10 - With the rate of inflation over the last 20 years, the rent on Boardwalk in "Monopoly" is now $12,000.....and who can afford that?
9 - After the break-up of the Soviet Union, and with all the new countries that have been created in the last 20 years, the map in "Risk" in no way resembles the real world.....unless your real world is in an alternate Universe.
8 - Why play board games with your family when you can bolt yourself in a room with a PC and play games on the Internet with people you don't know, 95 percent of whom would infect your PC with a virus if they thought they could get away with it.
7 - It's too tough to play a board game with a cell phone glued to your ear 24 hours a day.
6 - With GGOTD in existence, why bother paying for board games anymore?.....oh....wait....that is one of the reason to START playing board games again!
5 - Why play a board game when you can watch "Reality" TV shows like Survivor and others? After all, isn't it better to teach your kids about the reality of life, such as being stranded on an island with a bunch of people who would sooner cut your throat than look at you? That sure beats sitting down at a table and playing a "fake" board game. (Unless you live in Cuba, in which case you may want to forgo the board game and go with "Survivor").
4 - You can't rent a board game at Blockbuster.
3 - No one is in Pursuit of Trivia anymore.
2 - Why play a board game against a friend, who cost you nothing, when you can play against a game system costing hundreds of dollars?
And the NUMBER ONE reason nobody plays board games anymore.........
Two words: Internet porn.
