Joe Pace
Player of Games, #19: UBI
If you know Rome is in Greece, but you're not exactly sure where, this is the game for you. Or maybe not. Released in 1986, UBI is equal...
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Joe Pace
Jan 18
Player of Games, #18: Chutes Away!!!!!!
There was a time, before the rise of charging cords and USBs, that batteries reigned supreme. Duracell, Energizer, Eveready. The big...
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Joe Pace
Jan 17
Player of Games, #17: Superfight
Many of the entries on this list are included because I enjoyed playing them as a kid. Others, because I've enjoyed playing them with my...
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Joe Pace
Jan 16
Player of Games, #16: TRON
I think I saw the TRON movie when it came out in 1982. I was seven, and still more of a The Fox and the Hound kind of guy, so I might...
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Joe Pace
Jan 15
Player of Games, #15: Match II
You have to remember that 1980 was a far, far more innocent time. We had three channels on the TV (maybe five if you count WSBK and...
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Joe Pace
Jan 14
Player of Games, #14: Missile Command
I was probably around six or seven years old when the Atari 2600 showed up in our house. 1981, 1982, something like that. This was, as my...
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Joe Pace
Jan 13
Player of Games, #13: Survive!
There are going to be a lot of vintage board games on this list for two reasons. First, because we played a lot of them when I was a kid,...
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Joe Pace
Jan 12
Player of Games, #12: UNO
The beauty of UNO lies in its unambiguous simplicity and unabashed savagery. As with a delightfully troubling number of card games,...
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Joe Pace
Jan 11
Player of Games, #11: Summer Games I & II
Released in 1985, Summer Games II, and its immediate predecessor, Summer Games, were likely responsible for more destroyed joysticks than...
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Joe Pace
Jan 10
Player of Games, #10: Zork
>write post There is no post here. >write I don't know the word "write". >type On what? >type on computer I don't know the word...
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Joe Pace
Jan 9
Player of Games, #9: The Uncle Wiggily Game
You want vintage? Well, buckle up. It doesn't get more vintage than this. Initially conceived as Uncle Wiggily Longears by children's...
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Joe Pace
Jan 8
Player of Games, #8: Sporcle.com
About a dozen years ago I stumbled on Sporcle.com, and since then it's been a reliable vehicle for entertainment and procrastination....
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