{"id":92,"date":"2008-07-01T12:31:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T19:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2008-07-01T12:32:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T19:32:44","slug":"nostalgia-sells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia Sells"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/span>We make it a point in our house to shut off the TV and put the iPod in its recharger caddy once a week to sit down and gather around an old fashioned board game. Last week it was Battleship played on an old Radio Shack electronic-rip on the board game .<\/p>\n

It has a built-in electronic tracking system to help keep track of ships and of course reduce ahem , cheating (i.e. moving ships around, why you haven’t read about the alternate rules<\/em>? wink, wink, nudge, nudge)…<\/p>\n

However, we decided it was better to teach the ABCs , numbers and grid-coordinates to our kids by just using the game and pulled the batteries on this unit so we could have a bit of fun with our imaginations and make up our own blips, bleeps and kaboom sounds.<\/p>\n

So it’s interesting to read up on a small business start-up called Play Date Atlanta<\/strong><\/a> that used the traditional board game to gather people together for a real social networking game environment. Initially I scoffed at the idea that you could turn board games into a club scene but looking at the data it’s possible to put a new spin on it and breathe new life into traditional gaming.<\/p>\n

It’s a Saturday night in Atlanta. Some 800 well-dressed, middle-aged adults are sipping cocktails, listening to jazz . . . and playing Candy Land or Twister. Welcome to “the new face of nightlife,” courtesy of three 30-something guys who realized they were too old to go out clubbing every weekend, but not old enough for reruns of The Golden Girls<\/em>. “We didn’t go into this saying, ‘Let’s create a new business<\/span> that will change the way people think about Saturday night,'” recalls Imari Harvard, CEO of Timeless Entertainment Concepts. “My wife and I just wanted to put together an event where folks could come out for some nostalgic games, cocktails and conversation.”<\/p>\n

The trio behind Play Date may have stumbled upon their successful business, but The Intelligence Group, a New York City-based market research firm, has since come up with hard data showing that progressive 14- to 34-year-olds known as “trendsetters” prefer board games to video games by a margin of 60 percent to 40 percent. Small wonder that in February a company named Winning Moves re-introduced ’50s favorites Parcheesi and Careers–complete with their original packaging.<\/span><\/p>\n

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See if you can find a Play Date<\/strong><\/a><\/strong> near you…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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