I'm so glad to have gone back to the beginning and witnessed the introduction of Reference Pear.

Yay, Reference Pear debut!

That initial laughing not-Santa haunts my dreams to this day. Also, all joking aside, did anyone else get a little choked up when Quinns was calling into the microphone for Paul? Feels, man.

Watching these old SU&SD episodes is such an emotional and overjoying nostalgia

soo thats where the pear started! everything makes sense now!

This was and still is the highest quality content

Binge watching these lovelies!

"That door was locked." That one got me. This episode was so good.

So many reviews in one episode, and your table was so small back then! Love looking back at these older reviews.

Thanks SUSD. Thanks to this episode, I still pronounce Wikipedia wrong.

This episode legit broke my heart 😥

I miss being young.

Yay my favorite episode of susd! Finally dont habe to google the episode to redirect me to the old site which sends me to the vimeo.

So that's where the Pear came from.

LOL Reference Pear is the mastermind behind Su&Sd!

Oh, a Mingus music. Thumb up for that one!

This is so completely adorable....

IT WAS THE PEAR ALL ALONG

I love this. It is a good video, but I love you for the D-Track Queen love

I actually legimetely own quarriors and all its expansions, and can say that it works if you're into "toolbox" games, for which you tweak some rules at the beginning. I found it being strategic with being able to save some already rolled dice with faces (preparing them for further turns) and being able to build certain combos with that.

"That's the game that killed somebody!" Lol

Its funny that years later they did 2 whole videos about print and play games

Paul; "it's the alien races that you get ollicated " (?) :)

-Tell you what, Why don't we review... This. -Ahh... Settlers of Catan... No. Damn it.

IS THIS THE ORIGIN OF THE REFERENCE PEAR

the pair!

Very sad I had a copy of the original Cosmic Encounter back in the late 80s (were the ships cones then?) which as I struggled to find anyone to play it, got swapped out. I'd love a copy now.

"And then your games will smell of meat"

the Taxi DVDs in the background!!

Better than all 7 or 8 seasons of 24.

Paul didn't really do hair in those days. Great episode though!

15:21 Brilliant

You should have tried the Jim Sterling Copyright Deadlock trick. If you use copyright material from multiple sources, the content ID won't allow ANYONE to monetize the video because: 1. Only one entity can receive monetization for a video. 2. If ANY one of them de-monetize the video, nobody can monetize it. There's a reason why Jim has random video and song clips in some of his uploads, especially when they contain Nintendo footage. The deadlock keeps Nintendo (or anyone else) from putting ads on his videos to try and collect ad revenue from his work. So all you really needed was something from a different source one time and that might have done it.

Pauls gone man. hes gone. game over man.

i missed that creepy clown

Where is Reference Pear's Vogue spread? Where is its Hollywood Star?

I just bought the expansion called Armageddon USED from someone and when researched it says it comes with 40 dice...but what I got was a total of 190 dice, bags and color pieces. What gives? Not sure why. Does that mean I can play game?

Queen!? The Doors!? How much did this cost to produce???

Hmm... personally find Cosmic Encounter tedious. I really enjoy games that lead to a story, but I don't find Cosmic Encounter does. I find it quite bland and uninteresting. I have a bunch of space ships which I point at someone and then we play some cards and something happens. I don't find a narrative come out from the mechanics, or the player interactions. I feel no connection to my aliens. I don't care what happens with my opponents. As an aside, oddly,the game I have the most narrative coming from the mechanics is Combat Commander, where the odd results thrown up by the game leads to epic stories of heroism, stupidity or cowardice I can imagine in my head, with sudden swings in the momentum from looking like the battle was lost to feeling like an unstoppable force. There just isn't anything resembling that connection with what is going on on the board in Cosmic. I also usually find Cosmic a grind. I wait for my turn, and then do something that feels a little random due to the rather arbitrary cards and then I am sitting out for my next turn waiting on the play of the other players, unless they happen to ask for allies. I don't feel like there are many interesting choices. It is usually feels clear who is winning or loosing, and it is usually feels clear if something is a good idea or not, and those times when there is an unexpected result it doesn't usually feel like anything but random pot luck of the cards, rather than an interesting play by someone. I don't mind high randomness, but in games where they are relatively short. Cosmic can take hours (in part because of having a non-specified end with a the pick on the leader balancing mechanic, similar to Munchkin, another game I really don't enjoy). Whenever a game is finished I usually feel relief that it is finally over. Occasionally you do have a perfunctory game where it doesn't overstay its welcome, but then why not play a game that will actually last that long from the outset? Of course people do find different games gel with them and their groups in different ways.

12:00 i cringed near here