I first read that as "Saw-themed cruise invites you to experience the ultimate in terror: water slides".

"Udo is the German champion of The Third Reich, a tabletop-game jumble of chess, Risk, and Dungeons & Dragons that replays the events of World War II"
 
I know I'm being a little pendantic here, but I'm not sure how you arrived at that description.  It's very clearly a hex-and-counter wargame, which is not really a…

I didn't think I was throwing a temper tantrum, Mr. or Mrs. Fourchan. And I haven't played RISK in years, though if you get your hands on Australia first, you've pretty much won the game.

My wife might object to that. I'll ask her when we're done playing Puerto Rico.

also some people apparently still buy and play board games.
I know Newswire is all snarktastic and everything, but this really rubbed me the wrong way. Yes, there are people that buy and play board games, because board games can offer complex and compelling social and strategic experiences, and because the form has…

And I will say that the upgrade system— not present, IIRC, in the original— does increase the game's lifespan by a few minutes. :-)

@Your Mother's: Well, that's what I get for commenting without clicking on the link. :-|

@It's Okay: And not just recently; Death Worm is one of those games that's been ripped off again and again and again pretty shamelessly since almost the beginning— especially after its creator, JTR, released the source code/files to the public. I remember seeing a lot of self-proclaimed "clones" and "fangames" a year…