Joe Pace
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 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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Joe Pace
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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Joe Pace
Feb 8
Player of Games, #39: The Oregon Trail
As a member of Gen X, there are certain cultural touchstones we all share. Star Wars, for instance, as foundational myth. Pee-Wee Herman,...
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Joe Pace
Feb 7
Player of Games, #38: Hangman
Look, we've all played Hangman. On the back of a paper placemat with a crayon at a diner with glacial waitstaff, in the back of a car on...
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Joe Pace
Feb 6
Player of Games, #37: How to Train Your Dragon
When my sons were younger, they were huge fans of the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. Books, movies, shows, toys, all of it,...
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Joe Pace
Feb 5
Player of Games, #36: Fishing Derby
In 1979, Atari was riding the crest of the first home video game boom. So high, in fact, that despite tens of millions of dollars in...
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Joe Pace
Feb 4
Player of Games, #35: NBA Jam
The golden age of arcades was largely over by the time I was old enough to hang out at the mall with my buddies. The early-90s were a...
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Joe Pace
Feb 3
Player of Games, #34: Go to the Head of the Class
There have been many iterations of this classic board game since it was first introduced by Milton Bradley in 1936. This is the one I...
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Joe Pace
Feb 2
Player of Games, #33: Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Here we are on Groundhog Day, so it makes sense to talk about the game I have played over and over more than any other. We're talking...
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