CineGamer: A Board Game Podcast

2020 was quite a year, huh? Good time to make solo and two player cooperative games! Ravensburger heard the call and made three games based on classic movies that were also based on books and you get to play through the entire films! Jason and Toby cover The Princess Bride, The Wizard of Oz, and The Lord of the Rings. Also a crowdfunding update on two horror games coming soon!

This episode is sponsored by Gale Force Nine. 

Jason and Toby take a look at Star Trek Away Missions, a 2 player game where The Federation and the Borg face off to complete missions. 

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Jason and Toby are back (on time) to discuss three board games based on movies centered around winter holidays:

Groundhog Day by Funko Games

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: The Game by Funko Games

Silent Night, Deadly Night: The Game by Stop The Killer Games.

CineGamer is back and sorry it's late! Jason and Toby discuss Hellboy: The Board Game, based on the graphic novels! 

For the last episode of the year, Toby and Jason decide to take a break from playing games and do a list of their top 10 favorite games based on a IP (book, movie, TV show, etc) which was really hard for one of them and kinda easy for the other. 

It's classic movie night here at CineGamer! Jason and Toby discuss two board games that came out of nowhere, made everyone wonder what the game could be about, and were pleasantly surprised! Also, some Kickstarter discussion and a tiny kitten terrorizing Toby's toys. 

Toby and Jason celebrate Halloween by playing and discussing four different spooky games!

-Texas Chainsaw Massacre from Trick or Treat Studios

-The Shining from Mixlore Games

-Stranger Things: Upside Down by CMON

-Dead by Daylight: The Board Game by Level 99 Games.

This episode of CineGamer, Jason and Toby are joined by guest James Blake Ewing, who requested this month's game be covered! We take a look at Ravensburger's Alien: Fate of the Nostromo, discuss how its played, our thoughts on it, if it's our GO TO co-op game, and then James and Toby team up on Jason to convince him to play a Lords of the Ring game.

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It's blockbuster season!! And to honor the man that ushered in blockbusters way back in the '70s and '80s, Toby and Jason play four games based on Stephen Spielberg Films:

Jaws

E.T The Extra Terrestrial: Light Years from Home Game

The Goonies Never Say Die

Jurassic Park: Danger (with a little bit of Jurassic World Legacy of Isla Nublar discussion).

Also come see Jason and Toby at GenCon in August!!! Jason is teaching games as part of the Fight in the Skies Society!! Come by and say hi! And how wrong he was about Frostpunk.

It's about family....weight games this month at CineGamer! Jason and Toby go over Fast & Furious: Highway Heist game by Funko Games and USPS Great American Mail Race game by Big Potato Games. One of these games involves being a jerk to other players and you'll never guess which game. 

Jason and Toby celebrate a made up holiday by discussing FOUR games based on Star Wars: 

Star Wars The Deckbuilding Game

Star Wars: Queen's Gambit

Risk: Star Wars

Star Wars Rebellion

The check is in the mail as Jason returns, this time with a brand new co-host: his friend (and very frequent previous guest) Toby! After going over several exciting news segments, Jason and Toby dive right into talking about the 2017 game Big Trouble in Little China: The Board Game, based on the cult classic film from 1986! You wouldn't want to be crazy and miss this episode!

This month on CineGamer, Rob takes charge of the episode as he tells you about a board game he's been excited for, Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game. Based on the video game, you are miners in space trying to mine minerals and accomplish goals before the bad aliens come and ruin your day!! 

This month, Jason and Rob take a look at a very well known Fantasy Flight Game, Star Wars: Outer Rim, a sandbox-style game where you fly around the Outer Rim of the Star Wars universe, collect bounties and take on jobs and try to be the most famous person in the galaxy. It's a lot of fun and Jason and Rob have a blast discussing it. 

Jason and Rob ring in 2023 by talking about a super heavy and complicated board game, based on a popular video game, called Frostpunk, a dystopian alternative timeline game where you have to keep your city warmed up by finding resources to keep a giant furnace active and building shelters for your workers. It's hard and possibly Jason and Rob played it wrong.

Also, an update to the Escape From New York crowdsourced game!

To celebrate the first god damn month of Winter, Jason and Rob decide to play and discuss THREE games based on Who Goes There?, the novella that inspired The Thing. Not only that, but they are joined by two of their friends Toby and Tim! First they discuss the second edition of Who Goes There? The Board Game, which is a much improved version of the first edition. Then they move on to The Thing: Infection At Outpost 31, a somewhat party-style game. They end things with The Thing: The Board Game, which is a combination of the other two games. 

You know those board games that when you look at the cover or you play it and you say to yourself "this is totally supposed to be (insert movie/show/book): The Board Game" but the publishers/designers couldn't get the rights? Well that's what we're talking about in this episode of CineGamer, IP Adjacent games! Joining Jason and Rob is their friend and frequent name that gets mentioned in every episode Toby as they talk about several games that probably wouldn't normally be talked about on this show but are so good they needed to!

It's October so it's time for some SPOOOOOOKY games! Jason and Rob first talk about a 1-2 player game based on the popular horror video game Five Nights At Freddy's (which apparently has 11 sequels to it). Then they finally, FINALLY, FINALLY talk about their most anticipated Kickstarter game They Live: Assault On Cable 54 and one of them was disappointed and one of them liked it. 

It was about damn time we do a top 10 list and well let's get basic with it! Rob and Jason count down their favorite IP games! You probably already know what's gonna be on the list but still give it a listen for the stuff you DON'T know that'll be on the list! Ah-HA!

In this special episode of CineGamer, Jason and Rob report (mostly) LIVE from Gen Con 2022 from downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. They talk about what IP related games they've seen, played, and bought along with other non-IP games. Then they recount their adventures during the con itself. Also special guest Toby Merida joins Jason for a segment to talk about games he bought and saw! 

Jason and Rob are back! They're here to tell you about The Reckoners, a co-op game based on a series of young adult novels. You play as a special agent who's tasked to kill every superhero in town before they destroy the world. Sounds simple, right? WRONG! It's hard as hell but is it fun? 

Jason and Rob are back for your monthly treat! In this episode, they dive into the H.P Lovecraft world of board games and discuss three major Fantasy Flight titles: Arkham Horror both second and third editions, Eldritch Horror, and Arkham Horror: The Card Game. 

Jason and Rob are back to catch you up on some news about games based on movies, mainly by Funko, before moving on to their main discussion, the highly thematic Fantasy Flight/Wiz Kids game Fury of Dracula, a hidden movement 1-v-all game that's in Jason's top 10 favorite games of all times. But will it make Rob's? 

To change things up a bit, Jason and Rob decide to cover a movie, 2018's Game Night, which is a film about board gamers. They dive into the plot and the pros and cons of it featuring mainstream games vs the games "actual" gamers would play. 

Then they switch gears and discuss Disney's Villainous and it's various expansions, talking about the future of the game and other classic villains they could use and sort of reluctantly discuss the Marvel version. (Jason was trying to save it for another episode since it's a bit different, but it kept coming up.)

It's the MOST wonderful TIME of the year!!! When people get to argue whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie (it is!) and people try to avoid Wham!'s Last Christmas and listen to Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You on repeat. So Jason and Rob are going to take on TWO games based on Christmas movies (told you Die Hard is a Christmas movie) and try to bring some cheer over the holidays! 

Jason and Rob have returned and they go into extreme nerdy detail on Doctor Who...wait that sounds like that other Rabbit Hole Podcast show...is this right?

Nope. They go into extreme nerdy detail over Doctor Who...oh I see. It's the BOARD GAME Doctor Who: Time of the Daleks! From Gale Force Nine. And not only do they go over how it plays and their thoughts on the game and if you need to be a fan of the show to play it, they theorize what it'd be like if Doctor Who ever shows up in Boston. No offense to any Bostonians who might be listening. 

This month at Rabbit Hole Podcasts, we are celebrating #spookyseason and to start things off Jason and Rob review and discuss Horrified, designed by Prospero Hall and published by Ravensburger Games. They briefly touch on the new Horrified game American Monsters. Then Jason and Rob count down their five favorite horror games. And as if all of that wasn't enough, they talk about their time at GenCon which involves teaching Eldrich Horror at 8AM on Day 2, buying all the games, and crashing into a post on a electric scooter. 

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In this debut episode, Jason Soto and Rob Branch discuss what the theme of this podcast is, their history with board games, and they talk about how two different games based on the Back to the Future films are played, Back to the Future: Dice Through Time and Back to the Future: Back in Time.