Mods, I put this here because it’s all about entertaining pop culture but feel free to move to the GAME ROOM if appropriate.
I’ve been playing SUPERFIGHT for a while now and it’s truly a silly, very stupid but highly entertaining way to enjoy time well wasted. It’s not even really a game and more of a way to provoke nerd rage. No points are awarded, the rules are tenuous at best and you “win” by being by being the most creative in warping your pop culture knowledge in the most ridiculous fights you can think of.
There are two types of cards in the box. White “character” cards give you your fighter. You might have “DARTH VADER”, “SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES”, “MOST INTERESTING MAN IN THE WORLD”, “JASON VORHEES” or “RABID SPANIEL”. There are also black “attribute” cards that allow you to modify fighters. “SHOOTS RAINBOWS FROM FINGERS”, “HAS SUPER SPEED BUT ONLY WHEN OPPONENT BLINKS”, “STARVING TO DEATH”, “MADE OF LAVA” or “ARMED WITH A PORCUPINE ON A CHAIN” are fairly typical.
To start the game, each player is dealt seven black “attribute” and two white “character” cards. Each player then chooses one character and places it face down in front of him while discarding the other white card. After all players have selected their fighter, all players reveal their fighters to the rest of the players. The player to the dealer’s left then chooses one attribute card to modify their own fighter. Continue going around the table until all players have placed a single modifier card on their fighter. Again, starting with the player to the dealer’s left, each player has the OPTION to place a single attribute card on any other player’s fighter. Once all players have had to option to place an attribute card on another player’s fighter - THE FIGHT BEGINS. Argue about why your fighter would win. Nerd knowledge, pop culture wizardry, lateral thinking, spurious logic and plain old bluster are your tools and the fight continues until people get bored or five minutes elapses, whichever comes first. Group consensus may or may not select a winner at the end of the round but honestly, that’s kind of secondary. To being the next round, the player to the dealer’s left becomes the new dealer and deals out two new character cards to each player and enough attribute cards to bring each player back up to seven.
Naturally, this comes up with the most ridiculous fighters your friends can concoct. The last round I fought, I thought that “GODZILLA” with “ARMED WITH BAT’LETH” would easily beat the “CHEERLEADER SQUAD” and “CHUCK NORRIS” my opponents had out. Then my opponent played “TIMES 1,000” on his Chuck. No force on Earth can withstand one thousand Chuck Norrises. I had to even the odds so I played “HAS JETPACK” on the Norri. My argument was that since the “TIMES 1,000” was applied first and then I added the jetpack, the Norri only get one and all 1,000 of them are hanging off a single big-ass jetpack. The Norri just became a single big clumsy target. My opponent struck back with “MADE OF KITTENS” on my “GODZILLA” but he miscalculated. By this time, the Cheerleader Squad was “THIRTY METERS TALL” and saw a monstrous bearded, mechano flying beast shouting lines from “Walker.Texas Ranger” and attacking mass of kittens (granted fire breathing and sword wielding but still kittehs). Clearly they were not going to stand for that and so I had an ally and we took down the Norri. We couldn’t decide if “Zilla-kitty” could beat the enormous amount of cheer the squad was generating so we called that a draw.
Does any other Doper play SUPERFIGHT? Do you have any fights that really struck you as entertaining?