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| Globbo!'s cover |
The Space Gamer magazine, Steve Jackson Games' own (really excellent) publication, published in issue 63 (April 1983) a strange little game: Globbo! This small game was designed by Allen Varney, noted and prolifc game designer who worked for - besides Steve Jackson Games - TSR, White Wolf , FASA and Mongoose. In Globbo! (a two player game) one player controls the homicidal babysitter of the same name and the other player a cohort of 'baby' critters deadly set on destroying their caretaker.
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| Globbo!'s counter sheet |
For both critters and the Globbo the task at hand is not easy: Globbo can be cut to pieces but it can reform in an amoeba like fashion and grow bigger and bigger while the various critters ("Biters who can attack and will explode if hit by Globbo, Blips who are created by exploding Biters and Yeasts who are also created by exploding Biters") can dimish Globbo's size and form more dangerous critters ("Yeast and Blips can combine to form more Biters"). If Globbo destroys all the critters, it wins; if critters destroy Globbo's heas, they win.
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| Globbo! almost fanzinesque graphics! |
One of the most amazing aspects of Globbo! is it was not typeset but completely produced by hand by Allen Varney (lettering and graphics) and Kim Strombo (cover inks and coloring). The 'complete game' is simply a reprint of the magazine game with some minor addenda and modifications (a bigger map for example) and a niced little plastic bag for keeping the counters.
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| The original appearance of Globbo! |
It seems that Globbo! was not that big commercial success and not even Steve Jackson Games' own site has a page describing it in the out of print section. It's any way a most bizarre kind of game under many aspects and deserving a place in the open minded game collection.