Episode #9: Top 10 Game Companies
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2007
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, originally aired July 21, 2005, Tom and Joe discuss several games they've played, and review In a Pickle and The Perfect Ten. They discuss their turkeys and kangaroos - games that have changed over time; and argue over whether Memoir '44 is a simulation or not. Joe gives a war story, and the they end the show with their top ten game companies.
This show was sponsored by DreamPunk Productions.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast all about board and card games and the people who play them. |
| 0:16.0 | This episode, Number 9, is part of our Classic series and was originally aired on July 21st, 2005. |
| 0:23.0 | This episode is sponsored by Dreampunk Productions, |
| 0:26.0 | who are proud to announce the release of House of Wack, |
| 0:29.0 | an insanely fun, infinitely expandable board game. |
| 0:33.0 | Learn more about this fantastic game at house of whack.net. |
| 0:37.5 | And now here's your host, Tom Vassal. |
| 0:40.0 | Well, hello, this is Tom Vassal. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome to Bice Tower episodes 9. |
| 0:45.0 | This was originally recorded on or at least produced on July 20, 2005. |
| 0:52.0 | Now that this shows interesting because we talk about our top 10 board game |
| 0:57.2 | companies and a lot of that has changed. I mean if I did the same list now I |
| 1:02.1 | think you'd find some very different board game companies. The number one |
| 1:05.8 | board game company for me would stay the same but the rest would be shuffled |
| 1:09.4 | around quite a bit I think and you would see some companies there that I wouldn't have talked |
| 1:14.0 | about earlier and some companies that I talked about back then that have changed even |
| 1:17.6 | now for example one of the companies we talked about Eagle Games is pretty much |
| 1:22.0 | out of business now. |
| 1:23.4 | Their stock has been picked up by fun again games and Fred distribution, |
| 1:28.0 | so things have changed. |
| 1:30.0 | One game we talk about in this episode |
| 1:32.0 | that we call the Dice Tower, a podcast all about board and hard games and the people who play them. |
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