Games

I spend a reasonable amount of time gaming, in its various forms. I play video games with friends at least once a week, I board game during lunch at work at least once a week, and I role-play with some guys from work about once a week too. I've even created a card game that had a reasonable amount of popularity among my group of friends in high-school.

Table Games

Table games are broken down into several categories, but one of the simplest is the difference between classic games and designer games

Classic Games

Game rules

These are rulesheets I have put together myself containing my favorite variants of classic games.

• Nine Men's Morris
• Fanorona
• Halatafl
• Hasami Shogi

Designer Games

Games I own

Game	Category	Mechanic	Players	Rating1
Bausack	tactile	block stacking/bidding	2-?	5
Bohnanza	card	hand management/collect and score	2-8	4
Captain Treasure Boots	board	collect and score	3-6	2
Coloretto	card	collection (PYL)	2-5	5
Cube Farm	card	area control	2-5	3
Kill Dr. Lucky	board	automation/prediction	3-7	2
Light Speed	card	speed	2-4	5
Nexus	card	area control	2-4	3
Pick Picknick	board	prediction (PYL)	3-6	4
Pickomino	dice	Push Your Luck	2-7	5
Spree	board	gather&score	3-8	3
Sticheln	card	trick taking	3-8	4

Games I would probably buy (if money were no object)

• Cartagena - A good balance of luck and strategy that involves trying to get your pirates out of Cartagena prison and onto the awaiting escape boat before it leaves.
• Saboteur - A semi-cooperative game where some people are working together to find the gold and some people are working against them.
• Space Dealer - I've never played it, but 'real time' and 'space-themed' always appeal to me (see Light Speed)

Video Games

Video games fall into three categories for me:

Arcade Games

I have never played many arcade games. I was too poor at the time they were really popular, and computer games were always fairly readily available to me.

Computer Games

Classic Sierra Games

I have been playing computer games since I was about eight, starting with many of the classic Sierra adventure games:

• Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood
• King's Quest I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VIII - KQIV was HUGE in its day, requiring a massive 10 floppy disks, with 10 megabytes of code! Man, they don't make them like than anymore. I never played KQVII, and KQVIII was a real bummer, becoming more of a third-person shooter than anything resembling a puzzle game.
• Quest for Glory² I, II, III, IV, V - These might still be my favorites. They are also what introduced me to the concept of Role Playing games.
• Police Quest I & II - I never played the later PQ games. They started looking too much like tactical games, and too little like puzzle/adventure games.
• Space Quest I, II, III, IV, V - The Space Quest games are some of the first ones I remember playing through with my brother and his friend. I remember the days of dehydrated water, and Orat-on-a-Stick.

Classic LucasArts games

LucasArts has made some kick-a point-and-click adventure games back in the day (before they became obsessed with Star Wars):

Completed:

• The Secret of Monkey Island

Partial:

• Full Throttle
• Monkey Island II and III - These games are some of the most popular computer games ever, and there are plans to release a new series of episodic Monkey Island games beginning July 2009.

Console Games

Sports/Exercise

Footnotes

1. All games with at least a 1 rating are games I enjoy playing. If I didn't enjoy playing it, it would receive a 0 rating. The rating number denotes how much I enjoy playing it.

2. a.k.a. Hero's Quest