Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week

Craig / / 2020, Celebs, Cobra, Lords of Flatbush, Rambo: Last Blood, Rocky, Samaritan, TV

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week:

“First Blood” and “Rambo” Board Games Now Available!

Craig / / 2020, First Blood, Rambo

As I was looking through the latest Previews catalog, I came across two new games that I think readers of this site may like.  The first is…

Rambo: First Blood Board Game…

  • The year is 1981, and you’re John Rambo, just returned home from Vietnam to a country you don’t recognize. You wander into the wrong town just looking for something to eat… and now you’re fighting for your life!
  • become Rambo and make all the critical choices and alter the outcomes of your favorite 80’s action movie, First Blood!
  • This is a solo narrative game experience unlike any you’ve ever played before!
  • This game is fully dice-less, so it’s all about the narrative story and your tactical choices in this “Choose your own adventure-like game”
  • 1 Player / 60-90 Minutes / Ages 14+

Next up we have…

Rambo the Board Game

  • They drew first blood, not him! No man, no law, no war can stop him! Sylvester Stallone is back as Rambo, and this time he’s got his team with him
  • You’ve seen the movies, now play the game! Become Rambo, Col. Trautman, Co Bao and others and return to the warzone
  • Includes 52 highly detailed minis, including 2 choppers, over 100 gear and tactics cards, tons of detailed map tiles and 10 epic heroes to become
  • Embark on 2 Story Campaigns of war with 20 unique , tactical & strategic missions in this diceless, stealth-based, guns-blazing, action-adventure thrill ride back to the 80s!
  • 1-4 Players / 60 minute Playtime / Ages: 14+

(If you order the games using either of the links I provided through Amazon, I will get a small commission that will not increase your purchase price. – Craig)

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week

Craig / / 2020, Celebs, Cobra, Creed 3, Family, First Blood, Rambo, Rambo 2, Rambo 3, Rambo: Last Blood, Rocky, Samaritan

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week:

Clubber Lang vs Ivan Drago?

Craig / / 2020, Fan Art, Rocky 3, Rocky 4

Brian Okert at El Tech O posted the drawing above with these questions:

Why do ya think Clubber Lang never stepped up to fight Drago?  And if they did fight… How do ya think that would have gone?

First question first: We don’t know that they never fought.  Perhaps they did but the result never made it into the follow-up Rocky/Creed films.

I like to think that after Lang lost to Rocky, he was devastated.  Lang had been destroying opponents and thought he was unbeatable.  After Rocky knocked him out, Clubber went into a period of isolation and self-reflection. He met a woman who worked with troubled youth.  She didn’t follow sports or know Clubber was a boxer.  They developed a relationship and Clubber began to work with the kids in an effort to help turn their lives around.  Lang had enough money from fighting to retire and he did so he could live a peaceful life with her. (Based somewhat on George Foreman’s life after boxing.)

Second question: If Lang and Drago had fought, how would it have gone?  The outcome would, of course, depend on how Sly wanted to move the story forward.  No matter who won, Clubber or Drago, then it makes sense he would have continued to fight and we would have heard more about him in the Balboa/Creed movies.   Since there was no mention of either fighting again, I think it is safe to assume they never fought.  But if they did fight, I’d give the edge to Drago… although Clubber would have always had a puncher’s chance.

Your thoughts?