The Gameshelf

About this original series

Strange games for happy people. The Gameshelf is a show about curious and cool games of all sorts, from board games you never heard of to computer games that nobody remembers. Except for rock stars like us. It's filmed as a community-access TV show in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA.

  • Category

    Videogames

  • # Episodes

    8 episodes

  • Rating

    TV-UN

Episodes of The Gameshelf

    • Play Diplomacy - The Gameshelf on Blip The Gameshelf episodes on Blip

      Diplomacy

      The Gameshelf Players tackle Diplomacy, a classic game of international intrigue, trust, and betrayal.

      • Release date
        Sep 23, 2009
      • Runtime
        30:00
    • Play Economic Games - The Gameshelf on Blip The Gameshelf episodes on Blip

      Economic Games

      Some web links mentioned in the show... GetHostile, a free online clone of Acquire.SpaceHoRSE, a shareware modernization of MULE.Smithore.com, a MULE fansite highlighting records of over 1,000 games that two friends have played against each other since 2002 (and only because that's when they started keeping track, having played since 1985).The full MULE manual, reproduced online by a fan.The emulator I used to run MULE was Atari800MacX, for Mac OS X. Emulators for Atari systems are many, and l...

      • Release date
        Nov 1, 2007
      • Runtime
        29:08
    • Play Hidden roles - The Gameshelf on Blip The Gameshelf episodes on Blip

      Hidden roles

      Welcome to the second season of The Gameshelf! In this episode, Joe, jmac, and their friends look at two games about hidden roles: the card game Citadels, and the party game Werewolf.

      • Release date
        Mar 8, 2007
      • Runtime
        29:09
    • Play The Gameshelf #5 Promo - The Gameshelf on Blip The Gameshelf episodes on Blip

      The Gameshelf #5 Promo

      30-second promo for episode 5 of the The Gameshelf, a show about curious and interesting games.

      • Release date
        Mar 8, 2007
      • Runtime
        00:30
    • Play Tile Games - The Gameshelf on Blip The Gameshelf episodes on Blip

      Tile Games

      Visit the boneyard with games descended from Dominos. We look at the board games The Very Clever Pipe Game and Carcassonne, as well as the classic computer game Pipe Dream.

      • Release date
        Mar 23, 2007
      • Runtime
        27:14
    • Play War Games - The Gameshelf on Blip The Gameshelf episodes on Blip

      War Games

      Storm the beachhead with the board game Memoir '44, struggle over arcane territories with the Tarot game Gnostica, and wage melodramatic and yet kind of adorable war with the classic video game Warsong.

      • Release date
        Mar 23, 2007
      • Runtime
        27:58
    • Play Space Games - The Gameshelf on Blip The Gameshelf episodes on Blip

      Space Games

      Jmac and friends duke it out with the card game Space Station Assault, fight off alien hordes in the board game The Awful Green Things From Outer Space, and save the galaxy with the computer game Star Control II.

      • Release date
        Mar 23, 2007
      • Runtime
        27:52
    • Play Medieval Games - The Gameshelf on Blip The Gameshelf episodes on Blip

      Medieval Games

      It's the very first episode! While Jmac and friends struggle to figure out what they're doing and make lots of mistakes, they also manage to talk about the board game Shadows over Camelot, the classic arcade game Rampart, and the retro-style adventure game Peasant Quest.

      • Release date
        Mar 24, 2007
      • Runtime
        28:38
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