One of my favorite video game series of all time turned 20 years old today…. Some of my fondest memories of my childhood revolve around the little gray box hooked into my television…. I’m sure Ganon is out there waiting to seize the Triforce of Power once again.

I’ve been a bit consumed lately by the succubus that is Azeroth. I downloaded the demo for WoW back about a week before Thanksgiving. I haven’t stopped playing it since. I was so addicted during the demo, I made my mom go out on Thanksgiving weekend to pick up the retail copy of WoW at [...]

Wow! After playing my first game of Puerto Rico the other night, I must say that I’m impressed with this game. i can certainly see why it’s so highly rated on BoardGameGeek. There sure is quite a bit to digest in Puerto Rico as a newcomer, but if you just get down to and play [...]

Like most board game fanatics, I’ve been trying to read as many of the Essen ‘05 reports I can find. In doing so, I’ve come across quite a few games which seem very interesting to me. The main one’s I’m interested in are Aloha, Aqua Romana, Big Kini, Hacienda, and Mesopotamia. These games seemed to [...]

I gave up Warhammer because it took too much time to paint my figures and get them ready, and I never had anywhere that was close by to play either.After quitting Warhammer, I started playing Magic: The Gathering…. In all, I probably spent over $1000 on that game, and I had a bit of a “Come to Jesus” moment once I realized half the cards I owned weren’t valuable in the Type 2 environment any longer…. So I started browsing around Board Game Geek just to see what’s hot.As I was browsing over the different Geek Lists, I realized that Ticket to Ride was getting almost universal acclaim.