#230: Mosaic: A Story of Civilization
We encourage elaborate deception in this week's episode. Go on designers, up your game. While we can't accept anything from you in terms of gifts or donations, you can totally fool us. Stack yourselve...
13 Sep 20221h 9min
#229: Efficiency Euros
Fatal Fury 3's subtitle was Road to the Final Victory, ironic given that there were then four more Fatal Fury titles (the first's subtitle was The King of Fighters, which is its own huge delightful ke...
6 Sep 202256min
#228: It's a Wonderful World/Kingdom
Not every game needs to be four huge boxes full of other boxes and plastic. Some can be delightfully simple games... with boxes that are too big due to crowdfunding. Other games could be underapprecia...
30 Aug 20221h 4min
#227: Done with CMON?
I met a gamer from an antique landWho said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of plasticStand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sne...
23 Aug 20221h 11min
#226: Space Station Phoenix
The Smart Car was truly out-of-the-box thinking. "Why do passenger cars all have to be the way they are?" asked some clever group of designers, and designed the minimalistic teensy Smart Car. Of cours...
16 Aug 20221h 13min
#225: Carnegie
There was a time you could just stroll in a big box store in the United States and just buy a miniatures skirmish game that was actually pretty good. Sure, it didn't have analog movement or anything, ...
9 Aug 20221h
#224: Does the Industry Demand Too Much?
Times are bad. Children no longer listen to their elders and everyone is running a Kickstarter. When I started this hobby I had no idea I would get a crash course in international shipping and logisti...
2 Aug 20221h 14min
#223: Stroganov
Much talk of animals this week, what with wombats and mass animal harvesting in Stroganov. Mark's experience was that despite covering many hot-button issues in his medical ethics classes, the one tha...
26 Jul 20221h 2min
