#34: North & South (Infogrames, Amiga, 1989)

WAR! (HUH!) What is it good for? Inspiring mediocre board games! And occasionally some good ones, I guess. But North & South (a French game based on a Belgian comic called Les Tuniques Blues set in the American Civil War) certainly has more of the former in its DNA than the latter. Essentially, it plays out like a crummy Risk clone, except that instead of rolling dice to decide the victor in a given conflict, you play a minigame (assuming you haven’t turned on the option that removes all minigames and renders the game utterly devoid of all purpose).