ABOUT US

Welcome! You've reached the home of the Arcade Castle, a podcast that looks a little at video games, a little at board games, and those things that got a little bit of both. While most podcasts tend to look at the latest and greatest, we have opted for a far darker path through the sprawling realms of digital and analog games. For lying between the two genres is a pile of games few dare to play, games that often defy categorization. Bizarre chimeric creations and licensed games abound here. Found in thrift stores and online, studying these games will be a global effort as countries across the planet send these objects to the Arcade Castle for examination.

Why do we do this? To determine how well these board games capture the essence of their parent franchise. To see how the strategies, gameplay, game mechanics, player challenges, and player roles are translated from the digital realm of video games to the analog base of the board game.  Can we learn anything about design and gameplay by comparing how a single franchise is represented in two different mediums? Can one inform the other?

That, and who doesn't love board games and video games?