Too Much Awesome

I figured while I’m on the subject, I might as well continue with my Crash Bandicoot Retrospectives. Last week in Part 3, we covered Crash’s critically acclaimed kart racer, CTR, and boy did that become more confrontational than I intended it to be. I apologize, and promise from now on to judge Crash games by [...]

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 [...]

Sure, video games and various electronic diversions are available now. Who would want to find a pack of playing cards and start up a poker game when you can flip out your cell phone and play video space poker? I suppose I would. Poker is a lost skill. People my age spent twenty years learning [...]

Ah! We’re finally getting down to the party! Mario’s career has gone in many, many directions, but still one of the most unexpected and influential had to be Mario Party. It spawned a whole new style of party games, beyond inventing a genre that would be copied over and over. So let’s get this party [...]

I’ll be downright honest here and let you in on a little secret: Before I got The Game Of Things for Christmas I had never heard of it before. Does that make me a bad person? Probably not. What it did manage to do is make me feel kind of stupid since there’s a pretty [...]