| Just a Game | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Triumph |
| Cover: | Triumph_Just_a_Game.jpg |
| Released: | March 1979[1] |
| Recorded: | Fall & Winter 1978 |
| Studio: | Sounds Interchange Studios, Toronto and Metalworks Studios, Mississauga, ON |
| Genre: | Hard rock, heavy metal |
| Length: | 36:22 |
| Label: | Attic, RCA, TML |
| Producer: | Mike Levine |
| Prev Title: | Rock & Roll Machine |
| Prev Year: | 1977 |
| Next Title: | Progressions of Power |
| Next Year: | 1980 |
Just a Game is the third studio album by Canadian hard rock band Triumph, released in 1979. The album contains one of Triumph's most popular songs on FM album-oriented radio, "Lay it on the Line", and the Top 40 hit "Hold On", which peaked at No. 38 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at No. 33 in Canada.
The vinyl LP version of the album featured a sleeve that folded open to reveal a board game (though later pressings just contained a regular vinyl sleeve without this). According to a Rockline interview, the board game was Rik Emmett's idea, but Mike Levine was the one who actually designed it and decided to make it impossible to win.
The front cover of the album revealed a futuristic world where every symbol depicts a song featured on the album.
The Globe and Mail wrote that, "as Rush has become bogged down in a sea of pretention, Triumph has stuck to the basics and honed its heavy-metal drone to a steely edge."[2]
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