This collection of games is designed to be played on an 8x8 surface (e.g. a standard Checkers or Chess board) with items most gamers have around the house. The games range from abstract to German-style.
Although he says it is "one of the meanest children's games ever made," Mark Jackson loves the board game Enchanted Forest. Why? Because it is "an evil combination of Aggravation and a memory game" that's also a lot of fun to play. Read more in Mark's review of Enchanted Forest.More Children's Game Reviews:
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According to a post by Zev Shlasinger, president of Z-Man Games, at BoardGameGeek.com, the designers of the brilliant 1960: The Making of the President are working on a new game focused on the 2008 U.S. presidential election between Barack Obama and John McCain.
Shlasinger said the 2008 game will be self-contained; it will not be an expansion. 1960: The Making of the President was my pick as the best board game of 2007, so I'm very much looking forward to playing the new game.In the same thread on BGG, game designer Jason Matthews said, "I think the McCain campaign had at least three significant decision points: the vice-presidential nomination, the debates, and the response to the [economic] meltdown. McCain flubbed all three, though [Sarah] Palin was the least immediately obvious. That's why he isn't our president. I don't think those were inevitable (well, maybe his debate performance -- but even there he fell for kind of a verbal jujitsu). Anyway, the players will have the chance to prove that Obama was beatable."
Coming up later this year from the organizers of Atlanta Game Fest is Game Fest South, scheduled for August 13-16 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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