When I was a kid, I always checked out the boardgames in any store. Toy stores, of course. (Although there were plenty of other distractions there too, but we weren’t at toy stores very often to begin with.) But even, say, at Canadian Tire stores. “More than just tires” as the saying goes. Which is…
Author: Jynaxx
Three and Twenty
Shortly after I began to realise just how much the world of games had changed since I was a kid, I recognized that feeling I used to get when a new console appeared in the arcade, a simmering but non-specific excitement and anticipation. I didn’t necessarily know anything about that new game, but I had…
After Scrabble and Monopoly
The conversation begins out of small-talk. Someone in the workplace asks what I did the night before or over a weekend. That kind of thing. Ordinary chat. It’s a version of “what do you like to do for fun?” You know the question. And, I can’t help but feel like, after a few years of…