Episode #171: Top 10 Board Game Companies
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2010
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Tom and Eric talk about Vasco da Gama and the "Cult of the New". Tom reveals where he is relocating, we start a new contest for an interesting new game, and we talk about some of the latest gaming news. Brad talks about Winsome reprints, Mortiz talks about 3M, and Mark talks about gaming magazines. Finally, we end the show talking about what we like about game companies, and what are our top ten board game companies?
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, episode 171. |
| 0:02.8 | Our top 10 favorite board game companies. Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them. |
| 0:31.0 | In this episode, Mary reports from the gathering of friends. |
| 0:35.0 | Moritz looks at the game publishing past of the Post-it people, |
| 0:39.0 | and Jeff explains how we can learn about our society by playing games. |
| 0:44.2 | Plus, we resolve our catacombs contest, |
| 0:46.8 | present our top 10 game publishers, |
| 0:49.5 | and Tom tells us where he'll be moving in July. This episode is sponsored by |
| 0:54.7 | Dungeon Solitaire, a new card game for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad available at |
| 1:01.0 | iTunes for just 299. |
| 1:03.0 | Stay tuned to get a free expansion for the game |
| 1:06.0 | coming up later in the show. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm Eric Sommerer, and joining me now, |
| 1:10.0 | the Mr. Snuffelupagus to my big bird. Here's Tom Vassal. |
| 1:14.3 | All right, I don't even know how to respond here. I don't like big bird, so I'm glad you or him. |
| 1:20.7 | All my friends think you're imaginary. |
| 1:22.3 | Okay, well that makes more sense. |
| 1:25.4 | That used to really, really bother me as a kid. |
| 1:28.0 | No one ever believed Big Bird. |
| 1:30.4 | And I guess they changed that somewhere. They did actually. |
| 1:33.0 | They were worried that kids would not be believed if they told their parents something. |
| 1:36.0 | So they revealed Snuffelupagus. |
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