What was your gateway game?
Everyone has that first game that they played that transformed board games from a childhood game to a living passion (obsession?); mine was Settlers of Catan: Cities and Knights. What game first got you hooked on table top games?
9 years ago by charredbysin
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Mine was Munchkin! After that Ticket to ride. I still play Ticket to Ride, but not munchkin as much..
Munchkin was fun for a bit, but it too quickly devolves into unorganized chaos for my taste. I like games in which everything can be thought out and strategized, Munchkin is too rushed.
Totally agree, which is why we don't play it anymore,l it was great as a gateway game, but once I realized there were so many other games that were a lot better, it feel to the wayside. I also found it could drag on, my friends and I played a three hour game once. It really does not have that kind of staying power.
Oh geez, it didn't take our group three hours to play through Arkham Horror.
As cliché as it seems to be now, my gateway game was Settlers of Catan and things really took off from Carcassonne hitting, all downhill from there...
I'm not sure I really had a gateway game. I started playing Chess at 4, and moved on to Magic the Gathering at 12. Once that got too expensive to keep up with in college, I shifted over to board games.
When you shifted, what game made that happen? I'm assuming not Warhammer ;)
The only consideration was the price of magic being unsustainable. I was already playing other games at the time (Fluxx, Risk, Diplomacy). It's not like I played Catan and something "clicked." Like other people.
I think Trivial Pursuit was mine. Though, I'm not quite sure I can say it was a 'gateway game' for me as I have gone for a long, long time without playing many board games at all. But I'm starting to get back in to them - played Stratego with my son yesterday and we're hoping to get in to Risk soon.
7 wonders was my gateway and still my jam!
While not a Board Game in the classical sense, for me it was Trading Card Games (Magic). Transitioned to more traditional Board Games later on.
Mine was Candyland (I think that's what it's called) or chutes and ladders.