Wayback When? is a review of the games I was playing five, ten, fifteen and twenty years ago with me highlighting the most memorable titles of each particular month in the vain hope that I might dig out some of them to play again. This month we’re looking at April 1993, 1998, 2003 and 2008.
 
April 2008 saw the first appearance of three interesting games. Perikles was a very approachable Martin Wallace game; Glory to Rome was another clever multi-purpose cards type game in the same vein as San Juan and Race for the Galaxy; Lascaux was a neat card game that I can’t quite remember how it played but everyone thought it was pretty good.
 
Ten years ago saw us play one of Reiner Knizia’s all-too-rare these days gamer’s games, Amun Re, an excellent game that really does need to get played again soon. Also that month, Settlers of the Stone Age was a nice addition to the Catan universe where everyone expands out from Africa into Europe, Asia and the Americas, while the original African areas get turned into deserts. An interesting twist.
 
April 1998 saw the release of one of Reiner Knizia’s earliest dice games and Exxtra (also published as Excape) remains a fun push your luck game. Also, Alan Moon’s reimplementation of Elfenroads, the Spiel des Jahres winning Elfenland was played for the first time.
 
Finally, in April 1993, I was introduced to the classic Wildlife Adventure, a game that is currently going through a Kickstarter campaign for re-publication, and the clever election card game, Koalition.