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Friday, February 15, 2013

Episode 22: VCR California Games

Now you can virtually experience the warm California sun via the radioactive glow of a cathode ray tube...with VCR California Games! Join us as we roll and move our way through the bay area, participating in generic extreme sports competitions to raise enough money to go to "The Nationals" by way of watching 5 second clips of skateboarding, BMX, wind surfing, and more. Is this game totally "Nails," or is it the opposite of "Nails"? What does any of that mean? Plus, Professor Laserbooks sneaks some education past FTT Standards and Practices and into the Battle of Wits. Cowa-BANCE-ga!

Download Episode 22! (mp3)

Flip the Table on iTunes

Don't forget to check out Hull Breach on Kickstarter, produced by our good friends at NSB Games!!! Check out this video for more details on this awesome game!

Flip the Table will be crashing TotalCon in Mansfield, Massachussets on Saturday, February 23rd! We'll be bringing a few Flip the Table favorites with us, including Catan Twister! We'll be spending most of the day in the open board gaming area...hope to see you there!

LINKS

Dice Tower Network

Hull Breach (Kickstarter)
TotalCon
World Chess Boxing Organisation
VCR California Games (BGG)

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Goodbye, Iron.

Friday, February 1, 2013

Episode 21: All My Children

Set your VCRs for 1985 and prepare for a healthy dose of drama as we play All My Children, the board game based on the popular ABC soap opera! This game by TSR (The company behind Dungeons and Dragons at the time) attempts to inject a little bit of gamerly nuance into a licensed roll and mover. Were they successful in turning endless melodramatic plots into a solid experience for gamers? Flip the Table investigates. Download now!

Download Episode 21! (mp3)

Flip the Table on iTunes

Don't forget to check out Hull Breach on Kickstarter, produced by our good friends at NSB Games!!! Check out this video for more details on this awesome game!

LINKS

Hull Breach on Kickstarter

Dice Tower Season 9 on Kickstarter

Dice Tower Network

TotalCon

All My Children on BGG

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Episode 20: MAD Magazine with Rich Sommer!!!

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad episode of Flip the Table as Rich Sommer from TV's Mad Men joins us to review MAD Magazine: The Board Game! This 1979 classic combines the subversive wit and satire of the iconic magazine with all the thrill and excitement of an old roll & move board game. Players travel counterclockwise around the board as they do everything they can to lose all the money they have in a chair-swapping, impression-of-a-rock doing, deliberately-vague-rules-interpreting slugfest. Many of us had this one as a kid...but does it hold up almost 35 years later? Also: We find out how someone with an actual IMDB listing fares in our first ever Celebrity Battle of Wits!

Download Episode 20! (mp3)

Flip the Table on iTunes

Huge thanks to Rich Sommer for joining us on this week's show...
...don't forget to check out Mad Men on AMC, Amazon Instant Video, and iTunes!

LINKS

Rich Sommer's Gaming Blog

Rich on Twitter

Dice Tower Network

MAD Magazine Board Game (BGG)

FTT ON TWITTER

Chris

Jared

Flip

Prof. Barter

Saturday, January 12, 2013

NEXT WEEK: Rich Sommer Joins Flip the Table!

Flip the Table has something AWESOME in store for next week! Our special guest will be the amazingly talented Rich Sommer!

You know Rich as Harry Crane from the smash hit Mad Men...he's also a die hard board gamer, and was the guest of honor at the 2012 BGG.CON. He's reached out to spread the word about our hobby to the wider world through the awesome Game Night with Rich Sommer and his gaming blog, and is also incredibly intimidating in a luchadore mask.

Rich will join us in reviewing the MAD Magazine Board Game (see what we did, there?) on next week's show! He was an amazing guest, and we're definitely looking forward to bringing you this episode. We're so excited, in fact, that we'll be dropping the show a couple of days early...just in time for those with a long drive to this year's SnowCon! Look for it the evening of Thursday, January 17th.

In the meantime, if you want to catch up on Mad Men (and you DEFINITELY SHOULD), click here to learn where to find the show. You can also follow Rich on Twitter. See you soon!

Friday, January 4, 2013

Episode 19: The People's Court

All rise! The People's Court is now in session! Join Flip the Table and returning contributors Ben and Niki Turner as we face the dreaded Judge Wapner Spinner and play this 1986 title based on the original courtroom reality show. Does this roll and move board game accurately depict the drama of petty disputes in a small claims court? Also: we seamlessly edit over a mistake in identifying where Jerry Springer served as mayor, and we engage in a special Judge Edition of the Battle of Wits. Download now!