Comments on: Unplugged: The Awards Shows

By: Mike Anderson

Mike Anderson — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:25:44 +0000

Yes – and the only reason to ‘upgrade’ is if you lose enough parts … which is why my family bought me new copies of Risk and Stratego last year. My childhood copies didn’t have enouhg pieces left anymore …

By: Dr. Matt Carlson

Dr. Matt Carlson — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:11:33 +0000

The whole “timelessness” of boardgames is great, but makes it all the harder to do the annual “best of the year” round-ups that are so common in video gaming.

Boardgames continue to improve and evolve, but usually in a far lesser amount than the graphics (and other) changes found in video games.

By: GamerDad

GamerDad — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:58:36 +0000

Well… you’ve just shown me a good way for me to do my own GD GOTY overview article. Thanks!

For the record. Matt Carlson’s Unplugged work here at GamerDad has caused me to buy (despite the fact that my kids are too young, my extended family doesn’t like games much, so I rarely have a chance to play them):

Apples to Apples
Zombies
Ticket to Ride
and a WWI one that looks cool

All the above are great games.

By: Mike Anderson

Mike Anderson — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:52:50 +0000

Sorry, you lost me when you said there weren’t any “half-naked movie stars falling out of their clothes”

Also, you forgot that video games have the SpikeTV awards … oh, wait, on second thought …

Seriously, though – what a grand and glorious list. Thanks for putting that all together. Of course one great thing is the timelessness of board games. The movers noticed one of my old games on my kids game shelf – Chopper Strike. This is from the mid-70′s and is a over-under strategy game that is pretty fun and that my kids play on a regular basis. It is nice that you can just grab these things and get going quick, even when they’re more than 30 years old!