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Star Wars CCG

Released by Decipher in 1995. “Possibly the largest and most complex card game I've ever played. As a child I was enamored with the scale of the game, although I didn't understand all of the rules (”“attrition”“ was a new concept to me). A game would regularly expand to take place on ten planets with dozens of characters. I even enjoyed the CCG element in this case, though I wasn't any good at it. Somehow, the game evoked the feel of the Star Wars expanded universe.

Later I learned that games were not meant to last this long. Undeterred, my friends and I once played a 4-deck, 2v2 game that lasted about six hours. Too long, but worth trying once.