132 BEST OF MONTEREY COUNTY® 2025 montereycountynow.com/bestof ’25 Linda Maceira, office manager How competitive do you get? In the immortal words of Charlie Sheen, “WINNING.” Have you ever been caught cheating on a game? Getting caught is for amateurs. Annie Cobb, graphic designer What was your favorite game growing up? The video game Wii Sports on the Nintendo Wii. Specifically Bowling. How competitive do you get? Very. I have been after a perfect 300 score game on bowling since I was 6 years old :( Are you a sore winner and/or sore loser? Depends on who I’m playing. Both when it’s against my brothers. Pam Marino, staff writer What was your favorite game growing up? My favorite game growing up was Candy Land. Why did you like it so much? I loved the graphics on the board, the brightly-colored spaces, the houses made from candy, ice cream bars floating in the sea, gum drop mountain pass, Lollypop Woods and Peppermint Stick Forest. It was bright, colorful, happy and fun to play. I also really liked Sorry! and Parcheesi. Dave Faries, features editor What was your favorite game growing up? Strat-O-Matic Baseball. Do you still have it and play with it? Obsessively. I have every player since 1876 loaded on my computer. How competitive do you get? Back when we played with player cards and dice, a friend bit one of his player’s game cards for grounding into a double play. You know who you are, Mark. Erik Chalhoub, associate editor What was your favorite game growing up? The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Nintendo 64. Why did you like it so much? It was one of, if not the first video games I ever played that was driven by a story, and I couldn’t wait to find out what happened next. Side note: I wrote a paper on it for my narrative theory class in college. Do you still have it and play with it? Absolutely. I’ve lost track how many times I’ve completed the entire game. I also have multiple copies of it, including one from Japan. George Kassal, senior sales executive What was your favorite game growing up? Yahtzee. How competitive do you get? We would stay up past bedtime. Karen Loutzenheiser, art director What was your favorite game growing up? Clue, Monopoly, cards and lots more. How competitive do you get? I like to win but my older brother liked to win more. In fact if he wasn’t winning the game board would get tossed across the room and pieces scattered everywhere. Lani Headley, graphic designer What was your favorite game growing up? Sorry!, Uno and Speed. How competitive do you get? I can get competitive depending on who I am playing with. Have you ever been caught cheating on a game? Never been caught cheating—yet. Keith Bruecker, senior sales executive What was your favorite game growing up? Magic: The Gathering. Do you still have it and play with it? Still have it, and play my daughter on occasion. How competitive do you get? I was registered with the national MTG database and had a WOTC card in my wallet, if that tells you anything. Sara Rubin, editor What was your favorite game growing up? Hangman. All you need is a pencil, paper and ideally, an aptitude for spelling. Why did you like it so much? I have always been pretty good at spelling and let’s be honest, it’s fun to win. Also, this is a weirdly dark game for kids and maybe on an unconscious level that appealed to me? Diane Glim, senior sales executive What was your favorite game growing up? Chutes & Ladders and Candy Land. Why did you like it so much? I always won. Erik Cushman, publisher What was your favorite game growing up? On road trips we played a lot of Jotto— which is basically two-person Wordle. You write down a five-letter word that is not a proper noun, as does your opponent, and you work to figure out their word before they solve yours. In high school the buddies and I played a lot of Risk. We enhanced the game with special “rewards” for each time you conquered a continent. We got pretty rewarded some evenings. Kevin Jewell, graphic designer What was your favorite game growing up? Growing up, the games were: “Cut the lawn.” “Clean the windows.” “Scoop the poop.” Staff Games With the theme of this year’s Best Of Monterey County being games, we thought it only proper to ask Weekly staff members about their favorite childhood games. Here are just some of the responses, proper or not.
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