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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...

Joe Pace
Mar 14, 2024
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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...

Joe Pace
Mar 13, 2024
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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,...

Joe Pace
Mar 12, 2024
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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...

Joe Pace
Mar 11, 2024
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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....

Joe Pace
Mar 10, 2024
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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...

Joe Pace
Mar 9, 2024
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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...

Joe Pace
Mar 8, 2024
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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...

Joe Pace
Mar 5, 2024
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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...

Joe Pace
Mar 4, 2024
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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...

Joe Pace
Mar 3, 2024
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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...

Joe Pace
Mar 2, 2024
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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...

Joe Pace
Mar 1, 2024
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