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Ian ([personal profile] lovingboth) wrote2003-06-22 08:55 pm
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Looking for the rules of one of the numerous games Sid Sackson designed - having bought it without any rules for 20p at a summer fair yesterday - I was shocked to discover he died in November last year.

Neither The Guardian nor The Independent did an obitury.

He also had the biggest collection of games in the world. That's been broken up.

Have a browse of http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sackson.htm to see who I'm talking about if you don't already know.

WOAH!!!!

[identity profile] kingginger.livejournal.com 2003-06-22 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd say "you're kidding" but that would be a really stupid thing to say...

He was incredibly prominent in my youth, the books I read, the games I played.

I am really sorry to hear that...

:-(

Wow.

I'm really bummed out at that.
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[personal profile] nwhyte 2003-06-23 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Gosh, that's terribly sad. In a sense, though, it demonstrates the extent to which board games have lost ground - or perhaps never had it; how many people would know the name David Watts, or even Railway Rivals?