The Creature That Ate Sheboygan

The Creature That Ate Sheboygan is a science fiction board game released in 1979 by Simulations Publications (SPI).

The other player takes the role of the police, fire fighters and military units that will be used to try to protect the city and destroy the monster.

By 1979, SPI was in financial distress as interest in its traditional big box wargames waned, and the company decided to tap into the microgame market, publishing a number of "Capsule" games in various genres, including four science fiction-themed "Space Capsule" games.

In 1985, Encore published a Polish-language version of the game, Ratuj swoje miasto (Save Your Town) in Poland.

He did find some ambiguities in the rules about fires, but concluded by giving the game an Overall Evaluation of "Very Good", saying, "It really is as much fun as it appears, particularly if your monster is equipped with fire-breathing.

"[8] Ken Rolston reviewed The Creature That Ate Sheboygan in White Wolf #43 (May, 1994) and stated that "The humor of this game is all in the play.

The rules rely on dead-pan, format wargame chatter about line-of-sight, case-format references [...] and Combat Resolution Tables.

Nonetheless, fans of Japanese monster moves instinctively dramatize the game; I always wave my head around and trumpet triumphantly after I gobble up hapless National Guardsmen and scream piteously in my death throes.