# Identify a board game -- Shadowrun theme?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-board-game-shadowrun-theme/662767>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [July 6, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-board-game-shadowrun-theme/662767 "2013-07-06T02:28:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-board-game-shadowrun-theme/662767/1 "2013-07-06T02:28:42Z")

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I played it a few times and loved it… A “Dark America” theme, much like Shadow run, but a board game, not an RPG. The outer track let your characters build up skills. The inner part of the board was a map of the U.S., where your characters went to confront mysterious haunted evil.

One memorable bit: the game posited a merger of Ford and Revlon, and a standard joke was, “I was out of lipstick, so I had to buy a new car.”

Thanks! Sent from phone on vacation.

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-board-game-shadowrun-theme/662767/2 "2013-07-06T02:37:00Z")

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What year did you play it?

It would be good to rule out games from after year XXXX.

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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-board-game-shadowrun-theme/662767/3 "2013-07-06T03:36:38Z")

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…er… 1995 or so…approx…to the very poor memory…

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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-board-game-shadowrun-theme/662767/4 "2013-07-10T01:29:43Z")

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I sent **Trinopus** a PM, but if anybody else is playing at home, the game is [Minion Hunter](http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/679/minion-hunter).

My gamer friends’ nerd-fu is strong. 😃