Episode 294: Tyrannosaurus Rex Martin

It's the magnificent Dr. Martin! Rex was the editor for The General magazine that provided so many of us with so much gaming knowledge and entertainment. He takes us back to the Avalon Hill days and on a walk through his history in video games as well. You will most likely want to read his thesis paper titled Cardboard warriors: the Rise and Fall of an American wargaming subculture, 1958-1998. He analyzes the reasons we game. And shows us the original art for Hedgerow Hell by G. Parrish. 

SHOWTIMES

0:21 Interview

59:04  Total Running Time

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Rex Martin's Thesis Intro

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Episode 293: A Stick up Your Nose

We have all kinds of letters today. Happy letters, sad letters, angry letters and glad letters. All of them entertaining and informative letters.  The sad part of the show arrives when we have to cover rule 17. WOUNDS.  It's a terrible thing when your cardboard SMC is wounded and there are a few rules you need to know when that unfortunate thing happens to your cardboard leader on the cardboard battlefield. To finish up we look in the box and find Winter Offensive Pack #12.  

SHOWTIMES

0:21 Banter

11:40 Letters

33:00 Rules

53:00 What's in the Box?

1:01:17  Total Running Time

 

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Nor'easter Tourney

ASL Open

Great Clown Panic of 2016

VotG Solitaire

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