Ameritrash Game Ratings 2009

Around this time of year, for the past few years, I’ve made a habit of listing a top fifty games according to the boardgamegeek ratings of people who hold the “ameritrash” microbadge. The idea originally was to get a better handle on what, exactly, the term was supposed to describe but as time has gone on it’s become more of a matter of interest onto itself, simply to recommend the best games to fans of the genre, even as the term itself has, perhaps, become even more ephemeral. This year, due to time constraints I’m barely able to find the space to keep up my article output, let alone make lists on BGG, so compiling an article around the statistics instead seemed an obvious solution. Hopefully in a few weeks time, when things have calmed down a bit, I’ll be able to post that list with some actual numbers on it and you’ll see the exact ratings and positions of the games I’m going to talk about. In the meantime I’ve picked out a few highlights for you to enjoy.