Episode #167: A Look Back: Top 10 Games From 2000
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2010
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about the best games from 2000 - a decade ago! Our contributors talk about the game you would have "to pry form our cold, dead hands", Geoff talks about rulebooks, and Brad mentions a new Martin Wallace game! We talk about our online throwdown, and Tom reviews Mystery Express.
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, episode 167. |
| 0:02.8 | Our top 10 games from the year 2000. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them. |
| 0:31.7 | In this episode, Moritz meets Mozart. Joe discusses the new version of We the People. |
| 0:37.7 | Brad waits patiently for the new sci-fi Martin Wallace game, |
| 0:41.7 | and Jeff gets deep with the logic of rules writing. |
| 0:45.2 | Also, Tom and I slug it out with listeners online. |
| 0:48.6 | Tom reviews the latest from Days of Wonder. |
| 0:51.1 | We get some conventional wisdom. |
| 0:52.9 | We premiere a new contest, And we look at the top |
| 0:55.9 | games in the year 2000. This episode is sponsored by Plaid Hat Games, makers of Summoner Wars, |
| 1:06.5 | the expandable card game of tactical combat, available at retailers everywhere and at plaidhatgames.com. |
| 1:14.2 | I'm Eric Summerer and joining me now, the Conan to my Andy. Here's Tom Vassel. |
| 1:22.0 | I suppose I can live with that intro as long as I get a payout of $30 million. |
| 1:27.1 | Yeah, I should get a cut, right? Well, you know, I thought it was pretty funny. You know, everyone feels so boo-hoo bad for him, but he walked away with more money than you and I are going to see combined in 10 lifetimes. Yes, unless this show becomes very, very popular. Oh, yeah, the Dice Tower. Multi-million dollar show. |
| 1:45.8 | We're working on it. |
| 1:46.7 | Well, folks, you're here on the ground floor. |
| 1:49.9 | I'm Tom Vassel, and we're here to talk about all sorts of board games and card games, but we're starting this episode off by talking about something which I've never been actually too fond of, but I've been |
| 2:01.7 | roped in. |
| 2:02.7 | Not coerced into it, but manipulated into it. |
| 2:06.2 | Yes. |
| 2:06.9 | And that's online games. |
| 2:08.5 | So each episode of our show, we'll talk about our online games. |
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