Venue: Messe Essen.

SPIEL in Essen means: Four days of fun, meeting friends, playing and testing thousands of games and novelties together with gamers from all over the world.

With 150,000 visitors and 690 exhibitors from 24 nations on 42,820 square meters of exhibition space, last year's SPIEL confirmed once more its uniqueness in the game exhibition scene. It was showing all kind of games - from family, adult, children and parlour games to strategy, mail, adventure, fantasy and science fiction games, an increasing number of CD-ROMs and electronic games and a wide range of classic board games.

Exhibition Sections:

• Games
• Room games
• Strategies
• Science fiction
• Electronic games
• Computer games
• Board games