Meeple Mountain’s founder, Andy Matthews, spent some time last fall with Harris Hill Products, Inc., the team behind the new gaming device Board. After Andy finished the demo, he reached out to me because I do a lot of gaming-as-a-family nights at the Bell household with my wife and two kids, ages 12 and 9.
I looked at the brief Board commercial on the company’s home page, and while the video was certainly splashy, I initially did not want to wade into the waters here. “My only question,” I started in a note to Andy, “revolves around the games…the games don’t necessarily look like board games so much as video games.” Don’t get me wrong—I play video games every week, sometimes every day. But the Board looked like an oversized iPad that used physical components to manipulate the screen, in a similar fashion to Beasts of Balance.
I’m a tabletop games reviewer, not a video game reviewer, so I wanted to make sure everyone knew who they were asking about doing a review here. Still, I knew the kids would get a kick out of trying Board, so I volunteered to give this a go. About a month later, the Board showed up in a box so loud that the company’s logo was splashed across the front: “BOARD”,…
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