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This boardgame from Games Workshop came in a bookshelf style box that featured Tom Baker as The Doctor in front of several Dalek s on the cover. The game involved two to six players moving around the board attempting to collect pieces of The Key To Time . Along the way the players face classic ''Doctor Who'' aliens and villians and collect various companions and items to help them.
Published by The Games Team, this game could be played by two to four players. One player would play the role of the Doctor while the others would play one of three villains, namely Davros , The Master or the Cyber Controller . Each player would also have a team of four assistants which they would collect (the Doctor having his companions while Davros would have four Daleks, for example) while moving around the board and challenging each other in Hyperspace "battle zones", until confronting each other in a final battle for control of the universe.
Published by MMG, this Collectible Card Game involved each player building a deck of cards from their collection and playing that deck against each other. Each player also had a deck of Time cards representing his cycle of Regenerations ; the object of the game was to eliminate the other player's "lives" before they could do the same. This would be accomplished by using various categories of cards for attacking and defending.
This game involves each player moving a player piece representing the Ninth Doctor, along with a Dalek-shaped playing piece. The movement of the pieces and other random events are determined by an electronic TARDIS model that speaks and lights up. Roleplaying games
A Tabletop Roleplaying Game published by FASA , it allowed players to assume similar roles to the Doctor and his companions or as agents of the Celestial Intervention Agency . It had a picture of the Fourth Doctor and Leela on the box and its game mechanics was based on the '' Star Trek '' RPG also published by FASA. The main set of three rulebooks was followed by several separately published adventures and sourcebooks for the game. FASA also published two books similar in format to the "Make Your Own Adventure" books listed below, the first ('''The Vortex Crystal'' by William H. Keith, Jr.) featuring the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan , and the second (''The Rebel's Gamble'' also by William Keith, ISBN 0931787688), set during the American Civil War ) featuring the Sixth Doctor , Peri and also Harry Sullivan, even though Sullivan was not a companion during the Sixth Doctor's era. This was another tabletop roleplaying game, written by Ian Marsh and Peter Darvill-Evans and published in paperback novel format by Virgin Publishing. This game is totally unrelated to the previously released Doctor Who RPG by FASA . It has different, simpler, mechanics and is considered faithful to the original television show. However, it was marketed with other ''Doctor Who'' books and not other role-playing games. In addition, Virgin was unknown in the gaming market. As a result, it did not sell well and aside from a few articles in '' Doctor Who Magazine '', no supplements were published. Since 1996 , it has been made available for free on the Internet by the authors (see Below ). Gamebooks
These were a series of six Gamebooks published by Severn House in the United Kingdom and by Ballantine in the United States . (At least three were also published by the ABC in Australia , using the British titles.) These stories feature the Sixth Doctor together with many familiar old companions and enemies including K-9 , Peri , Turlough , the Rani and Omega . With the exception of Michael Holt, all the books in the series were written by scriptwriters for the television series, although some of the books tended to break from the continuity of the series (particularly ''Crisis in Space'' which features Vislor Turlough, even though he did not travel with the Sixth Doctor). The books were first published during the 1985-86 hiatus though it has never been confirmed whether any of the plots were originally intended for the TV series. The six books were: Note 1 This is K-9 Mark III who was introduced in the spin-off '' K-9 And Company '', as opposed to K-9s Mark I and II who travelled with the Fourth Doctor . COMPUTER GAMES '']]
Two Computer Game s by BBC Soft for the BBC Micro
A Computer Game published by Micro Power for the ZX Spectrum , C64 and BBC Micro .
A computer game published by Admiral Software, it allowed the player to play either the Second , Fourth or Seventh Doctors, with the option of a second player taking the role of Ace or Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart . The object of the game was to navigate through several environments, ranging from sewers to devastated cities and defeat the Daleks and their assorted minions.
Published by BBC Multimedia, this was a CD-ROM based computer game in which the player took the role of the Graak, a creature of mental force created by the Fourth Doctor. The Master has imprisoned all seven of the Doctor's incarnations in a dimension known as the Determinant and the player must undergo a series of quests and puzzles to free each of them. The game featured extensive new clips of Anthony Ainley as the Master (playing the role for the final time) and the voices of all the surviving actors to play the Doctor as well as that of Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. PICTURE CARDS There have been several series of Picture Cards devoted to ''Doctor Who'' over the years. These include a set of 36 cards given away in 1967 with Walls 'Sky Ray' ice lollys. The cards featured a somewhat long-haired doctor based on Patrick Troughton joining forces with the 'Sky Ray Space Raiders' to battle the Dalek s. The cards were collected in an album, ''Dr Who's Space Adventure Book'', which also included games and other features {Link without Title} . The Tom Baker era saw a collection of 12 cards issued with Typhoo Tea entitled ''The Amazing World of Dr. Who''. These featured photographs of various monsters from the series, and could be stuck onto to a 'wallchart' poster that could be purchased separately {Link without Title} . ACTION FIGURES Palitoy released a selection of 9" figures in the 1970s, including the Fourth Doctor, Leela, K-9, the Giant Robot , a Cyberman and a Dalek, as well as a TARDIS . From the late 1980s to 2001, with two arms, and (as part of a TARDIS control room playset) a TARDIS console with five sides instead of six. The company also hosted the ''Doctor Who Experience'' exhibition, which showed props and costumes from the original series and ran until 2003. Dapol stopped making the figures in 2001, along with any other licenced Doctor Who products. The figures in the range included:
To coincide with the revival of the show, Character Options have announced a new line of action figures based around the characters from Series One, Series Two and the Christmas Special. The ones announced for release so far are as follows: Release wave 1 (released Feb 2006)
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