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Joe Pace
Mar 14, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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 5, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
Player of Games, #63: Second Conflict
The 1990s were a great time. Sure, everyone probably feels that way about their teens and early twenties, when so many things seem new...
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Joe Pace
Mar 2, 2024
Player of Games, #62: Pictionary
I like party games. You know, the sort you bust out when five to ten people are together and need something to do other than eat chips...
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Joe Pace
Mar 1, 2024
Player of Games, #61: Shuffleboard
Discard the image in your mind of old people in bright plaid and high socks on the deck of a cruise ship or propped up by their playing...
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