Funny you should ask.
Here is the story... I have a small company (E.D.I., Inc.) for the last 23 years in the cargo container business. For the first 15 years of that we had a part time employee who was in a three way long term relationship with Nina Hartley and her husband David. They all lived together did the group relationship thing etc. Our office was in Berkley, CA where they all lived together Nina would often come visit for lunch and we would all go out together for lunch ...just lunch. Considering that my business partner is Gay, and the office person above was in a three way deal, I of course had to be the super straight guy married for now 35 years to my first and only girlfriend who we started going 'steady' at 16 , (Have no idea if people even use the term going steady these days).
Anyway, the different life styles made for some very funny lunch conversation often with me getting an earful having no clue as to those life styles. Might be a Sit-Com on cable if I put my mind to it.
As a side business I owned Midnight Games which ran Play By Mail games in a Fantasy D&D style (game system Legends now owned by Harlequin Games in Wales) which I converted over to PBeM, I also did finance and design work on the Babylon 5 Card system game.
Along comes the Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandal and we are talking about it at lunch and I mention that sex scandals go way back and that it would it make a funny game. Between the pasta and the first round of coffee I outlined a card game and everyone thought it was funny. Nina offered to lend her name, her photos and to get her 'girlfriends from the business' ( Kylie Ireland and Shayla Levaux) to contribute their photos for some of the scandal cards and I said sure let's do it. I flew to LA met with the 'girls' and their husbands as a matter of fact in the case of Shayla and got to select from their private owned photo shoots images to use in the game.
The cards were a standard 52 card deck with 2 jokers so you had dual use for the Scandal Game and card games in general. The rules were simple, each card also had a point value and a photo (not all of them with naked or near naked women... my favorite card is in fact of the face of a great dane with sun glasses and a scarf with the caption: They did it in front of the dog---which was actually part of sex scandal of the Popes in the 1300's or so.). Cards were categorized as a Target-Trigger-Transgression-Tidbit-Testimonial-Trumpeter and you played your cards so as to build a scandal and then when someone played the joker (It's History) you scored the points. The classic combination at the time would have been the cards:
Target: President
Trigger: Interin
Transgression: Wanton Sex
Tidbit: It left a stain
Trumpeter: The Net
(testimonials were used to knock out other people's cards and/or put your own in their place, such cards were : Spin Doctor/Mistaken ID etc.)
We did a run of about 10,000 decks with 1 deck in 10 having a signed original card by Nina, it had a nice review by Playboy magazine and was in a bunch of stores and by mail back around 1999. Made some money (not a lot after expenses) and it was funny. I still have a few cases of games left over in the garage,
So that is the story.
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Who's up for a public press game!
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