The Board Game Renaissance

Lorien Green, the producer of Going Cardboard (which I just bought after seeing it at Whosyercon), shared a Boston Globe article on the designer game / eurogame movement. Here's my favorite quote:

“The best-selling board game today is the board game that was the best-selling board game in 1936. That is Monopoly,” said Eric Hautemont, the chief executive of a respected game publisher called Days of Wonder. “Think of any other form of consumer entertainment. Would you expect an old film to win at the Oscars this year? The idea just sounds ridiculous, right? Or would we expect Cole Porter to be at the top of the radio charts?”