100 Best Meme

09:49 am August 30th, 2007




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	100 Best Meme
	(yoinked from mygamethoughts</lj>) To celebrate (and promote) Green Ronin's Hobby Games: The Best 100 book (which, as I noted, I received for Chadtoberfest), lots of people have been playing the Best 100 meme game. Boldface if "I own this game." Italics is "I have played this game." *Italic and Bold are "I both own and have played this game."* I'm adding something, though: Underline is "I want a copy!" (I've only read up to Machiavelli in the book, so the want list after that might be spotty for a couple days.) Let's go to the vidjo tape... Bruce C. Shelley on Acquire Nicole Lindroos on Amber Diceless Ian Livingstone on Amun-Re Stewart Wieck on Ars Magica (used to own it; sold it) Thomas M. Reid on Axis & Allies Tracy Hickman on Battle Cry Philip Reed on BattleTech Justin Achilli on Blood Bowl Mike Selinker on Bohnanza Tom Dalgliesh on Britannia Greg Stolze on Button Men Monte Cook on Call of Cthulhu Steven E. Schend on Carcassonne Jeff Tidball on Car Wars Bill Bridges on Champions (used to own it; sold it) Stan! on Circus Maximus Tom Jolly on Citadels Steven Savile on Civilization Bruno Faidutti on Cosmic Encounter Andrew Looney on Cosmic Wimpout Skip Williams on Dawn Patrol Alan R. Moon on Descent Larry Harris on Diplomacy Richard Garfield on Dungeons & Dragons William W. Connors on Dynasty League Baseball Christian T. Petersen on El Grande Alessio Cavatore on Empires in Arms Timothy Brown on Empires of the Middle Ages Allen Varney on The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen (i wanna play) Phil Yates on Fire and Fury William Jones on Flames of War *Rick Loomis on Fluxx* John Kovalic on Formula Dé Anthony J. Gallela on The Fury of Dracula Jesse Scoble on A Game of Thrones Lou Zocchi on Gettysburg James Wallis on Ghostbusters James M. Ward on The Great Khan Game Gav Thorpe on Hammer of the Scots Uli Blennemann on Here I Stand S. Craig Taylor, Jr. on A House Divided *Scott Haring on Illuminati* Dana Lombardy on Johnny Reb Darren Watts on Junta Greg Stafford on Kingmaker Lester Smith on Kremlin Wolfgang Baur on Legend of the Five Rings CCG Marc W. Miller on Lensman Ted S. Raicer on London's Burning Teeuwynn Woodruff on Lord of the Rings (boardgame) Mike Breault on Machiavelli Jordan Weisman on Magic: The Gathering Steve Kenson on Marvel Super Heroes (Jeff Grubb version) Gary Gygax on Metamorphosis Alpha Greg Costikyan on My Life with Master John D. Rateliff on Mythos Chris "Gerry" Klug on Napoleon's Last Battles John Scott Tynes on Naval War Erick Wujcik on Ogre *Marc Gascoigne on Once Upon a Time* Mike Bennighof on PanzerBlitz *Steve Jackson on Paranoia* Shannon Appelcline on Pendragon JD Wiker on Pirate's Cove Richard H. Berg on Plague! Martin Wallace on Power Grid Tom Wham on Puerto Rico Joseph Miranda on Renaissance of Infantry James Ernest on RoboRally Paul Jaquays on RuneQuest Richard Dansky on The Settlers of Catan Ken St. Andre on Shadowfist Steven S. Long on Shadowrun (used to own; sold it) Peter Corless on Shadows over Camelot Dale Donovan on Silent Death: The Next Millennium Matt Forbeck on Space Hulk Ray Winninger on Squad Leader Lewis Pulsipher on Stalingrad Bruce Nesmith on Star Fleet Battles Steve Winter on The Sword and the Flame Jeff Grubb on Tales of the Arabian Nights Shane Lacy Hensley on Talisman Douglas Niles on Terrible Swift Sword Ed Greenwood on Thurn and Taxis Mike Fitzgerald on Ticket to Ride Thomas Lehmann on Tigris & Euphrates Warren Spector on Tikal David "Zeb" Cook on Toon Mike Pondsmith on Traveller Zev Shlasinger on Twilight Struggle *Kenneth Hite on Unknown Armies* Sandy Petersen on Up Front R. Hyrum Savage on Vampire: The Eternal Struggle George Vasilakos on Vampire: The Masquerade (used to own; sold it) Kevin Wilson on Vinci R.A. Salvatore on War and Peace Jack Emmert on Warhammer 40,000 Chris Pramas on The Warlock of Firetop Mountain Steve Jackson on The Warlord *John Wick on Wiz-War* Pretty lame showing on my part, but I've never really played a lot of hobby game boardgames or wargames. And the omission of Apples to Apples is a sin. So there!</b></b> Tags: covet, game design, gaming

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	From: 2h2o	Date: August 30th, 2007 03:12 pm (UTC)		(Link)

And the omission of Apples to Apples is a sin.
The boundaries of "hobby games" are hard to define. Apples to Apples (like Blokus, which I would also have liked to see on the list) probably was deemed too mainstream.

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	From: billwerk	Date: August 31st, 2007 08:51 am (UTC)		(Link)

Yeah, I've seen it in Target of all places.

I remember when my sister and her husband asked for games for Christmas. They were thinking Clue, Monopoly, etc. but being a game geek I just couldn't do that to them. They looked at me in quiet horror when they opened up Apples to Apples; I could see the wheels turning, trying to figure out how to get rid of it without hurting my feelings.

Then, that evening, we played it. And they had Fun, with a capital Fun. And they went on to play it with his family, and their friends, and soon everybody had a copy. It amused me.

We went through much the same routine the next year, when I gave them Carcassone. :)

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	From: dangerousfred	Date: August 30th, 2007 03:30 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Another Baron Munchausen fan!

If we ever show up at the same con, we ought to get a game together. With wine. Lots of wine.

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	From: panthergirl	Date: August 30th, 2007 03:45 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Apples to Apples is fairly fantastic if you get great players. One of the many nights Johnnyslaughter and his wife played at my house Charon came up with some of the most fantastic commentary. I mean come on, those two are greatly amusing anyway, but if this night was a standout??? Apples to Apples lets you interject that as part of the game. We made extra cards for things like 'vivisection'.

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	From: chadu	Date: August 30th, 2007 03:49 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Some of the most fun is when you know the current judge so well that you know when they're going to pick your card.

For example, no matter what word is played for one of my friends, "crawlspace" was always the winner, no matter what the combo ended up meaning.

(For me, it's "flying monkeys." Always wins. Period.)

CU

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	From: 2h2o	Date: August 30th, 2007 03:57 pm (UTC)		(Link)

The last time I played, the ace was Helen Keller.

It's definitely a fun game, but I'm not sure it's a great game because the victory mechanics belong entirely to the metagame. It's akin to playing Cops & Robbers -- the uncool kids always get shot first.

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	From: macklinr	Date: August 30th, 2007 05:58 pm (UTC)		(Link)

For me, it's "duct tape." No one has yet done the obvious and made a "bacon" card. I mean, c'mon!

I still advocate the Macklin variant, where the judge tells a story with the cards before choosing the winner. Then it becomes a game of "What can I throw that might win...but also might break the judge's ability to narrate?" Tasty stuff.

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