jeriendhal | Ogre Kickstarter

Thirty-five years ago, Steve Jackson worked for a now defunct company called Metagaming, which produced the first "Pocket Box" games. One of his first projects was a little thing called Ogre, a five dollar game, with counters you had to cut out yourself, that featured the unique concept of science fictional equivalents to standard wargame units on one side, and a single unit on the other side, the titular Ogre, a gigantic cybertank that had to be ground down rather than just destroyed in one shot.

When Metagaming went out of business, Steve bought the rights to Ogre and made one of the first products his own company, Steve Jackson Games, produced. Now in 2012, he's reviving the game, this time in a tremendous $100 deluxe edition with stand up counters and a buttload of other goodies available for preorder. He wasn't sure about the demand for the game, so he started a kickstarter campaign to pay for the swag and gauge buyer interest.

The number of Kickstarter donations so far is nearing $750,000.

I cannot justify the expense of paying $150 for the boxed set and all the swag that comes with it. But damn, I wish I could.