The Universe Marathon (game)
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Part-"choose your own adventure" prose story and part-board game, The Universe Marathon was one of the features in Dicky Howett and Tim Quinn's The Doctor Who Fun Book. A multi-Doctor story featuring the first six incarnations of the Doctor, it featured cameos by several other notable elements of the Doctor Who universe.
Publisher's summary
An exciting DICE GAME for 2-6 PLAYERS as the six DOCTORS compete against each other in a RACE through TIME AND SPACE to the end of the UNIVERSE!
Choose your favourite DOCTOR? grab DICE and COUNTER and… 5… 4… 3… 1… lift off!
The Brigadier's favorite game!
Characters
- First Doctor
- Second Doctor
- Third Doctor
- Fourth Doctor
- Fifth Doctor
- Sixth Doctor
- Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
- Peter Cushing
- Daleks
- Snipes
- K9
- Ogron
- Stephenson
- Leonard Nimoy
- Romans
- Charles II
Worldbuilding
- The word "Finish" in Gallifreyan means "start" and vice-versa.
- The Doctor takes time away from the race to restore Charles II to the throne, to pause as he passes by Mariner 1 in the hope that it will take his picture, to explain the theory of relativity to an Ogron, to teach K9 to "sit", to aid the peasants' revolt of 1381.
- The Doctor loses a companion to a cosmic raystorm, catches the plague, gets bitten by a Venus flytrap, accidentally causes the Great Fire of London, and eventually trips over a Cybermat, breaking his neck and regenerating.
- After the Doctor "destroys the Daleks once and for all", he throws a party which is immediately crashed by more Daleks.
- Peter Cushing loses his counter at some point.
Notes
- A footnote refers readers confused about the Snipes to the then-nonexistent Season 33 of Doctor Who, the implication being that the Snipes were a monster from the future of the show. In real life, the denomination of Season 33 is sometimes given to Series 7 of the revival, which did not, as a matter of fact, feature any aliens called the Snipes.
- Peter Cushing is identified by name, and thus appears to be appearing as an in-universe version of himself, not as his Doctor, although he is in costume as said Doctor.
