Joe Pace
Player of Games, #79: The Bard's Tale
In 1985, there was no greater computer fantasy game than The Bard's Tale. This was just an absolute enormity of an experience for the D&D...
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Joe Pace
Mar 18
Player of Games, #78: Boggle
I'm a words guy. Always have been. So it should come as no surprise that Boggle appears on this list. It's sort of a niche game,...
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Joe Pace
Mar 17
Player of Games, #77: 4D Sports Boxing
It's funny how games can evoke a certain time and place with vivid, powerful nostalgia. 4D Sports Boxing, for all of its oddity, is one...
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Joe Pace
Mar 16
Player of Games, #76: Skip-Bo
In a world of immersive digital multiverses and eighty-dollar boxed board games that take three days to play, there's something to be...
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Joe Pace
Mar 15
Player of Games, #75: Caesar II
Earlier this week I cited SimCity as a game I've loved across the years. The society-building, resource-managing nerd market niche was...
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Joe Pace
Mar 14
Player of Games, #74: The Game of Life
The Game of Life is one of those staple board games that populates a closet or basement shelf in every suburban home. It's ubiquitous if...
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Joe Pace
Mar 13
Player of Games, #73: SimCity
There are lots of iterations of SimCity out there, and I've played most of them. From the blocky, black-and-white rudiments on the...
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Joe Pace
Mar 12
Player of Games, #72: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
This is a story about revenge. Cheap, tawdry, juvenile, unworthy. More on that in a bit. I never owned this game. Which, in retrospect,...
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Joe Pace
Mar 11
Player of Games, #71: Spy Hunter
Among the classic mid-1980s arcade games that made the jump to heavy rotation on Atari and home computers, Spy Hunter has to be among the...
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Joe Pace
Mar 10
Player of Games, #70: Questprobe
As huge Marvel fans, my brother and I were excited in 1984 when our beloved comic characters began showing up on our Commodore 64 screen....
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Joe Pace
Mar 9
Player of Games, #69: Cards Against Humanity
For letting your freak flag fly in front of friends and family, there's no better game than:_________. A. Charades B. Twister C. Cards...
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Joe Pace
Mar 8
Player of Games, #68: Who Shook Hook?
There was a time about ten years ago when Disney's Jake and the Neverland Pirates were big favorites of my kids. They'd sing along with...
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