Pan Am Board Game

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 06/16/2020 at 15:13 • Filed to: Gamelopnik, Planelopnik

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Saw this at Target yesterday. It looks interesting.

According to BoardGameGeek.com:

In Pan Am , players compete with Pan American Airways and others to build an air-travel empire. Outbid rivals for lucrative landing rights, buy planes with longer range to reach the far corners of the world, and use insider connections to advance your interests. As you bump up against the ever-growing Pan Am, you can sell your routes to the company to earn a tidy profit, with you then using that money to invest in other growth or to purchase Pan Am stock for what’s sure to be a big payout down the road.

Pan Am is a game of global strategy that spans four decades of industry-changing historic events.

From island hoppers of the ‘30 to glamorous jet liners of the 1960s, Pan Am set the pace of the airline industry. Compete with Pan Am and other players as the head of your own fledgling airline. Expand your fleet of planes, build airports, outbid rivals for landing rights, and create your own globe-circling air system.

Pay through decades of air travel history alongside ever-growing Pan Ma; make a fortune when they buy your routes, invest in Pan Am stock when it’s cheap, and don’t get pushed out of the skies by your competition!

Where’s the part where Pan Am goes bankrupt and is bought out by Delta? Is that in the game? Can I be Juan Trippe?

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 15:17

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Are there sea planes?

The world needs more sea planes.

Just Jeepin' > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 15:17

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How did you refrain from buying it on the spot?

For Sweden > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 15:17

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Can I play as Braniff International?

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 15:18

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Can you play this game?

https://www.panam.org/pan-am-inspirations/634-saga-of-the-pacific-clipper

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > For Sweden 06/16/2020 at 15:20

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My dad worked for them briefly before I was born. 

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 15:24

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A strange game.   The only winning move is not to play.  How about a nice game of chess?

ttyymmnn > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 06/16/2020 at 15:27

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Doesn’t look like it.

ttyymmnn > Just Jeepin' 06/16/2020 at 15:27

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TBH, I’m not very good at strategy games. 

ttyymmnn > For Sweden 06/16/2020 at 15:28

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Only if you give me back my options on the A320.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 15:29

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between that map and the little planes....i suddenly want to play axis and allies again...... must ave been about 20 years since i played that

fintail > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 15:29

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Pan Am! Pano Amo?

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW 06/16/2020 at 15:30

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Hello... .Joshua.

I suck at strategy games, particularly chess.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 15:31

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Damn. I can’t play this as a table-top Tailspin rpg then.

Sad face.

Also I want to play Porco Rosso the video game.

ttyymmnn > fintail 06/16/2020 at 15:35

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On a phonetically related note.....

I was reading a pulp science fiction book the other day by Kenneth Bullmer, and he mentioned “bread and circuses,” which is as worthy an explanation for our current situation as ever. I had heard the term before, so I looked it up , and learned that “bread” in Latin is “p anem.” Which then lead to the realization that Panem is the name of the world in Hunger Games, and the whole story turns on the offering of bread to somebody and the whole society is built on  bread and circuses. I’m sure I’m not the first person to realize this, but I enjoyed making the connection.

someassemblyrequired > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 15:45

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Failure to call it The World is Yours is unforgivable. I’ll still probably buy it.

user314 > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 15:54

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And this is where I rush out, buy the game, spend time repainting the planes, order 3d printed S-38s, 747s and a couple Orion III spaceplanes, and paint them too.......

fintail > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 16:07

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I am always amazed when pop culture material has such a relatively deep background.

Also, “Strange Brew” is based on Hamlet, my friends are always taken aback by that.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 16:16

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Mr. McKittrick, after very careful consideration, sir, I’ve come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.

ttyymmnn > user314 06/16/2020 at 16:17

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Is that the Blue Danube Waltz I hear?

E90M3 > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 16:18

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Are you going to buy it and review it? 

ttyymmnn > fintail 06/16/2020 at 16:18

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And O Brother, Where Art Thou is based on The Odyssey . Which, if haven’t read, you should. There is a marvelous translation by Robert Fagles that makes it eminently readable while still feeling like an ancient classic.

ttyymmnn > E90M3 06/16/2020 at 16:20

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I don’t know yet. I’m really not very good at, nor do I really enjoy, games of strategy like this. I suck at chess, lose at Monopoly, and have played Risk maybe once in my life and got wiped out.

Roadkilled > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 16:21

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If you crash on a flight from Karachi to Istanbul, do you get to quit this game and start playing the Star Trek game?

E90M3 > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 16:22

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That’s fair enough. My girlfriend likes board games, and we’re looking for more two player games and really enjoyed ticket to ride. 

ttyymmnn > E90M3 06/16/2020 at 16:23

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I’m more of a Mille Bornes type of guy, though people say the game sucks. I enjoy it. 

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 17:07

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You should get it.

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 06/16/2020 at 17:16

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As I’ve said to others, I’m not much for strategy games.

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 17:20

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That’s not the point. Did you not read the part where is says, “includes 52 airplanes”?! A nd look at that game board and those cards. This game has collectible all over it.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 17:29

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“Where’s the part where Pan Am goes bankrupt and is bought out by Delta?”

Don’t forget the part about dealing with the union and the unfunded pension liability!

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 06/16/2020 at 17:40

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Yeah, the little planes are pretty cool. Although the gray one looks more  like a B-29 than a 377. And the 707 has more of a Comet wing. 

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 18:24

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You could paint them.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 18:59

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I’m in total agreement when it comes to games. I suck at chess, hate Monopoly, and don’t really enjoy strategy games. When it comes to computer games I prefer the more open-ended type, like SimCity, to those where the whole goal is to crush the other player (s) into submission, just like I don’t like that mentality in the real world. I have a version of Milles Bornes on the computer, but it’s not quite the same as I remember from the physical  card game - a little too lax with some rules.

When I first worked at LAX as a baggage handler we would have many periods of downtime between bags. We had to stay there for four hours, and many times not a single passenger would check in for 20-30 minutes. We would often play cards, gin rummy being pretty common, but one day I brought in my Milles Bornes cards. It was quite popular, but one day the set disappeared and nobody could find them. Given the crowd I worked with theft was the most likely culprit.

Several months later, for reasons unknown, the belt system was reversed. Much to everyone’s   surprise, my game, still in the box and in the plastic grocery bag, rolled out from under the cover at the end of the baggage belt...

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 19:00

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Well, the 377 is a B-29 derivative, so I guess it’s appropriate.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 19:04

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In 1975 I found this game at a garage sale. I was probably too young to play it, but it was airline related so I had to have it. Fast forward 45 years and I still have it, and I still haven't played it...

ttyymmnn > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 06/16/2020 at 19:06

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I am not a competitive person by nature, at least not in older age. I used to hate to lose, but I never freaked out about winning. The most intense I get on video games is Lego Star Wars.

I learned to play Mille Bornes when I was much younger, and then bought a classic set at a game shop in Paris in 2000. The instructions are only in French. I count that as one of my prized souvenirs of that trip. 

ttyymmnn > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 06/16/2020 at 19:07

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Yeah, but the 377 was also a double bubble, so it should be fatter from above than the B-29.

I actually wrote an article about how many different aircraft came out of the basic B-29. It was a remarkable aircraft. 

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 19:10

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This is bringing back happy memories of shouting “ Coup-fourré ” and slapping down a safety card, the only French I knew as a child.

ttyymmnn > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 06/16/2020 at 19:10

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Looks pretty much like airport monopoly. Play it!

ttyymmnn > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 06/16/2020 at 19:15

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My mom, who introduced me to the game, spoke some French, so we learned the meaning of all the cards. There used to be somebody here on Oppo who went by As du Volant and had the wheel as his avatar.

Also, check out this site . It shows the various versions of the game. The one I have is the second one. So I didn’t have quite the oldest one.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 19:15

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Well, yeah, that’s true. I wonder if it was a leftover from a WWII game, or if it was just laziness/simpler to design it as they did. You could argue that the 707 is also a  double-bubble, just not as pronounced. And those engines look too much like they’re from a DC-8-62/63, but I think simplicity in molding, like the 377, was probably the reason.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 19:19

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But I loathe Monopoly!

I should have brought it to game night back in the ‘90s in my Hughes Aircraft days. I did have a co-worker at my last job that invited my to a game night, but I was sick from chemo and couldn’t attend. I wonder what they would have thought of I brought over a game that was nearly twice as old as many of them...

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 19:23

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I remember him, and loved that username/icon.

Whilst looking around at the Goodwill Outlet I came across a copy of the game. As is typical for that location it wasn’t complete, or if it was, someone had opened it, looked at it and then threw it in the bin, scattering cards everywhere over multiple bins (and the floor) . Knowing that it wasn’t going to be complete I just grabbed the safety cards and have them in my desk.

ttyymmnn > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 06/16/2020 at 21:40

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Check this out:

https://boardgamegeek.com/image/712/mille-bornes

Scroll through the photos.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 22:06

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Cool! Thanks for the link. I’ve gone through 200+ of the images and will continue to flip through.

This is the version we had when I was a kid.

And this smaller package looks like the one we played in the bag room (although the cards look newer, but maybe I’m just remembering the one from my childhood). And the one below? The graphics are incredible. I might have to seek out a copy.

And here’s the cheesy version I play on the PC: https://store.steampowered.com/app/702510/Mille_Bornes/

ttyymmnn > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 06/16/2020 at 22:39

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I checked, and it looks like the PC version is the same one that they offer for the iPhone. For $2, it might be worth checking out. That top photo is also the version I had as a kid. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 06/16/2020 at 23:54

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Pedant.

pip bip - choose Corrour > ttyymmnn 06/17/2020 at 04:49

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probably not a great seller in Libya or Lockerbie, Scotland.

Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour 06/17/2020 at 06:50

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Ouch. Good one.

But t hat was a very stressful night here (Lockerbie is 25 miles away).

user314 > ttyymmnn 06/17/2020 at 09:13

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“OK kids, your uncle went through the trouble of having highly accurate replicas 3d printed and painted, so everything’s to scale and looks perfect. Only thing is, I could only afford one or two of each, so you’ll have to get creative.”

ttyymmnn > user314 06/17/2020 at 09:22

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Hah! Those are cool. Accuracy aside, it would have been nice if the game had used small metal planes, sort of like Monopoly. Cost blah blah, I get it.