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TDC Games, Inc. • 1035
N.Hilltop Drive • Itasca, Il 60143 |
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Since it was founded in 1984, TDC Games, Inc. has established an international reputation as the producer of innovative, trend setting, if somewhat zany, board games and jigsaw puzzles. True to its eclectic style, TDC enters its 27th season with new and completely diverse collection of high quality, but reasonably priced, game and puzzle products. New For 2011CAMPBELL'S ALPHABET DIICE GAME TDC has partnered with one the nation's foremost food brands to produce an innovative new anagram word game played with dice. Easy to learn, yet hard to master, Campbell's Dice Game contains 36 dice with 216 letters all whimsically package in a large soup can. Suggested Retail - $12.95 JIGSAWBALL, Spherical Jigsaw Puzzles are made from real puzzle board, not plastic. Jigsawballs are 9 inches in diameter and feature 212 interlocking puzzle pieces. First titles include an Antique Globe and a Baseball containing the logos of all the Major League Teams. Suggested Retail -$ 19.95 THE WORLD'S SMALLEST COLLEGE FOOTBALL PUZZLES are the latest addition to TDC's highly successful line of record-setting miniature puzzles that each feature 234 pieces in only 4x6 inches. Suggested Retail -$ 9.95 COLLEGE FOOTBALL-SHAPED JIGsAW PUZZLES are college football team specific 550 piece puzzles in the shape of a football. Suggested Retail Price - $14.95 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL USA-SHAPED JIGSAW PUZZLE is entitled "Baseball Across America" and contains all Major League and a sampling of Minor League logos laid out br location on a 1,000 piece, 26 inch wide map shaped puzzle of America. Suggested Retail Price - $6.95 ------------------------------------------------ Current TDC Game ProductsTHE GREEN GAME is the game that can actually "save the planet." and is loaded with over 450 questions that will challenge player's knowledge of all things green. Playing The Green Game actually educates player in what helps...and what might hurt the ecology of our planet. It is also a carbon neutral product. The small amount of materials that are not bio-degradable are offset by the 6 drink coasters included that will grow wildflowers after they are damp and are planted in soil. Suggested Retail - $26.95 MAKE YOUR OWN-OPOLY is a kit that contains everything needed to produce one custom designed property trading style board game. There have been various City-opolys, College-opolys and Sports-opolys. Now you can have your own opoly by using a computer with any simple ink jet printer tocreate the board game you wish. Suggested Retail - $29.95 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL, THE BASEBALL CARD GAME actually simulates playing baseball, except with cards. Each specially designed 56 card deck is accompanied by a baseball diamond layout of a specific team. Die-hard fans can play each other in their home park. There are currently nine team specific editions with more to come next season. Suggested Retail - $5.95 REMINISCING, The 21st Century Edition is new , updated edition of "The Game for People Over Thirty," and has been a best-seller among the "thirtysomething plus" set for 20 years. Originally designed exclusively for players with more advanced experience at life, the game has now been expanded to include events, fads and memories from 1949 to 2009. It continues to challenge players to remember facts and events from their own personal past. Age is a distinct advantage playing REMINISCING. Although it now invites "anyone old enough to have a past" to play, it remains the one game on the market that continues to prove "older can be better." Suggested Retail -$ 24.95 DIRTY MINDS, The Game of Naughty Clues has been TDC’s best-selling mega-hit since1990. Test if you have a dirty mind, from the following clues: 1) It’s a four letter word. 2) It’s a name for a woman. 3) It ends in U-N-T... If your answer wasn’t "Aunt", you have a Dirty Mind and will lose this game, because although the clues are highly suggestive, the answers are totally clean. Suggested Retail - $ 20.00 MORE DIRTY MINDS, Volume Two, is the sequel to the 1990’s DIRTY MINDS game and contains more of the same funny, yet slightly off-color clues to the cleanest of answers. Example: 1) Swartzenegger has a long one. 2) Spike Lee has a short one. 3) The Pope doesn’t use his. If your first thought wasn’t "Last Name", you have a dirty mind. Suggested Retail - $20.00 DELUXE DIRTY MINDS, is the 15th Anniversary edition of the world's cleanest "dirty" game. This contains even more creatively wicked clues, along with the cleanest of answers. This one also includes the new catagory of "Dirt Deeds" to add to the fun. Suggested Retail - $34.95 DIRTY MINDS, The Card Game is the latest, and least expensive, edition of "the world's cleanest 'dirty' game". Suggested Retail -$ 9.95 SENIOR MOMENTS. You Can't Remember the Last Time You Played a Game Like This is a memory game for those who might need the practice. Since you're never too young to have a senior moment, the game is suggested for all ages and also contains some hilarious senior moments contributed by people of all ages. Suggested Retail Price - $24.95 GREED has been one of the most addictive dice games around for almost two decades. TDC has reintroduced a highly affordable version of this classic scoring dice game that is now available on countertops from coast to coast. Players roll the dice to pile up the highest total score, but being too greedy can result in immediate disaster. Suggested Retail - $6.95 SEXY SECRETS is the game
of intimate confessions. Adults decide whether to reveal their innermost
secrets to other players or just make up lies about them. Current Jigsaw PuzzlesGREEN PIECES, Earth Friendly Jigsaw Puzzles are a series of 500 piece eco-messaged jigsaw puzzles that feature pieces that will actually grow wildflowers. The series of four initial titles each are composed of thousand of mosaic images that each form a larger image... and make an ecological statement. These are the first puzzle products are 100% recycled, renewable, bio-degradable and carbon neutral. They will actually grow wild flower when planted and watered. The World's Smallest Jigsaw Puzzles are each only 4 inches by 6 inches in total size, but contain 234 pieces making them the smallest jigsaw puzzles ever to be die-cut. (Guinness record pending) Each of initial series of the puzzles also contains a tweezers to help you grip the incredibly tiny pieces for assembly. They each make for a small, but extremely daunting puzzle experience. Suggested Retail Price - $6.95 THE WORLD'S SMALLEST MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL JIGSAW PUZZLES are team specific additions to TDC's line of the smallest jigsaw puzzles ever to be die-cut, with 234 pieces in only 4 x 6 inches.(Guinness record pending) Suggested Retail Price - $6.95 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PENNANT-SHAPED JIGSAW PUZZLES are team specific puzzles in the shape of a pennant. After assembled, they can be hung on a wall just like other pennants. Suggested Retail Price - $14.95 The Alphabet Murder Mystery Puzzle Series each features two 500 piece puzzles mixed in the same bag. Each puzzle represents the before and after picture of a crime scene. After assembling the puzzles, players must solve the crime. Suggested Retail - $14.95 NIGHT AND DAY PANORAMA PUZZLES each features two 500 piece panoramic puzzles contain images of the same city taken at different moments in time. The puzzles have been mixed in the same bag to increase the difficulty. Suggested Retail - $14.95 ------------------------------------------------ More ProductsTHE QUAD CUBE is a cube-type, three dimensional puzzle that features four nested cubes each with four cubes within it. As the puzzle is turned and twisted, it morphs into hundreds of different shapes. Quad Cube can be up to four times more challenging than other cube puzzles. Suggested Retail Price - $15.99 ------------------------------------------------ Company HistoryFormed in 1984 by Chicago writers Larry Balsamo and Sandra Bergeson,
TDC Games, Inc. has established a reputation for creating innovative
board games with a zany twist. TDC’s games have become known not only
for their marketability, but also for a noticeably wry sense of humor
that runs throughout line. Currently servicing over 4,000 retailers both
large and small throughout the United States and Canada, TDC products
are also distributed throughout the United Kingdom, Australia and New
Zealand. Although most game and puzzle concepts are developed within the
company, successful licensing arrangement have also been arranged with
the NFL, NASCAR, Fox Television, ABC-Touchstone Television, Major League
Baseball. Precious Moments and Where's Waldo among many others. The TDC Creative TeamLARRY BALSAMO, President Creativity has always been second nature to Larry Balsamo. "I’ve never actually had a real job," he boasts. "I’ll write anything for money." Balsamo has founded a string of rather eccentric business ventures. He has designed and operated two rock night clubs, one of them world famous. He’s been a professional musician, then a stage magician. He founded an astoundingly successful singing telegram business which required the writing of over 50,000 personalized lyrics. He co-wrote the funny, but obscure, Preppie Comedy Album. Then, hoping to make a couple of bucks on the side, he co-wrote the ADULTRIVIA game. It went on to sell over 1 million units and established TDC GAMES as a true game industry presence. Over forty other slightly off-the-wall, somewhat counter-cultural game projects have followed. Although Larry’s approach to product design is cutting edge if sometimes controversial, and his methods considered somewhat eccentric, he says there’s just one thing that keeps him going through it all, "These darn things sell like crazy!" SANDY BERGESON, Creative Director Sandy Bergeson is a true virtuoso of the arts. She is a former member of the Chicago Lyric Opera and New York City Opera companies and has had a starring role in an Off-Broadway musical. Marriage, children and settling down to the Chicago suburbs led her to a creative association with Larry Balsamo at Hey Wires Singing Telegrams. Sandy churned out custom lyrics with Balsamo, while also performing the zany personalized messages to everyone from grease monkeys to the President of the United States. She also was a theater critic on the radio and an entertainment writer for Copley Newspapers, while writing the I Hate to Diet Dictionary in between. In 1984, she mentioned to Balsamo that an adult version of trivia might be a good idea. The rest is history... and TDC GAMES. The creative combination of Bergeson and Balsamo has accounted for the majority of TDC’s product success rate. Says Bergeson, who also found the time to pick up a Master’s Degree along the way, "We probably qualify as America’s most obscure successful writing team." ------------------------------------------------ TDC Game Product Chronology1984 ADULTRIVIA, Balsamo/Bergeson ------------------------------------------------
Address Information for TDC Games, Inc.HEADQUARTERS: 1456 Norwood Avenue, Itasca, IL 60143 MARKETING OFFICE:
Phone: 214-922-8886
Fax: 214-922-8892
Public Relations ContactSandra Schaefer, 1-800-292-7676 # # #
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