Why we still love board games

Re:Why we still love board games by hendrik-xdest on Friday December 14, 2012 @08:46AM (#4920868)

There are quite a few. From the top of my head: Pandemic. Even non-European is not unheard of. For example my all-time favorite: Robo Rally (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboRally)

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Re:Why we still love board games by bergie on Friday December 14, 2012 @08:59AM (#4920910)

Space Alert is another interesting one: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38453/space-alert

Sort of cross-over between Pandemic and Robo Rally... you play and win/lose as a team like in Pandemic, but much of the mechanics is "programming" your actions like in Robo Rally.

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Re:Why we still love board games by InclinedPlane on Friday December 14, 2012 @12:30PM (#4922051)

RoboRally is one of my all-time favorite games. The only down sides are that it can take a long time to play and finding the original expansions can be difficult and expensive (sadly they haven't been completely reprinted yet).

Fun fact, the inventor of RoboRally, Richard Garfield, was asked to create a game that was more portable and he came up with Magic the Gathering.

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