Games Are A Way Of Life

One of the loves of my life is board games. Now, I don't mean your usual Monopoly, Risk, or even Trivial Pursuit. You'll have to think Beyond Monopoly for this.

I love Power Grid, Ticket to Ride, Battle Lore, Age of Steam, and countless others. I have 338 games in my collection now.

I never imagined that I would ever own more than a dozen games of any type, whether that be digital or physical, but now I own so many. I never tout the number of games to brag, but I do so in amazement of just how much this hobby has grown on me and my family.

One of my favorite online haunts is Board Game Geek, and if anything that I have said so far interests you, then that's a good place to start.

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Mo' Money, Mo' Games

I guess my love of games has become more of an "obsession" of sorts in recent times. Every time a new game comes out, it's something that I jsut have to have.

Now, that doesn't mean that I solley collect games. I have actually played over 300 of my 338 games; most of those have been played multiple times.

It's just that I feel like that since my hobby is not as large as say, the video games industry, and the community is not as large (though it is growing) that I would rather buy a game and trade or sell it later if I didn't like it, rather than chance coming across a game I fall in love with that is currently out of print.

I've owned over 400 games, it's just that I have traded and sold many of them.

Soon comes the new expansion for DreamBlade (Night Fusion), and then I'll be even more in debt :)

Oh well.. I have made countless friends pursuing my hobby, and had alot of great times to boot. That's worth more than all the money I could ever spend on it.

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