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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jul 20, 2016 8:39:30 GMT -5
I was thinking the other day that my favorite overall "game" I don't think I'd ever get tired of was a trading card game. I used to collect Dragon Ball Z the trading card game. This was around the time in the early 2000's when the anime series which the game was adapted from was really starting to skyrocket in popularity in the USA. Me and a couple of buddies got into the game while in high school. It was the first trading card game where I actually learned how to play. I had collected card games before like Star Wars and Pokemon, but it was really for the novelty of collecting. It was like this with a lot of my previous friends. No one ever sat me down and said "hey, let's try to play this game". So we started playing. Eventually we all moved on and I admit the game did get a little convoluted with new rules trying to expand the game and it just got out of control. A couple of years back there was a very small following of the same game adapted into an online format. It was cool because you could just put together a deck without having to actually spend money. All cards were just screen printed and it was just up to you to create the best arsenal to fight. It was great, but due to the small following, opponents were hard to come by. They have released a new version of the game within the last couple of years and it looks great from what I've seen. Still, until the game becomes more of an online thing and I can play folks without having to spend capital and travel to some place just to play...unfortunately I don't have the time, money, or energy to invest myself in. Maybe there is an online community that just plays the new version of the game online, but I haven't come across it. I just remember that game was so much fun and it was cool to play match after match.
Another game I liked was Chinese chess. There was a high school friend I had who was from Taiwan. He taught me how to play one day. Sadly he had to go back to Taiwan after high school and serve in the military from a couple of years last I heard. This was in 2005. I never got in contact with him again. Doesn't have a facebook and I never found out how to spell his Chinese name in characters. Maybe then I could track him down. Anyways, I always Chinese chess is similar to regular chess which I don't play and can't even remember fully how it is played. For whatever reason though, the Chinese version enticed me.
I wish someone had taught me had to play regular card games. Like Poker, blackjack, etc. When I go to Vegas, or now that I'm in Macau I always feel left out when I'm in a casino because I have no idea how to play. I'm not looking to get into gambling or whatever. I would really just like to play games instead of stand around. Hell I'd bet the lowest possible just to play a game or two. It does fascinate me how some folks do actually make a living being professional poker players or whatever.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 20, 2016 17:43:40 GMT -5
I was big into backgammon during the 70s. Even purchased a plush, fancy set for the home back then
My big backgammon story was when I went to the Virgin Islands with some friends for a weekend. One fellow also was a player. All weekend long from time to time we played, using the doubling cube for betting purposes and keeping a running tab. I was having a great stroke of luck and by the end of the trip I was up $300. On the plane ride home we played the final game-double or nothing. It was a wild game swinging back and forth and I eventually lost it. If I had won......
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Post by Gene on Jul 20, 2016 22:22:27 GMT -5
Battleship. The simplicity of the whole thing can give way to a really satisfying sense of tension and excitement. I especially love that you don't need anything more than some grid paper and pencils to start playing.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 20, 2016 22:27:42 GMT -5
I've never stopped playing Magic: The Gathering. Still teach my students how to play it at the after-school Strategic and Social Games Club I run every Friday. Unfortunately, my best decks are so good that I've never found someone who could beat me. I don't subscribe to the whole "tournament legal" idea that, several times a year, you have to pull cards over a certain age out of your decks to keep up with the new stuff, so my decks remain powerful and unbeatable for the most part.
I don't know if anyone else here remembers what it used to be like to play Magic on the old pre-World Wide Web BBSes. That was so much fun. "UUD" = untap, upkeep, draw. I'd love to do that with someone here...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2016 0:16:59 GMT -5
I was more a Chess and Checkers Player and I've played a lot of that in my grade school onto to my high school playing both games with equal enthusiasm and occasionally play internet checkers with people that I haven't met and they constantly quit on me because I usually win about 75 percent of the games played.
I missed my Uncle Carl and he and I play a lot of Chess when I was growing up and my dear friend Mark who I play chess a lot - almost a weekly basis until his job moved from Seattle to Boston. I have a friend in Portland Oregon and we play chess via e-mail and we move a piece a day and it's took almost 3-4 months to play one game.
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 21, 2016 0:26:48 GMT -5
Well, The Captain recently said said he still plays MtG. I've been playing since I started with it, about the 3rd year it was out. I bought Revised starters and The Dark and a ton of Fallen Empires boosters  3 of my 4 brothers play, my nephew does, my son and one of my daughters too. My ex-wife was a pretty strong Star Trek fan, and I dig Trek as well, so back in the mid-90's when CCG's were booming, we play the Star Trek game. It was pretty good and true to the essence of the franchise. Love Mtg but hardly ever play anymore as I only see the family a couple times a year. My son and I decided to try MtGO and we now play a couple of nights a week in Pauper and really love it. Just last weekend got my brother set up for it. Think I just saw the other day where there are 34,000 + different cards now ! I've long ago lost track of the expansions, etc. Still have to check an app now and again to help with some of the new terms. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2016 1:38:02 GMT -5
I've been a huge tabletop rpg player since I first discovered D&D in 1981. We were living in Maine and had visited old family friends in CT for the holiday and their son had gotten it for Christmas and put me through a game-I played an elf, went into the Caves of Chaos fell into a pit got attacked by a giant rat and was killed. Yet somehow I was hooked. I discovered some of my schoolmates back in Maine played too, and off I went onto a path that ended up with me writing and getting published for a third party publisher for D&D almost a decade back now. My wife is probably a bigger tabletop rpg fan than I am, and has been playing since '82, so almost as long as I have. Don't currently have a game, as the folks we played regularly with changed jobs and moved to Chicago last year, but we might have something in the works for the fall. I also love playing cribbage, and played regularly with some of my co-workers back when I was in CT, but haven't found anyone to play regularly with since I moved out here. Other card games I've played quite a bit include setback, rummy, euchre, spades, hearts, and a bid and set game called "63" that is of a similar sort to these others but was popular with French-Canadian families in New England through the 70s and 80s but which I've not encountered elsewhere. Other than those, my top games of all time (in no particular order) include... 1. Dark Tower  2. Dungeon board game..  3. Munchkin  4. Fluxx  5. The Awful Green Things form Outer Space  6. Stratego  7. Apples to Apples  8. Risk  and it's variant Lord of the Rings Risk  9. 25 Words or Less  10. Parcheesi  11. Clue  12. Trivial pursuit  13. Circus Imperium  (I've only palyed this at conventions but it often looks something like this when set up...  15. Dungeons & Dragons miniatures...  spent way too much money on thos eover the years and won a few leagues as well 16. Heroscape  17. Sorry  plays very similar to Parcheesi but more kid-appeal 18. Kingmaker  19. Kismet  a Yahtzee like game that added colored pips to allow for flushes, and other winning throws in addition to the Yahtzee combos... and finally... 20. Crossbows and Catapults...  a very destructive and messy game but you get to shoot things across the room while playing, what could possibly go wrong with kids and that game...? One game I have always wanted to try but have never gotten a chance and haven't seen to purchase in quite a few yewars now is this one...  Yeah, played a lot of games as a kid, usually with the kids of my parents friends since I was an only child, and it's been a thing through adulthood as well. -M |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 21, 2016 2:17:45 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2016 2:25:11 GMT -5
Twister is always more fun if you line the playing mat with Crisco... Left foot green, right hand red, left arm....broken!  -M |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 21, 2016 2:29:21 GMT -5
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Post by batlaw on Jul 21, 2016 4:53:47 GMT -5
Wow. I still have most my crossbows and catapults set. Nobody else I've ever referenced it to has heard of it.
Anyone else remember "Stop Thief"?
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Post by dupersuper on Jul 21, 2016 8:02:42 GMT -5
Chess, Checkers, Clue, Monopoly, Battleship, Trivial Pursuit, Yahtzee, Uno, Poker, Blackjack, Crazy 8s, Snap, War, Asshole, 45s, Cards Against Humanity, Cranium, Charades, Tag, Hide & Seek, Risk, Scrabble, Sorry, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Mr. T board game, Life, Laser Tag, Scattagories...
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jul 21, 2016 11:33:24 GMT -5
I was more a Chess and Checkers Player and I've played a lot of that in my grade school onto to my high school playing both games with equal enthusiasm and occasionally play internet checkers with people that I haven't met and they constantly quit on me because I usually win about 75 percent of the games played. I missed my Uncle Carl and he and I play a lot of Chess when I was growing up and my dear friend Mark who I play chess a lot - almost a weekly basis until his job moved from Seattle to Boston. I have a friend in Portland Oregon and we play chess via e-mail and we move a piece a day and it's took almost 3-4 months to play one game. For a second I thought you said "I miss my Uncle Charles". |
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jul 21, 2016 21:08:44 GMT -5
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Post by Batflunkie on Jul 22, 2016 12:16:19 GMT -5
I love old boardgames, been finding a lot of them on etsy for cheap, which is nice considering how much "vintage" stuff usually goes for on there.
I also kind of have weird fascination with old trading card games like WWF Raw Deal and the Harry Potter TCG
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