MAN CAVE: A weekend of old-school gaming

Man Cave is a testosterone-laden Monday feature that highlights the weekend haps of a pop culture-loving Philly dude.

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MAN CAVE: A weekend of old-school gaming

POSTED: Monday, January 16, 2012, 12:00 PM

Filed Under: Man Cave

Man Cave is a testosterone-laden Monday feature that highlights the weekend haps of a pop culture-loving Philly dude.

Tim Tebow's expected (but disappointing) collapse at the hands of Tom Brady aside, this was one of the most exciting playoff weekends in recent memory. But I had to find ways to kill time before and after the big games. I swung over to Tecmo Super Bowl Heaven where I downloaded the roms that allowed me to play the football games of my Nintendo-oriented youth on my laptop. More importantly, it allowed me to play as the modern teams, which means there was some revisionist history for Tebow in my Man Cave. If you have an emulator for NES or SNES, you can download Tecmo rosters from just about any year, and — if you have a high-speed internet connection — you can challenge opponents online at puretecmo.com.

We also broke out the old RISK board for some savage world domination. I'm realizing that the key to winning a bigger game (four players or more) is this: You have to control Australia. Everybody's gonna be scrambling for domination of the mid-sized continents, which is gonna be a drain on their resources and may not pay-out at all (especially for Europe, with boarders like Swiss cheese). But nobody's gonna attempt to challenge your ownership of Australia, which means you're gonna have a few extra fresh troops coming in every round, minus the bloody border wars that your fellow players are hemorrhaging resources into (look at our defecit since we've been in Iraq). And since people rarely attempt to dominate the whole continent of Africa early in the game, you're usually left with some poorly defended countries to pilfer slowly as you build up RISK cards quietly off the radar. Wolf Blitzer hardly notices ya!

(ryan.carey@citypaper.net) (@slackerDIYtoday)

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