Chess carries the image of a "geek" with it. I personally love it, but haven't really played it in years except for a game every now and then. Tbfh, it's a really simple game but with complex mechanics, the only time that you can trully be challenged is when you meet an opponent that is advanced in the art of chessfare. I only met a few. I am talking about people that would literally see behind your every move and cockblock you at the last possible instance or early in advance. Nowadays people would much rather preffer battle their way out on COD instead of a chess board, I like both but chess just seems outdated, to me personally now x), maybe i'll indulge when I am older.

You know, I could do the exact same thing regarding Catan.  How many people here play it?  Catan is a brilliant game, but why not have it sell millions of copies?  I believe it, lifetime, may of sold less than ModNation across all platforms.  Among boardgames, it is a success, but in the big picture?  They actually sell more chess sets than Catan games annually.  That doesn't mean people play chess though.

I blame my dad, he played chess against me for years when I was a kid/teen and never let me win once.

Though I've been meaning to get Chessmaster off Steam.

I thought Catan sold at least 30 million... seriously.

I blame my dad, he played chess against me for years when I was a kid/teen and never let me win once.

Though I've been meaning to get Chessmaster off Steam.

I wish people would stop seeing certain game forms as "outdated".  Besides the non-profit IAGO (in the boardgame area), I am also doing work on the CADERS project (see below) which tries to defend older game forms that have seem to have fallen out of favor.   This goes for retro arcade games, pinball, and other things like boardgames to.  I do hope the older forms get look to again, because I do have concerns that the industry is going to music game its current cashcows, like FPS. 

Older games won't regain anywhere as much momentum as the current games, although I like chess personally I can go as far as to say that the golden age of chess has passed by now. If  you were to ask the ~1000 people that attend my school and are younger than me(There are about 25 people in the whole school who are older than me), I'd be very surprised if you'd get even 20 saying that they have the faintest idea how to play chess. The only reason I think I know how to play chess is because my family is of a Russian descent, so my grandad taught me all Chess, Checkers etc, the games that have been played even since his times. In the west however, I rarely see that many people who show interest in chess, if they do show interest in some sort of game it's in a console/PC. As some sort of test a Chess game on XBL and PSN should be released to see how many people would actually show interest.

Here is a question: Does every game format eventually go retro?

I am wondering, for example, 100 years from now, will people still be playing Call of Duty?  How about chess or Go or Backgammon?  Which one is going to stick around longer?