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The Dice Tower

TDT # 418 - Converting Videogamers

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Tower, Catan, Boardgame, Game, Board, Leisure, Dice, Card, Games, Vasel, Summerer

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2015

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this show, we talk about Portal: The Uncooperative Cake Acquisition Game, The Grizzled, Firefly: Shiny Dice, Wrath of Dragons, Queen’s Necklace, and RYU. We also answer a pile of questions, start an awesome new contest, and end with our top ten games to convert videogamers into board gamers.

Transcript

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thanks for your support the dice tower episode four eighteen converting video gamers The Dice Tower, episode 418.

0:13.4

Converting video gamers to board gamers. Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and especially the people who play them.

0:42.0

On today's show, it's time once again to do this. games, and especially the people who play them.

0:42.8

On today's show, it's time once again to dive into the listener mailbag, attempting to sound

0:47.7

learned and wise.

0:50.4

Plus, we start a new contest, talk about a few games we've been excited to play lately,

0:54.7

and present our top ten games to attract video gamers to the board gaming hobby.

0:59.6

I'm Eric Sommerer, and here's your host, the Mario to my Luigi, Tom Vassal.

1:07.0

You know, I actually always liked Luigi better.

1:10.0

Really?

1:11.0

Well, he's a little taller than Mario.

1:12.8

Well, from Super Mario Brothers 2 onward, yes.

1:15.9

Yes, well, that's important.

1:17.8

Also, when I was a kid, um, I didn't have a Nintendo.

1:22.2

So anyone who had the Nintendo always played Mario and I had to be Luigi yes

1:26.2

Okay, that makes sense and that used to be the most painful thing because they would sit there and go through six levels

1:32.4

And I would then it's oh, it's your turn would sit there and go through six levels and I would then it's

1:33.7

oh it's your turn I run there and the guy hit me and I die and you died and that's the

1:36.8

other guy's turn and then it's their turn again it's like huh this is

1:39.4

really fun yeah what was it super Mario Brothers three that you could challenge the other player when it was their turn and steal their turn if you defeated them in the little mini game?

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