Route 666 short story anthology, edited by David Pringle, published by Games Workshop (1990).However, while several pop-culture references were updated in the books, some lines retain their original wording, and now seem out of place (such as when character Jazzbeaux thinks of the millennium coming around in five years' time in 'Route 666'). They updated the setting to 2021, and released several new titles. In 2005 the Dark Future setting was brought back as a series of novels published by Games Workshop's fiction imprint Black Flame. Novels by Jack Yeovil (a pen name of Kim Newman) created an elaborate alternate history where Elvis Presley is a hard-as-nails bounty hunter and Oliver North is president of the United States. Black and white illustrations throughout. Containing new rules for manoeuvers, shooting, hazards, new equipment and vehicles are presented (trikes), alongside scenarios, and new characters. The book collects many of the articles published in White Dwarf magazine. White Line Fever is a volume of advanced rules for Dark Future published in 1988. ' White Line Fever Cover Artwork by Les Edwards (1988) The game is reviewed by Jim Bambra in Dragon Magazine 149 - he berates the use of 'roleplaying' in the title, stating that it really a board-game, but praises the high quality components and the fast-playing highway combat rules. 4 sprues with weapons: machine gun, autocannon, chain gun, heavy laser, combat laser, 40mm grenade launcher, 20mm grenade launcher, missile pod, turret, side mounting bracket.2 sprues with 2 bikes, 1 Interceptor body and 1 Renegade body.4 sprues with 2 large wheels and 4 small wheels.4 cars and 4 bikes (2 white and 2 red of each):.3 6-sided dice (1 red 15mm, 2 blue 12mm).The cover was painted by Les Edwards and the original may be seen here Components Published in 1988 Dark Future was a boxed game containing rules, cardboard track sections and plastic cars a similar size to standard Matchbox toy cars (roughly 1/60 or 1/64 - 23 to 25mm scale), published by Games Workshop. The game was seen as a replacement for GW's earlier board game Battlecars (designed by Ian Livingstone), which merged James Bond-like combative car gadgets in a Mad Max-inspired background, and competitor with the long-standing and popular Car Wars game by SJG.ĭark Future: The Game Of Highway Warriors When that project was canceled, that game's co-author and GW board game developer Marc Gascoigne ported it onto Richard Halliwell's car-racing game system, provisionally titled Highway Warriors, using mechanics originally developed for Judge Dredd role-playing expansion Slaughter Margin. 2 Dark Future: The Game Of Highway WarriorsĪ game bearing the name Dark Future was originally developed for Games Workshop as a cyberpunk role-playing game.

Route 666 by David Pringle