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Apr 8, 2026·Review·01:21:49·280·Watch on YouTube

History of Ares Magazine Games

Hopeless Games

Hopeless Games

Watch “History of Ares Magazine Games,” a board game review for Voyage of the B.S.M. Pandora from Hopeless Games on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Hopeless Games on YouTube:

Hopeless Games explore the groundbreaking scifi and fantasy game magazine Ares from the early 1980s. We recount the story of its rise and fall, discuss the wildly innovative board games published within its covers, and even rant about the Dallas Television Role-Playing Game. If you are dreaming of uncut gems, dream no further! 0:00 Unlock the Imagination! 0:31 Simulations Publications, Inc. 5:27 At the Forefront of Innovation 9:03 Dallas Television RPG Affair 13:35 Cambrian Games Explosion 16:02 Hostile TSR Takeover 19:35 Magazine Miscellany 23:06 Tough Love Reviews 38:08 Ares Games Overview 38:59 Wreck of the BSM Pandora 42:27 Citadel of Blood 43:41 Voyage of the BSM Pandora 46:18 The Return of the Stainless Steel Rat 47:51 The Damocles Mission 49:16 Nightmare House 51:55 Worldkiller 53:36 Rescue from the Hive 56:32 Ragnarok: The Twilight of the Gods 59:50 Albion: Land of Faerie 1:01:52 The Omega War 1:04:15 The High Crusade 1:06:30 Barbarian Kings 1:10:01 Star Trader 1:13:12 Arena of Death 1:18:03 Delta Vee 1:21:06 Wrapup Join this channel: https://youtube.com/@hopelessstream Twitch: https://twitch.tv/hopelessstream Instagram: https://instagram.com/hopelessgames Facebook: https://facebook.com/hopelessgames Hopeless Games dive into the weird and wonderful world of niche gaming. We dig up forgotten games, wrestle with impossible rules, and spin it all into epic tales of triumph and tragedy. We also design our own special brand of games in the nebulous borderlands between ritual and play. Check them out here: https://www.hopelessgames.com/ #TabletopGaming #BoardGames #BoardGameHistory #AresMagazine #WarGaming #ScifiGaming #FantasyGaming #SPI #TSR #CambrianGamesExplosion

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Voyage of the B.S.M. Pandora

Voyage of the B.S.M. Pandora

1981·John H. Butterfield, Edward J. Woods

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Mostly reviews and playthroughs. Voyage of the B.S.M. Pandora is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 2 reviews, 1 how-to-play guides, and 2 recorded sessions.

1 players
90 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

About Voyage of the B.S.M. Pandora, from BoardGameGeek:

Ares Magazine #6. This is a prequel to The Wreck of the B.S.M. Pandora. In Voyage of the B.S.M. Pandora, a solitaire game of interstellar exploration, the player controls the Biological Survey Mission Pandora as it travels the space ways in search of alien life forms. They use the crew, robots and equipment of the ship to collect exotic specimens with a minimum of losses - and hopefully get back intact. The game has two time scales, the tour months that affect the "strategic" play, going from planet to planet, and the expedition hours, the tactical on-planet play. It uses an event paragraph system to generate the narrative flow, and the map shows several planet surface samples, to be used as needed.

Designers

John H. Butterfield, Edward J. Woods

Artists

John H. Butterfield, Jerzy Kurczak, Redmond Aksel Simonsen

Publisher

Encore

Categories

AdventureExploration

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Dice RollingGrid Movement
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