I do love me some board games. I’ve been playing ‘em since I was below the recommended age and never gave up. Over the last few years, I’ve become a more frequent player, having made a series of friends who love games and even sometimes attend the Essen Game show, bringing back suitcases tight-packed with game boxes within game boxes. So, when the opportunity arose to review Neal Tringham’s book on SF Hobby Games, my hand immediately shot up.
And I’m glad I did, though not quite as much as I had hoped.
The opening explanation of how to read the text worried me quite a lot. If you’ve got to provide a text to explain how to interact with a text, then I’m often pretty sure that the text is not at all for me. In this case, I think they were just being a bit over-cautious as I had no problem with reading the regular text about the various games listed.…
