Hmmm... When I got this email, I went to Jesse's mbflipsiders Yahoo!
group to reply, but though the screen says "49-78 of 79," the 79th
message isn't there. Did you delete it?

Anyway, yes, that was my thread on BGG, wherein I was trying to get
any more info I could. I've been meaning to get that info over here,
but now that I see the dates over there, I can see work really has
gotten in the way, and time has flown past!

That's my thread on BGG you found, which I started up when I noticed
the product ID numbers on my Flipsiders. I figured they could be used
to help track down the total number of Flipsiders out there, but as I
didn't have too many at the time, I still needed much help. Alfonzo
Smith was able to fill in some additional product IDs for me,
including that of the mythical Prom Date! He did duplicate the number
for Gold Fever and Road Rally as you can see, but I didn't want to get
pushy, since he had been one of my best sources of info already.
Unfortunately, with the common nouns used for the naming of the new
Flipsiders he listed, there was little I could search for online. The
only really oddly (and thus easily searchably) named one was
Caterpillar Causeway, but all that finds on Google is a few random
things, and now my thread on BGG. I searched out the rest, to no
avail. They are non-entities online, sadly.

Since I've procrastinated long enough getting that info over here,
let's complete things. Thanks for the gentle nudge :) I will post the
info finally right now in a new thread with an easily findable topic
title.

-g

> i found this quote from someone on boardgamegeek about the 1993 flipsiders:

> "I had a friend who was fond of the Flipsiders series so when they were
discounted after
> being discountinued I wound up collecting them. When I catalogued my
collection I was
> surprised to notice that the series was released by two different publishers.
The ones with
> the 1988 copyright were released by Milton Bradley. The ones with a 1993
copyright were
> released by Diversified Specialists, Inc. (who?)

> The newer games are:
> Caterpillar Causeway (#144172)
> River Run (#144185)
> Prized Pony (#144186)
> Alien Assault (#144200)
> Gold Fever (#144178)
> Road Rally (#144178)

> There is a sticker on the back of these games that says "Distributed by West
Coast
> Liquidators, Inc. Domiguez, CA 90220." This leads me to believe that the games
were just
> dumped on the market and sold below cost."


> i've never heard or seen of any of these titles, ever. like aliens, do they
really exist?






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