Category Archives: Gaming

Game Distributors

As part of the game retail store business, I needed to contact the various game distributors to create accounts and start buying stock. Fortunately the current owners have accounts and contacts so can help get the accounts going. I’ll be … Continue reading

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Game Cafe For Sale

Back in January or February (2022 for the later readers) a story popped up in reddit’s r/boardgames subreddit about a game cafe in Saskatoon Saskatchewan for sale. The owner had passed and the family wasn’t interested in keeping it going. … Continue reading

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Original Car Wars Play

Morning! Jeanne and I played the old Car Wars Saturday night. Took a bit to track down some of the bits and there are a few others that I haven’t found yet but I’m still hunting. Top pic is my … Continue reading

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Car Wars and Car Wars 6E, A Comparison

I played Car Wars back with the pocket edition and a bunch (not quite all) of the expansions. I even ran a AADA chapter in Virginia for a bit and when we got into a car accident one Sunday afternoon, … Continue reading

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Recommended Games

Jeanne and I have played several games in the library (see prior post). I did a quick walk through for someone who asked for a list of good games. While there are quite a few games that are pretty good, … Continue reading

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Mid Year Review

This is more of a redo of the game room into a game library type post. I generally do a COMC as an end of year review so none of the extra information that’s typically added. In this case the … Continue reading

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State of the Game Room 2020

My yearly list of what has arrived in the game room and maybe even what we’ve played over the past year. History State of the Game Room 2016 – It was in Jan of 2017 but it was for 2016. … Continue reading

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State of the Game Room – 2019

A reflection of the past 12 months of gaming. This includes board, card, and role playing. In reviewing the Game Inventory I keep, I picked up some 259 games and expansions this year not counting dice. The bulk of these … Continue reading

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State Of The Game Room – 2018

During the past year, because of my band taking off, the game room was moved from the central room to the music room and the music room moved to the central room. There’s a lot more room for the guys … Continue reading

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Differences between Shadowrun 4th/20th Anniversary Edition and Shadowrun 5th Edition

Just documenting the differences between the two since I ran 4th for quite a few years and am starting in on 5th. I’ll likely expand things as I further gather information but at least the initial parts will be bullet … Continue reading

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