Press Coverage
Media whoredom came easy to us and we took to it like a duck to dirty water. Like any pro, we know how to flaunt the good stuff. So here for your elicit delight, a selection of coverage that we've received over the years:
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Press
7 Holiday Games for Wonks
"Like Monty Python meets the game of Risk."Michael Peck, Foreign Policy Magazine - 20 December 2011
New Ways to Take Your Friends & Family to the Cleaners
"Crunch", a card game launched last year by TerrorBull Games, is pure parody. As the boss of a global bank, players have to trouser as much cash as possible ..."The Economist - 5th August 2010
Dicing With Death
"Andrew Sheerin had a goofy idea for a boardgame based on the War on Terror. Harmless fun, right? And then the death threats started to arrive ..." Stuart Hood, FHM #246 - June 2010
Terror Game Applauded
"It seems the toy trade might need to have a rethink. Having originally been vilified at launch, satirical board game War on Terror is gaining approval among intellectuals and media commentators." Ronnie Dungan, Toy News - February 2010
Remember, It's Only a Game
"It's satirical, subversive and seriously entertaining, but ignore the 14+ rating on the box. My eight-year-old picked it up pretty quickly, perhaps a bit too quickly, as did my mum who's in her sixties. Fun for all the family - and almost as educational as a Chomsky book." Charley Allan, Morning Star - 23rd January 2010
The 50 Best Board Games: #5 War on Terror
"A game with attitude. The game spinner is, of course, the Axis of Evil, and it's full of war, suicide bombers and kidnapping. Everyone starts with great intentions until you realise that your neighbour has more oil than you and away you go." Kate Watson-Smyth, The Independent - 7th November 2009
Crunch: The Game for Utter Bankers
"You watch how the richest banks get all the breaks and bailouts even when they don't need them, how greed is the only way to survive and how workers quickly become an inconvenience." Andy Lockhart and Jenny Nelson, MULE - 11 August 2009
‘Go Fish’ for Capitalists
"Inspired by the credit crisis, a new satirical card game in Britain invites players to take the role of banking executives, secretly embezzle their banks’ assets, pay themselves gigantic bonuses while ensuring their customers’ trust." Julia Werdigier, New York Times - 7 April 2009
Bribery wins in fat-cat fantasy game
"Not likely to be embraced by human resources departments, Crunch encourages players to cheat to build up as comfortable a retirement as possible at the expense of others." Darren Garnick, Boston Herald - 1 April 2009
War On Terror makers return with credit crunch game
"A GAME that takes a swipe at "greedy bankers" has been created by the makers of War On Terror. It promises to "ease the gloom of the recession" as it attacks the capitalist system." Raymond Brown, Cambridge Evening News - 25th March 2009
Mau-Mau mit Investmentbankern
"Jetzt kann jeder mit den Bankern zocken: Mit dem Kartenspiel Crunch macht der Brite Andrew Sheerin die Finanzkrise zum Familienvergnuegen. Fuer den Satiriker ist der Niedergang vor allem ein Spass - wie schon bei seinem legendaeren Brettspiel War on Terror."Thomas Hillenbrand, Spiegel Online - 24 March 2009
He Who Dares, Wins
"That was the moment that they hit upon their plan for the ultimate act of subversion, the perfect satire, a slap in the face to the powers that be." David Pegg, Varsity - the Independent Cambridge University Student Newspaper - 27th November 2009
Interview With the Makers of the War on Terror Board Game
"The game is all about empire. You start with an empire, develop it, fight other empires and liberate countries from their clutches. The more oil you have in the boardgame, the more money you make. The more money you make, the more countries you can exploit and control." Chris Richards, New Internationalist - December 2008
Makers of the War on Terror board game have won their battle with a high street store, but reactions to the product are worrying
"This is not the first time that War on Terror - the board game - has got up an establishment nose." John Ozimek, The Guardian - --25th August 2008-
War on Terror: Gesellschaftsspiel
"Seit Erscheinen 2006 hat sich das provokante Brettspiel mehr als sensationelle 10000 Mal verkauft - online und in kleinen Laeden. Grosse Warenhaeuser weigern sich, es in ihr Sortiment aufzunehmen."Der Spiegel - Issue 34 - August 2008
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War on Terror boardgame branded criminal by police
"It is rare, however, for a board game to be seized by the police. This week that distinction befell War on Terror: The Boardgame; a set was confiscated from climate protesters in Kent." Jerome Taylor, The Independent - 9th August 2008
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War on Terror, the Boardgame - 5 Stars
"Ironically, while teenagers can buy graphic computer games allowing them to fantasize about killing Iraqis and Afghans, this game has been lambasted in the press and banned by major retailers and game fairs. So do your bit for freedom and buy copies for all your friends!" New Internationalist - August 2007
Game For a Laugh?
"World domination beckons - and it will have been achieved through peaceful means" First Voice - June 2007
Playing on Your Fears.
"The politically accurate, non-jingoistic rules take what could have been a glorified bad-taste joke and turn it into one of the most thought-provoking games we've seen in years" Playboy - May 2007
War on Terror, the Tournament.
"If you like the idea of playing Risk or Monopoly with WMDs and suicide bombers, [this] could be your moment" LA Onion - April 2007
Only a Game?
"[the game] comes complete with Suicide Bomber and Dirty Bomb cards, an Axis of Evil spinner and a ski mask with the word "EVIL" stitched on the forehead. You could call it spectacularly controversial." Parmy Olson, Forbes.com - 3th December 2006-
World War on Global Terrorism - Your Move
"The contemporary twist is that, as well as launching traditional wars, players can sponsor terrorists to plague their enemies - although, in the game, as in life, the terrorists can develop an ungovernable momentum of their own." Andrew Mueller, The Guardian - 20th October 2006
'Suicide Bomber Game' Unlikely to Hit Dubai
"New boardgame comes with props such as balaclavas and features political kidnaps, but retailers say there is no demand for it here." Emmanuelle Landais, Gulf News - 15th October 2006
British Board Game Brings Satire to War on Terror
"War on Terror has an unrepentantly grim view of geopolitics and a British fear of naked capitalism. The money does not say 'In God We Trust' but rather 'For the profit of few, at the cost of many.'" Bryan Mitchell, Stars & Stripes - 2nd October 2006
War? Don't Make me Laugh
"If there were more independent and incredulous thinkers like War on Terror's creators Andy Tompkins and Andrew Sheerin, perhaps the world would be a better place." Paul Syvret,The Courier Mail - --25th September 2006
Rolling the Dice in War on Terror
"But the game is already raising the hackles of some in the United Kingdom who feel that it is less a game than a political manifesto in a colorful box." Tom Lane, ABC News - --21st September 2006
War on terror: the Boardgame
"Survivors of the July 7 bombings are angry with two Cambridge entrepreneurs who have launched a board game based on the war on terror." Metro - --Sep 19th 2006
Fury Over 'War on Terror' Board Game
"MPs have also criticised the game's use of such a sensitive subject matter, and said it appeared to have crossed the line of what was acceptable." Daily Mail - Sep 18th 2006
TV
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'Games Britannia', episode 2 - BBC4
"Unlike anything that has gone before, [TerrorBull Games] attempt to bring one of the defining British qualities of our age - satire - into Games Britannia." BBC 4, 'Games Britannia' ep.2 - December 14th 2009
Radio
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Web
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Fight the War on Terror - in your living room
"To some it's at the the tip of the sharp tongue of satire. To others it's an example of an attempt at funny going too far." BBC Online - October 13th 2008
An interview with the makers of War On Terror The Board Game
"Imagine that as a Sun headline: 'Ambiguous Boardgame Subverts the Accepted Paradigm by Refusing to Offer Answers!'"Small Fish Online (now sadly defunct; article hosted on archive.org) - 3rd October 2006
Other
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