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This most likely won't be a terribly interesting post, but I just saw a meme so fantastically dorky in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mkb_cbr's journal that I couldn't resist. Read on if you've ever been curious about just what size fort I could make out of my game collection.
This apparently comes from A book list of the 100 best hobby games. I don't particularly agree with the list, but it's a fun meme nonetheless.
Instructions:
Bold means I own the game.
Italics means I have played the game.
Bold Italics means I both own and have played this game.
Acquire
Amber Diceless (and the expansion)
Amun-Re
Ars Magica (a good chunk of ... 4th edition I think it was? Haven't bought any of the new edition)
Axis & Allies
Battle Cry (I do own Battle Lore though, which should get half a point considering it's the same system and a similar name)
BattleTech (Older editons. I haven't played since seventh grade or so)
Blood Bowl (Again, older edition. Haven't picked up the new stuff.)
Bohnanza
Britannia
Button Men (It's hard *not* to own Button Men if you went to cons of a certain era. They were popular goodie bag stuffers)
Call of Cthulhu (The CCG? The RPG? Oh, wait, I own pretty much all of both. Never mind)
Carcassonne (And all the expansions)
Car Wars (Mainly all in boxes)
Champions (One of the few RPGs on this list that I've actually played in addition to owning, though it was admittedly in junior high)
Circus Maximus
Citadels
Civilization (Both the board game and the board game of the computer game. The former is roughly one googolplex times better than the latter)
Cosmic Encounter (Not only the Mayfair Editions, but I also had a good chunk of the old Eon sets)
Cosmic Wimpout (That's an iffy italic. I'm pretty sure I was forced to play this at one point, and I'm pretty sure I hated it when I was)
Dawn Patrol (The first thing on the list I actually had to look up.)
Descent (Delicious, delicious Fantasy Flight big boxes. Own it and all the expansions (and all the other big box games.))
Diplomacy (And unlike most, I have yet to actually lose any friendships over it)
Dungeons & Dragons (From red box through third edition. I've been in a million dungeons. And I've ROCKED them all.)
Dynasty League Baseball (The second game on the list I didn't know, but this time I don't even care enough to look it up)
El Grande
Empires in Arms (Almost picked it up in the olden days, and now it's hard to find. I love that boardgamegeek has the playtime listed as 6000 minutes)
Empires of the Middle Ages (Huh, this looks nifty, though again, hard to find now)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen (I love the concept of these games, but I am spectacularly bad at this sort of thing. I don't do well with creativity on the spot. I can barely even get through a game of exquisite corpse)
Fire and Fury (The civil war does nothing for me)
Flames of War (Meh on miniatures games in general. If I'm going to play a miniature game, it's going to have either dragons or lasers, or both. I will probably also play it using scraps of paper to stand in for miniatures, because that's just the way I roll)
Fluxx (Hate this game. Completely brainless)
Formula Dé (Was a big seller when I was working at the game store, but I didn't like it enough to grab it)
The Fury of Dracula (The new and shiny FFG edition)
A Game of Thrones (I really need to play this again. The first time we tried it, I managed to completely flub the raiding rules, which pretty much broke the game)
Gettysburg (See above about indifference towards the civil war)
Ghostbusters (Are they talking about the RPG? Sort of surprised to see this on there. It was amusing, but didn't really make a lot of waves when it was released)
The Great Khan Game (I love you Tom Wham. Probably the most playable of his games, but Awful Green Things really deserved a place on this list)
Hammer of the Scots (I don't know why, but the block games just really don't do it for me)
Here I Stand (Never heard of it before, but now I want it. I don't know exactly why I want it, but I do. It's like there's a "Wars of the Reformation" shaped hole in my gaming collection I didn't know existed until a couple seconds ago)
A House Divided (Civil zzzzzz)
Illuminati (In many, many different versions throughout the years)
Johnny Reb (Enough with the civil war games already)
Junta (Haven't played since junior high, but I bought the revised edition just in case)
Kingmaker (Strangely no. This is probably the biggest name game on this list that I've never even touched. Probably because I hate kingmaker mechanics in other games. I'm looking at you Illuminati)
Kremlin (Another game I seem to have missed the boat on, but now suddenly want, not least because of this image)
Legend of the Five Rings CCG (Oh yes. Used to do some playtesting/writing for this company, though on a different game)
Lensman (There was a Lensman game? How did this make the list? Boardgamegeek has like no information on it)
London's Burning (I really hope they're talking about the plane game and not the firefighter game based on a TV show. Regardless, I've played neither)
Lord of the Rings (Not sure which of the millions of LotR games there have been over the years they mean, but I own at least four of them, and have played at least two, so I'm giving myself credit)
Machiavelli (Always got the impression this was pretty much just Diplomacy with a new board)
Magic: The Gathering (Thank you Magic, for helping to pay for part of my first year of college)
Marvel Super Heroes (I'm pretty sure they mean the Fantasy Flight game, which is one of the few of their recent products I don't own, but hey, I owned enough of the RPG in junior high to feel I deserve credit)
Metamorphosis Alpha (Wow. This is apparently proto-Gamma World. I'd never heard of it before today. Baffling. I own almost everything from at least two different editions of gamma world though. Can I get a half point?)
My Life with Master (Ok, someone is definitely trying to be fringe and clever at this point. This looks pretty neat, but seems a strange choice for a top one hundred list. You should check out their webpage though, it is full of awesome. This makes me giggle)
Mythos (If it has tentacles and transdimensional terror, I've probably played it)
Napoleon's Last Battles
Naval War (This looks almost familiar, but I don't think I've played it)
Ogre (And G.E.V. and Shockwave, etc.)
Once Upon a Time (See comment on Baron Muchausen)
PanzerBlitz (Again, this seems to be on the list mainly just to earn cred. "Oooh, we should put Advanced Squad Leader on there. But wait, that's too obvious, let's put an obscure predecessor on instead)
Paranoia (I own or have owned pretty much everything printed for every edition of Paranoia. Two of some of them...)
Pendragon (Nope. Didn't notice it had been reprinted in 2005. Might have to grab it)
Pirate's Cove (Didn't like it much)
Plague! (At first I thought they meant Plague and Pestilence. Never knew about this one. Seems another strange choice)
Power Grid (Need to play this more)
Puerto Rico (Duh)
Renaissance of Infantry
RoboRally (Used to love this game. The computer project I have started and almost immediately lost interest in more than any other)
RuneQuest (Not much of it. Pretty much just enough to roll a character and run screaming in terror)
The Settlers of Catan (In many incarnations)
Shadowfist (Shame it looks like it's fallen by the wayside again. I always liked this)
Shadowrun (Cyberpunk *AND* elves? Sign me up)
Shadows over Camelot
Silent Death: The Next Millennium (Was always too expensive to pick up at that point.)
Space Hulk (And like all good Games Workshop games, killed unjustly with a horrible revamp in a later edition)
Squad Leader (Remove those italics if playing solitaire games with yourself doesn't count...)
Stalingrad (I owned Drive On Stalingrad. Does that count?)
Star Fleet Battles (And a rather large chunk of the captain's edition era expansions)
The Sword and the Flame (Historical miniature gaming for the yawn)
Tales of the Arabian Nights (Really excited about the reprint/revamp coming out soon. Always wanted this)
Talisman (In several editions)
Terrible Swift Sword (And we had gone so long without a civil war game)
Thurn and Taxis (I've been on the fence about this for a while. It's high rated on boardgamegeek, but every time I pick it up at the store I seem to magically lose interest. I'm sure I'll break down soon)
Ticket to Ride (Hacked together a perl script somewhere that sort of played with me and then lost interest)
Tigris & Euphrates (Mmmm, delicious Knizia)
Tikal (Nope. Meant to. It's been on my maybe list for years and years)
Toon (I love that the intelligence stat in this game is a detriment. My character in the game I played was so stupid that he walked back to earth when stranded on the moon because he didn't know he couldn't. I love cartoon logic)
Traveller (So many delicious tables. Does rolling up a large binder full of spaceships/characters/star systems count as playing)
Twilight Struggle (Ok, I take my comment on Kingmaker back. *This* is probably the best known game I haven't touched. I want to though. I've got 1960, which is apparently a similar system, and I find the cold war more interesting than presidential elections, so I really ought to get this at some point)
Unknown Armies (Best roleplaying game EVER)
Up Front (Always been curious. Might get the new edition)
Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (And Jyhad, back before the whole name change fiasco)
Vampire: The Masquerade (I have however played Mage and Werewolf, which is the same system, so I think I should get play credit)
Vinci (Went completely under my radar somehow. Should pick it up)
War and Peace
Warhammer 40,000 (Always preferred Adeptus Titanicus/Space Marine scale)
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (Haven't played the board game, but I choose to believe they're talking about the Fighting Fantasy book, and heavens knows I played the hell out of a lot of those)
The Warlord (Something else new to me. Looks neatish)
Wiz-War (Fun in the same way Cosmic Encounter is. Random and zaney, which I need to be in the proper mood for. I find drinking helps)
Whew. That was a lot of dork. I think I am too exhausted to do a proper update at this point, so instead I will summarize how I'm feeling with this comic strip. I would like one please. The reset button that is, not the robot. I am the robot. Goo goo ga joob.
You should browse through that comic if you haven't seen it before. There are some relatively excellent ones.
My current itunes playlist consists of New Model Army (such a good show on Thursday by the way), Senor Coconut (That video is freaking me out man), Leftfield (I really wish I could listen to that song without having to think about the movie Hackers), and Crystal Castles (Will, you've heard these guys right? Their wikipedia entry has the following quote "Crystal Castles' music uses unusual instrumentation such as placing an Atari 5200 sound chip inside a keyboard in order to produce a sound that has been described as having "ferocious, asphyxiating sheets of warped two-dimensional Gameboy glitches and bruising drum bombast pierce [the] skull with sheer shrill force, burrowing deep into the brain like a fever"", which of course made me think of you...). If you think all of this makes for a strange mix, you are entirely correct.
Who's going to Halou at Cafe Du Nord on Wednesday? And if not, why the hell not?
In other "Why the hell?" news, why the hell isn't Exterminating Angel out on domestic DVD yet? And why does there exist a movie called Exterminating Angels that seems to exist solely to get me excited when I see it in stores? I have seriously picked up a copy of that DVD no less than ten times in the fervent belief that some alchemy of hope contained in my palms will blot out the added S and transform the DVD contained within, but nooooooo.
Also, I would like the deluxo four hour version of Until The End Of The World please. Dear America. Your bad taste is why I can't have nice things.
Ok. There. I managed some non-dork content. Don't you love how my definition of non-dork content consists of dorking about music and movies?
mkb_cbr's journal that I couldn't resist. Read on if you've ever been curious about just what size fort I could make out of my game collection. This apparently comes from A book list of the 100 best hobby games. I don't particularly agree with the list, but it's a fun meme nonetheless.
Instructions:
Bold means I own the game.
Italics means I have played the game.
Bold Italics means I both own and have played this game.
Acquire
Amber Diceless (and the expansion)
Amun-Re
Ars Magica (a good chunk of ... 4th edition I think it was? Haven't bought any of the new edition)
Axis & Allies
Battle Cry (I do own Battle Lore though, which should get half a point considering it's the same system and a similar name)
BattleTech (Older editons. I haven't played since seventh grade or so)
Blood Bowl (Again, older edition. Haven't picked up the new stuff.)
Bohnanza
Britannia
Button Men (It's hard *not* to own Button Men if you went to cons of a certain era. They were popular goodie bag stuffers)
Call of Cthulhu (The CCG? The RPG? Oh, wait, I own pretty much all of both. Never mind)
Carcassonne (And all the expansions)
Car Wars (Mainly all in boxes)
Champions (One of the few RPGs on this list that I've actually played in addition to owning, though it was admittedly in junior high)
Circus Maximus
Citadels
Civilization (Both the board game and the board game of the computer game. The former is roughly one googolplex times better than the latter)
Cosmic Encounter (Not only the Mayfair Editions, but I also had a good chunk of the old Eon sets)
Cosmic Wimpout (That's an iffy italic. I'm pretty sure I was forced to play this at one point, and I'm pretty sure I hated it when I was)
Dawn Patrol (The first thing on the list I actually had to look up.)
Descent (Delicious, delicious Fantasy Flight big boxes. Own it and all the expansions (and all the other big box games.))
Diplomacy (And unlike most, I have yet to actually lose any friendships over it)
Dungeons & Dragons (From red box through third edition. I've been in a million dungeons. And I've ROCKED them all.)
Dynasty League Baseball (The second game on the list I didn't know, but this time I don't even care enough to look it up)
El Grande
Empires in Arms (Almost picked it up in the olden days, and now it's hard to find. I love that boardgamegeek has the playtime listed as 6000 minutes)
Empires of the Middle Ages (Huh, this looks nifty, though again, hard to find now)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen (I love the concept of these games, but I am spectacularly bad at this sort of thing. I don't do well with creativity on the spot. I can barely even get through a game of exquisite corpse)
Fire and Fury (The civil war does nothing for me)
Flames of War (Meh on miniatures games in general. If I'm going to play a miniature game, it's going to have either dragons or lasers, or both. I will probably also play it using scraps of paper to stand in for miniatures, because that's just the way I roll)
Fluxx (Hate this game. Completely brainless)
Formula Dé (Was a big seller when I was working at the game store, but I didn't like it enough to grab it)
The Fury of Dracula (The new and shiny FFG edition)
A Game of Thrones (I really need to play this again. The first time we tried it, I managed to completely flub the raiding rules, which pretty much broke the game)
Gettysburg (See above about indifference towards the civil war)
Ghostbusters (Are they talking about the RPG? Sort of surprised to see this on there. It was amusing, but didn't really make a lot of waves when it was released)
The Great Khan Game (I love you Tom Wham. Probably the most playable of his games, but Awful Green Things really deserved a place on this list)
Hammer of the Scots (I don't know why, but the block games just really don't do it for me)
Here I Stand (Never heard of it before, but now I want it. I don't know exactly why I want it, but I do. It's like there's a "Wars of the Reformation" shaped hole in my gaming collection I didn't know existed until a couple seconds ago)
A House Divided (Civil zzzzzz)
Illuminati (In many, many different versions throughout the years)
Johnny Reb (Enough with the civil war games already)
Junta (Haven't played since junior high, but I bought the revised edition just in case)
Kingmaker (Strangely no. This is probably the biggest name game on this list that I've never even touched. Probably because I hate kingmaker mechanics in other games. I'm looking at you Illuminati)
Kremlin (Another game I seem to have missed the boat on, but now suddenly want, not least because of this image)
Legend of the Five Rings CCG (Oh yes. Used to do some playtesting/writing for this company, though on a different game)
Lensman (There was a Lensman game? How did this make the list? Boardgamegeek has like no information on it)
London's Burning (I really hope they're talking about the plane game and not the firefighter game based on a TV show. Regardless, I've played neither)
Lord of the Rings (Not sure which of the millions of LotR games there have been over the years they mean, but I own at least four of them, and have played at least two, so I'm giving myself credit)
Machiavelli (Always got the impression this was pretty much just Diplomacy with a new board)
Magic: The Gathering (Thank you Magic, for helping to pay for part of my first year of college)
Marvel Super Heroes (I'm pretty sure they mean the Fantasy Flight game, which is one of the few of their recent products I don't own, but hey, I owned enough of the RPG in junior high to feel I deserve credit)
Metamorphosis Alpha (Wow. This is apparently proto-Gamma World. I'd never heard of it before today. Baffling. I own almost everything from at least two different editions of gamma world though. Can I get a half point?)
My Life with Master (Ok, someone is definitely trying to be fringe and clever at this point. This looks pretty neat, but seems a strange choice for a top one hundred list. You should check out their webpage though, it is full of awesome. This makes me giggle)
Mythos (If it has tentacles and transdimensional terror, I've probably played it)
Napoleon's Last Battles
Naval War (This looks almost familiar, but I don't think I've played it)
Ogre (And G.E.V. and Shockwave, etc.)
Once Upon a Time (See comment on Baron Muchausen)
PanzerBlitz (Again, this seems to be on the list mainly just to earn cred. "Oooh, we should put Advanced Squad Leader on there. But wait, that's too obvious, let's put an obscure predecessor on instead)
Paranoia (I own or have owned pretty much everything printed for every edition of Paranoia. Two of some of them...)
Pendragon (Nope. Didn't notice it had been reprinted in 2005. Might have to grab it)
Pirate's Cove (Didn't like it much)
Plague! (At first I thought they meant Plague and Pestilence. Never knew about this one. Seems another strange choice)
Power Grid (Need to play this more)
Puerto Rico (Duh)
Renaissance of Infantry
RoboRally (Used to love this game. The computer project I have started and almost immediately lost interest in more than any other)
RuneQuest (Not much of it. Pretty much just enough to roll a character and run screaming in terror)
The Settlers of Catan (In many incarnations)
Shadowfist (Shame it looks like it's fallen by the wayside again. I always liked this)
Shadowrun (Cyberpunk *AND* elves? Sign me up)
Shadows over Camelot
Silent Death: The Next Millennium (Was always too expensive to pick up at that point.)
Space Hulk (And like all good Games Workshop games, killed unjustly with a horrible revamp in a later edition)
Squad Leader (Remove those italics if playing solitaire games with yourself doesn't count...)
Stalingrad (I owned Drive On Stalingrad. Does that count?)
Star Fleet Battles (And a rather large chunk of the captain's edition era expansions)
The Sword and the Flame (Historical miniature gaming for the yawn)
Tales of the Arabian Nights (Really excited about the reprint/revamp coming out soon. Always wanted this)
Talisman (In several editions)
Terrible Swift Sword (And we had gone so long without a civil war game)
Thurn and Taxis (I've been on the fence about this for a while. It's high rated on boardgamegeek, but every time I pick it up at the store I seem to magically lose interest. I'm sure I'll break down soon)
Ticket to Ride (Hacked together a perl script somewhere that sort of played with me and then lost interest)
Tigris & Euphrates (Mmmm, delicious Knizia)
Tikal (Nope. Meant to. It's been on my maybe list for years and years)
Toon (I love that the intelligence stat in this game is a detriment. My character in the game I played was so stupid that he walked back to earth when stranded on the moon because he didn't know he couldn't. I love cartoon logic)
Traveller (So many delicious tables. Does rolling up a large binder full of spaceships/characters/star systems count as playing)
Twilight Struggle (Ok, I take my comment on Kingmaker back. *This* is probably the best known game I haven't touched. I want to though. I've got 1960, which is apparently a similar system, and I find the cold war more interesting than presidential elections, so I really ought to get this at some point)
Unknown Armies (Best roleplaying game EVER)
Up Front (Always been curious. Might get the new edition)
Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (And Jyhad, back before the whole name change fiasco)
Vampire: The Masquerade (I have however played Mage and Werewolf, which is the same system, so I think I should get play credit)
Vinci (Went completely under my radar somehow. Should pick it up)
War and Peace
Warhammer 40,000 (Always preferred Adeptus Titanicus/Space Marine scale)
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (Haven't played the board game, but I choose to believe they're talking about the Fighting Fantasy book, and heavens knows I played the hell out of a lot of those)
The Warlord (Something else new to me. Looks neatish)
Wiz-War (Fun in the same way Cosmic Encounter is. Random and zaney, which I need to be in the proper mood for. I find drinking helps)
Whew. That was a lot of dork. I think I am too exhausted to do a proper update at this point, so instead I will summarize how I'm feeling with this comic strip. I would like one please. The reset button that is, not the robot. I am the robot. Goo goo ga joob.
You should browse through that comic if you haven't seen it before. There are some relatively excellent ones.
My current itunes playlist consists of New Model Army (such a good show on Thursday by the way), Senor Coconut (That video is freaking me out man), Leftfield (I really wish I could listen to that song without having to think about the movie Hackers), and Crystal Castles (Will, you've heard these guys right? Their wikipedia entry has the following quote "Crystal Castles' music uses unusual instrumentation such as placing an Atari 5200 sound chip inside a keyboard in order to produce a sound that has been described as having "ferocious, asphyxiating sheets of warped two-dimensional Gameboy glitches and bruising drum bombast pierce [the] skull with sheer shrill force, burrowing deep into the brain like a fever"", which of course made me think of you...). If you think all of this makes for a strange mix, you are entirely correct.
Who's going to Halou at Cafe Du Nord on Wednesday? And if not, why the hell not?
In other "Why the hell?" news, why the hell isn't Exterminating Angel out on domestic DVD yet? And why does there exist a movie called Exterminating Angels that seems to exist solely to get me excited when I see it in stores? I have seriously picked up a copy of that DVD no less than ten times in the fervent belief that some alchemy of hope contained in my palms will blot out the added S and transform the DVD contained within, but nooooooo.
Also, I would like the deluxo four hour version of Until The End Of The World please. Dear America. Your bad taste is why I can't have nice things.
Ok. There. I managed some non-dork content. Don't you love how my definition of non-dork content consists of dorking about music and movies?