Too Much Awesome

Stuck with family this weekend? Just clear off the table when you’re done eating and play a game and all will be good.

Stocks may rise and fall, but one thing you can always count on is licensed Star Wars merchandise. A lot of it is good, but some of it bad, even the old stuff.

I loved playing Monopoly when I was a kid. I liked all the money and little houses, but when I couldn’t convince my family to sit through hours of dice rolling, the game of Life was the next best thing.

Sometimes the coolest properties get the strangest merchandise. I went through a phase as a kid where board games became extremely engaging for me, some of which didn’t even require another person to play with. I’d set up Monopoly and just play around with the pieces for the heck of it, and everyone is familiar [...]

You’ve probably heard that Angry Birds will soon to be a board game. I’m not sure how well cute birds flying through the air will work on your dining room table, but Angry Birds is far from the first video game to become a board game. One person’s trash… My childhood was filled with board [...]

It all started so simply. I was browsing the board game isle of my local Fred Meyers last week when I stumbled on a blast from my past. Just seeing it immediately got my mind to start moving, which is odd because as a kid, it barely made me think at all. Milton Bradley pioneered [...]

I always enjoyed drawing as a child. I’d sketch doodles in class, mangle my favorite comic book characters into goofy shapes at home, and generally think of myself as an artist on par with Picasso or Jack Kirby (spoiler: I was neither). I’m telling you this story so that I may frame my next tale: [...]

Happy December everybody! The holiday season has officially begun. Before all of you get too far into your shopping, I felt it would be much needed if I took an old business detour. Two weeks ago, I wrote an article (this one) recommending Blokus: a 4-player strategy game of which I stand to be a [...]

The holiday season is only one more week away. You know what that means? Time for us at Toy-TMA to put down our Wii Motes and Dualshocks for a while (don’t worry we’ll come back to them), and find some new activity to spend some time with our friends and family on reality’s level. For [...]

Here we are in the center of Board Game Week at Toy-TMA and following up 13 Dead End Drive’s relative obscurity I’m breaking out another game from my childhood that most of you have probably never heard of: Spy Web. What is Spy Web? Oh, that’s a good question, so let’s jump right into it, [...]