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Ever have one of those Christmases where someone gives you something you don’t want – like a terrible cold? That was my Christmas this year. I spend a chunk of time on my couch trying to get into the holiday spirit but really I just kept the tissue companies in business. One good thing came out of all of this – I got to play a lot of ThinkFun’s Rush Hour. Now I know in the past I’ve said that one-player products aren’t games and this is a game review …
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I’ve decided that my holiday gift to you – the readers of The Game Aisle – should not be another “Top Games” list but instead a list of games to help you make it through the holidays! I’ve got a game to make almost every holiday situation more fun – or at least a lot less painful!
Enjoy and Happy Holidays!
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I can’t believe I’m writing an article about holiday themed games, but I am. Here’s why: I was shopping yesterday and I saw all sorts of people buying ugly holiday pins and overly sparkly Christmas sweaters. So if people insist on buying Christmas-themed products, I want to show them what the game industry has to offer! And unlike holiday sweaters these could be used year round without tons of strange looks. So here I’ve picked some of my favorites:
Holiday Yahtzee, A Christmas Story Yahtzee, Charlie Brown Christmas Yahtzee
Personally I think …
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The National Toy Hall of Fame announced this morning it’s 2009 inductees! They are:
The Ball, Big Wheel and the Nintendo Game Boy!
The announcement took place at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY and the items were chosen from twelve nominees which also included: Cabbage Patch Kids, Game of Life, Hot Wheels, Paper Airplane, Playing Cards, Rubik’s Cube, Sidewalk Chalk, Toy Tea Set, and Transformers. The Toy Hall of Fame accepts toy and game nominations all year and on November 5th they announced this year’s nominees biased on …
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I’m back! Yes, the lack of articles over the last 2 weeks is because I was on vacation. And I offer up this photo from my trip to kick off my rant about games and travel.
In this photo you can see my husband playing Ms. Pac-Man at the airport in San Juan. They have old arcade games peppered throughout the terminals and given that we had five hours to sit around, my husband and I really appreciated them.
Here in the US if you end up in an American Airlines Admiral’s …
