At a recent trip to Target (or Tar-jay as the french would pronounce it), I was eyeballing the game aisle and noticed how many different versions of old games there are. There were like 8 different versions of Monopoly and multiple versions of Operation, Life and Trivial Pursuit. The versions were either ‘themes’ or Branded versions like the Simpsons version of Monopoly.
Either way, it got me thinking of how shitty the board game market must be when they are repackaging old games. Don’t get me wrong, I love the old games and its a commentary of how great they still are, but other than Jenga, which you can’t really say is a board game, I can’t think of another board game in recent years that is worth a damn.
Until they create the next great game, I’ll be content with my Golden Girls edition of CLUE. I say it was Blanche in the hall with the candlestick!
