This is Space Cats Peace Turtles, the unofficial podcast for Fantasy Flights, Twilight Empire.

Episode 300.

Music by Ben Ponte, featuring Matt Martins and Hunter Donaldson. Twin Imperium's impact has just been how much staying power it has and how much, you know, influence it has on the way we think about heavy games or

4x games or space games like that. It costs quite a long shadow as a game. I think Twilight

Imperium is one of the first camps to break the $100 barrier for a base box. I do have to say,

I think my wife probably appreciated that we didn't play on the wedding day.

It's why I love my job, I think.

It was kind of the end of an era for like, sort of like, if you're going to play,

I think previous to the 90s, previous to the board game kind of hitting an hour, 90 minute, two-hour format,

nobody really thought about game lengths, or they did think about

game length, that mass market thought about game length. I think Twilight Imperium was maybe the last

of the era, of the sort of like, you can have a five- or six-hour game. I know, and of course,

it's still being made, and people are still buying it, so it's still out there, but I certainly

wouldn't make a five-hour

game. I have been playing Twilight Imperium since I was a wee lad. I think I first stumbled into it

in middle school or high school. This would have been the late 1990s, early 2000s. The second

edition was my beloved edition. I think my fondest Twilight Imperium memory is playing TI in the basement of my parents' house

with my brother and a couple of our friends when we were all home from college.

I think I had the most fun with Twilight Imperium at University.

It's the best time for the game to shine, obviously. You've got like a bunch of spare time when you should be studying,

where you can sort of pull some like-minded people together to play something that will take a whole day.

When the game was kind of in this embryonic state in the minds of my friends at uni, I'd sort of just made these friends.

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