Talking about old and older obscure abstract games
Royal Reversi is an Othello variant for two to six players and played on a modified board.
The game was introduced in the book Reversi and Go Bang (1890) by an author mysteriously named 'Berkeley' [archive.org]. Here are the relevant pages:
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A later iteration of this game was commercialized in 1938 as Chameleon at Milton Bradley.
The official rules:
Here's the review of Chameleon from The Gamer #7,
By
João Neto
at
17:01
Labels:
flip pieces,
older games
Most of the early posts about new games came from playtesting and discussions between João Pedro Neto and Bill Taylor. But even before Bill's passing on July 2021, the blog had gradually shifted its focus toward old and obscure two-player abstract board games. The blog will tend to avoid Chess variants, Mancala games, and Go Variants, as dedicated sites for those already exist.
Regarding the chronological tags: older games means 1800s-1940s (pre-WW2),
old games means 1950-1989 (pre-video games),
new games means 1990-2005 (at least for now).
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