Media Watch: Not bored with board games
The Richmond Review
“What was once considered dorky for adults—playing board games, reading comic books, painting models and enacting tabletop battles—is no longer.
That is what employees at Imperial Hobbies, a Richmond model and games store, claim.
Francis Munroe, owner of the two-decade old business, has witnessed the competitive and imaginative sub-culture emerge as almost mainstream, as has store manager Dave Strutt.”
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Source: Nick Johnson / Catan, LLC
Posted by Rick Thornquist on Aug 21, 2006 at 06:02 PM in Game News, Media Watch / 1030
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Now there’s a name that hasn’t come up in the debate over what to call German-style games: “boutique games”! Sounds kinda retro… Posted by Jeff Allers on Aug 23, 2006 at 01:09 AM | #
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O.K., I’m looking at this and scratching my head… I have never heard of either “Imperial Hobbies” or “The Richmond Review”. I was beginning to feel pretty out of the local scene until I noticed that it was Richmond, B.C. in Canada, not Richmond, Va in the U.S.A.. Posted by Thomas Pancoast on Aug 23, 2006 at 06:00 AM | #
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