Board Games Making A Comeback
from the anyone-up-for-a-game-of-Risk? dept
Apparently, board games are making a big comeback. The article credits two main factors to the resurgence: (1) nostalgia and (2) internet backlash. People who grew up with board games are rediscovering them (just as I recently rediscovered Risk - a game that was known to destroy friendships many years ago). Also, people are trying to log off from computers and do things face-to-face with humans again. Of course, part of me is just wondering why people don't log in to some gaming website and just play those games online (that's a joke for those readers who like to freak out when I say something like that). Actually, I think the whole "logging off from a computer" idea sounds good, but probably really isn't that much of an influencer in the board game resurgence. There are plenty of things to do that don't involve a computer, and not all of them have "resurged".
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well i went sledding down a big dam today, then ice skating on a frozn pond, then drinking at a local bar, all before setting down to a nice game of roll-the-dice risk with the old friends. I did yearn, though, for the 5-games-of-risk-in-one-night that used to provoke *real* s houting matches between ==mhh5 and i....
the south shall rise again??? only in wintertgie.
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another reason for board game comeback
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