In the last few years the German obsession with board and card games has begun to make itself felt in the United States.
Several factors are responsible.
One is the enthusiasm and proselytizing of U.S. game hobbyists, who enjoy nothing better than introducing the games they love to other people. Another is the consistently high quality of European, particularly German, games. A third has been the increasing recognition of German games in the pages of Games magazine over the last three years. Finally regrettably there is the vacuum left by the major American game publishers, whose commitment to mass-marketing makes it impractical for them to produce games for what they consider a niche or specialty market. We asked Wolfgang Kramer, one of the most successful and prolific game inventors in Germany and a business management professional, to tell us about it.