Zustandsforschung

Im Wired-Magazine ist ein mehrseitiger Artikel erschienen über “Die Siedler von Catan” und über den Einfluss, den deutsche Brettspiele in den USA gerade bekommen:

Released at the annual Essen fair in 1995, Settlers sold out its initial 5,000 copies so fast that even Teuber doesn’t have a first edition. That year, it won the Spiel des Jahres and every other major prize in German gaming. Critics called it a masterpiece. Fans couldn’t get enough, snapping up 400,000 copies in its first year. “It was a maturation of the form,” says Stewart Woods, a board game scholar at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia. “It wasn’t until Settlers that the whole thing broke wide open.”

Since its introduction, The Settlers of Catan has become a worldwide phenomenon. It has been translated into 30 languages and sold a staggering 15 million copies (even the megahit videogame Halo 3 has sold only a little more than half that). It has spawned an empire of sequels, expansion packs, scenario books, card games, computer games, miniatures, and even a novel—all must-haves for legions of fans. And it has made its 56-year-old inventor a household name in every household that’s crazy about board games, and a lot that aren’t.

Insgesamt ein interessanter Artikel voller Lob für eines der besten Brettspiele, die es gibt:

Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre

Oder aber ihr spielt direkt los auf PlayCatan…

[via Nerdcore]