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While visiting home last weekend, I came across a copy of a game among my dad's things—I doubt he ever played it. There, right on the bookshelf next to pocket-paperback copies of McLuhan's Hot & Cool and Toffler's Future Shock was a bizarre Avalon Hill Bookshelf Game: Who Can Beat Nixon?.

It amazes me that this game could get made. I'm excited to play it sometime, but in the meantime, here are some other games I'd like to find in a closet:

• Philately, the boardgame!
• Assassinate McKinley: one player is Leon Czolgosz, the others are the security detail. Choose your moment at the Pan-American exposition. Get McKinley when he's in a good mood, and maybe he'll give you the famous "Go easy on him boys."
• Pedagogy Tycoon: navigate a semester of academic life; build an army of loyal undergrads; balance teaching, service, and research! For Mac and Windows. Also look for the Pedagogy Tycoon Expansion Pack: Search Committee.
• Board Game Brainstorm! Come up with ideas for boardgames, pitch them to one another, choose the best idea and make it. Box includes three decks of blank cards; a foldable, laminated board; one Dry erase marker; one Board Game Brainstorm Idea NotePad 2000; One box of Sculpey.

Fellow gamers? Have you more?

Posted by briley at April 8, 2005 6:34 AM