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¿Question #777?
TomVasel: Which theme is over-used?

imyourskribe: Automatic pants removal
Maximuss: Trading goods.
Asidonhopo: Trading in the Mediterranean ;)
Tom Good: Gilligan's Island
kathleenryan: War, both in reality and games.
Woelf: ______-opoly.
Zamomin: It's funny that *you* should ask this ;)
ricardofo: railroad themes
tlnordin: Space Battle
rickipresta: Fantasy-medieval
Phil Fleischmann: Vampires
anarchy: Trains
pwilz: Um, war?
Chris Page: Trash pick-up routes.
LilRed: Middle ages, renaissance.
koiyu: There's always room for one more :-) If it's original.
Admiral Fisher: Medieval building/resource management games
SubtlyArtistic: War.
EYE of NiGHT: Egypt. Railways. War. Mind you, I quite liked The Egyptian Railway War (Dirk Teuber, Kosmos, 1998).
Buthrukaur: trading in the great sea
Golux: Egypt.
Numskull: Railroads. There are other ways to dress up a network-building game.
Muzza: railways
DHEK: Judging from the incredible number of wargames, I'd go with World War 2.
vampywife: There seems to be an abundance of WWII games.
Penguin_Hatcher: every one except the breakfeast club theme
WalkerRedEye: probably ww2
PsyJam: European Rennaisance.
Dryfus: none I think
Luthien: Merchant theme
Dweeb: Venice - please not Venice again!
Cut & Space: railroad
leslauber: The Simpsons
ryokowerx: Railroad management... How many do we need anyway?!
Cromaa: Relationships
cln777: WWII
darquil: "Germany in the late middle ages"
scriptorum: Egypt
TrimChris: Railroads
Helenoftroy: sports and horror, oh wait I just don't like those themes.
Maraud: Aqua.
sourwyrm: railroad games
brainrob: Pirates
LemonyFresh: Cities
hacksword: Pirates of Camelot
jellospike: Colonization
ElMundo333: Exploration/colonization
fehrmeister: Pirates
_Kael_: American Civil War
Loquutus: Egypt
DaGen: Historic :D
Mike A: Business and acquisition of wealth.
ssmooth: "Beautiful Maria of My Soul" in the movie Mambo Kings
ststrat: Generic Rennaisance Culture
GrandpaDave: WWII
GI Joe: For American games, business/wealth/money; For German games: the Renaissance
xlorp: Lord of the Rings
EDS Teioh: WWII, I think, but I still really like it
toucana: trading, building
sbszine: Renaissance anything.
skrutsch: Medieval
Lord_Prussian: Generic fantasy
The Unbeliever: 42
kennyb: trains
Igmatto: The "This is what I bought" or "Help me to decide" geeklists... But there are too many similar WW1/2 games
davidme: Pimping.
meshuggener: That one that goes doo-doo-doo-de-do.
ThatFalafelGirl: In gaming? War
rivo: war? (ducking)
Linnaeus: Trains. Just because 18XX is a classic doesn't mean every other game with a steam engine on the cover will be.
ikeafetishist: fantasy, (e.g. anything involving trolls and/or valkyries).
snoozefest: renaissance
Karlsen: Chickens
bucklen_uk: Battle of the Bulge
batman: pirates
Flyspeck23: Pirates.
Drewcooter: Star Wars and Lord of the Rings
heli: medieval, Italy, pirates, dinosaurs, Romans, gold prospecting, racing ...
2amp: ahh, none?
Bearcat89: Most of them.
m_r_tyler: Africa
Toxidyne: Trains, planes, and automobiles.
AlorielLelyn: Napoleon
Windopaene: Venice
Cal Mac: Trains
fellonmyhead: No theme is over-used; there are enough good games under each theme to render this question useless.
tragicpoet: Farming
GuyHill: Ancient Egypt
solove: The Star Wars theme..... dun dun dun dun-di-dun dun-di-dun
gnomehome: I haven't got the feeling that themes are over-used.
UhhhClem: As I've said elsewhere, I could do without playing another war-and-trade-in-the-Mediterranean game for a while.
Aelf: World War II
Belash: egypt
Gregarius: Renaissance Italy
Blackwind: none
RooieKazooie: wargames
Bluenose: None. If it's a good game, I don't really care.
CortexBomb: Renaissance
viogression: Lord of the Rings
DangerMouse: None?
darthcliff: The pasted on theme that doesn't quite fit the game or its mechanics
sdownin: Trains
geberus: Renissance Italy
dakarp: trains
chaddyboy_2000: Trading/shipping.
JoeSteadman: The med sea
shumyum: buying property monopolies
BobDodgerBlue: Wouldn't this imply there are too many games?
raolsson: Fantasy
Dave: Pirates (or maybe I'm just sore that so many *bad* pirate games are out there)
louiseh: Star Wars
jens_hoppe: Yeah, Italian Renaissance
mnvalente: Pirates and Catan
Aldie: Fantasy
Shakar: Napoleon, WWII, American civil war, Train.
ValJor: Italian Renaissance
ScottBecker: war
Gonzaga: None ...
Glamorous Mucus: Changing diapers of conjoined twins. Totally played out.
Pseudo Nymh: All of them. Abstracts are the wave of the future!!! ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!!1!
CDRodeffer: Egypt
TD2008YDS: Fantasy
skelebone: European trading during the middle ages/Renaissance.
ynnen: Pirates! Getting sick of it.
queequeg: Desert etc(or is it dessert?)
djlg: Nothing is as overused as Battle of the Bulge wargames. Not even egyptian themes.
jttm: Egyptian