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title: "Buffalo Games - Apollo Games (NASA) - Long Play Strategy Game - Great for Game Night - Space Mission"
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# 30-60 Mins Playtime 2-5 Players Apollo & Gemini Packs Buffalo Games - Apollo Games (NASA) - Long Play Strategy Game - Great for Game Night - Space Mission

**Brand:** buffalo games
**Price:** ¥9664
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Blast Off into Fun with Friends!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Buffalo Games - Apollo Games (NASA) - Long Play Strategy Game - Great for Game Night - Space Mission by buffalo games
- **How much does it cost?** ¥9664 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.jp](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/272764993-buffalo-games-apollo-games-nasa-long-play-strategy-game-great)

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## Key Features

- • **Dynamic Gameplay:** Experience 30-60 minutes of engaging strategy and teamwork.
- • **Multiple Gameboards:** Includes both Apollo and Gemini gameboards for varied play.
- • **Crisis Management Challenge:** Navigate through 25 Crisis Cards and 12 Crisis Puzzle Pieces!
- • **Strategic Depth for All Ages:** Perfect for ages 12 and up, ensuring everyone can join the fun.
- • **Unleash Your Inner Astronaut:** Embark on a thrilling space mission with friends!

## Overview

Buffalo Games' Apollo Games is a long-play strategy game designed for 2-5 players aged 12 and up. With a playtime of 30-60 minutes, it features both Apollo and Gemini mission packs, offering a rich array of components including gameboards, crisis cards, and tokens, making it perfect for game nights and strategic fun.

## Description

You are “go for launch!” Apollo is a cooperative strategy game inspired by the NASA moon missions. The year is 1961, President Kennedy challenged the nation to land astronauts on the moon by the end of the decade. Now it’s up to you to walk in the footsteps of NASA’s pioneers and embark on the missions that made history… FOR ALL MANKIND! Play as Mission Control and or an Astronaut. Both sides must worth together and strategize to complete flight stages, overcome obstacles, repair the spacecraft, and keep communications clear. It is the team that determines if the mission is a success or failure. Includes two mission packs, Gemini and Apollo with real NASA mission facts for basic and advanced play.

## Features

- 2-5 Players
- Ages 12 & Up
- 30-60 Mins Playtime
- Apollo Mission Pack Includes- 8 Gemini Flight Stage Cards, 12 Experiment Cards. Gemini Mission Pack Includes- 5 Gemini Flight Stage Cards, 10 Experiment Cards.
- Also Includes, Gemini Gameboard, Apollo Gameboard, 4 Crisis Puzzle Boards, Astronaut Control Board, Mission Control Board, Flight Damage Board, 25 Crisis Cards, 23 COMM Tokens, 20 +/- Tokens, 12 Crisis Puzzle Pieces, 12 Dice, 5 Astronaut Markers, 1 Experiment Marker, 3 Alert Clips, 2 Mission Pawns with stands, Comms Down Clip, Player Screen, and Player Turn Token

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## Questions & Answers

**Q: What is the replay ability like for this game? If you complete the missions, can you play the game again?**
A: Yes, you can play the missions again.
Due to dice rolling, each time you play, you must figure out how to best use your roll. So each time you replay a mission, it's going to be different.
You also can make the game more difficult, as the rules suggest, if you've mastered the game.
For me it's a great thematic game to play from time to time.
I hope I've helped you in your decision.
Have a great gaming experience!

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A very accurate simulation of feelings in board game format
*by L***A on February 7, 2025*

Having studied history and knowing things about Apollo, I find this game absolutely accurate, not in terms of mechanics, but the feelings these mechanics generate.* In the 1960s astronauts had an abstract industrial panel in the cockpit where they had to do abstract things to make the ship to do what it needed to do. Some people complain about the abstract tasks with dice and tokens in this game. Congratulations, now you know what real astronauts must have felt in these missions.* Some people complain about the limitations in communication between Houston and the astronauts in this game. In real life communications were limited. It is not like Houston could fax or send a JPG file with a diagram of what to do. This is covered in the game with limited communication. Another simulationist side of the game.* Some people complain about replayability. It happens that Gemini and Apollo missions had a mission profile. It is not like suddenly they want to fly to Pluto. So yes, replayability is different in the sense that each mission will not be radically different. This is like real life.* Some people complain about timed turns. Planets do not wait for people to do things. Real spaceflights have a fixed schedule and all tasks need to be done within the alotted time. Welcome to real world folks.* Some people complain about damage not being shared by Houston. It happens that damage would happen away from everyone's sight because Apollo did not have self diagnostics. So authors of the game decided that this hidden information would be managed by Houston player.* Some people complain about the existence of the abstract circuit board puzzles. Real astronauts also had to hack intergrated circuit boards in the ship. So welcome to real history.I could go on and on with the absolutely accurate translation of this simulator of astronaut feelings, because everything you like or dislike, that frustrates or excites you about this game, has a simplified equivalence in this game.Who is this game for? If you want merely fun and entertainment, it may not be for you. But if you are into history and want to feel what real astronauts must have felt, this game is for you. It is more a time machine than commercial entertainment.And talking about replayability, it depends on what you understand as replayability too. For example, a game like Star Wars deckbuilder is about dealing cards, buy cards and attack bases, rinse and repeat. Not very replayable if you ask me. So complains are relative because it depends on what people understand as replayable. I find it very replayable, and ejoyable if you take this game like a role playing game with abstract tasks.People also criticize the manual of this game. You should know that 1960s NASA manuals looked like a notepad TXT file full of cryptic notes, not exactly user friendly. NASA was not good at making manuals for newbies. The good thing is that there is a video that buffalo games promotes that explains how to play. Just visit the URL in the manual.As a historical simulator of astronaut feelings this game is very historically accurate. Those looking for more commercial experiences may not like it 100%. It becomes enjoyable if you want to relive history and play role playing between Houston and astronauts.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Complicated but fun!
*by N***T on May 15, 2025*

I've been interested in the Apollo Program for a long time, and I had seen this game, so I finally gave in and bought. It's very well made and came along with a nice Artemis poster. It's quite complicated to figure out, but once you get it it's quite fun.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Complex but not impossible
*by S***. on December 27, 2024*

This game is SO much fun! It’s complex to the point that it’s very realistic. My brother (young teenager) is loving it and understands it perfectly. A little time going over the instructions and you’ll be set. I only wish there were expansion packs!

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