{"id":562,"date":"2004-05-30T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-31T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=562"},"modified":"2004-05-30T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-31T04:46:00","slug":"ive-got-a-ticket-to-ride-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Got A Ticket To Ride&#8230; In Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I spent the day down at the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.strategicon.com\/\">Gamex<\/a> convention. Perhaps it is memory speaking, but it&#8217;s very different than it was back in the 1980s when I moderated games. The tournaments are less interesting (translation: there are fewer games I play), the crowd is younger, the mix of people involved in the hobby is different&#8230; but I still had fun playing in open gaming. It was, however, harder to find folks to play with &#8212; I think I still prefer the Southern California Games Day. I also don&#8217;t like the Gamex Venue as well; the Hyatt (later Wyndham, now Radisson) was cosier.<\/p>\n<p>Very few people were there that I knew from the old days; I only ran into one or two. Still, I think I&#8217;m starting to get folks who remember me from the Games Day. I haven&#8217;t decided yet whether I&#8217;ll go to the September Gaming Convention.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of games played: I introduced quite a few folks to <u>10 Days in Africa<\/u>, and I played a bit of <u>Transamerica<\/u> and <u>Ticket to Ride<\/u>. Couldn&#8217;t get anyone interested in <u>Streetcar<\/u>. Didn&#8217;t try any new games. Did watch a game of <u>Metro<\/u>; it looks like it is worth purchasing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I spent the day down at the Gamex convention. Perhaps it is memory speaking, but it&#8217;s very different than it was back in the 1980s when I moderated games. The tournaments are less interesting (translation: there are fewer games I play), the crowd is younger, the mix of people involved in the hobby is <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=562\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-gaming-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}