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BGG.con 2010 Videos are up

Gordon1018 — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:14:31 +0000

Just a little note to let you all know that there are a ton of videos on our youtube channel from the convention. Every game we play, we’re doing a 20 second review of.

Okay, the reviews tend to last closer to a minute, but who’s counting anyways.

www.youtube.com/gamesoverboard

Here’s the geeklist with all the videos nicely embedded and a small written blurb to go along with them. When we get back we;ll make a nicer write up for the site, but I’ve been up all night just uploading so I don’t have the energy to really write a long article here also.

http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/61101/bgg-con-live-30-second-reviews-by-games-overboard

Thanks for watching and check that link every night for new entries

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Episode 023

Gordon1018 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:50:38 +0000

Wow! We’ve been gone for a long time. I know that all of you have been crying yourselves to sleep wondering when we were going to post a new review, and we’re here.

We just moved to Colorado this year and bought our first house. we’re finally settled ina nd have been inspired to start making videos again.

Enjoy this newest review of a game we really like called Jet Set. It’s great to be back and we’ll keep em coming if you keep watching.

Sick of Gaming

Gordon1018 — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:45:04 +0000

So here I am, at home with a bad cold. I hate being sick. You can’t really do anything, and you can’t exactly invite people over unless you’re an ass that doesn’t care if your friends get sick, but at the same time you feel lazy from sitting around. Pretty much your options are sleep, watch TV or play video games. The problem is that after a while of staring at an LCD screen your eye muscles start hurting too, and that just makes you feel even worse.

I wish that I could play games while sick. I realize I would probably royally stink at them in my condition, and that a Stuffed up sinus cavity doesn’t lend itself well to strategic thinking, but it’s always been the one thing that keep my mind off of all the other crap. I think if I could be involved in a large-scale game of Diplomacy for the two days it takes to get over the cold, then I’d forget all about it.

Maybe we should establish a “sick gamers” club. There’s always a time of the year when everyone has the flu or a cold or something. We could all get together at that point when we’re not feeling good and waste the time together. None of us would feel bad about it becasue everyine was already sick. It’s not like we’re infecting the innocent. Also, no one would be offended or grossed out about nose-blowing, coughing, sneezing and other sickness symptoms.

The only problem that might arise is that we should probably get a new copy of the game we play that we can incinerate afterwards, lest we open the box a year later, only to spread the cold to others. Heck, we can even use the heat generated to warm up a big bowl of Ramen. Depending on the game, there’s a lot of fuel available.

So let’s all band together with Kleenex in one hand, and Dice in the other, and say “Why can’t a sick day still be fun?” But you have to come to my house. There’s no way I’m leaving feeling like I do now……..

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Live interviews at BGG.con 2009

Gordon1018 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:02:43 +0000

Here are a selection of a few live interviews we did at BGG.con. I apologize about it being so long after the convention, but with the holidays and everything, it’s been crazy. I’ve got a bunch more to edit, and I’ll post them as I finish them.

The sound is a little sketchy so forgive me. Next year we’ll work out the bugs. This is the first time we did live interviews, so we were learning. ENJOY!!

Have a great day

No related posts were found, so here's a consolation prize: Mark’s Guide To Throwing Your Own Game Night.

Board Game Geek compendium of videos

Gordon1018 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:22:43 +0000

Also, check out this “geeklist” that I made with all our videos on it. There’s more insight to the video and hopefully some comments by other viewers. ENJOY! http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/48513 Related Posts Recent Reviews Done Elsewhere Brian’s Dos and Don’ts of Hosting a Game Night Saboteur: A Video review

Games Overboard Hits the road

Gordon1018 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:45:56 +0000

I thought I’d take a moment to mention to our readers that Deanna and Myself (Brian) will be attending BGG.CON in Dallas, Texas next week. We’ll be there from Wednesday through Sunday. We’d love to meet our fans and play some games with you. We have a busy schedule while we’re there. We will be conducting video interviews with the vendors and publishers all weekend and posting those to our site. We’re hoping to create a sort of video diary for people who couldn’t attend.

Also, we will be doing smaller interviews with the people we play games with, and get their opinions of games, and gaming in general.

At the end of the weekend we hope to record a “live” review talking about our overall impressions with the con and our favorite games played.

Let us know if there are any games you’d like us to try out and talk about, or if there’s a “must play” game that you think we should try out there.

Hope to see some friendly faces in the Lone Star State. See you all next week.

Episode 017: Elkfest

Gordon1018 — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:24:58 +0000

Here we go again. Back from a summer break in the action we’re producing and filming more episodes. First on our list was a small dexterity game we’ve had for a while and we love called. Elkfest.

Elkfest is a geat game for two-or-four players that can easily travel and be played on any surface.

Each player starts with a moose that they are trying to help cross a body of water. Those moose start on an island and have to make their way across by stepping on “stones” that us, the moose wranglers, flick in front of their path.

the first person to get their moose safely to the other players island wins.

I love this game. the things that make it great to me is simplicity. I think the biggest thing I like seeing in a game, is simplicity in the base of the rules set, b ut complexity in how you choose to play the game within those rules. Elkfest accomplishes this with ease. It’ll take at most 5 minutes to show your friends how to play, but the strategy they employ on escorting their hoofed friend can vary greatly. Do you play defensively and keep all your stones together, or do you mess with your opponent, and constantly use one of your shots to send a stone halfway across the table from him.

I like any game where the surface of the table you play on determines the size you are playing on. Other great examples of this feature are Carcassonne, and Wings of War. I’ve played this on our coffee table, on our dining room table with the leaves installed and a few other surfaces, and you have to play differently whereever you are.

It also is a very easily scalable game in terms of length of play. you want a long game? Great, find a conference table and have your moose ford the Mighty Mississippi. you want a short game? Alright, just put your islands a foot apart. You’ll be done in 10 minutes.

All in all, a great little game that can be packed up in a Ziplock baggie and played in a hotel, a cafeteria, or a Motor home. we’ll be back soon, but in the meantime enjoy the wildlife (I’m talking about the moose, not Mark and Myself)

an apology and a promise

Gordon1018 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:44:28 +0000

Just a quick morning note to all the people that follow us and watch our videos (you know who you three people are ) It’s been a crazy month of traveling, work drama, moving, and people buying houses. Because of that none of us have really been able to get together to PLAY many games, let alone make review videos. It looks like things are calming down a little now though, and we’re cooking up which reviews to do in the very near future.

We have some larger projects in the works also, and look forward to suppliying your every gaming need.

Thanks for you support. If you have suggestions for the next videos let us know in a comment and if we have access to it and love the game we’ll get right on it.

Brian

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A Retro Gaming Bonanza

Gordon1018 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:31:58 +0000

We’re doingsomething a little different for this weeks episode.

We consider it something of a milestone to have our fifteenth episode.

Thanks to all our “fans” (if there actually are any) for all your support. It’s been fun and rewarding for me.

Retro Gaming Bonanza from Brian Stevenson on Vimeo.

We’re kind of hitting the groove in terms of getting videos out regularly, and we feel comfortable in our knowledge of the games.

We found that the reviews that get looked at and commented about the most are the most popular and newest games we review. I guess it makes sense, but at the same time why would people want to watch videos about games they already knew about?

When we originally started we wanted to do reviews of very off-the-beaten-path games and help people find gems they had never heard of. We still do that once in a while, but for the most part we want to feel like the 10-20 hours in video, editing, and posting aren’t being wasted so we tend to veer more towards the mainstream, if not highly ranked games.

Anyways, there were a lot of games we really wanted to talk about but knew that they wouldn’t hold up to a review on their own so we decided to do a retro games review revue.

Theses are all the older games we’ve been playing our whole lives, and ones that we remember from childhood that are still great games even now that our gaming vocabulary has increased.

We hope you enjoy.

We made a geeklist also, so feel free to comment there about any specific games. We’d love to hear your own experiences with these great old games.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/43035

Get Your B.S. in Boardgaming!

tjsundevil — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:32:43 +0000

Games Overboard has always been committed to the education of our followers, and we are continuing that tradition by offering the world’s first degree programs delivered exclusively through the playing of board games! Please stay posted for updates on the application process. Here is a listing of the classes that will be offered, and the games that will be focused on in each course.

Robot programming – RoboRally
Microsurgery – Operation
Pattern matching – Jungle Speed
Properties of magnets – Polarity
Battlefield/war strategy – war type games (Risk, Axis & Allies, etc…)
Sushi making – Wasabi
Becoming a day trader – Pit
**more after the jump
Bean farming – Bohnanza
Farm management – Agricola
Zookeeping for dummies – Zooloretto
Lessons of the food chain – Frank’s Zoo
How to build a successful postal carrier – Thurn and Taxis
Casino layout strategies – Vegas Showdown
Epidemic and disease prevention – Pandemic
Alcohol smuggling and speakeasy management – Bootleggers
Ancient Roman entertainment production management – Colosseum
Business growth and management in a confined urban area – Acquire
Achieving life goals by balancing personal traits and relationships – Funny Friends
Art purchasing and reselling with a focus on recent works – Modern Art
Facing harsh times as a Chinese emperor – In the Year of the Dragon
The “legitimate businessman’s” art of negotiation – Ca$h ‘n Gun$
How to use the London transit systems to avoid police capture – Scotland Yard
How to use the Manhattan transit systems to avoid police capture – New York Chase
Running for office in the German political system – Die Macher
Coal, oil, nuclear, and waste energy production and resource management in the U.S., Germany, Italy, France, Benelux, Central Europe, Korea, and China – Power Grid

If you would like to instruct a course, please add a comment with the course and game(s) that will be used, and we will try to offer as many as we can.