The Dice Tower: Episode 34 - Our Top Ten “Backpack” Games
By Tom Vasel and Joe Steadman
January 18, 2006
And because we love games, another episode of The Dice Tower!
In this episode, we conclude our “Pile of Games” contest. We review Mall of Horror and Up Front, and answer a few user questions. We listen to audio clips from several in the industry about the future of board games, answer user comments, and listen to the news from Rick Thornquist. Finally, we disucss our top ten “Backpack” games. We have the show available in the MP3 format. You can download the file to your computer by right-clicking on the link and selecting ‘Save As’. For all you iPod users out there, we have a podcast RSS feed available for The Dice Tower - use the link below to access the feed.
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You can see our top ten games from the show here.
Show notes:
Review: Mall of Horror - 1:39
Review: Up Front - 5:34
Contest results - 10:31
We address user comments - 17:27
Audio Guests - 28:27
Rick’s News - 42:04
Top Ten - 47:13
Questions - 69:40
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What? No “Backpacks and Blisters”? Posted by Larry Levy on Jan 18, 2006 at 10:17 AM | #
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"Backback” or “Backpack”?
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Tom, Others, I really enjoy the show. You talked Loot up so much that I’ve ordered it along with Dodge City and A Fist Full of Cards. I’m newly getting back into gaming and am having a party to try to hook others. I expect about 20 - 30 people to show. Do you think Loot is too complex for newbies? I started a thread here, Posted by Jonathan Greisz on Jan 22, 2006 at 01:30 PM | #
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Argh, my first comment and I fat finger it. :) I meant, here, http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/95400. I got a lot of good advice, but people are recommending against Loot. It just seemed like such a fun theme game, I wanted to get other opinions. Other games I’m planning are Apples to Apples, Blokus, Loot, Poison, Pirate’s Cove, Carcassonne, Citadels. Most of these people haven’t played anything like these, although a few have played Settlers, Descent, etc. Thanks for the advice. Posted by Jonathan Greisz on Jan 22, 2006 at 01:33 PM | #
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Argh, I still can’t type, 3 comments to get one post in. :( I meant Bang, not Loot. Although I do have Loot and was planning on having it available. Posted by Jonathan Greisz on Jan 22, 2006 at 01:34 PM | #
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