized characters increase a player's possibilites, and soldiers, mercenaries, and war declarations can change the game's storyline at any moment. Who will able to build the strongest city? Who will be the founder of a new civilization – or perhaps even an Empire? ]]> Age_9+ Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set Category_Strategy Google-True INV-M-Z INV-R Non-TCG Players Maximum_4 Players Players Minimum_1 Player Playtime Maximum_120+ Minutes Playtime Minimum_120+ Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20240526-Long Source_Import Games Year Published_2010s https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/188573433 Default Title 62.95 GEG112 2379 https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/189085869 2013-11-12T12:01:00-05:00 2013-11-12T12:01:00-05:00 The Forgotten Planet Board Games Rio Grande Games

Vendor: Rio Grande Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 42.95

Designer Michele Quondam
Publisher Rio Grande Games
Players 2-4
Playtime 75 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up


The search for energy crystals continues without respite throughout the universe! The Merchant guild is ready to pay outrageous amounts of money, and all the Seekers roam about to find them. Breaking news! The surface of the "forgotten planet" on the edge of the galaxy is full of them. In a few days, a new gold race will begin, with men replaced by robots that search, explore and fight to control the precious mineral!

The Forgotten Planet is a tile-laying management game in which tiles represent safe areas on a planetary surface on which robots walk and take other actions. These tiles also accumulate energy from the sun, then conduct it to robots, giving them (and the player) more actions if they absorb enough energy – so building and maintaining ownership of these tiles is fundamental in the game strategy. Players and robots use this energy to build new bases, discover mines, build walls to keep out other robots, push those same walls out of the way, produce more robots and much more.

If your robot falls out of contact with tiles you control, however, then it loses power and falls inactive for the round. Control of tiles is determined by the distance from a particular tile to each player's closest base; whoever is closest to the tile (with walls serving as barriers that players must "walk" around while counting distance) controls it, and the more tiles you control, the more energy you have available to you.

Thus, players need to maintain an energy connection for their robots while trying to extend their area of control on the planet's surface with their bases. They also need to control mines, of course, as that's how a player produces new resources, which are subsequently converted into new bases, sold for victory points (VPs) or converted into new robots.

The game ends when the playing area is filled with tiles or no land tiles remain in the supply. (Players can "consume metal" as one of their actions to speed along the endgame and crimp someone else's efforts to keep building.) Players then score points for the land and mines they control, with bonuses going to the player(s) with the most robots in play, the most common mines and the most bases. The player with the high score wins.

]]> Age_9+ Arrival-Feb 24 2024 Availability_In Stock BD-2021 BD-2021-3 BF-2021 BF-2021-2 BGG-Set Category_Abstract Category_Strategy Discount_On Sale Google-True INV-F INV-M-Z INV-T Non-TCG Players Maximum_4 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_90 Minutes Playtime Minimum_90 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Sale Type_Regular Stocky-Clearance Stocky-DoNotReorder Stocky-Vintage Vintage-Exclusion Year Published_2010s https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/189085869 Default Title 42.95 101830 RIOA40 2077