Saturday, December 28, 2002

It's Getting too Easy to Buy Games

I just purchased this Ebay Auction Game from Amazon. I'll add it to the pile of games we play next fall in the early weeks of the course. While there, I noticed a slew of educational and board
games that Amazon is selling for Toys 'R Us.

What makes it interesting is the Amazonian inclusion of reviews by other buyers. Some of them are brutal, and very similar to what we've noticed in a lot of the commercial games we play in class: rules too complicated and gimmicky, too hard to set up, too many pieces, etc. So many ways to do it badly! Some interesting games to buy, too. Amazon is even more dangerous than Ebay.

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