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The hot test board game of the year may soon be rivaled by another game based on subjects much closer to the hearts of Texas A&M University stu dents and alumni. “College Days at Texas A&M,” a game based entirely around Univer sity traditions, will be available in lo cal bookstores Sept. 13, its inventor said Thursday. “It’s a pretty clean game,” said Jon Word, a May graduate and the man who designed the game. “There’s no references to beer or sex or any thing. I think it will appeal to a lot of different people.” The game has four Aggie-symbol playing pieces: Old Sarge, senior boots. Reveille and the senior ring. Word said that players prepare for college, pick a major and then move their playing pieces down Highway 6 to campus. Players advance their playing pieces or get cash bonuses for know ing University traditions, such as be ing able to sing the Aggie War Hymn. But players also can be pe nalized for such things as missing a yell practice. The game board has a pictorial view of campus. Word said the game’s success is “pretty iffy right now.” He said he thinks the game will sell particularly well with alumni, but that he hopes everyone interested in Texas A&M will buy it. A marketing survey by INVENT, the Institute for Ventures in New Technology, predicts that 3,200 cop ies of the game will sell by the end of the year. Word said that 5,000 copies are on the market. The 23 year-old Word developed the game while living on campus and worked for two years to refine it. He said that he and his roommate, Greg Budinger, “just kind of came up with the idea one night.” A member of the 12th Man kick off team. Word said he spent the summer of 1983 working on the game. “All I did was work out and go back to my room and work on the game,” he said. Word broke his hand during a football practice that fall, an injury that he said turned out to be a bles sing. It gave me more time for the game,” he said. “That Christmas and the following spring I played it all the time.” Word said his family contributed much to improving the game. 'COUPON INTERNATIONAL BOUSE RESTAURANT Golden Rotisserie Chicken Dinner *2.99 Offer expires September 30, 1984 Includes Soup or Salad, Vegetable, Potato, Roll and Butter. Good Everyday After 11 A.M. At INTERNATIONAL HOUSE of PANCAKES® RESTAURANT 103 N. College Skaggs Center Recent Texas A&M graduate Jon Word with his game, “Colle “I can’t take full credit for it,” he said. “My sister and roommate helped me a lot.” Word’s sister, Tatni, is a sophomore at Texas A&M. His father, Max Word, Texas A&M class of ’52, helped raise money to hack the project, and Word’s mother is managing the mar keting of the game. Surprisingly, Word said he has never played many board games. “I don’t like them,” he admitted. “Long board games frustrate me. I designed this one to only take about an hour. “Parents can sit down with their kids and play the game to teach them about college,” he said. "1 didn't want to go to Texas A&M that much, but my father said I could go to A&M and he'd nay for it, or I could go somewhere else and pay for it myself, so 1 went to A&M. “Now I’m so glad I did. When you leave a school, you realize how de voted you are to it.” He said the fact that he hasn’t played many board games is a plus because it kept him from being in fluenced by other games. “This game is more original. We put a lot of quality into it," Word said. Word said the game is a great way for kids to learn about college. Word has a degree in industrial distribution and now sells X-ray equipment for Picker International. He said he has been inventing or selling things since he was a child. 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