Is there still a market for bookcase games? Anyone still playing?

I loved these games! Settlers of Catan is pretty fun in the same way.

That’s a contemporary one, too, right?

Now you have me thinking about that Black Tower(?) game where you used the rotating Black Tower, fought orcs, and collected keys to get into the tower. Obviously, not a bookcase game, but still nostalgic.

Black Dark
orcs brigands
Playable at hotflashgames.com

Would Risk be classified as one of those? I <3 Risk.

This makes me think of the store, Something To Do. University Games produces a lot of games like the bookcase games.

@krysta, risk is a great game, but these were like Risk on steroids. Pages of rules.

Haha, damn.

They’re still around, but a lot of the audience for them has shifted over to computer games. The rules are just as complicated, but the computer gets to remember them all, and so you don’t have to.