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Year
1986
Players
2-5
Age
10+
Playtime
75 min
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Description
Thunder Road is Milton Bradley's answer to Mad Max. You rocket your team (three cars and a helicopter) down a stretch of post-apocalyptic highway and try to either wipe out the other teams or outdistance them and leave them in the dust. Each turn consists of a dice roll to determine car movement and a combat phase where you try to shoot or ram your opponents. The gameboard consists of two pieces of highway and when the lead car exits the front piece of highway, the back piece is placed in front (after dumping all the wrecks and slowpokes off of it) thus creating a never-ending gameboard.
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Video IKFk7WnuJRI
Rolling Dice & Taking Names Top List at 14:33 sentiment: positive
video_pk 94845 · mention_pk 259564
Click to watch at 14:33 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Great for trash talk and ribbing.
- Received as a gift from a listener, making it special.
- Enjoyable dice-chucking gameplay.
Cons
- Currently out of print and hard to get.
Thematic elements
- Dice chucking movie
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice Rolling — The game involves dice chucking and is driven by the results of dice rolls.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Lorenzo that's that is the number one game I would not get rid of
- This is a game that I think people who like thinking games would like this as a filler
- for me a lot of rolling rights I've played has been like a pusher luck
- Castles of Burgundy was kind of a thinkI game and also think it translated well from the board game to the to the dice game this is the same thing
- The two things you like in games quick and dice and that's exactly what a rolling ride is exactly
- This game is a very hard game to master it will challenge you it will frustrate you but it was fun but special relations are not a thing for me
- A mark of a good game for me am i when I look at these things is a game that I even though if it hurts and I'm not good at it I always look at and say I can do better I will play it again so I can prove to myself that I can do better
- The Game Designers Documentary is a behind the scenes look at designers in their process for making games
- if you missed it you got a chance to go and be able to get a copy and get a digital copy you can get a physical copy but this is one project that was very interested in
- you may not realize you know the people behind the games were these designers and this stuff that they have to go through
- that is the outburst game table that is currently they'll be on Kickstarter on June 27th
- He's a pinball wizard and that's as far as I can go man
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Review at 43:27 sentiment: positive
video_pk 93563 · mention_pk 253351
Click to watch at 43:27 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Super fun game.
- The re-release is anticipated.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- 1980s car combat
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- It's a cooperative game where it's kind of hard to cooperate.
- The walkers are more like environmental hazards in this game.
- Designing is cutting like you have at the very beginning have many many ideas and then you just cutting cutting cutting until it's done.
- I love the dice tower network.
- I'll just say it's a 16 by 16, so I hope you got bolted to the wall.
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Video RmVOVMTy2Ks
UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 1:03:06 sentiment: positive
video_pk 88628 · mention_pk 234086
Click to watch at 1:03:06 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- The deluxe edition sold out quickly
- Described as 'awesome' and 'super fun'
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- the White House plumbers with uh Woody Harris it was about Watergate
- that looked good
- it was a pretty funny if all this [ __ ] is like even somewhat true that happened in the series it was pretty wild what the [ __ ] happened
- she's still working man
- she's got like three or four credits every year
- I can't think of a movie I've seen her in in forever and for a while there she was in a ton of stuff
- 99 was a big year
- 97 was a big year
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 21:30 sentiment: positive
video_pk 86147 · mention_pk 222170
Click to watch at 21:30 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fun
- Engaging gameplay
Cons
- Players targeting the leader can lead to early elimination
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Playing without Val I mean like the moment you play with Valhalla that's the moment you realize I will never not play with balla
- it is now I believe in my top 30 games of all time
- it's not a looker I mean it's just cards a board
- worst demo of any game ever with that ascendency game
- the rakugan game that's B based in uh the l5r universe
- Roller ball is an incoherent mess a jumble of footage in search of plot meaning Rhythm and sense
- I'm this close to a North American cable deal
- Roller ball has a scene where they they have to all her night vision goggles yeah but but it's like but for you know but for whatever Reon I forget the exact reason is but then the camera goes into the night vision look you know so you can see where the night vision but then they take off their night vision goggles but you continue in the night vision look
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 40:32 sentiment: mixed
video_pk 86203 · mention_pk 222424
Click to watch at 40:32 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- New version is so good
- No guaranteed winner
Cons
- Can feel like choices are taken away
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I don't know I'm not loving it.
- It seems it seems like a little bit of a game of chicken.
- I found that mechanism interesting so if like if that mechanism was in a game that I found more compelling.
- It's good, it's good enough for the show, it's it gives it like a nice little logic puzzle.
- It has a ton of game.
- My character was getting developed, I was getting all kinds of cool stuff to do.
- I thought it was cool.
- The rule book is good but you want I for some reason I was like annoyed with the real book.
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 1129:16:00 sentiment: positive
video_pk 85757 · mention_pk 220478
Click to watch at 1129:16:00 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Best of the best of that genre
- So good
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Fast & Furious: Highway Heist
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I may have regret backing the latest Cthulhu Death May Die.
- Fabulous minis.
- I remember when they were cool mini or not, and and I liked that.
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Gaming Rules! Discussion at 1:16:50 sentiment: negative
video_pk 84991 · mention_pk 216937
Click to watch at 1:16:50 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
Negative (not host's type)
Pros
none
Cons
- Has not played with expansions or 3D terrain.
- Knows categorically would not enjoy it.
- Not the kind of game the host thinks they would enjoy.
Thematic elements
none
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Endeavor Deep Sea is very, very high to the top of the list.
- I am 90% sure they would say yes.
- My current three favorite games that don't have any kind of space or science fantasy whatever uh element to them is through the ages feast roadin and Maraca.
- So, yeah, it's very much a multiplayer solitaire game, but it's very good.
- I believe it's a much improve a much better version of Hrien's Wall and I love the way that the combat works against the actual the the puzzle of trying to defend yourself against the different forces that are attacking you. I really like it. So yeah, Anarchy gets a big thumbs up for me.
- Flam Rouge, fantastic game. Definitely Flam Rouge.
- I personally don't feel it's right for me to do them at the end of the year because most of the games I will have only played once and some of them I won't have even played.
- I personally prefer Flam Rouge to heat.
- Anything that wins Spiel Dejars will go on to sell way more copies, especially in the family category if it gets that Spiel Dejars award on it, which they have to pay for. They have to pay to have that award put on there, which is how Spiel Dejares makes its money. But it will sell many, many copies of the game.
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Hungry Gamer Discussion at 57:36 sentiment: positive
video_pk 84773 · mention_pk 215964
Click to watch at 57:36 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- dramatic moments and fun misunderstandings
- dynamic and chaotic gameplay that is memorable
Cons
- some runs can be highly volatile depending on luck
Thematic elements
- speed, risk management, and chaos
- High-octane racing chaos with big risk and reward
- battle card-drafting meets chaotic street racing
Comparison games
- Chaos Drive
- Descent into Thunder Road
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card-driven racing with chaos elements — player decisions and random events shape the race
- high-risk, high-reward turns — potential to swing the game with a single move
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Backyard Chickens was the best moment of the con.
- This is a fever dream, Conquest Princess is wild.
- The ending of Clank Legacy 1, spoiler, was disappointing.
- Shouting about statistics in a game of backyard chickens. It was fantastic.
- Thunder Road is chaos served well.
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Video Bw6q1149GjE
Adam in Wales - Board Game Design Analysis at 9:24
video_pk 80259 · mention_pk 195035
Click to watch at 9:24 · YouTube ↗
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Vehicle combat and racing
- Highway
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Vehicle ramming — You ram enemy vehicles off the highway and into oblivion.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- When I was a child, the board game industry was also dominated by huge hulking giants, epic, violent, plastic adventures aimed squarely at children.
- Unlike the dinosaurs before them, this entire genre of games which felt like everything to children like me went extinct.
- What they shared wasn't mechanisms, it was ambition. They were huge, packed with toyetic miniatures and terrain and aimed squarely at kids.
- Meaningful decisions. And this is where the genre struggles.
- The reality is that epic plastic adventure games for kids represented a very specific cultural moment, and one which we can never get back.
- Grab a block of amber, extract a little dino DNA, and rewild the board game ecosystem with new epic adventures for kids.
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Board Of It Top List at 32:31 sentiment: positive
video_pk 35496 · mention_pk 105957
Click to watch at 32:31 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- high-energy theme
- fun, table-energizing chaotic gameplay
Cons
- can be aggressive
- not very long if players are slow
Thematic elements
- fast-paced chaotic car chase and vehicular mayhem
- desert post-apocalyptic racing
- movie-like gameplay
Comparison games
- Mad Max
- Fast & Furious
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- dice allocation to vehicles — three vehicles with different dice to move
- special action dice — one dice per round for special power; 'cop chopper' etc.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's a really nice concise little game
- it's like playing a movie to me
- the art style is gorgeous and the mechanism is clever
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Video 1Kn4AH1Oy2o
Board Game Animal Discussion at 0:10 sentiment: neutral
video_pk 33511 · mention_pk 99674
Click to watch at 0:10 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- nostalgia and hobbyist collection culture
- Casual living-room discussion around a board game on a shelf
- conversational, reflective
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- unknown — No explicit mechanics discussed in the transcript; the entry notes the game's existence and casual references rather than play-by-play mechanics.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Thunder Road I brought you home to my game shelf
- restoration makes games awesome take me home
- Thunder uh what do you doing oh nothing
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Video Wt5_jrytBTs
Board Game Design Lab Interview at 54:20 sentiment: mixed
video_pk 13745 · mention_pk 40176
Click to watch at 54:20 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- strong thematic vibe for a vehicle-based title
- varied scenarios keep sessions fresh
Cons
- learning curve
- potential balance issues in session-driven play
Thematic elements
- speed, reach, and resource management
- vehicular route-building and pursuit in a post-crash landscape
- pulp action tone with modular scenarios
Comparison games
- Death May Die
- Unmatched
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- route/area control — players race and block paths to achieve objectives
- variable setup and scenarios — each game can present a different challenge
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Play testing sucks and you need to get used to that.
- Early play tests I call them workshops.
- Give your play testers permission to say I'm done.
- The faster you get it on the table and tested the less you're going to be holding on to it with a closed fist.
- The long way around is the short way home.
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Going Analog Interview at 2:27 sentiment: neutral
video_pk 7457 · mention_pk 22069
Click to watch at 2:27 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
- engaging vehicle combat theme
Cons
- unclear in transcript whether this exact title is the correct crusty reference; treated as a possibility
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- real-time or push-your-luck vehicle combat — survival/duel-style pursuit in a vehicular setting
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- they do a lot of their own game design the game arts the marketing and blah blah blah
- it's constricting i hate it it's like super constricting, i feel like someone's choking your game
- we dress up for the first episode and he's like shoe you ought to dress up as well but i hate it
- you can find us on redravengames.com and on Twitter
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Video zDvdG9P-c6Y
Board Game Hangover Review at 0:12 sentiment: positive
video_pk 1956 · mention_pk 5568
Click to watch at 0:12 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Tremendous interaction and chaotic energy
- Fun and satisfying ram/shoot mechanics
- Big chunky dice and striking component design
- Accessible setup and quick play
- Great for families and groups who enjoy action and speed
Cons
- High randomness can feel unfair at times
- Some players may dislike player-elimination or mean-play
- Theme may be too chaotic for some tastes
Thematic elements
- Speed, chaos, and vehicle combat on a dangerous road
- Post-apocalyptic highway race with combat on a crowded track
- Arcade, action-forward with luck-driven outcomes
Comparison games
- Survive: Escape from Atlantis
- Long Shot: The Dice Game
- 3-2-1 Long Shot
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- dice-driven movement — Players roll dice to move one of their cars along a track with hazards.
- Hazards and track design — Track hazards (oil, rocks) create risk/reward paths and can alter your trajectory.
- Offensive actions — Die rolls grant shooting or other attacks to damage opponents and slow them.
- player interaction — High interaction through targeting, ramming, shooting and blocking opponents.
- Power dice and special abilities — Each round a player can reserve one die to activate a power (like Nitro or Air Strike) to boost speed or attack.
- Ram/Collision — Entering a space with another car ends your move; a second dice roll determines which car moves and how far; collisions can eject cars.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's for grown-ups as well
- it's just super fun
- random duh
- I really really really like the ram mechanism
- Mayhem ... it feels like an absolute Mayhem
- it's easy to set up
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