Released in 1960 when westerns were in their heyday in American culture, the Doc Holliday Wild West Game was a simple opportunity to market yet another package of fun with no real depth to it. There’s nothing wrong with the game, but it’s a very basic spin-and-move operation that is designed with kids in mind; think 6-12 years old range. Designed for 2-4 players, each person takes both a Doc Holliday piece as well as a bandit piece, and then spin and move, trying to reach the final space before their opponents.
These days the real value of a game like this one is the collectability, but it can still be fun to sit down for a breezy session of classic board game competition. Through the 50’s and 60’s there were so many of these type of games produced that it would be pointless to spotlight them all, but take games like this one or the Wyatt Earp Life and Legend board game and you pretty much know what you got whenever you see something from the era.
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