Re: What did we do before spielfrieks?

Other than r.g.b, this is a pretty good flashback set of links -
http://www.danbecker.info/games/links.html

My personal online fave was http://spotlightongames.com/

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 10:17 AM Ted Cheatham [email protected]
[spielfrieks] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> And Frank branham took over one of those, created a new site which go
> rolled into the geek as I recall.
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> Ted Cheatham
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> On Jul 23, 2018, at 1:12 PM, Clay Blankenship [email protected]
> [spielfrieks] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> There used to a Usenet discussion board (news group, it was called) at
> rec.games.board.  One of the earliest web sites was The Game Closet, which
> had a bunch of rules translations.  Another was The Games Journal which was
> kind of an online magazine.
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> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:00 PM, Brent Mair [email protected]
> [spielfrieks] <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> I played Catan and El Grande in 1998 and found both BoardGameGeek and
>> Spielfrieks soon after they were created in 2000, but I'm trying to
>> remember what information was available on the web prior to 2000. What
>> websites were used and what other places? I slightly remember
>> rec..board.games or rec.games.board or something like that but I don't
>> remember what it was.
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>> Where did we find our translations?
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>> Also, if there is an article or info about when Jay first brought the
>> games over for Mayfair, that would be interesting to me.
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>> Thanks!
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>> Brent Mair
>> - Spielguy
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