 The Creature That H. Sheboygan published in 1979 by SPI I Bought this game must have been in 79 or 80 at the Houston con, but I bought it in an addition that was That was in a plastic bag I Don't have that one anymore, but here's a picture of one of the other ones in that series Anyway It's very simple there's not much to it This was a an early example of the The boom in the role-playing games that happened in the late 70s They were there were little experimental role-playing games everywhere in those days absolutely everywhere and this one evidently caught my eye at At the convention, but I was never much of a role-playing person. I bought this anyway just because it looked cute you know here's the Here's the game board and Here are the game pieces Tiny little die there Tiny tiny little die And all the various pieces that represent monsters and humans and wreckage and Monster powers like webbing And fire and the human pieces the human The human response Capabilities like police and firemen and Helicopters including the military tanks and soldiers anyway, let's say a little collection of charts and tables and The instructions I'm not going to go over them in detail I will say that My one memory of this game is that I Had owned it for a couple of years Without ever getting into it and then one afternoon My father and I didn't have anything to do so we decided we were gonna Bust out the game and give it a try and we went we read through the instructions and And we discovered That we couldn't figure out how to start the game There's just something missing in the instructions and We we couldn't figure it out. We went we went over and over we read the instructions repeatedly this wasn't simply a Problem of us not Understanding the instructions are missing something the instructions. We were really careful. We couldn't find a mechanism for actually starting the game I Don't recall exactly what the problem was, but we ultimately concluded that there must have been some Standard role-playing convention That we not being Role-playing gamers were We're we're missing and didn't understand by By the nature of the game. I will Point out here after a quick look at the instructions the instructions talk about Here the monster player and And the human player it gives the impression that this game is for only two people and yet there are Multiple monsters available does the monster player control multiple monsters or are are there more than one Is it possible for more than one player to be playing monsters and are there multiple players who can play The human populace I Don't know it was something that we didn't figure out at the time and although it's a cute game and a cute idea We found it Unplayable But here it is a little piece of nostalgic history Maybe someday I'll get some experience to gamers together and we'll try to figure it out If that happens, I'll let you know next time