Top Pop

It's the 1960s and soda has become America's favorite drink.

Instead of just buying this refreshing beverage over the counter, soda manufacturers bottled their sensational soft drink. These bottles appear in every major city, in grocery stores and vending machines. As the owner of a soft drink company, you need to make sure your product conquers the market it deserves in every major city, and eliminates the competition, leaving only one Top Pop.

At the start of a player's turn, if his bottle cap is on a higher pile than the other players' on a city card, that player gets that city back; otherwise, he continues to try to dominate city cards where he can. There are two types of city: day cities and night cities. Daytime city cards are played face-up on the table for all to see. Night city cards are played face-down, and only the player who played the card and the player in front of whom it is placed can see it. At the end of the game, players earn points for majority control of a city and collected city sets.

In the advanced version of the game, cities also have powers that are gained when a city is collected. A player retains his power until another player has collected the corresponding city, after which the power is transferred.