tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4535367891237919312.post3687533798847267349..comments2023-12-24T09:37:17.116-05:00Comments on Man OverBoard: The game time conundrumPaul Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02260814589584723033noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4535367891237919312.post-52638194345559122482013-10-26T00:06:51.090-04:002013-10-26T00:06:51.090-04:00It's been 14 months since I wrote that bullete...It's been 14 months since I wrote that bulleted list, and most of them still remain barely touched. Frank and I did play a lot of <i>Midway</i>, and I've played a fair amount of Euro games, and "East India Company" has had some good playtesting. Otherwise, though, the "So many games..." problem is still a pervasive one.Paul Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02260814589584723033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4535367891237919312.post-56374202913965018152013-10-23T22:53:37.169-04:002013-10-23T22:53:37.169-04:00Or in six words, "So many games, so little ti...Or in six words, "So many games, so little time." <br /><br />Where have I heard that before... ? <br /><br />I really should get residuals for that expression :-) <br />Kriegspielerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16249933193318725220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4535367891237919312.post-62284111949312819182012-08-22T23:34:02.069-04:002012-08-22T23:34:02.069-04:00It is sad, isn't it, Steve? Every time I look...It is sad, isn't it, Steve? Every time I look over my collection, I say, "oh, we should play that. Oh, and that, too. Oh, and that one. Oh, I should teach the kids that ..." <br /><br />Hiew Chok Sien is a Malaysian blogger who wrote <a href="http://hiewandboardgames.blogspot.com/2010/05/we-are-not-game-players.html" rel="nofollow">an interesting post</a> about this phenomenon and how he struggled for a while with his tendency to keep buying the next new thing. He finally reached peace with himself as what he calls a "game taster." <br /><br />My own approach is a little different. I like to spend some time diving into a game and exploring it. Lately it's been <i>Wooden Ships and Iron Men</i> and now <i>Midway</i> (new post to follow soon). The problem is that I wish I had time to do that with about ten or twenty different games. Paul Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02260814589584723033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4535367891237919312.post-71269222312989233972012-08-22T12:50:21.481-04:002012-08-22T12:50:21.481-04:00 I find a similar conundrum. Each time I purcha... I find a similar conundrum. Each time I purchase a game it gets played almost at once, then a few more times until the next is purchased. It then gets pushed down in the stack when a new game comes along. We only play a few standars; very few games get popped back off the stack...sad...spciam3rdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15006352692347544910noreply@blogger.com