Joe Pace
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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Joe Pace
Mar 7
Player of Games, #67: Phaser Patrol
Some games were just too big for eight bits. And so Atari came up with the Supercharger, a cartridge you would plug into the console that...
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Joe Pace
Mar 6
Player of Games, #66: Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters is, without question, one of the greatest movies ever made. An utterly novel premise, a hilarious cast at the height of...
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Joe Pace
Mar 5
Player of Games, #65: Dirty Dog
Close your eyes. What do you remember about your grandparents? I know, you might have have two sets. Or three, or none. But close them...
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Joe Pace
Mar 4
Player of Games, #64: Warlord, Saga of the Storm
In the early 2000s, there was a glut of deck-based card games on the market. Pokemon and Magic: The Gathering were making a killing, and...
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Joe Pace
Mar 3
Favorite Fictional Characters, #385: April Ludgate-Dwyer
I get it. If you polled a thousand fans of Parks and Rec, nine hundred of them would list Ron Swanson as their favorite character. And...
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