15 Games

This was stolen from Grumptator.


The rules: Don't take too long to think about it. 15 games you've played that will always stick with you. List the first 15 you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. (Yeah, like I will need 15 minutes though I have periodically thought about this blog in the past week).

1. Skip Bo - the reason I am a game. My grandmother and family have been playing this game as long as I can remember.
2. Risk - a game with complicated rules. Risk rage - enough said
3. Thunder and Lighting - one of the few video games I have beaten
4. Lost Viking - three player cooperative video game where my father, brother, and I still fought over
5. Chess - I started in first grade. It was a bit sad the day I got better than my dad. I almost wish I had done tournaments. Oh I forgot Backgammon well it will get an honorary position here
6. Monopoly - I played a 6 hour game with an older friend who I thought was the coolest ever one New Year's Eve Night. We quit shortly before midnight. I have played it so many times and boring is what will probably stick with me.
5. Zombies - a rather silly game but it lead to games being banned during Government Documents party (We played too much) and it also lead me to The Gamer Society (TGS) which lead to a whole new path in my life
6. Phase 10 - a family classic that has to be played when my mom's side gets together. There have been fights.
7. Munchkin - a lame game now but boy did I play it a lot the first year of TGS. A good gateway game (interesting game different from standard games with the gateway game leading to hardcore games)
8. Settlers of Catan - another great gateway game. Sadly, it was overplayed with a group of friends when we played it like every Sunday for 6 months (for me - the group played longer). We can never go back.
9. Lunch Money - another TGS game. It is tons better when story telling is involved and apparently I started a house rule where the trump card does not work if you do not explain it no matter how lame.
10. Once Upon a Time - Story telling game! One of my favorites. This has lead to great stories like the fairy tale of the queen that gets cursed to be a deer and falls in love with a fairy. She has deer fairy hybrids (some of which are grotesque) and those end up being her unique to her husband the king. Also one time, I bored others with my Jane Austen style of play. Think - the main lady writes a letter detailing her thoughts which are. It gets sent. The gentleman writes back..."Dear lord, Shilo stop." No, I do not think so. I also have a rep of being the Destroyer. Too many plot lines - fine it was a dream or those people died. Muhhahaha
11. Culdcept - odd video game first played at a Con and then ordered online. Think Magic the Gathering meets Monopoly (but oddly it is not boring like Monopoly maybe it is that it is shorter)
12. Mario Party - the video game that started my love for social video gaming. It was introduced to me by my ex-fiancé and yes, I did get as good as him. It represents our good times
13. Dance Dance Revolution - my ex told me he was better at all games than me. I challenged him to DDR. I lost. I did not feel good about myself. Later I creamed him at Tetris, Dr. Mario (how could I forget this one!) and Dr Roboto's Mean Bean Machine game like games so he was wrong. DDR represents our relationship struggling.
14. Minesweeper - another of my ex-fiancé’s favorite. He challenged me to get as good as him. I got very close. When he broke up with me, he left the next day for a trip we had planned together. I did not. I had a week to move and be in limbo. I played this a lot. I set a 1 second record for beginner on his computer as a way for him to remember me by. This game represents the end of that relationship. I do not play it anymore.
15. GURPS - almost forgot about role playing. I do not have a real favorite because I struggle with finding groups I like to play but I have played GURPS the most. Earthdawn gets a shout out because it was the first and probably the best session I have ever had.


There are 15ish games. And to think, this was supposed to be a quick and short post. Side note, I listed the games first and then added commentary so I did follow the rules.