An article in Gadget Review, "The 90s Card Game That ‘Predicted’ 9/11, Trump, and COVID-19," discusses the Illuminati: New World Order game from Steve Jackson Games. Here is an interesting bit from the piece written by Rex Freiberger:
"In the 90s you may have seen a card showing skyscrapers exploding in flames, drawn in 1994—seven years before 9/11. That’s the “Terrorist Nuke” card from Illuminati: New World Order, a satirical game that’s become conspiracy theory catnip. Unsealed decks now fetch over $2,000 on eBay, driven by collectors convinced this tabletop game somehow predicted the future."
The game apparently was inspired by Illuminatus! and it quotes a piece by Robert Shea, written for the game. The entire piece is reprinted in my Robert Shea book, by kind permission of Steve Jackson.
Robert Anton Wilson talked about the game in this interview.
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See the Mondo 2000 interview with Steve Jackson Page 65 where he cites Illuminatus!
https://archive.org/details/Mondo.2000.Issue.03.1991/page/n65/mode/2up
The rule book of the original Steve Jackson Illuminati game from the 80s mentioned the trilogy and that is how I first heard of RAW. I bought and played the New World Order version, but I didn’t like the business model of collectible card games… $ hmmm - where’d I put those cards?
I loved that game.
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