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Review: Toxic Crusaders Card Game:: Toxic Crusaders, Reviewed By a Troma Fan

Source: BoardGameGeek Recent Additions (review)

Nov 08, 2009

Summary

by RyanStrong

I bought this for a few bucks on Ebay in 2004, and I just got around to breaking the shrink (!) and actually playing the thing. I was a fan of this show when it was on nearly twenty years ago, and became a lifelong Toxic Avenger fan a few years after that.

So there's a fair bit of nostalgia involved, here. Is it enough to make this game worthwhile? Not really.

This is an exceedingly simple game. One part War, one part Memory, with a few interesting new mechanics thrown in.

It basically goes like this: Two decks of mini-cards (imaginatively labeled 'Pollution' and 'Pollution Solution') are laid out Memory-style. Each player is given an even number of 'Good Guy' and 'Bad Guy' cards, (strangely) numbered 6-10, which are kept face down in front of them.

On a player's turn, he or she flips over a 'Good Guy' card, while the player on their left turns over a 'Bad Guy' card. If the Good Guy wins, they get to flip one card from each Memory deck, trying to match up colors--to find a 'solution' to each 'pollution' if you will. If the Bad Guy wins, the Good Gu ...Read the full article

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