tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14856978.post112609870540747051..comments2024-03-28T05:12:10.477-07:00Comments on Gone Gaming: Coldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11636345146138362966noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14856978.post-1126125990355590662005-09-07T13:46:00.000-07:002005-09-07T13:46:00.000-07:00Sorry, Janice. I went hunting with the faithful G...Sorry, Janice. I went hunting with the faithful Google and found it--Barbie Queen of the Prom. There is a picture of the version I had on the following site. You'll have to type it in since I couldn't get the whole url onto one line. :)<BR/><BR/>aboardgamesdatabase.com/<BR/>aardmakehtml.mv?look4=2598.00000&src=DETAILSColdfoothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11636345146138362966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14856978.post-1126100765131729172005-09-07T06:46:00.000-07:002005-09-07T06:46:00.000-07:00I have long wondered what it was that set me on my...I have long wondered what it was that set me on my need to game. As a kid, i played Acquire, Chess, Cribbage, and Facts in Five with my parents and other relatives. I played Risk and Stratego in Middle School years, and Wargames in High School. In College, I went back to Chess, and played a lot of RPG's. <BR/><BR/>In my 20's, I did very little gaming at all, but did eventually drift back to some RPG's. In my 30's I found German-style boardgames. I have always been needing that outlet for play that some people just seem to lack. (Yes, I consider that they are lacking the need to game, not that I am lacking because of my need to game)<BR/><BR/>So what is it? What makes me pursue these pastimes so? I think my Grandmother figured it out a few years ago. She pointed out that I have a rewarding and challenging career, but one that was very straightforward, offering little in the way of creative outlets. This lack of creative outlets was true during my stint in College, and in school, but in my 20's (the only period of my life I was not an active gamer), I was in a different career, and had many more creative outlets available to me at work.<BR/><BR/>I find myself wondering if that hasn't been it all along. If I haven't just been searching for a way to exercise my mind in new and different ways, like an athlete trying out new sports every few years, and as he trains his body to each one, growing tired of it; a victim of his own success.<BR/><BR/>If this is true, I wonder if I won't change again in a few years. I doubt it. First, I plan to retire from the job I am at now, and not for a long time. Second, one of the great things about the gaming i do now is the wonderful diversity and the shear length and breadth of gaming experiences available. Power Grid is so different from Runebound, and Puerto Rico so unlike Einfach Genial that I need never feel like any game is growing stale.<BR/><BR/>I expect to always be gaming in some fashion, and I hope to be a boardgamer for a long, long, time.David Fairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312700942213830889noreply@blogger.com