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Game Critic
March 28, 2008
When I talk to people in the board game industry, they express their strong feeling that board games need to be treated with the same respect given to books. Specifically, they want to see more acclaim for a game inventors and serious reviews of these games in the media. They feel that the intellectual heft of games and the intelligence that goes into designing them are the equivalent of great writing.
I am not sure that Monopoly and Clue are in the same league with Tolstoy’s Anna Kerenina or Dante’s Inferno, but certainly they deserve the same respect given to the great mass of less-than-memorable books that get reviewed every day and then quietly pass into oblivion.
So, when you consider that electronic games have been getting serious reviews in many newspapers for a number of years they make a good argument. Well, I actually saw a nice piece that originally ran in the Kansas City Star newspaper that is can be construed as a game review.
Written by Stacy Downs, “Board Games: Old vs. New” is an enjoyable and interesting look at the new speeded up versions of Scrabble, Monopoly and Sorry. She plays the games and provides her opinion of how the speeded up versions play versus the classic versions.
It is not as deep a look as some would undoubtedly like but it is a start.
I was able to locate Stacy’s email address, so if you read it and like what she says, send her a message and let her know you would like to see more. sdowns@kcstar.com
Posted by Richard Gottlieb on March 28, 2008 | Comments (18)