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Barnes' Best II: The 1970s

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Barnes' Best II: The 1970s
There Will Be Games

Pictured is a game that did not make the Barnes' Best: The 1970s cut. I didn't want to scare away the sexophobic board gamers, nor the teetotalers who might see this picture and become "concerned" about that Colt .45 spilling onto the board. But hot damn, is this a '70s picture or what?

This week at Cracked LCD I'm going through the time when David Bowie ruled the earth and selecting my ten favorite games from that era. Feel free to have a bare-knuckles scrap about it below.

Gameshark is fairly quiet this week after my double AAA triumph last week, but I think Abner just ran my Marvel Pinball review...at last.

At Nohighscores.com, we're getting new folks in the door every day and we're still feeling things out but it's turning into a smash success. Lots of good game talk, and not of the console wars variety. Bill wrote a great article last week about making money in games writing and I wound up following his up with an article of my own on the subject. Brandon declared it Pokemon week until I shut it down in favor of Mirror's Edge Week, and I hear tell that Abner is going to review Brief History of the World sometime over the next couple of days. I'm also going to do a full write-up on the very awesome Bulletstorm by the weekend.

So go, read stuff.

There Will Be Games
Michael Barnes (He/Him)
Senior Board Game Reviews Editor

Sometime in the early 1980s, MichaelBarnes’ parents thought it would be a good idea to buy him a board game to keep him busy with some friends during one of those high-pressure, “free” timeshare vacations. It turned out to be a terrible idea, because the game was TSR’s Dungeon! - and the rest, as they say, is history. Michael has been involved with writing professionally about games since 2002, when he busked for store credit writing for Boulder Games’ newsletter. He has written for a number of international hobby gaming periodicals and popular Web sites. From 2004-2008, he was the co-owner of Atlanta Game Factory, a brick-and-mortar retail store. He is currently the co-founder of FortressAT.com and Nohighscores.com as well as the Editor-in-Chief of Miniature Market’s Review Corner feature. He is married with two childen and when he’s not playing some kind of game he enjoys stockpiling trivial information about music, comics and film.

Articles by Michael

Michael Barnes
Senior Board Game Reviews Editor

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