Tag Archives: history

The Desire for Unacceptance

January 13, 2010 – 9:35 am

Here’s a thought that occurred to me as I was writing yesterday’s post.
If Tetris came out today, it’d be a casual game.
So, why isn’t it considered a casual game? It’s success on the Game Boy was a lot like other Nintendo successes since then, many of which have garnered them derision for pandering to a [...]

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Pen and Papering

January 5, 2010 – 9:00 am

My gamer roots are with pen and paper games.  Oh, my family played the classic board games: Monopoly, Life, Connect Four. We later got Stratego and Risk and some more esoteric things — but that was after the pen and paper revolution. We played a lot of card games — Bridge was my father’s favorite, [...]

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