Category: Door game memories
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I completed my 7-year quest to play Thieves’ Guild
The sky is clear, the breeze is strong. A perfect day to make the long sea voyage to Mythyn. You prepare your galley, hire a crew of sailors, and cast off. But a few hours into your trip, the dreaded words appear: “Thou seest rippling waters…” Sea serpent? Giant squid? Something’s out there, and it’s…
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Space Dynasty memories
They say first impressions are everything. That seems to have been true for teenage me when I tried Hollie Satterfield’s BBS door game “Space Dynasty” — and wrote it off. But first impressions are often wrong.
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Assassin memories
A man cloaked in black approaches thee … “I see thou art new in these parts. Have ye come to join?” he asks. “Yes,” I answer. I watch as the man chants. Slowly the individual words flash on my screen: “Creare” … “an” … “vita” … “Irata!” And so another assassin is born.
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Barneysplat! memories
As a teen, I encountered the show enough to develop a hatred of it: saccharine songs that would lodge in your head; giggly, dopey-voiced dinosaur characters; a “one-dimensional world where everyone must be happy and everything must be resolved right away.” It’s no surprise that Barney spawned a backlash. Barney bashing, “anti-Barney humor and parodies…
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Global War memories
Though I had never played the board game RISK before, I discovered that I already knew, more or less, how to play. I had learned years earlier by playing a similar game for BBSes called “Global War” by Joel Bergen.
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Solar Realms Elite memories
What made SRE magical was the number of people who were playing at the time I encountered it. These games were not meant to be played solo; they were meant to be social experiences as you tried to dominate other players and build the mightiest empire. And when I began playing, SRE was a popular…
