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¿Question #3142?
puffinge: Have you ever enthusiastically introduced a new game to your group and have it go over like a lead balloon? What game was it?

TiwazTyrsfist: AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaGRI-Cooooooooolaaa
dejinshathe: I have not.
Randy Cox: You think there was only one? You think that I could remember all those games?
Caerid: Arkham Horror. . . at least the first play through. After that they started to like it.
weed131: Last Night on Earth
Hector Vortac: Frantic Frankfurt
Spirit of 70: No.
hyphz: Yes, Tannhauser. We laid it out and then everyone decided they couldn't be bothered.
Frubgarde: King's Finger.
ozjesting: Fire and Axe...but it was late. I have since corrected the state of affairs
benjak: Colossal Arena
1000rpm: Game of Thrones crashed and burned badly.
DHEK: Nope. Not had that kind of reaction. All the games that I've introduced to them, including ones that I wasn't so sure they'd like so much, at least some of them enjoyed it quite a bit.
elirlandes: Yes. Go Johnny Go-Go-Go-Go.
themagni: Lead Balloons over Norway.
Cmot Dribbler: nope.
Chad Jensen: Most definitely: Runebound Midnight.
_Kael_: Eufraat&Tigris come to mind. And Adel Verpflichtet
Ryhesling: Yes. Most games. Lazy, bastard friends.
presence: I am happy when they show up. If its a disaster afterward, its a win.
Cthugha: Beowulf. I wasn't really enthusiastic, but we were all really unimpressed.
Leo-T: Yes - Geografacts
JeremyVS: Heroscape
Poetprince: Spin the donkey.
bigbadsteve: sorta. submarine
SisyphusX: Yes - Titan: The Arena. (*sniff*)
rawdawg: they do what I say, when I say... just as long as it is O.K. with them
Avatar_69: Cosmic Encounter
jasta6: haven't introduced a game yet.................................................................................................................................................
baldrick: Yes! Arkham Horror, which I love but everyone else hated - guess I'm doomed to play it solo...
haraggan: Yes - that would be City of Chaos. Not everybody has my patience for games that never end, I guess.
LemonyFresh: Yes. Montgolfiere.
Loquutus: The Lead Balloon Game
RandallPeek: How do lead balloons go over?
javelin98: Yep -- an old, early 80's ripoff of O.G.R.E. It was horrible. Can't remember what it was called, though.
puffinge: Should I have prefaced this question with True Life Gaming? Jonathan?
BaSL: Attila, La Citta
ssmooth: More than once. Condottiere comes to mind.
obob: MindTrap
e.c.r.: no
GrandpaDave: Yes. A game I designed.
scriptorum: Probably
mrbeankc: no
Thedalek: Yes. Tigris & Euphrates.
skrutsch: I don't really have a group.
ValJor: I have had lukewarm responses, but never a total "lead balloon" case
Bluenose: Too long a list, but T&E was nearly burnt on the spot.
timsteen: Tigris & Euphrates
hpox: Yes. Puerto Rico.
Ludocrazy: Yep. Killer Bunnies
Lord_Prussian: Not really, some people don't like some games, but not usually the whole group.
thoia: Hmmmm not really.
AWildEep: yes... San Marco.
ikeafetishist: axis & allies. the other people took one look at the number of miniatures required, and immediately reverted to playing videogames.
snoozefest: bootleggers didn't go over well with 6, but i wasn't real real enthusiastic, i guess; wildlife, again with 6, didn't go well; struggle of empires with 7 ... we have some very slow players!
CortexBomb: A few...stuff like Edel, Stein und Reich and Taj Mahal got remarkably cool receptions
chaddyboy_2000: I don't think anything I was really excited about has ever totally flopped. Usually people are a little less enthused about Trias than I am, though.
CDRodeffer: Yes -- The Lord of the Rings went over horribly.
skelebone: I keep trying to get McMulti out there, but no one else seems to like it as much as I do.
sos1: Many times. Most memorably, Kremlin. I love it, but they would never touch it again. I still don't know why!
Spielfreak: Yes. Sunda to Sahul and Ubongo. They just don't dig real-time games...
Tim Synge: Puerto Rico, the first time we played it. But it was worth it.
djlg: Yes. Junkyard (but I think we were doing something wrong).
heli: Ulysses, for one
jttm: So many times. Maybe its just my introductory style. :(
Dave: Many, many times. In some cases, it was a game that I played elsewhere with a group that did enjoy it. One notable example is Nur Peanuts.