Joe Pace
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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Joe Pace
Feb 17
Player of Games, #48: Gauntlet
When it comes to classic arcade games, it's hard not to include Gauntlet among the first rank. For a nerdy Dungeons & Dragons kid in the...
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Joe Pace
Feb 16
Player of Games, #47: Clue
I'll admit that I was never a huge fan of the board game Clue when I was a youngster. It might simply boil down to the fact that most of...
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Joe Pace
Feb 15
Player of Games, #46: Kubb
Sometimes it's nice to get up off the couch or chair or floor and go outside to play. Sometimes, I said. Like so many other Gen X kids,...
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Joe Pace
Feb 14
Player of Games #45: Sid Meier's Pirates!
It didn't take long to get back to our old friend Sid Meier! As it's Valentine's Day, I thought I'd pen a little love letter to one of my...
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Joe Pace
Feb 13
Player of Games, #44: Mille Bornes
A thousand milestones is the approximate distance on Route Nationale 7 from Paris to the Italian border. It's not a hundred and six miles...
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Joe Pace
Feb 12
Player of Games, #43: Joe Montana Football
Following yesterday's relatively unimportant football game, today we'll discuss a relatively unimportant football video game. There are...
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Joe Pace
Feb 11
Player of Games, #42: Yahtzee!
I admire a game that comes with an implied, if not explicit, exclamation point. One of my favorite promotional spots of all time came...
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Feb 10
Player of Games, #41: Taboo
There's a certain delight and pride in doing things well. In winning, in achievement, in success. There's also the pleasure we derive...
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Joe Pace
Feb 9
Player of Games, #40: Moon Patrol
Some games fared poorly when ported from full arcade cabinet splendor into the confines of an Atari cartridge or a home computing system....
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