14 Board Games about Pooping – Part One
Oh, hey, look! I wrote an article for Power to the Meeple’s website! It’s about a secret genre we never knew we had, nor did we ever want, so you can thank me for noticing it exists. What’s that? You want an excerpt? Okie-dokie, I can do that:
Gus is the spumante successor to ‘Don’t Wake Daddy’. Roll some dice, land on a space and pump Gus like a Reebok Pump Sneaker, ballooning his tummy outwards until his bowels release in an evocative explosion of effluvium. Or the balloon pops. There’s been some complaints.
To be honest, I can’t help but feel bad for Gus. He’s a regular gas factory, so there must be a medical condition involved–probably acid reflux, or perhaps an intolerance to a large number of foods. But Gus is a nice, if not awkward, guy. All he wants is for his hosts to be happy, and he can’t bring himself to burden his niece and nephew with his precarious condition. Meanwhile, those same relations continue to shove stomach-busting comfort foods at him, hoping Gus finally rips the big one. Just look at the mocking smile smeared across that pig-tailed girl’s face. She knows what she’s doing. She knows!
Oh, also, I need to address how strange it is that many of these games hold an element of Don’t Wake Daddy. What is it about Daddy that convinced a bunch of game designers to think, “You know, this is good. But what would really be special is if, instead of waking up, Daddy belted out a load like he’s training for the Kentucky Derby. He needs to shit like the Free World depends on it. Daddy needs to crap as if he has no other legacy when he dies, and, if he wants his name to go down in the annals of history, his bed wreckers must be a defining event for his generation.”
Now head on over to Power to the Meeple’s website to read the rest of the article.
