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01 May
Posted by Yehuda Berlinger as Modern Board Games
Brenda Brathwaite is a star of the video game world, and also a fan of board games. This article in the Escapist relates how she set out one day to make a few games that would deeply affect their players.
In one of the games, Train, the players compete to fit their people on trains and get them from point A to point B. Only after the game was over did she reveal that point B was Auschwitz. It’s a game that can be played innocently only once. If you can play and enjoy it a second time, you’re entering territory covered by Nazi-era games such as Juden Raus.
Another game, which was not really much fun, explained to her daughter how the slave trade separated and killed families from Africa.
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