Episode #146: Top 10 Games from 1994
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2009
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we continue our contest for Cutthroat Caverns and expansions, and talk about Sam leaving the show. We discuss some upcoming expansions, and Geoff tells us how winning makes us lose. Moritz says goodbye to Dave Arneson, Giles talks about Australian game expos, and Mark discusses war game expansions. We discuss Tom's top ten games from 1994 - and end the show with an interview with Kimberly Maita about board game cruises.
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| 0:00.0 | The Best Games from 1994. |
| 0:05.0 | The Best Games from 1994. Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them. |
| 0:32.0 | In this episode we'll be talking about the best games from 15 years ago, 1994. |
| 0:38.0 | And now here are your hosts, planning their own game convention, the meeting up of acquaintances, |
| 0:44.4 | Tom Vassal, and Sam Healy. |
| 0:47.0 | I think maybe Eric said that last year. I can't remember now. |
| 0:50.8 | Or something very similar to it. |
| 0:52.8 | For those you may not understand what he's talking about, real briefly there is a gathering of friends, |
| 0:59.1 | it's called. |
| 1:00.1 | It's Alan Moon who's a pretty famous board game designer, designing tickets ride for one, has a convention. |
| 1:07.5 | I think he's been running it for 15 or so years in Columbus, Ohio and he invites his friends |
| 1:11.8 | to come play with them and it's called |
| 1:13.6 | the gathering your friends. |
| 1:14.6 | It's grown over the years and about five years ago it was probably the biggest newsworthy |
| 1:20.1 | convention other than Essen because all the new games from Essen came to the |
| 1:26.6 | gather your friends and they got to play them and then everyone I would read about |
| 1:30.1 | them and it was kind of an exciting thing. It's a little less interesting from an outsider's perspective. |
| 1:36.0 | I'm sure it would be fun to go there and play games. |
| 1:38.0 | But like when I read the reports this year, I found pretty much nothing that really piqued my interest other than stuff that we've already played mostly. |
| 1:47.0 | Anyway, I'm Tom Vassal and this is Sam Healy. |
| 1:51.0 | And you're listening to the dice how. |
| 1:52.7 | We are a podcast about board games, card games, |
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