Game Night, May 10, 2007

Game Night had arrived again. In attendance were Marcus, Alan, Anna, Brian, Scott, Thomas, Michael, Andrew, Josh (and his little daughter), myself and after a long absence John.

The previous Monday had been had been Thomas' birthday and so John had brought a cake for us all to share (thank you very much John), (and Happy Birthday Thomas).

Well last week Scott had requested a game of Marvel Heroes and earlier this week
Anna had emailed me that she wanted to play Fury of Dracula.

So we split into three groups, Scott, Thomas, John and myself playing Marvel Heroes. I had played this once before but this was the first time for all the others.

Anna, Brian, Alan, Michael and Andrew playing Fury of Dracula. Anna and Brain had played this previously but this was the first time for all the others.

Marcus, Josh and Josh's daughter playing Cluzzle.

The game of Cluzzle is fairly short so that game finished much earlier than the other two, and I don't know who won that game. After Josh had to get home to put his daughter to bed and Marcus left early also.

The Fury of Dracula ran long, till about 11:00 pm, from what I'm told it was coolly received which is a disappointment since usually we have a really good time with that one, Anna had played Dracula and the other players beat her (though she said near the end she was being reckless).

Our game of Marvel Heroes was the last to finish, at approximately 12:45 am (boy am I tired today), but we had a really great time. The first hour of the game was a little tense since it was taking a while for everyone to catch on, but finally when that did it was a blast. Scott won the game breaking a tie with John, after I had 5 points detected in my last turn. (really have to play this again!)

Oh and Alan had brought some Baklava (thanks Alan!!!)

I want to thank everyone for come to game night and I hope to see you next week!!!!!

Game Night, May 3, 2007

In attendance was Alan, Marcus, Brian, Scott, Andrew, Michael, Josh and Myself.

Marcus, Josh, Scott and Michael started the evening off with a game of Lifeboats, which ran much shorter than the first game the group played a few weeks ago. Scott was the winner of that game. Then that same group played a game of RA, which Michael won.

In the time it took those guys to play two games we played one game of Starfarers of Catan, this was the second time, Alan and Brian had played and first time for Andrew and I, we all really enjoyed the hell out of this one, and in the end I came out on top and won the game.


Thanks everyone for attending and I hope to see you all next week.

p.s. Scott made a request to play Marvel Heroes game, lets see if that get done.

SuperFriends

I Just loved this series when I was a kid, but looking at it now it really appears simplistic and not keeping with many of the characters. However it will always have a fond place in my heart.

Game Night, April 26, 2007

In Attendance were Alan, Brian, Scott, Marcus, Thomas and Myself.

Alan had recently purchased a new game Starfarers of Catan, and Marcus and he sat down to go over the rules, while they did that Brian, Scott, Thomas and myself played a game of Ingenious, it was an odd game everyone scored very high, brian actually got Ingenious on all the colors and won even before the last tile was played.

After that game, Thomas had to leave shortly so Brian, Alan and Marcus played Starfarers while Scott and I played 2 games of Command and Colors Ancients. This was Scott's first time, although he had played Memoir '44 a few time. He said that he enjoyed Ancients more, since it appeared that the cards gave you more options and the player aid sheet included with the game, gave a player all the information they needed to know during the course of play. Scott won the first game and I won the second.

In the time it took for Scott and I to play two games of Command and Colors, Marcus, Alan and Brian was just finishing up their game of Starfarers. Alan won the game making the purchase that much sweeter, although he did say that a four player game would probably be better since each player would have less room to move across the board.

All in all the three of them agreed that it was a fun game and would gladly play again.

Thanks all for coming and hope to see you next week.

Creature Double Feature WLVI TV56

I grew in central Massachusetts about forty miles outside of Boston and when I was a child Channel 56 a local UHF channel aired "Creature Double Feature" every Saturday afternoon starting at 1:00 pm and running till 4:00 pm. I was glued to the set every time this ran, they showed a wide range of classic horror movies from Universal Monster, Roger Corman cheap B moves and Japanese Monster Movies. This is were I was first introduced to Frankenstein, Dracula, Godzilla and many little know monsters. Its a shame that these films are now considered by a wide circle to be outdated and no longer commercial. These were classic films which I fell in love with and still have a place in my heart for to this very day. This was when horror, for me was mood (sometimes cheese) but never gore.

Game Night, April 19, 2007

In attendance were Anna, Alan, Marcus, Thomas, Brian, Andrew, Michael, Megan and Myself.

Alan, Anna, Andrew, March, and Michael played a game of Settlers of Catan with the expansion and Alan came out the winner!!

Brian, Thomas, Megan and Myself played a game of Hare and the Tortoise in which I came out victorious.

Later we were joined by Josh and Todd, but Todd could not stay long enough to play and Megan was finished with games for the night, so Josh, Brian, Thomas and Myself had a four player game of RA, and Thomas first game and He won!

I hope everyone had a great time and enjoy seeing you all again next week.