Purchasing electronic stratego game series#
In Japan, the DS is home to a whole series of jigsaw puzzle games, all of which are surprisingly entertaining (a good place to start is with Hudson's Puzzle Series Vol. It also goes to show that even the newest console platforms are proving to be a receptive home for conversions of traditional games. More recently, the DS version of Scrabble got in trouble for allowing players to score points for 'lesbo' with the kiddie-filter switched on, which just goes to show that even traditional games have the capacity to subvert the innocence of youth.
As far back as the PSone, it was possible to play videogame conversions of well known boardgames such as The Game of Life, while Risk debuted on the Commodore 64, before also appearing on the PlayStation. Earlier this year, EA licensed some of Hasbro's most popular games, including Monopoly, Scrabble, and Yahtzee.
Indeed, many of the most well known boardgames are already available in videogame editions, and have been for some time. With today's fickle audiences able to access almost every spectrum of gaming entertainment from their game consoles, or internet browsers, or even from the pages of facebook, many manufacturers of traditional games have found themselves falling back on technology to make their games more attractive.
But which board game? If the only traditional board and card games you know about are the ones you play at Christmas, you might be surprised how far they've evolved since the last time you played. Which must mean that it's time to crack open the Advocaat and get on with a board game.
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