Posts Tagged ‘ board games ’

Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive VCR Board Game

March 24, 2010
By Racan

“This game never plays the same twice!” – Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive VCR Board Game By Racan Souiedan In case you’re not familiar, VCR board games emerged in the 1980s as a form of supposed interactive multimedia, before finally peaking in 1991 with the horror classic Nightmare. While fulfilling a novelty role...

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History and the Art of War

June 5, 2009
By Racan

As a history major, I have often found myself struggling to find practical applications for the ideas and knowledge gleaned from my discipline. Far too frequently, the study of history can take on a remarkably dull form, like the boring memorization of supposedly vital dates, names, and places. Recently, however, I have begun to...

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Investigators: Detective Instinct

May 15, 2009
By Racan

Detective Instinct: Investigators and the Many Pratfalls of  Cooperative Crime Fighting Investigators is an exceptionally rare cooperative board game in which each player represents a detective in Big City, where a relentless crime wave is threatening the public. During each turn, the detectives of Big City travel the board discovering clues, while trying to...

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