Tony Boydell joins Shelley and me for a discussion of the history of Surprised Stare Games, and the many titles he and his partner in the business have created, including Tony's own Scandaroon, Totemo, Fzzzt!, and Snowdonia.

Three on the mics this time, as Greg Parker joins Shelley and me for a conversation about 4 titles we got to the table over a weekend:

Take Stock

Silk Road

Canal Mania

Konig Salomons Schatzkammer

Canal Mania, Metromania, and Great Wall of China make the table for this revisit to 2006.

Shelley and I talk through Nations The Dice Game, the much shorter dice-based version of Nations, as well and the new Queen/Dirk Henn game Neptun.

Nations The Dice Game by Rustan Hakansson from Lautapelit.fi

and

Neptun by Dirk Henn from Queen Games

Shelley and I sit down with Eric and Mark of Days of Wonder to discuss the history of their company, as well as the (at that time) forthcoming Battlore game!

Two Gregs and Shelley join me for a rapid-fire discussion of a bunch of older titles, many of which have found their way to other collections at this point.

Shelley and I get two much older games to the table -

Auf Achse and Die Osterinsel

which I still actually have on my shelf and we bring out every once in awhile, and

Knights of Charlemagne

which never got another play...

Shelley and I get another cute little Japanese game to the table, this one a quick tile-laying super-fillerwith some nice action choices. Then, we try out a 7 Wonders-esque card-based tech-tree game with some interesting ideas, but not nearly as streamlined as the former.

King of Frontier by Shun from Studio GG

Progress: Evolution of Technology by Agnieszka Kopera and Andrei Novac from NSKN Games

Mark Jackson and Mard Batty join me for an in-depth discusison of Ticket to Ride. These Roundtables petered out as time constraints and tech issues made setting them up difficult, but I think the Meeplefest episodes reflect some of what these try to do.

Ric joins me for a discussion of games of the moment (in 2006), along with some talk about game stores past & present.

Blue Moon

Blue Moon City

Thurn und Taxis

Mission Red Planet

Shelley and I begin to extablish our 2-person banter while reviewing games with this return to the feed from 2006. five games on the table, and everything from indies to major players.

City and Guilds

Thurn und Taxis

Buccanneer

Aquedukt

Oltremare

Shelley and I discuss my playings of Dreaming Spires, a new game from Game Salute, as well as Mangrovia, Zoch's 2014 entry into the gamers' market.

Dreaming Spires by Jeremy Hogan from Game Salute and Secret Games Company

Mangrovia by Eilif Svensson from Zoch Verlag

Ward Batty of Atlanta Game Fest joins me on the microphones all the way back in 2006.

Trying something new back in 2006, I put together a Boardgame Roundtable (kind of a precursor to the Meeplefest episodes, but without the wine) and we spent some time talking about a bunch of interesting games/gamer related topics.

Shelley and I get a chance to talk about a favorite (Kings Progress) as well as a couple of Haba titles that we played back in 2006 at Gulf Games.

Kings Progress

Viva Topo!

Summ Herum

Another episode back on the feed, and this one's all about games and gaming history with Peter Karpas.

Shelley and I discuss the beautiful Abyss (is it a good game too?) and Grog Island, a lighter game from eggertspiele (especially given their recent output of games such as Yedo, Rococo, etc.).

Games Discussed:

Abyss by Bruno Cathala and Charles Chevallier (artwork by Xavier Collette) from Bombyx and Asmodee

Grog Island by Michael Rieneck from eggertspiele and Pegasus Spiele

Enjoy listening!

Kevin Gonzales and Jay Bloodworth Join Shelley and me from Oasis of Fun in Atlanta.

From from Oasis of Fun 2006 in Atlanta, GA

Shelley and I have some fun playing games and enjoying Atlanta, GA in 2006