Episode #59: Top Ten Games with the Worst Themes
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2006
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Because I finally got Skype to work, here's another episode of the Dice Tower!
In this episode, I continue the contest for Darter, as well as listen to the latest news from Rick and Moritz. Sam rejoins me, talks about his gaming in America - and Jason tells us why he prefers wargames. We answer some questions, and Eric Burgess joins me to talk about our top ten worst themes in games. We have the show available in .mp3 format, which you can download below by right clicking the link below, and selecting "save link as".
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, Episode 59. |
| 0:04.0 | Our top 10 worst themed games. It's the Dice Tower, bigger, and nicer than ever before. |
| 0:24.7 | The Dice Tower is your online home for fun and informative discussion of Euro games, war games, card games, and miniatures. |
| 0:28.7 | Featuring the latest industry news, in-depth product reviews, contests with amazing prizes, and of course a new top-pen list |
| 0:34.8 | every week with contributions from Rick Thornquist, Moritz Eggertzegert, |
| 0:38.7 | Sam Healy, Walt O'Hara, David Fair, Mike Hibbert, Doug Cooley, and John Thay. |
| 0:43.5 | And now here's your host, the man who put the views and game reviews, Tom Vassal. |
| 0:48.0 | All right folks, well we'll get right into this because we have a packed show for you today. |
| 0:54.4 | We have a top 10 list of the worst themed games. |
| 0:58.2 | We have stuff from Moritz, Rick, and Jason, and Wonder of Wonders Wonders we have Sam back. |
| 1:04.6 | Welcome back to Sam. |
| 1:05.6 | Yeah good to be back. |
| 1:07.6 | Sam had a long trip to America three weeks. |
| 1:11.0 | Four weeks. |
| 1:12.0 | Oh four, really? Was it four weeks? I can see how much you miss me now. Yeah, so anyway we'll get into that in just a bit but we wanted to start to show off by thanking boardgamenews.com for hosting our show, best place to find news about the board gaming industry. |
| 1:31.0 | And we also like to mention fairplay games.com if you're looking for a game |
| 1:36.1 | that we mentioned on the show there's a very good chance that fair play games has it and |
| 1:41.0 | for a very good price also. |
| 1:43.0 | All right, let's talk about our contest now. |
| 1:45.4 | This week is the last week you have a chance to enter our contest |
| 1:49.4 | to win the game Darter. |
| 1:51.3 | Darter is a two-player abstract game in which players maneuver four pieces in the middle |
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