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The Dice Tower

TDT - Episode # 294 - Best Games from 1998

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Leisure, Games

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2013

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Tom takes a look at Fantastiqa and Batman: Gotham City. We answer quite a few questions, and then take a look back at 1998 - 15 years ago, and talk about the best games from that year!

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

Thanks for your support. The Dice Tower episode 294.

0:12.0

Games from 1998, 15 years ago. Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower a podcast about board games and card games but especially the people who play them.

0:43.7

This time we delve into the mailbag for some of your questions, run through some of our most

0:48.3

recent game sessions, and look back at our top 10 games from 15 years ago, 1998,

0:54.9

including a revelation on my part

0:57.1

that will have Tom teasing me for years to come.

1:00.7

I'm Eric Sommerer, and here's your your host the Mr Plow of Board Gaming Tom Vassal

1:06.2

Okay, I had to Google this because I don't know what you're talking about and the only thing I could find was a Simpsons episode I'm mr. Tom That's my name. That name again is Mr. Tom. Was this where he bought a snow pile and then that was his job?

1:19.0

Yes. Okay, so then I Googled correctly. You did. Google Foo!

1:23.0

I actually remember that episode.

1:25.0

It was a good one.

1:26.0

Well. Okay. Well, folks, my name is Tom Vassal.

1:29.0

Hello, I'm Eric Sommer.

1:30.0

And we're here to talk about all sorts of board games.

1:32.0

And in my last episode I did 15 games and in my last in our last episode I did 15

1:35.2

games and 15 minutes but there was two games I deliberately excluded from that

1:39.8

because they were awesome games and I wanted to talk about them in a bit more detail.

1:44.5

Okay. And so I'm going to talk about them now. First one is Batman Gotham City.

1:51.2

Batman Gotham City is produced by Whiz Kids and designed by Polo Mori.

1:57.0

Do you know that name?

1:58.0

Uh, that would be the designer of Vasco de Gama?

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