The T-Shirt Game – It’s new and free for a few
Buffalo Games has just started shipping a new party game. It’s called The T-Shirt Game and it invites players to combine slogans to images to create your own t-shirts… though not just any t-shirts, I should have said, hilarious t-shirts 
To help spread the silly slogan goodness, I spoke with Chris Thorpe, the silly slogan slinging PR and product manager at Buffalo Games, and he has set aside a few copies of the game to give away to us blog reading gamebuff types.
As a way to give them out I’ll ask a t-shirt themed question. So… *symbolic drum roll* what do you think of when you think of T-Shirts? As an example, this is what Chris had to say:
“I think of rock-n-roll Iron Maiden 3 quarter-length sleeves T’s that I wore when I was in 8th Grade… but that’s just me.”
So now it’s your turn. Simply leave a comment below with your thoughts on t-shirts. I will then use a program to randomly choose five of you to receive a free copy of the t-shirt game, to open, smell the fresh party game smell, play with friends, and have fun. When I played the game, we loved combining totally off the wall slogans with the t-shirt images. But before I type too much, I’ll wait to hear your thoughts and reviews of the game.
You have until the end of the day on Friday the 21st to leave a comment. Remember to include your name and an e-mail address (email addresses are not made public) I can contact when the contest is over for the winners. Also, only one comment per e-mail, name and ISP address. This contest is only available to those in the United States or Canada. Now onto the comments.
Very Cool!!!! It sounds like a very fun game to play with my family. I never heard of a slogans to images t shirt game before. I know my brothers friends love making geeky slogans for fun to put on tee shirts. Can’t wait to play it :]
Great, and yep, it’s fun. Feel free to post your thoughts on t-shirts, like Chris did in the post example, and you can have the chance to get a free copy of the game to try with the family.
When I think of T-Shirts. I think of the Geek Shirts you get at Jinx, or thinkgeek and the like. Those are my favorites to wear anyway. People always want to know where you get them too.
When I think of tee shirts I think of the Disney Character ones I used to wear when I was a child. Like the little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast lol
When i think of t-shirts…I think of those “Class of…” t-shirts that listed everyone in your class on the back of the shirt.
When I think of tee shirts I think of donating blood. I been donating blood for years and I went through this period of time where they gave me a tee shirt every time I donated. I ended up with a drawer of blood center tee shirts. I don’t think I actually purchased a tee shirt for a couple of years during that phase.
I think of old worn in t-shirts from college, with frayed and worn collar and sleeves.
My signed Bills t-shirt from 2001 training camp when players signed it for me and I wear it every game. The signatures are still there.
Cool contest. Sounds like a fun game. Have to play first to see. My favorite t-shirt is the one I got from a walk for cancer because I always think of my dad when I wear it.
When I think of T-shirts, I think of my regular business attire. But then again, I never was a suit-and-tie kind of person.
I think about the 80’s, with Frankie Says Relax, and Wham with their political views put forward in a few big black works, like “WAKE ME UP, BEFORE YOU GO GO!”
My favorite style of t-shirt are the 3/4 sleeve baseball t-shirts, where the sleves and collar trim are a solid color, and the shirt is usually white (although it doesn’t have to be.
My favorite t-shirt ever was custom designed by a friend. A red shirt w/ a large bullseye on the front, withthe words “Starfleet Security” on it. Yes, that makes me a total geek. Oh, well.
The term “T-Shirt” conjures up a few images…
Overweight college-age guys playing D&D in the basement of their parents’ house.
Those lame “Big Johnson” t-shirts so popular 15 years ago.
My Society of Physics Students t-shirt that we designed to have Maxwell’s Equations (in polar coordinates) to make us look smart.
Like other people, I think of all of the free T-shirts I got at the end of high school and into college, mostly from clubs and racing evenets. Everyone was handing out free T-shirts to encourage participation, each with a logo for the event or group that was sponsoring the event. It has been over ten years, and along with the random shirt obtained from donating blood, I still don’t buy T-shirts.
Although there are some great T-shirt sites on the internet with irreverant slogans or sayings.
Some great comments so far. Love the red shirt and target. I like wearing a red shirt when gaming and see how often I’m the target
Now Chris, if you were able to work in comfortable pajamas and a robe, that would be even better 
And Mark, I bike ride for the Ride for Roswell for cancer research and those shirts are great reminders of everyone that is a cancer survivor too.
So again, great comments everyone, keep them coming and I’ll keep reading. Then on Friday the program will spit out 5 random winners.
Sweaty late nights of D&D… the memories
I think of those priceless, gone-forever t-shirts that have been the victim of drawer clear-outs. It almost brings a tear to my eye when I go to get a specific t-shirt, only to remember I no longer have it. Why oh why did I throw THAT one away?
But then I guess I’m a little older than most of you.
This contest IS open outside the USA, isn’t it?
I think of the “I’m with Stupid” shirt (you know, the one with a hand pointing to the side) that I bought with my allowance because it was comic gold for an elementary school kid. Later that summer, I puked hot dog and orange drink over it, which didn’t exactly make me look like Einstein.
When I think of T-shirts, I think of my mom’s “Stitch and Bitch” group. One of the women made a quilt out of all of her son’s t-shirts. Each square was made from the chest (and sometimes back) of a t-shirt.
I think of those three-quarter long sleeve ones too, but mine was the Pittsburgh Steelers and the days before the free agent. My little brother had the Cowboys, just to antagonize me.
My favorite t-shirt quote (from Futurama)
We’ll print up t-shirts! And F-shirts, for our friends with both arms on the same side.
When I think of t-shirts, I think of Meeple People.com and the way they appropriated the “Enjoy Coke” t-shirt to create “Enjoy Crokinole” for it. No other game shirt gets people asking about designer games as much as this cool one.
How is it you haven’t got something going with them (and not Cafepress, who make pretty lousy shirts)?
First thing that popped into my head was comedian Zach Galifianakis wearing a T-shirt that says “This is what a feminist looks like” on the front and “No Fat Chicks” on the back.
If you know who Zach is you’ll know why.
I also remember those great t-shirts from the 70’s that didn’t have silk screening, they had those iron on pictures and sayings that wore, cracked or peeled off over time.
Gee, when I think of tee-shirts, once I get past the foggy memory of the Rush tee I worn down to nothing, I wanna make a tee-shirt–now–that says:
Cell-phone free-zone
(ShaddddUP!)
Yep, getting rid of the shirts is hard, I have a couple I’m saving and won’t wear, I’m just wierd. A quilt… nice idea, my old tshirts turn into humble rags. I am getting to like those longer sleeve T’s these days too. Yeah, not too happy with the cafepress shirts, but I like some of their other merchandise, luckily there are other print on demand options these days. Ah yes, I remember the old iron on shirt designs, I never wanted my mom to wash them. Cell phone free shirts are fine, just no Blog free zone t-shirts
Great reading everyone’s comments so far, they are fun.
-Tim
My comfy 3x large tshirt I wear to bed. Its all broken in like a pair of old sneakers.
When I think of t shirts I realize t – shirts are the only piece of clothing that has lasted thru the decades. Some years bigger, longer, shorter but they are always t-shirts.
When I think of “T-shirts” then I am reminded of my OWN ‘collection’ of these from way back in the early 1980s until even the present times. Most of them were obtained from radio station promotions ‘parties” that I attended, and for quite a few then you had to WIN those in some silly or inane ‘Contest’ that they held during those. Check some of those out at here: http://grogsgamesblog.blogspot.com/
I have also gotten many from sending away for those, or within yet another kind of ‘Contest’ and even some from attending our local “County Fair” where some BAND just starting out had performed!
When I think of T-shirts now, I mostly think of the lol Robber ones we just made for Spielerz because I’m a bit obsessed at the moment. But when I step back from that I think of my boyfriend whose wardrobe is 90% t-shirts.
When I think of T-Shirts, I think of souveniers. When I was growing up pretty much the only souveniers our mom allowed us to get were tshirts because they are both a souvenier and a useful item. And perhaps, I suspect so many years later, because we would eventually get rid of them.
this game sounds like fun. to me t-shirts are for expressing your personality or making a statement.
When I think of T-shirts I always think of the 80’s where everyone who was not a nerd wore them. They ranged from bands to cars to sports. But they all had something to say and were a direct reflection on the person wearing it… like the one I had that said, “Bend over, I’ll Drive” or the clasic Loverboy shirt that said, “Get it up, Keep it up”.
When I think of T-shirts I think of the eccentric restaurants and fun places that I have been to the past several years. My favorite is for the Pin-Up Bowl in St. Louis. It says “Get your mind out of the gutter” on the front and “Pin-Up Bowl” on the back.
—Keith Klein
Sounds like a great game for the high school game club.
Thanks for the contest.
To Fred – This contest is only available to those in the United States or Canada. I forgot to mention that. Looking at IP addresses of those that have commented so far shows that you are the only one that lives outside of the United States that left a comment. So… you had left a comment before I posted this, so you are ok for the contest. I’ll e-mail you as well to let you know. I’ve edited the post to let future commenters know of the limitation of Canada or US only.
Sorry for the inconvenience for anyone else that may wish to leave a future comment but resides outside of Canada or the US. This is the blogs first contest, so thanks for your patience.
-Tim
The tie dye shirts I made with friends in college. I still don’t know what possessed us to make them but we had fun Or the t-shirts that always got bleached or miscolored in the wash.
I remember the school shirts I wore in college, all the school labeld stuff in the school campus store was amazing, but evryone had to buy something with your school name on it and tshirts were normally the easiest thing to get and wear and to give to younger brothers and sisters.
I’m thinking of the t-shirt I have on now. I have a hard enough time remembering what I ate yesterday. This is the best I can do.
I was just shopping for a baby shower so I’ll write about the cutest shirts they have now for babies. I would talk about styles and colors and shapes and sizes but this isn’t that type of crowd.
totaly thinking of halo right now so its gotta be the new halo tshirt i just bought.
nothing special just a plain blue t I got at old navy. They don’t let us wear alot of different kinds of shirts at school.
I think of my Superman tshirt collection that I have.
When I thinks of T-shirts, I think of people wrapped in cotton bumper stickers!
Best T-shirt I got was the one from when I studied at the University of Africa in Zimbabwe. Super cheap (thin) shirt but I absolutely love it.
My school jersey when I get to wear it to school.
When I think of t-shirts, I think of the dozens of beloved old friends in my closet that my wife would really like me to get rid of — but understands why I don’t.
T-shirts make me think of my friend who shows up to gaming every week wearing what seems to be the same Police concert shirt but it never seems dirty or worn.
I think of Angelia Jolie as Lara Croft in Tomb Raider ….
MmMMMMMMMmmeeerrrrrowWwWwWww!
Plain old white tshirts you wear underneath a dress shirt to help keep the sweat stains away.
I always think of the band t-shirts I would always buy at concerts. The type of t-shirts they did not sell at stores and you had to buy at the concert.
I was joking about making a t-shirt the other day, my friend Linda thought it was pretty funny, it would say:
If I knew anything about making money, I probably wouldn’t be an artist!
The t-shirt for our gaming group. We are like a cool bowling league team.
My favorite tshirt was the one I had when I was younger. Silly but it was a Winnie the Poo shirt that I insisted on wearing in every picture.
I too like the Jinx shirts. They have funny and current slogans. Not alot of graphics but the slogans speak for the idea.
I’m an old softy, so I’m thinking of the t-shirt my daughter made for me over the summer at camp.
My favorite t-shirts are the ones I make online. I use cafepress because it’s easy. I like making them for myself and friends and family as gifts. I use inside jokes and designs to make everyone laugh.
The one type of T-shirt I will not wear anymore are ones with a company/corporate logo. Why should I act as a walking billboard, and not get paid?
The first Buffalo GameBuffs blog contest is officially over.
Thank you again everyone for entering a comment that required some thought. Many blogs just ask people to enter a comment saying something like “I want the game” but I wanted the first blog contest to be for those of you that took the time to think of something to write, for those of you that put the extra effort into it to earn something. I appreciate the effort and comments from everyone.
So this weekend I’ll have the program pick 5 random winners, I’ll contact them this weekend and then I hope to post the winners on Monday.
-Tim
Well, I guess I am too late for a free game but I’ll add my thoughts.
When I think of T-Shirts, I think of a camouflage t-shirts that I had in elementary school. I got a free shirt for each newspaper subscription i sold and had 10 of them eventually. I wore one every day, my mother was so embaressed, people thought I was wearing the same shirt over and over.
Thanks for the comment, and don’t worry, wait a bit and we’ll have another contest for the t-shirt game, as well as other fun stuff and contests. I’m working on a couple articles to post pretty soon too.
I WANT THE T-SHIRT GAME —-PLEASE
THANK YOU