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Journey (board game)

album by Karmic Society

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 22, 2024
Entity authorityQ2789184 ↗
Source-derived summary

Journey: A Quest for Galactic Power is a 1980 board game published by Grenadier Models.

Gameplay

Journey is part of the "Great Little Game Line" series, and this is a game in which ships from multiple worlds are attempting to obtain the coveted plienthium mangate from the Epsilon Cygni II system.

Reception

Tony Watson reviewed Journey in The Space Gamer No. 31. Watson commented that "Despite the interesting use of cards, I can't find much to recommend in this game.

Editorial summary

“Journey (board game)” enters the record as album by Karmic Society. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Journey, board and game can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Journey, board and game.
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Why this record matters

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Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 22, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2789184. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “Journey (board game)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.