Stop Thief

a.k.a. Stop Thief - Electronic Cops and Robbers Game

created and published by Parker Brothers in 1979, running on custom platform

type: board game, strategy
genre: Augmented Reality Game
perspective: bird's-eye other fixed camera
player options: hotseat

Description

This is a turn-based board game with an electronic component. 2-4 Players are detectives represented by plastic figures on a grid based game board of buildings with individual rooms and specific cells where the the thief might commitment a crime. The electronic component, the "Crime Scanner", plays the part of an invisible thief otherwise 'located' on the same gameboard. It plays sounds made by the thief such as footsteps, doors opening or closing, or windows breaking. The Crime Scanner is programmed before the game and updated during the game via the keypad. There is also an led display to dispense clues. Player roll two six-sided dice to determine movement of players on the game board.

zerothis # 2017-04-30 15:37:38