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* The 1979 ''[[Dune]]'' board game, designed by Eon and published by Avalon Hill, is widely considered a classic. That didn't stop them from allowing Parker Brothers to make yet another ''Dune'' game in 1984, which hardly anyone cares about.
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' was given a very good board game treatment by Fantasy Flight Games.
* Blizzard has also licensed several of its computer games to Fantasy Flight for boardgame versions, including ''[[Warcraft]]'', ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' and ''[[
** In particular, the ''Starcraft'' boardgame has the feel and spirit of ''Twilight Imperium'', but with several unusually clever mechanics.
* ''[[Doom]]'' the boardgame, again by Fantasy Flight.
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** This troper's favorite is the Reiner Knizia version, in which the players play as the four hobbits (plus Fatty Bolger) and, rather than competing against each other, have to cooperate and plan strategies to beat the game. If this troper remembers correctly, his family still hasn't won in the normal game, and hasn't tried it with the expansion pack since seeing how much harder it is.
* Despite the [[Broken Base|mixed reception]] it received, ''[[Star Wars]]: Episode I'' was adapted by Hasbro into the surprisingly good ''[[Star Wars]]: The Queen's Gambit''.
* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' games spawned a large non-trading card game based on the game Quidditch. It wasn't half bad, actually.
* [[Tabletop RPG]] ''[[Exalted]]'' has two board game adaptations: ''War For the Throne'' and ''Legacy of the Unconquered Sun''.
* Inversion: The board game ''Clue'' has been adapted into a campy movie, a TV series, a musical, and a series of books.
* The ''[[Discworld]]'' board game, Thud, has proved quite sucessful, largely because it's not so much a game based on the books as a game they might play in the books (and has since appeared as such). This is because Terry Pratchett maintains a high standard on spin-offs; in one piece about Thud he mentions the some of the ''other'' game ideas he'd been sent: "'In this game there's a war between the wizards and the witches...' No, I think there isn't, actually."
** Two more board games have come out, both set in Ankh-Morpork, but made by different companies. Treefrog's ''Ankh-Morpork'' concerns power struggles between the various factions of city politics, while in Backspindle's ''Guards! Guards!'' the players are watchmen trying to track down the Eight Spells.
* There was a ''[[Tetris]]'' board game during its heyday, which this troper remembers as kind of an ersatz 2D Jenga in reverse. And there appears to be a new version that operates more as a Connect-4 setup.
* ''[[Star Trek]]''-based wargame ''[[Star Fleet Battles]]'' is one of the most successful tabletop space combat games out there.
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* [[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]] has a board game that's basically a much simplified version of Dungeons and Dragons, filled to the brim with lampshade hangings. Of course even when simplified, it still takes a good hour to get through all the rules of the game and understanding how it all works. To help this he also includes a small comic to explain the basic gist of the game, and says if you don't feel like reading the manual, you can just wing it on stuff you don't get.
* ''[[Bionicle]]'' had a board game that was generally well-recieved by the fans.
* [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] AND [[Warhammer
* There is a [[Back to The Future]] card game that is a version of [[Chrononauts]], but much more streamlined and with the rules tweaked a bit. It is actually better than the original.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' has a fun search-and-fight boardgame adaptation with scenarios covering the first four seasons. There was also a different ''Buffy'' game, and an ''[[Angel]]'' one, which were the usual awful licensed fodder.
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