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Interesting history but incomplete without mentioning the mid 70's to early 80's Avalon Hill/Yaquinto/TSR/metagaming era. I think an argument could be made that
by BashiBazouk 12y ago
Interesting history but incomplete without mentioning the mid 70's to early 80's Avalon Hill/Yaquinto/TSR/metagaming era. I think an argument could be made that the modern euro board game movement would not have happened without that era preceding it...
- pessimizer 12y agoYeah; it skipped the most important 100 years by skipping from Monopoly to Catan. People like Sid Sackson, Phil Orbanes, Richard Hamblen, Francis Tresham and others created the modern era - and amazing, modern-feeling games such as Square Mile[1962] would sometimes appear out of nowhere. edit: Seriously - German Family games don't even exist without Kohle, Kie$ & Knete and Acquire. Lastly, the influence of Gary Gygax on the landscape can't be overestimated. This is really not useful for understanding modern gaming. edit2: I want to add so much more to this that it's better to just stop now - but a history of board games that reduces Parker Brothers to Monopoly (which they stole), Risk (which is French), Sorry (which is Parcheesi), and Trivial Pursuit but gives a paragraph to the Conan Board Game is not a good history.
- panglott 12y agoTom Vasel called Sid Sackson "the Jules Verne of modern board gaming", which is so right. Focus is just an amazing lightweight abstract strategy. http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/789/focus http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/789/focus