[dba-Tech] Game advice

I highly recommend the Forbidden Island board game. When ever we've played with friends, it's always been a riot and its a cooperative game, rather than competitive, but still quite challenging and doesn't take a very long time like risk and other board games to get through a single game.

There's also a tablet version, if you have one.

Hans


On 2012-05-19, at 11:29 AM, John Bartow wrote:

> Hi Arthur,
> If you live near each other and actually want to spend time together I would
> suggest a board game. Yes, they still make them and some very good ones. I
> am partial to WWII games such as those sold at www.multimanpublishing.com
> but there are also other genres.
> 
> If you don't live near each other and actually want to spend time together I
> would suggest a game that has some social interaction or cooperative venture
> aspect to it, such as World of Warcraft (WoW). While I don't play "computer"
> games, I have a friend who plays WoW just to do something with his brother
> who lives in another state.
> John B
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> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 7:16 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Game advice
> 
> My brother's birthday is coming up next week. He's the classic "man who has
> everything", including a bitchin' computer that I helped him select and
> which I seriously envy: 2 huge monitors, 8 gigs of RAM and a 2 gig video
> card that demanded a power supply upgrade. (He's heavy into graphics, hence
> the video card.)
> 
> One thing he doesn't have is video games, other than the Tiger Woods golf
> game. So I thought I'd get him a game. I don't even have one game and know
> nothing at all about the field. Ideally, I'd want one that takes full
> advantage of that fancy video card,  I've heard that Call of Duty is very
> popular now. Any thoughts or recommendations?
> 
> TIA,
> --
> Arthur
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