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This episode we go through a pretty typical end of year, start of the next style wrap up, including discussing our top new to us games of 2024. Then we’ve got a couple of seasonal reviews for you with a couple of holiday themed games; the EXIT Advent Calendar: The Missing Hollywood Star, and Vinyl: Holiday Edition
Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast Episode 262, was recorded on January 8th, 2025. Join us live on Wednesdays at 8 PM EST at https://www.twitch.tv/tabletopbellhop
For detailed show notes with links to everything we talk about in this episode: https://tabletopbellhop.com/podcast/ep262/
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(00:00:00) Checking in
(00:01:40) Announcements
(00:04:45) Ask The Bellhop
(01:07:33) A Message From Our Sponsor
(01:09:18) The Game Room – Exit: the Game Advent Calendar The Missing Star
(01:28:35) The Game Room – Vinyl Season’s Greetings
(01:42:03) Closing the Doors
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This episode we go through a pretty typical end of year, start of the next, style wrap up, including discussing our top new to us games of 2024. Then we’ve got a couple of seasonal reviews for you with a couple of holiday themed games, the EXIT Advent Calendar: The Missing Hollywood Star, and Vinyl: Holiday Edition
Episode 262 of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast was recorded on January 8th, 2025. Join us as we record live weekly on Twitch.
If you’d like to watch the (slightly less edited) video version of this recording you can jump to the bottom of the post.
Disclosure: Some links below are affiliate links. Using these links costs you nothing extra and helps us offset the cost of producing this show. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Some of the games mentioned in this podcast were provided by publishers as review copies.
— Ask The Bellhop: 2024 Wrap Up and Short Look at 2025 — [00:04:45]
Top New to Us Games of 2024:
- King’s Coalition
- Dabba Walla
- Star Tycoon
- Star Trek Super Skill Pinball
- KAPOW!
- Tir na nOg (use BELLHOP to save 10%)
- Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition
- Panda Royale
- Endeavor Deep Sea
- Fantastic Factories
- La Familia Hort
- Targi
- Robot Quest Arena
The Most Unique Board Games We Played in 2024:
Biggest Board Game Surprises in 2024:
Other links:
- Our interview with Marc Specter of Grand Gamers Guild
- Episode 255 with our Endeavor Deep Sea review
- GAMA Expo 2024 Coverage:
Send your questions to questions@tabletopbellhop.com.
— A Word From Our Sponsor, Grand Gamers Guild —
We’ve recently been exploring The Artemis Odyssey, a re-theme of the sci-fi resource management, engine building game Ad Astra.
The Deluxe Version is only available direct from Grand Gamers Guild and Marc has warned us that he’s running out of copies after the holiday rush, with no current plans for a second printing.
You can always save 10% at Grand Gamers Guild where you use our code BELLHOP!
You should probably also check out our review of The Artemis Project, a dice placement game set in the Artemis Universe.
— EXIT: The Game Advent Calendar: The Missing Hollywood Star Review — [01:09:18]
We love how many geeky advent calendars are now available! This year we got to check out one of KOSMOS’ EXIT The Game Advent Calendars, which ended up being more than just a quick puzzle each day.
- Barroom Brawl The Festive Advent Calendar Game
- Pick up The 2024 EXIT Advent Calendar
- Check out our various EXIT game reviews
— Vinyl: Holiday Edition Review — [01:28:35]
Vinyl Seasons Greetings is a stand alone game in the Vinyl series of games about music and collecting LPs. This one has a holiday theme where you work with your opponents to build a tree of albums between each of you.
- Pick up Vinyl Seasons Greetings
- Visit Talon Strike Studios
- You should also check our our Vinyl Jukebox review which is part of episode 259
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