2004 – 1997retired
Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game
“The stars were finally right, in 2015.”
“Over 1,100 cards, two point systems, one immortal afterlife on Kickstarter.”
Doomtrooper was a collectible card game designed by Bryan Winter, born out of the Swedish Mutant Chronicles franchise and published by Target Games and Heartbreaker Hobbies around 1994 or January 1995. Players fielded warriors to attack and earn Promotion Points toward victory, while Destiny Points bought more warriors and equipment. With 13 card types and over 1,100 different cards, there was plenty to collect, argu
The game eventually went out of print, but it did not go quietly into the vault. Its concepts migrated to a digital version that was successfully funded on Kickstarter, giving fans a second life for the game they never stopped playing. Not bad for a card game with a date of birth that even the record keepers can't quite pin down.
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“The stars were finally right, in 2015.”
“Dealt a final hand in 1997; the deck was good, the ending was not.”
“It put a print shop on every desk and politely retired once the job was done.”