It seems as though I have been on a Tetris kick lately. I recently reviewed the board game and the card game…the former I found to be better than the latter. I found Tetris Party Deluxe (for the Wii) sitting on a clearance rack and figured I’d pick it up and give it a try, just to see how it compared to the Game Boy version I played as a kid.
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I’ve played a lot of Millionaire, especially on the PC back when I was in college. Most of you are familiar with the game, but for those of you who aren’t, you’re a contestant trying to answer trivia questions to earn money. The more trivia questions you can answer correctly, the more money you earn. Being a fan of trivia games, I thought I’d give this one a try when I saw it on a clearance rack. How bad could it be?
A while back, I posted a review on the board game, Pandemic. Pandemic is a cooperative board game that tasks players with saving the world from deadly diseases. The boys and I have played it on a few occasions and enjoyed our experience overall.
Finally, we reach the episode where all is explained…or at least…concluded. We still have a lot of unanswered questions that need resolved and I for one, waited long enough to know how it all turned out. After I’m done with this episode, I’ll briefly review the game as a whole. Also, please be advised that this article is VERY SPOILER HEAVY…do not continue if you want to experience this game’s mystery for yourself.
Welcome back, fellow DeLorean lovers…we’re about to jump into episode four’s plot synopsis and review, but I wanted to give you the chance to head back to chapter three in case you haven’t read it yet. You can find the link here:
Hello again, readers. I recently covered episode two of this game and I’m pleased to write about the most anticipated episode (for me, anyway), episode three. For those of you just starting to follow along, I highly recommend reading my first two reviews first so that you aren’t lost.
Welcome back, time travelers! Today, we’re going to be looking at the second episode of, Back to the Future: The Game. If you haven’t read my review of the previous episode yet, then I recommend that you do so. Otherwise, you’ll be somewhat lost.
I never understood why schools insisted on going over trivial things that we’d end up forgetting as adults anyway…after all, isn’t that what research is for? What’s the expression…”teach a man to fish…?” I don’t remember what the Scarlet Letter was about, just that the Custom House introductory was painful and could be considered cruel and unusual punishment. I don’t remember a thing about the Aztecs or who the twenty-second President of the United States was. Though, I do remember a thing or two about math and English, mainly because I use both more than any other school subject I was taught. It’s for this reason that I encourage kids everywhere to play educational games that improve both basic math, reading, and writing skills.
Back when I was in college, the Internet and social media were just starting to take off. I am not sure how popular it is today, but I played a Yahoo game called Word Racer a lot. Word Racer featured a Boggle-esque grid in which you had to spell words faster than the other people in your game room. You’d have to form words by using adjacent letters, while scoring bonuses if you used the special letters that randomly showed up each round.
Show of hands…how many of you “lost it” when you first saw the trailer for this game? *Raises hand* I’m a big Back to the Future fan, mainly because I find the idea of time travel so appealing. I would love to have the ability to go back in time and tell my earlier self things that would have saved me a lot of headaches…at the risk of creating a universe shattering paradox of course. I’d also love to see how I’d end up in ten years, just to see if I’m on the right track in life now.
Mankind has been fighting over natural resources for decades. We’ve evolved to a point where we can settle most of our differences through diplomacy and trade, but a time will come in the far (or near) future when certain resources will be endangered. I wonder how civilized we would be as a race and how well we’d truly react under pressure?
I recently reviewed Wits & Wagers Family and promised a separate review of this edition, mainly because the components and bidding mechanics were slightly different. Both have the same general premise but as you’ll soon see, this version is a bit more complicated.
When I was purchasing Say Anything and Say Anything Family, I saw both Wits & Wagers and Wits & Wagers Family and thought I’d give them a try as well. I normally don’t buy games without doing research first, but they looked like a lot of fun.
Due to my busy schedule as of late, I’ve been opting to review some of the cheaper family games that I’ve run across a few times in the store. It turned out that most of them were pretty good games…Monopoly Deal and Scrabble Slam!, just to name a few. Yahtzee and I have never been the best of friends, quite the contrary in fact. If you’ve been following along in my reviews, you’ll know that dice and I don’t always speak the same language. I am pretty sure that dice are prejudiced against Italians named “Vince”, I just haven’t been able to prove it yet.
For years, kids (at least ours) have always acted as if they know everything. We, as adults, don’t know a thing, even though we’ve lived longer than they have. I do admit to forgetting a lot of the things that the kids are currently learning in school, but I’ll put my life experiences and know-how against knowing all the different species of shark known to exist any day of the week. *Shrug* Well kids, here’s your chance to get one up on your elders…
I was never a fan of dice games, especially Yahtzee. I think I must have left dice in my pocket one too many times as a kid…to the point where the little buggers got tired of the spin cycle. Maybe they came up with their version of the twilight bark and alerted their brethren to screw me over any time I happened to need them.