Blade Runner Board Game Prototype

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Blade Runner Board Game Prototype

This is an item that was never put into full production and is thus exceptionally rare, only 100 boards were made. It was printed by a small company in California (now defunct) and released to test markets in San Francisco and Los Angeles back in 1982-83. These are licensed products and bear the "Blade Runner Partnership" trademark. - As for the game itself, it's obviously a prototype.

Basically you move your pieces around and when you land on a VK terminal, the other players give you a test and if the cards they draw add up to a certain number, then that player is a replicant and the others have to try to catch him. The game sort of plays on that uncertainty of who's a replicant and who isn't -- something that's not really expressed in the original theatrical release.