I have to admit, being a policeman or a fireman was always appealing to me as a kid. It didn’t help that I was the smallest kid in the universe, but I still found the idea of making a difference to be quite appealing. People who risk their lives every day are to be commended for their dedication and service to their fellow-man. It turns out that I was better at calculating “X” than I was doing push ups in gym class…hence why I took up accounting as opposed to something more physically demanding. To that end, I found great pleasure in discovering and purchasing this little gem and unpackaging the components in front of the kids. My eleven year old son looked at the box excitedly and asked, “Do you get to save people in this?” to which I replied proudly, “Yep.”
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Whenever I see this game on my shelf, I get a disturbing visual of Quark’s big head from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. I then picture him playing Tongo with a bunch of other Ferengi…a game that deals with buying, selling, acquiring, and other things you’d normally see on the Wall Street floor. Don’t ask me why…I haven’t had my coffee yet this morning. Continue Reading
Okay, let’s get the jokes out of the way now. No, this isn’t a game where the first person to get caked with urine loses. No, this isn’t a contest to see who has the longest stream and yes, crossing them would mean that all life as you knew it would stop instantaneously and every molecule in your body would explode at the speed of light…a total protonic reversal. I’ll wait while you Google that…
We’re moving on from Pandemic to look at something a little more simple, but still a lot of fun. Castle Panic is a tower defense kind of game with a cooperative theme. Players take turns playing cards trying to slay monsters that are advancing on their castle. Let’s take a closer look at the how the game is played.
Saving the world, it turns out, is pretty frickin difficult…at least it is in the board game I’m about to review. I’ve hyped about it in other articles and am finally getting around to writing about it. Let’s take a quick look and see what Pandemic is all about.
It’s only fitting that I follow up my last article, “Real Parenting: The Power Of Knowledge“, with a review on the latest board game I’ve had the pleasure of playing with the youngest members of the family. It’s quite possibly one of the most educational board games in my collection which makes me excited to play it…especially with my eleven year old son who, at one point, had to take speech classes. It’s a board game that forces players to not only come up with words that fit a category, but makes them spell it correctly too.
What should a person do when they discover that they have a flat tire? How does one buy a house? What should a manager look for in a job applicant? What formula in Excel allows you to remove a set number of characters from a bunch of cells at once? What is the difference between an eighth note and a sixteenth note? How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?
So, you’ve reached level 74 and you are not sure where to go next. At this point, your gear can probably get you through some of the insane maps but nothing is dropping to help you tackle the nightmare maps. After some painstaking research and a little trial and error, I’ve managed to collect and lock mythical gear for my future toons to use. Mythical gear is the next step in tier once you reach level 74. What maps and what classes did I use to get the mythical gear, you ask? Keep reading.
Quick question…what’s the first dungeon crawler you remember playing? If anyone said the Diablo III beta…you may want to pay attention to the teacher instead of reading my blog. *Sigh* Youngins. Anyway, mine was Eye of the Beholder, released back in 1991 in the MS-DOS days. Some dungeon crawlers date back even further than that. It’s been over twenty years since I’ve played anything like those old school games…then Legend of Grimrock came along.
I was thrilled when this one came in the mail early…I just couldn’t say no to a cooperative Star Trek board game. With all of the board game reviews I’ve been doing lately, I’m starting to think that I might have a problem. Nahhh…
Chuck E. Cheese’s has been around for quite some time. My first memory of the place was me getting sick on their pizza during my birthday party. It could very have well been the five life-size puppets that they had on this fake stage that activated every so often to perform a show. I don’t remember much, but I know now that it was probably the bastard spawn of something Stephen King and M. Night Shyamalan had created.
It was roughly 8 PM when I decided to go upstairs and switch over to my pajamas when I looked in on my eleven year old son while I was passing by his room. He was by himself with a mess of Pokémon cards around him…and I mean a real mess. It looked like someone had converted eighty rainbows into one large alcoholic beverage, chugged it in five seconds flat, and ejected it along with whatever food they had consumed over the past three months onto the floor.
Before we begin looking at Star Trek: The Next Generation, I think we should review the cast of characters and address what Star Trek is really about…just so that I don’t have to keep repeating myself.
I honestly didn’t think that matching colored shapes would be fun. I was genuinely surprised by how deep this game is while managing not to lose its simplistic innocence. Continue Reading
About a month ago we took a trip to our local mall. We were hungry, so we decided to stop in at Wendy’s to get something to eat.
“Nice,” I said to myself, “no line.”
There was one young girl working at the counter and we quickly placed our order. She asked us to repeat some of our requests a few times, so I gathered she was new. No biggie, we’ve all been there, right?
Well, what happened next was painful to watch, and I really felt bad for her.
If a train left Pittsburgh traveling 45 miles per hour going west and another train left Hawaii traveling 65 miles per hour going east, when would they meet? Unless the train from Hawaii has wings and flies like the one in Back to the Future 3….they won’t. Oh how I hated those problems in high school…luckily, you don’t have to deal with that chapter of math when you play Ticket to Ride. Continue Reading