If the kids in your neighborhood aren’t back in school yet, they will be soon.  So in honor of the “back to school” theme we see right and left at this time of year, I’m going to take this opportunity to talk about “educational” games.  (yawn, I know…but hear me out.)
Many of you know that I wholeheartedly believe EVERY game is educational.  All games teach “soft skills” like playing well with others, taking turns, dealing with defeat, planning ahead, etc.  But then there is a whole segment of games that …

Sometimes it takes me a little while to review a game that’s been on the market for years but I really enjoy.  And even though these games aren’t NEW they’re still worth reviewing because games don’t “go bad” unless they’re trivia based or heavily rely on pop culture or politics.  It’s what makes games so great!  If you pick up a game from the 1950s, odds are very good that it’s still playable (provided none of the key pieces wandered off in the last 60 years).  This week’s game isn’t …

I was hoping that after my 1-day whirlwind trip to GenCon in Indianapolis I would have this amazing recap article to write, but I have to say after spending an hour and forty-three minutes in the Will Call line to pick up my ticket, I was pretty miffed.  Given that my ONE-day pass set me back $50.88 (a 4-day pass costs $78.00 + fees, just FYI) standing in line for that long really soured the start of the event for me.  (The pic at right only shows a small portion …

As my regular readers know, here at The Game Aisle I tend to review mass-market, mass-appeal games and steer clear of games that appeal to more serious gamers.  Mostly because I, like a lot of casual gamers out there, don’t like reading long instruction books and I don’t like to spend more than 30 minutes on one game.  So when Gryphon Games asked if I’d like to try their game Incan Gold I was pretty sure it was going to be outside the scope of games I review – but …

My father just moved from the home I spend the majority of my childhood in to a new house recently and as the dutiful daughter, of course I helped him pack.  In addition to packing up far too many sets of dishes, I was also in charge of packing up the game shelf and as much as I hate to admit it, some of the games from my childhood and my mother’s childhood aren’t in the best shape.  Some of the boxes (especially ones from the mid-1980s and early 1990s) …