Most cards are here, some real bangers in there. Some really dated cards too, like Imelda Marcos. Some are still current today. Some great meme material if anyone wants to go mining. https://archive.org/details/illuminati_card_game/
“Violent, Government” sounds about right.
“Violent” Hmm.
Hell Yeah!
Thumbworld.“Fidel Castro - Liberal”
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didn’t know Steve Jackson
wasis an ultraEDIT: still alive at 73!
The art on that NATO pic is sending me.
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It worked on Ethan Klein, he’s an IDF soldier at heart.
Some of the far right cards are really funny. Black helicopters, Thousand points of light, BATF
wow, really brings me back.
Holy crap that shit would NEVER fly today! The whole print run would get recalled and pulped.
Literal and metaphorical red card
“any Communist group” is totally unrealistic, we all know thered be a bunch of guys who refuse to work with the revisionist international communist conspiracy
LOL Steve Jackson was pretty right. It’s odd to think now but most of the hacker/phone phreak community was back then. During Gulf War I patriotic US hackers tried to break into Iraq’s X.25 network and mess things up but Iraq had so little communications infrastructure they couldn’t do much.
Never realized it’s the same guy who also made Munchkin.
I remember there was this huge conspiracy brain thing on certain forums and the /x/ board about him predicting the future, and getting harassed by the FBI, pretty funny in retrospect
Ah, that was the famous Secret Service raid of the Illuminati BBS. Pre-internet (well, before public access anyway) It was something like he had some Anarchist cookbook material on there and the SS wildly overstepped their authority and raided him and shut down the BBS. I actually had an acoremoved on there because I was local in Austin but never used his BBS because it was lame. Striesand Effect, he got massive publicity from it and was a hero of the PGP anon.penet.fi and FTP era of the internet.
Was the remote but traceable connection to Lee Harvey Oswald known/talked about back then?
It just all seems like a big mindfuck.
Yes, I remember that it was known that Oswald had been to Russia. That’s why he killed JFK, see? They reprogrammed him as a Manchurian candidate to come back and kill the president. Totally had nothing to do with the fact that JFK got the US Treasury to print its own money instead of Federal Reserve Notes. I still have one, it has a red seal instead of the usual green. It says UNITED STATES NOTE instead. LBJ quickly discontinued the program and these bills are little more than collector’s curios now.
Yeah, them getting busted was a huge thing in the hacker community at the time. I was still too young understand everything behind why it happened though. This clears some things up.
This game became infamous because of the Terrorist Nuke card, for obvious reasons.
I mean, by the time this game was being produced those towers had been attacked at least once right?
Yeah, the first WTC bombing was in 1993. That fact never stopped any of the “[media] PrEdIcTeD 9/11” claims.
Ouch…
This game looks sick as fuck, wish I could play it. Has the same vibes as netrunner, which I only know from when I found a deck at my dads´when I was a kid
It was all right. Illuminati was an early microgame like Car Wars. I used to play it, it was lots of fun attacking each other and backstabbing. SO many games back then were violent PVP conflict. Today Eurogames are all about counting cubes and building a machine to manufacture victory points. This was the collectible card version of Illuminati to cash in on the success of MTG. I remember there was a USA card too that I badly wanted. I found someone selling it on USENET and got it. Sold in Europe only! Violent, government, conservative, high global power and the artwork was the Statue of Liberty with her foot on the globe with the caption Try and stop us! I doubt it’s in this archive because it was a foreign-only card. I would get so much meme mileage out of this card. Maybe next time I’m in the States I’ll try to find a card dealer with it.
i want to play this
You can find sets of it on ebay or boxes of cards at dealers like Rudy from Alpha investments.
I think it’s mildly interesting how enlightened centrist media like this always fails to be centrist. Look at the discrepancies between the Nationalization and Privatization cards both in the art and effects.
