Mille Bornes Downloaded from www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=4280 Reviewed by Sue Years ago, Alan and I used to play Mille Bornes. It was an old card game and as I remember it, we tried make a computer version. It's so long ago, I think it was on the Atari ST or maybe even the Spectrum! We got so far with it, but never completely got it working. I was wandering around Underdogs and what should I find but a PC version of the game. It's quite old - 1990 - but I told Alan about it and both of us have enjoyed a nostalgic look back at an old favourite. The game is very simple. Basically it's a game about driving a car 700 kilometres ('mille bornes' means 1000 milestones) along an imaginary road. You have to complete the trip before your opponent does. In this case, the PC is your opponent. You travel by playing cards that have a certain number of kilometres on them from 25 up and you must get to exactly 700 km, so you need to play just the right card to win one round. To win the full game, you must get 5000 or more points. You also have to play the correct card to start. It's called Roll and shows a green light. Then you can start playing distance cards. To try to prevent you succeeding, your opponent will throw all sorts of obstacles in your way - flat tyres, accidents, speed limits. To counteract each hazard card is a corresponding remedy card - gasoline, end of limit etc, There are also safety cards which protect you from having hazard cards played against you - these include driving ace and puncture proof. To play a card, you roll the mouse over it until it pops out from your hand, then click with the left mouse button. Doing the same click with the right button discards it. After a while you start to work out the strategy behind the best hand but sometimes the cards just go against you! This is such fun though it's a simple game. It's only just over 100k so I've put it on this issue's disk. XP owners will need to set the compatibility to Windows 95 to run it. - o -