NEW BOARD GAME PROMISES 
     
     GOOD OLD BOY FUN 
     
    
   
   
    
     HALIFAX (CUP) - It’s 
     
     unchtime. Over in the stu- 
     
     lent pub, four good-old- 
     
     joys and one woman are 
     
     rowded around the lat- 
     
     st Trivial Pursuit clone, 
     
     olling dice and slugging 
     
     ack a few brews. : 
     
    

    
     A card is picked: “Sud- 
     
     len loss of appetite as you 
     
     tice the cafeteria wait- 
     
     ess has considerable facial 
     
     lair.”” Everyone laughs, 
     
     nd the player marks down 
     
     he loss of one Social Point 
     
     n his scorecard. Another 
     
     ian gives up $30 after be- 
     
     1g informed he has just 
     
    
   
   
    
     ubscribed to a porn mag- . 
     
    
   
   
    
     zine. 
     
    

    
     ‘Wanna Be a College 
     
     iraduate,Eh?’ is the first 
     
     oard game about uni- 
     
     ersity life to hit book- 
     
     tore shelves. The grand 
     
     unching was held last 
     
     reek at St.Mary’s Univer- 
     
     ity, where the game’s cre- 
     
     tors Bob Smith and Dave 
     
     Viseman attend classes. 
     
    

    
     “One night in a smoke- 
     
     lled college room, we 
     
     nought, hey we’d had a 
     
     ood time in college. And 
     
     re wanted to .incorporate 
     
    
   
   
    
     hat idea into a game,” said. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Smith, a fourth-year biol- 
     
     ogy student. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “It just came to me all 
     
     at once.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     The project took two 
     
     years to get off the ground. 
     
     According to Wiseman, a 
     
     geologist-in-training, 
     
     he and Smith “practically 
     
     dropped out last year” to 
     
     complete the game. 
     
    

    
     ‘Wanna’ requires play- 
     
     ers to answer skill-testing 
     
     questions about sports, fi- 
     
     nances, social life and aca- 
     
     demics. Count up the 
     
     points and move up to sec- 
     
     ond and third year status. 
     
     Graduate first and you win. 
     
    
   
   
    
     But you can get caught 
     
     along the way. 
     
    

    
     An “affair with Profes- 
     
     sor Bendova” will garner 
     
     one Academic Credit and 
     
     two Social Points And a 
     
     ‘Let’s Party’ card offering a 
     
     “two day ripper for $250” 
     
     will cost you an Academic 
     
     Point. The ‘Sexual En- 
     
     counter’ square could mean 
     
     a new experience with Ma- 
     
     zola oil. 
     
    

    
     “It was going to be 
     
     a cult game with lots of 
     
     drugs and alcohol. We 
     
    
   
   
    
     changed that somewhat so 
     
     people wouldn’t be too of- 
     
     fended,” explains Smith, a 
     
     beer never far from his 
     
     hand. ; 
     
    

    
     Some 3,000 of those in- 
     
     offensive skill-testing ques- 
     
     tions were pared down 
     
     to 1,080 academic puz- 
     
     zlers and 900 social, sports 
     
     and financial brain- teasers. 
     
     Smith says the questions 
     
     come from friends’ personal 
     
     experiences, school text- 
     
     books and dictionaries. 
     
    

    
     Smith’s dad _ financed 
     
     the whole deal. That works 
     
     out to $20,000 for the ac- 
     
     tual game and first pro- 
     
     duction run of 1000, plus 
     
     another $5000 for lawyer's 
     
     fees, a copyright, and a 
     
     graphic artist’s salary. 
     
    

    
     The initial production 
     
     run 
     
     won’t even cover costs, the 
     
     partners say. And they’ve 
     
     already missed their origi- 
     
     nal launching date by three 
     
     weeks. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Wiseman says the game 
     
     should have been ready at 
     
     the beginning of the school 
     
     term, when students with 
     
     newly-cashed loans were 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     buying texts and picking up 
     
     gadgets in the bookstores. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Now it’s just in time for 
     
     the Christmas market, at 
     
     $29.95 a pop. 
     
    

    
     There’s no money left 
     
     for an advertising cam- 
     
     paign, but Nova Scotia will 
     
     be blanketed. Smith’s 
     
    
   
   
    
     cousin in southern Ontario 
     
    

    
     will distribute 500 copies. 
     
     Wiseman says 
     
    

    
     the board game’s name will 
     
    
   
   
    
     help. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
         
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
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     The patently Canadian 
     
     ‘Eh’ will “stick in the 
     
     mind”, he hopes, and the 
     
     length of the name will jolt 
     
     consumers. 
     
    

    
     If successful, a_ sec- 
     
     ond production will follow, 
     
     enabling the entrepreneurs 
     
     to distribute throughout 
     
     Canada and eventually, the 
     
     United States, said Wise- 
     
    
   
   
    
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