BGB Podcast #208: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2021: 10-1 (ft. Tom Brewster)
It’s the grand finale of the event of events that is the BGB Top 50 Games of All-time! These are our ten absolute favourite games, and, fittingly, it’s a bumper episode with more than one surprise. Joining us in the peanut gallery this week, it’s none other than the manic imp of Shut Up & Sit Down himself, the absolute mad genius that is Tom Brewster. Buckle in, it’s going to get weird.
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Timecodes:
02:36 – Kellen #10 – El Grande
04:08 – Mark #10 – 1830: Railways & Robber Barons
07:44 – Neilan #10 – Exit: The Game
11:08 – Christina #10 – I’m the Boss!
14:53 – Kellen #9 – Inis
18:05 – Mark #9 – The Estates
20:13 – Neilan #9 – Guards of Atlantis II
23:20 – Christina #9 – Lost Cities
28:28 – Kellen #8 – Diplomacy
31:18 – Mark #8 – Hansa Teutonica
34:02 – Neilan #8 – Pictomania
37:20 – Christina #8 – Twice as Clever!
41:07 – Kellen #7 – Dune
43:43 – Mark #7 – Time’s Up! Title Recall!
45:33 – Neilan #7 – Tzolk’in: The Mayan Calendar
48:14 – Christina #7 – Blood Rage
53:03 – Kellen #6 – Cosmic Encounter
55:03 – Mark #6 – Brass: Lancashire
56:56 – Neilan #6 – Sidereal Confluence: Trading and Negotiation in the Elysian Quadrant
1:00:06 – Christina #6 – Babylonia
1:05:31 – Kellen #5 – Troyes
1:05:31 – Christina #5 – Troyes
1:10:06 – Mark #5 – Arboretum
1:12:11 – Neilan #5 – Time’s Up! Title Recall!
1:14:15 – Kellen #4 – I’m the Boss!
1:16:57 – Mark #4 – Fresh Fish
1:19:56 – Neilan #4 – Gloomhaven
1:22:25 – Christina #4 – El Grande
1:25:26 – Kellen #3 – Cthulhu Wars
1:25:26 – Christina #3 – Cthulhu Wars
1:29:37 – Mark #3 – Caylus 1303
1:31:38 – Neilan #3 – The Resistance
1:35:24 – Kellen #2 – Archipelago
1:38:02 – Mark #2 – Race for the Galaxy
1:41:12 – Neilan #2 – Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization
1:45:45 – Christina #2 – Time’s Up! Title Recall!
1:51:46 – Christina #1 – Innovation
1:51:46 – Kellen #1 – Innovation
1:57:28 – Mark #1 – Biblios
1:59:34 – Neilan #1 – A Feast for Odin
Thank you to Heart Society for generously letting us use What’s On Your Mind, Kid? from their album Wake the Queens.
