Game Brain: A Board Game Podcast About Our Gaming Group

Round 7, Turn 3: "Smartphone Inc" with Ben and Paul

Jun 1, 2020

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0:00:00 - Introduction: Welcome Ben, the Opinionated Gamer, and Paul, the Game Breaker.
0:07:16 - This Week's Game Night
- Barrage (0:07:40)
  - Terraforming Mars
  - Age of Steam
- City of the Big Shoulders: Board Game Arena Alpha Test (0:09:54)
- Automobile (0:10:54)
- Forgotten Waters (0:11:11)
- Age of Steam, Clans of Caledonia, Smart Phone, Inc.
- Mah Jong (0:11:38)
- Elvenlands (0:12:55)
- Kanban EV (0:13:49)
0:17:00 - Game News of the Week
- Western Empires
  - Civilization, 18xx, Advanced Civilization, Through the Ages,
  - Mega Civilization
  - Eastern Empires
  - Here I Stand
- Santa Monica (0:24:05)
- Imperial Struggle (0:25:54)
  - Twilight Struggle
- Border Reavers (0:31:48)
  - Here I Stand
  - Forbidden Stars
- Versailles: 1919 (0:36:12)
  - Churchill
- The Shining: Escape from Overlook Hotel -- Coded Chronicles World (0:39:12)
  - The Shining -- Prospero Hall
  - Scooby Doo: Escape from the Haunted Mansion
0:41:26 - Games on the Brain
- Gulf Mobile & Ohio (0:42:16)
- Tekinu (0:42:50)
  - Tzolkien, Teotihuacan
- Forgotten Waters (0:43:10)
  - Seafall
- Revisiting Older Games (0:48:42)
- Clinic, the Deluxe Edition (0:49:47)
- Food Chain Magnate (0:50:19)
0:52:22 - 8x8 Challenge
- Age of Steam
0:52:48 - Board Game Top 50 Countown: 45-41
1:04:30 - Smartphone, Inc.
- Food Chain Magnate
- Container
1:33:13 - Economics in Games
- Age of Steam
- Brass
- Modern Art (1:37:03)
  - For Sale
- The Estates (1:42:11)
  - Greed, Inc.
- Age of Steam (1:42:55)
- Pipeline (1:46:25)
  - Barrage
- 18xx (1:49:04)
- Arkwright (1:50:20)
- Greed, Inc. (1:51:44)
  - Indonesia, Food Chain Magnate
  - Agricola
- Automobile (1:56:36)
- Genoa (2:00:15)
- Sidereal Conference
- City of the Big Shoulders (2:04:12)
  - Railroads of the World, Wildcatters, Panamax
- Indonesia (2:06:52)
- Brass (2:07:14)
- Navigador (2:07:32)
  - Clans of Caledonia
- The Estates (2:08:37)
- Food Chain Magnate (2:09:36)
- Smartphone, Inc. (2:10:00)
2:11:16 - Board Game Sommelier
- Concordia, Illuminati, Food Chain Magnate, Imperial 2030, Codenames, Warp Gate, Tobago, Space Cadet
- Concordia, Root, Diamont
- Ricochet Robots (2:13:20)
- Tichu (2:13:35)
- Everdell (2:13:50)
- Quartermaster General (2:14:05)
- Trickerion (2:14:40)
- Medici (2:15:00)
- K2 (2:15:27)
- On the Underground (2:15:47)
- Castles of Burgundy, Decrypto, Wingspan (2:16:10)
- Dune, Indonesia, Pipeline, Maria
- El Grande, Agricola, Terraforming Mars (2:16:47)
- Smartphone, Inc., Jaws (2:17:33)
  - Barrage
2:18:03 - Sign Off