Joe Pace
Player of Games, #60: Tetris
It feels as though Tetris has been with us forever, not unlike the Red Menace itself. It emerged in 1985 from Soviet software engineer...
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Joe Pace
Feb 28
Player of Games, #59: Dog Park
For the past twenty-plus years, the vast majority of them saddled with two sons, my long-suffering wife has been shanghaied into playing...
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Joe Pace
Feb 27
Player of Games, #58: CandyLand
There are a lot of really great board games out there. Engaging, thoughtful, complex. Ones that encourage collaboration or competition,...
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Joe Pace
Feb 26
Player of Games, #57: Electronic Battleship
The game of Battleship has antecedents going back to paper-and-pencil versions played by French and Russian naval officers before World...
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Joe Pace
Feb 25
Player of Games, #56: Spore
Released for the PC in 2008, Spore hit right when our first child had been born, and I was in need of some mindless diversion during...
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Joe Pace
Feb 24
Player of Games, #55: Crossbows and Catapults
When a game has "and" in the title, you know you're in for a good time. That dubious aphorism may not hold true in every case, but it...
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Joe Pace
Feb 23
Plater of Games, #54: NHL '94
Let's get this out of the way right now. NHL '94 by EA Sports is easily one of the greatest sports video games ever made. This is not...
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Joe Pace
Feb 22
Player of Games, #53: Risk
Sometimes, instead of taking three hours to win World War II, you'd rather conquer the world in under sixty minutes. That's where the...
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Joe Pace
Feb 21
Player of Games, #52: Bruce Lee
A considerable number of entries on this list come from the latter half of the 1980s, when Star Trek came back to TV, Billy Joel brought...
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Joe Pace
Feb 20
Player of Games, #51: Pirate and Traveler Game
When it comes to the earliest board games I can remember, the Pirate and Traveler Game is one that keeps coming to the front of my mind....
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Joe Pace
Feb 19
Player of Games, #50: Frogger
The Atari 2600 came into our house in 1981 or 1982, when I was six or seven years old and my brother eight or nine. We were excited,...
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Joe Pace
Feb 18
Player of Games, #49: Jenga
As has been discussed before in this series, there are certain elements that can introduce added verve to a game. A ticking clock or...
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