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New business promotes social interaction

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The Board Room Game Center is a play on words referring to – you guessed it – board games. You won’t find any electronic games here. The entire concept is to promote family and social interaction, rather than the typical isolation most often found in the world of electronic games.

The store not only sells games for the entire family, ages 4 and up, but offers a place for gamers to meet, interact with each other in person, and share game strategies. It also stocks difficult to find role-playing games such as HeroScape and Dungeons and Dragons.

“The gamer community will support a store like this,” Quesnel says, “because it’s less hassle than searching for a particular game on the internet, and there are no shipping costs involved. Instead, I try to stock those hard-to-find games, plus it gives them a place to meet.”

A long-time gamer himself, owner Aaron Quesnel, decided to open the store after experiencing the frustration of trying to find the kind of games he liked to play. The Board Room Game Center specializes in card games, strategy, dice, and collectable card games, as well as difficult-to-find U.S. and German board games.

“The German games are less militaristic, and more economics-based than U.S. games tend to be,” Quesnel stated. “Instead of playing against opponents, the German games are designed for cooperative play where people work together.”

Power Grid and Pandemic are examples of cooperative German games. Power Grid has players buying and supplying power in order to build a power plant. In Pandemic, the players have to find a cure for a disease or virus affecting the world. The award-winning game, Zooloretto is similar to something like Sim City, but instead the players build a zoo. There’s also Farming for Kids.

Inside the store is an area for customers to come in, sit at a table, and try out some of the more popular games. Demo games include Heroscape, Pylo, a wood-type game where you have to build a pyramid, Stratego, Dominion, Shipyard, Apples to Apples, Horus Heresy, a very difficult to play game, and card games such as Zombie Fluxx, and the most popular and simple to play, Monty Python Fluxx.

“If you’re interested in learning about a game like Heroscape, for example, I’ll sit down with you and teach you how to play,” Quesnel said.

There’s a game called ‘Rock,’ based on rock, paper, scissors, that kids will enjoy, along with one-player strategy board games like Field Commander Alexander, and Field Commander Rommel.

The Board Room also carries HeroClix, miniature games like Warhammer, Lord of the Rings, and Warmachine, as well as a selection of collectable card games like Yu-Gi-Oh!, Magic Cards, and Pokemon, with starter decks and booster sets. Also available are accessories, dice, maps, matts, paint brushes, modeling tools, card protectors, and more.

While The Board Room sponsors game tournaments and other special events, on Wednesday nights at 7:00 p.m., Club Catan meets to play ‘The Settlers of Catan.’ Anywhere from 6 to 12 people show up for that. Anyone is welcome to come and learn how to play.

“We have chips, candy bars, soda, and popcorn for anyone wanting a snack,” Quesnel said. “Sometimes I’ll even bring in pizza for group events.”

For more information about The Board Room Game Center, call 295-0522, or visit www.theboardroomgamecenter.com, or better yet, visit the store in person at 7251 Midland Road in Freeland (just south of McDonald’s Restaurant and across from the self serve car wash).

 

 

 

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