![]() “You’ll need to recruit 10 total players, (five Allied, five Axis,) who will each lord over a specialized division. “The game itself covers the famous WWII operations in Libya and Egypt between 19,” writes Kotaku’s Luke Winkle. We are, of course, talking about a war game, and that genre has its own standards of complexity - standards The Campaign for North Africa leaves in the dust. Since its publication in 1979, it’s been known as the longest board game in existence, requiring 1,500 hours (or 62 days) to complete. ![]() That’s still a good deal longer than, say, a game of checkers, but it falls somewhat short of the league occupied by The Campaign for North Africa - which is, in fact, a league of its own. That may have had to do with my appreciation for Monopoly’s aesthetic far exceeding my grasp of its aim, and I’ve since realized that it can be played in about an hour. On the childhood Christmas I received my first copy of that Parker Brothers classic, my dad and I started a game that ended up spreading over two or three days. ![]()
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