Traditional Games 100 - Rating 2003's Boardgames

Thanks to OgreCave for pointing out The Traditional Games 100, the favorite board and card games of 2003, as voted by the editors and playtesters of GAMES Magazine. The site explains that "...each year since 1980, GAMES Magazine has published a Buyer's Guide to Games in their year-end holiday issue", and this year's overall winner is Alan Moon & Aaron Weissblum's New England from Uberplay. Elsewhere, "Face 2 Face Games tops our Family Games category with Sid Sackson's hilarious I'm the Boss! [and] Days of Wonder won the Family Cards category with Queen's Necklace", among many other category winners.

Comments

My Gird "New England" looks boring.

[embobo]

So boring, in fact, that in the picture they felt the need to throw in a corn cob, a telescope, a burlap sack (woo! fun!) and some fetish gear (!) as props.

See for yourself.

I've seen exactly...

[Roman_(ajvvs)]

zero of these games in the stores I visit. It seems more like a "top 100 most obscure games" list!
I mean, the last 3 boardgames I played were Monopoly, Risk, and Civilisation... and civ was the fist one I'd bought for many years. Boardgames are becoming a strange oddity these days.. while there's a desire by boardgame-players to see them computerized, there's also a trend in the reverse (as Civilisation is an example of).
After having slugged through setting up civ, I've realised that neither way is going to be easy, by the simple fact they're just two wildly different social interactions.

I look at boardgames now and then (on my way to EB ;), but the effort required to train enough people to play a new game with weird or complex rules just isn't worth it anymore.