Mass Media Articles:
SF Chron annual game round up (11/30/09)
Marketing the biggest hurdle for game inventors (11/27/09)
Board games popular on Facebook (3/31/08)
How Games Might Help Your Brain (3/31/08)
Historians Using War Games
Telegraph Ave. store is a fantasy zone (Oakland Tribune)
Not Just For Geeks (Deutsche Welle)
Biz Beyond Boardwalk (American Way)
Dragging a new board game to the table (Christian Science Monitor)
Boardgames Combat Dementia (CBS)
Wanting to be unlucky (BBC)
Ballplayers and Dominoes (SF Chronicle)
Board Games Over Video & Computer (Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Fair (Chicago Tribune)
Let the Games Begin (SF Downtown)
The PC Generation, Back to the Board (NY Times)
SF Chronicle
Creation of Monopoly (NPR)
Knizia on NPR
Fox News
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle (video violence)
Women Dominate Web Gaming
More Articles (Game Report)
General:
Boardgames a National Pastime?
History of Games Timeline
Convivial Conflicts: The Form, Culture and Play of Modern European Strategy Games (doctoral dissertation)
4. Which are the best games?
The Well-rounded Player
The Spiel des Jahres
is the jury-awarded annual German game of the year prize. It tends to choose games
accessible to hardcore and casual players alike.
The popularly-voted
Deutscher Spiele Preis (German Game Prize) tends to choose the best game of the year
for more experienced players.
The Internet Top 100 Survey
tends to do the same thing for all games ever made.
The Best of the New Games
is a sampling of this including only the most recent games.
The Boardgame Recommendation System
is a collaborative filtering system that attempts to match your ratings with others.
(Caveat: this kind of system really needs thousands of participants to work usefully.)
Spiel-Palast 2001 Games Poll (German)
5. Where can I buy out-of-print games?
USENET Newsgroups
news:rec.games.board.marketplace
news:de.markt.spiele
news:uk.games.board
Internet auctions:
Ebay
·
Deutschland
Yahoo
Amazon.com
Private Sellers
Steven Tavener
Board Game Locator
Flea Market:
Spieleflohmarkt
6. Where can I find rules for out-of-print games?
One good bet is to find the publisher and ask them. Even today
Hasbro still provides
rulesets for games from companies that they have acquired such as Milton Bradley,
Parker Bros., Avalon Hill, Wizards of the Coast, etc.
Should this fail, see:
AGPC Archive
BoardGameGeek
Central Connector
Darwin's Game Closet
Everyrule.com
Fantasy En'Counter
(D, mostly wargames)
Marios Welt (D)
John McLeod's Card Games Website
·
Recently Invented Games
Spieltrieb
(D)
Colin Stobbe
7. Where can I find opponents in my area?
Game Central Network
Boardgame Players Association
8. How many new titles are published in a year?
Well, as an example,
here is a list of the games which were published in 1998.
9. Follow this site on RSS
As of 9/6/2011 updates will no longer be offered via Twitter.
For one thing, the Google Reader refuses to support it. For another,
it's entirely possible that this API is going to be removed.
Finally, after a month of using it, the new version of Twitter
is just proving unworkable.
The solution is creation of a new RSS feed, this time a real one
rather than the manufactured one from ponyfish.com (which is anyway
terminating its service).
The RSS file to use can be found at
http://spotlightongames.com/rss/rss.xml
After all of the various changes to this recently, let's hope that this
one takes, and for a long while.
10. How to add browser search of this site.