Fill out this form to join us for That Game Looks Old on May 30th, 2026 or to be kept in the loop about future events!
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That Game Looks Old started in 2025 as a local, Boston-area meetup for the OG (Old-school, German-style) Games Guild on BoardGameGeek.com, but the first event was well-attended by people who don't use BGG and don't know what we mean by Old-School German-Style games to begin with!
Looking ahead to the 2026 event, That Game Looks Old will continue to focus on these kinds of Euro-games, most popular in the 90s and 00s, which feature:
1964: Acquire
1980: Can't Stop
1992: Modern Art
1994: Take 5
1995: El Grande, High Society, Medici, CATAN
1997: Bohnanza, For Sale, Tigris & Euphrates
1998: Samurai, Through the Desert
1999: Chinatown, Lost Cities, Ra, Schotten Totten, Tikal
2000: Carcassonne, Taj Mahal, Web of Power
2002: Mexica, Puerto Rico
2003: Coloretto, Santiago
2004: No Thanks!, Power Grid, Ticket to Ride
2009: Hansa Teutonica
2012: Las Vegas
While these games were most popularly published in the 90s and 00s, many are still being released today! Here's a great list of OG Games published in the 2020s:
This email list will ONLY be used to provide event updates & logistics information.
That Game Looks Old started in 2025 as a local, Boston-area meetup for the OG (Old-school, German-style) Games Guild on BoardGameGeek.com, but the first event was well-attended by people who don't use BGG and don't know what we mean by Old-School German-Style games to begin with!
Looking ahead to the 2026 event, That Game Looks Old will continue to focus on these kinds of Euro-games, most popular in the 90s and 00s, which feature:
- clean and streamlined rulesets without many exceptions, making them relatively easy to teach but still provide opportunity for strategy/tactics
- few if any special powers or abilities for combos
- a shared (physical or social) game space, with little of the gameplay happening on individual player boards
- non-combative but necessary player interaction (e.g. auctions, area majority)
1964: Acquire
1980: Can't Stop
1992: Modern Art
1994: Take 5
1995: El Grande, High Society, Medici, CATAN
1997: Bohnanza, For Sale, Tigris & Euphrates
1998: Samurai, Through the Desert
1999: Chinatown, Lost Cities, Ra, Schotten Totten, Tikal
2000: Carcassonne, Taj Mahal, Web of Power
2002: Mexica, Puerto Rico
2003: Coloretto, Santiago
2004: No Thanks!, Power Grid, Ticket to Ride
2009: Hansa Teutonica
2012: Las Vegas
While these games were most popularly published in the 90s and 00s, many are still being released today! Here's a great list of OG Games published in the 2020s:
- Heat: Pedal to the Metal
- Foundations of Rome
- The King Is Dead: Second Edition
- Pan Am
- The Gang
- Trio
- Rebirth
- First Rat
- Brian Boru: High King of Ireland
- Wandering Towers
- Caesar!: Seize Rome in 20 Minutes!
- Skyrise
- Zoo Vadis
- Toy Battle
- Agent Avenue
- Roam
- MLEM: Space Agency
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