Joe Pace
Player of Games, #86: Dungeons & Dragons Computer Labyrinth Game
This game represents the most intimidated I've ever been in my life. I've met presidents, carried the football against bigger and...
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Joe Pace
Mar 25
Player of Games, #85: Golden Tee Golf 3D
It's the mid-1990s and you're walking into a college-town watering hole. It's dimly lit, there are neon and mirror beer signs, a framed...
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Joe Pace
Mar 24
Player of Games, #84: The VCR Quarterback Game
Kids, there used to be something called a VCR. That stands for Video Cassette Recorder. It was what we watched movies on before CDs...
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Joe Pace
Mar 23
Player of Games, #83: Stronghold Kingdom Simulator
As the title of this game might suggest, we're looking at a product that occupied a sweet spot on the Venn Diagram - Dungeons & Dragons...
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Joe Pace
Mar 22
Player of Games, #82: Dragonwood
My wife is not big on the sword-and-sorcery stuff. It's unlikely that she would ever wade into the fantasy paper realms of D&D, or...
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Joe Pace
Mar 21
Player of Games, #81: Apples to Apples
I'm not sure if Apples to Apples is the wholesome version of Cards Against Humanity, or if Cards is the depraved version of Apples. It...
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Joe Pace
Mar 20
Player of Games, #80: Entex Baseball 3
With Major League Baseball's Opening Day upon us, it seems the right time to talk about this vintage gem. A little online sleuthing tells...
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Joe Pace
Mar 19
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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