Lore Sjoberg has taken a swing at modern board games in his column “Alt Text” at Wired.com. He’s taken board games and broken them down some helpful categories, such as:
Games You Can Get Large Groups of Drunk People to Play
Games That Last Almost as Long as the Wars They Depict
Games That Make You Want to Make Battle Sound Effects When You Play Them
Games That Sound Incredibly Boring but Aren’t
Here’s a quote from the article:
Games Your Grandmother Has Heard Of
These include most games you can get at Wal-Mart, like Yahtzee, Sorry! and Monopoly. The only thing you need to know about these much-loved classic games is that they’re crap. Especially Monopoly. Monopoly is to the contemporary board gamer as garlic-infused kryptonite snakes are to Super Vampire Indiana Jones.(Chess may be a technical exception to this rule, as no board gamer will say bad things about chess, although they will not actually play it.)
Read the whole article here.
Thanks to The Art of Darkness for the link.
