Episode #110: Top Ten Gateway Games
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2007
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we hear from Paul and Geoff; and discuss a pile of games that we've recently played. We review both Starcraft: the Board Game and Monopoly: Tropical Tycoon. Random Strategy Tips are included, with a few questions - and we finish off the show with our top ten "gateway" games.
This show was sponsored by Z-Man Games.
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, episode 10010. |
| 0:04.8 | Our top 10 gateway games. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games, card games, and the people who play them. |
| 0:21.6 | In this episode, we'll be discussing our top 10 gateway games, as well as reviewing StarCraft, |
| 0:26.5 | the board game. This week's episode is sponsored by Zeman Games. They publish board and card |
| 0:31.6 | games for all kinds of gamers. So whether you're a hardcore gamer, a casual gamer, a party |
| 0:36.5 | gamer, or even a non-gamer. |
| 0:38.6 | Visit their website at www.zemangames.com and see why they are the last name in games. |
| 0:45.2 | And now, here are your hosts, Grammy-winning lyricists, Sam Healy, and Tom Vassel. |
| 0:53.1 | All right, well, you'll have to try and guess what song we wrote. |
| 0:57.8 | Did we co-write it, or are they two different songs? |
| 1:00.9 | Probably two different. |
| 1:02.1 | Yeah, probably. |
| 1:03.0 | Because you'd probably write some kind of opera band type song. |
| 1:07.1 | Not opera, more like a Broadway piece or something. |
| 1:09.5 | Same thing. |
| 1:10.3 | Yeah, Sam and I have |
| 1:11.2 | very different taste in music usually. Yeah, his taste siphon. Anyway, well, whatever. Well, this |
| 1:18.7 | shows coming out, I think, four days later, something to that effect, for a couple reasons. One, |
| 1:25.0 | Sam got sick, And so we... |
| 1:27.5 | Sorry. |
| 1:28.2 | Yeah, what can you do about that? |
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