Too Much Awesome

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, [...]

While I’ve been pretty on top of things when it comes to video games, board games have been getting the shaft lately and for that I apologize. To make up for it, we’re going to have a mandatory Board Game Week here at Toy-TMA, starting with a title I got excited for as a kid [...]

Since writing an overview of poker for the uninitiated, I have noticed how commonplace it is to find someone who has not played the traditional board games that populated my youth. But I think everyone is familiar with Yahtzee. Origins and Comparisons The official game began as an activity aboard a Canadian couple’s yacht in [...]

There are many things that can be done with a sheet of paper. While “Kick Me” signs and those ridiculous fortune-teller doohickeys have gone out of style, the act of turning paper into a flying machine is still cool, and it is still a mark of one’s intellect. Paper airplanes are cheap, easily replaceable toys [...]

I used to mess around with my dad’s work papers when I was little. I didn’t get in trouble, though, because my dad worked at a technology conglomerate that were concerned with putting everything on computers and the Internet. Now, paper is about half as important to the professional world as it was 30 years [...]

For a while in high school I had friends that became obsessed with the game Apples to Apples. It was the only game anyone would bring to parties anymore and the only game people would specifically ask for at said parties. In fact, people would plan parties around playing this game. So for me, I [...]

Alright, we’re nearing the end of the week and I’ve talked about video games, Dragonball Z, and some random dude’s CD (albeit he is a talented dude). To round out the week, I should talk about board games, shouldn’t I? It’s all part of the new program my doctor placed me on in hopes that’d [...]