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- Retro Gaming
We've been going "retro" lately and pulling out some of the lunchtime golden oldies from our collection. How do these light-to-middleweight games that play in under an hour hold up now? Fairly well, actually, although that may be nostalgia talking. All four of these games were popular in my group around the year 2000 and 2001, when we were overtaken with the eurogaming craze. They have all come out sporadically since then, but not much (if at all) in recent years. Today's offering was Rheinlander, a Knizia game from 1999. We were happy when Face2Face Games decided to republish this...
- New Settlers of Catan Meetup
Due to the previously mentioned burnout and springtime demands on my time, this poor blog has been very quiet. It's time to wake it up again, perhaps with smaller postings more in line with my busy lifestyle. (edit: This did not turn out to be a "smaller" posting but I couldn't stop once I started to the detriment of the chores that I should be doing instead. Oh, well) In News of the Blogosphere, let me say that I'm glad that I'm lazy and don't clean up things like out-of-date subscriptions in my newsreader. If I did, I would have...
- Ramblings
I guess I've been experiencing a bit of burnout writing about games. Every time I sit down to write, I feel like a third grader writing an essay. "I like Pandemic because it is a really fun game." It doesn't make for very interesting reading, that's for sure. I need to shake it and get busy on reviews as I've got a pile to do thanks to the prolific Mayfair publishing schedule. I've almost completed a review of Chicago Poker. (It was fun; I liked it. Review done :-)) Actually, it isn't a bad little game but it doesn't really...
- You sunk my battleship!
Ed added a two-player card game that had flown completely under my radar, quite possibly because of the very boring Cold War theme, to a recent game order. The game is Cold War: CIA vs. KGB and it is published by Fantasy Flight of all companies. It's such an itty bitty little game compared to the monster boxes full of plastic that I've come to expect from them. It's by two designers with no other published games in the BGG database. Note that it has an astonishing 7.1/10 rating with over 400 raters. How the heck did I miss this...
- Good News and Bad News
Today I made my weekly Friday foray into town to catch up with old friends and run my errands. After a boring week of trying to ignore revival attempts of discussions flogging dead horses on BGG*, I'm unplugged from the internet on the day that the real interesting news is announced. Both are from companies that already receive a steady steam of our gaming dollars. Shoot, they probably should have their own categories in our budget software. Anyway, here is the news that you've probably already read about: Exciting, earth-shattering Good News: Fantasy Flight Games has gotten the rights to...
- Through the Ages
Ed and I had planned far in advance to spend Saturday attending games at one of our local stores (Great Hall Games) for the first time. Alas, the weather did not cooperate. The cold and the rain were bad enough, but the possibility of severe thunderstorms and tornados was the deal breaker and deciding factor to stay closer to home. Of course, the dire predictions never materialized, but we spent an enjoyable late afternoon and evening giving our new copy of Through the Ages a go in spite of our failed plans. I had played my first game (a full...
- A crafty gaming weekend
You may have come across Universal Head's excellent game rule summaries and player aides on BGG but did you know that they are all in one place on a website, Headless Hollow? I stumbled across the link when I was looking at StarCraft files. I went crazy and have been printing, cutting and laminating all weekend. Too bad I have no interest in applying these skills to a proper woman's hobby, scrapbooking. Some of my friends would be thrilled to find out that I was normal after all. :-) Anyway, these summaries are great for quick rule refreshers when you...
- January 2008 Game Day Report
This was quite the productive game day for me. I played a game that has been sitting on our shelves, unplayed by me, for six years. I got to try a game that I've been curious about for over 20 years, and I got to play a game twice that I wanted to review. Dampfross This game won the Spiel des Jahres in 1984 while I was in college and long before I knew or cared anything about German game awards. It's been sitting on our shelves unloved for about six years although Ed managed to take it for spin...
- Recent Reviews
Since webmaster Ed is swamped at work, I haven't had anyone to take my latest reviews and "do them up" all nice and pretty to post here. I'm too lazy to figure it out myself. So for now, they'll only be posted over at BGG. The recent ones are Lascaux and Kragmortha. Lascaux has a shot at overtaking R-Eco as my current favorite filler. It gets a big thumbs-up from me. If I ever see Kragmortha being pulled out again, I'm going to run and hide....
- Game Shopping
I'm usually thrilled when my son's soccer practice gets canceled because it means I get an unexpected free night at home. However, I'm not too pleased with tonight's cancellation. Our FLGS called and our copies of Through the Ages and Rails of Europe are in. Yes, the "price floor" (or whatever it's called) scheme is working with us. Without the online discount, we decided to give our local store the business. With all the talk about TtA being sold out, I was wondering if they had managed to secure us a copy. The store is right by the soccer fields...
- Another New Year's Resolution
I have another gaming resolution to add for this year. I'm going to try to have at least five nickels and one dime when I tally my games played at the end of the year for Mark Jackson's "Five & Dime" data. This year I only had one nickel - To Court the King. Pathetic. I don't count online games and I did have several at four plays so maybe I shouldn't feel so badly. Still, I get sucked in too easily to my group's "Cult of the New." There are so many good, forgotten older games that get pushed...
- G.I.T.H.O.T 2008
As I write this, the 1st annual G.I.T.H.O.T. gaming convention is winding down in Round Rock, Texas. One of our local gaming friends, John Gravitt, organized it as a sort of 40th birthday present to himself. Kudos to him for coming up with a unique way to celebrate his birthday and letting 60+ gamers share in the fun. We are hoping that his 41st birthday is important enough to do this again next year! G.I.T.H.O.T. is patterned after the many invitational game conventions but is open to the public like BGG.con. Its focus is on open gaming, but there were...
- Big Box of Eye Candy
Don't you just love that little "rush or "high" that you get when the UPS guy drops off a box of games on your doorstop? I guess this is what drives a shopping addiction for some people. Yesterday's box of gaming goodness contained more wow!ness than usual buried in the pile of annoying styrofoam peanuts that I managed to spill all over the floor unpacking it. First up were several new Wings of War minis, including the popular and hard-to-get Red Baron. This is Ed's addiction. I like the game but don't feel the need to shell out for minis....
- Lone Star Fest
Well, I had time to write a long post today so here we go. Ed and I got a rare treat over the holidays. We escaped for a weekend without kids to attend Lone Star Fest, a small (57 people), private gaming convention in Houston. This crowd of gamers seemed to more of a serious nature, with longer, meatier games being the norm although some fluff was floating around as well. I totally fried my brain on Saturday playing: Neuland There's nothing like learning a new game with a steep learning curve first thing in the morning after staying up...
- Is it 2008 already?
A Happy New Year to everyone! January is, of course, a time to make resolutions and map a plan for the coming year. I did pretty well with achieving last year's resolutions as far as gaming goes. I knocked quite a few games off my unplayed list and we reorganized our games with the help of IKEA. My only real gaming resolutions are to continue to go after my unplayed list with dogged determination and to catch up on writing reviews of games that I've received for that purpose. Oh, and there's one more. I'd like to be a little...
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