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Reading 00: Beyond the Board

I signed up for this class without knowing what exactly it was about. Maybe I'm just a masochist and enjoy the "reasonable workloads" pbui gives out, idk. I think at the end of the day though, I was drawn to this class because it was about the history of video games. Playing games has always been something I’m passionate about, whether it was the endless days of monopoly when I was a kid, or the thousands of hours I sunk into League of Legends when I was in High School. So to have this chance to learn more about the history of games, and discuss it with other people is something I’m looking forward to. I think that board games and video games share a symbiotic relationship. Video games and board games have always drawn inspiration from one another. Board games are adapted to video games and more recently, board games have been created that are based on video games. Video games like Tabletop Simulator blur the boundary between the two genres and allow for interesting