Historical gaming has long been an active and dedicated pastime on the gaming landscape.
I can recall back in my gaming infancy in the late 1970s and early 1980s seeing historical games from publishers such as Avalon Hill (which was started in 1958 and is now a subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast, which is - [...]
(sung to the tune of U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday” of course)
We got in another game of AT-43 last night at the shop while the Pokemon League raged in the back room. Dan and I were joined by a new player this week, Kennedy. Dan plays UNA, Kennedy brought Therians to the table and I, of [...]
This week has been a little interesting here at Alley Cat, schedule-wise.My wife has been in Kentucky since Sunday attending the Flourish Workshop in Louisville. So, it’s just been me & Allie. Well, running a shop while keeping up with a very energetic 3-year little girl who has to go to pre-school and take naps [...]
It was a fairly quiet Saturday at the Cat this week.
Our regular D&D group, which normally meets each Saturday night, was off this week. But, we had another D&D group that usually meets at The Guardtower play here tonight, since there was no table space available at The ‘Tower due to a Warhammer tourney.
I [...]
Last night was the first night of our new Pokemon League here at Alley Cat.
We had a nice turnout for the first night. Perhaps fewer than we expected (more than the two pictured above, ‘though!), but the weather was pretty nasty last night. After a couple of record high temperature days earlier this week, the [...]
If you’ve come into the store and expressed any interest in boardgames whatsoever (and, perhaps, even if you haven’t) you have most likely been subject to my raving about Days of Wonder’s Battlelore fantasy boardgame. I love it. My (non-gamer) wife loves it. Almost everyone I know who’s played it loves it. It’s even got [...]
At last the first wave of Karman miniatures, for Rackham’s AT-43 sci-fi miniatures game, have been released. We just received our stock today.
I thought I’d take a couple of quick pics of a few of the minis to give folks an idea of how the actual production miniatures came out, as opposed to the Rackham [...]
