bignose<p>So why did <a href="https://tabletop.social/tags/Squatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Squatter</span></a> <a href="https://tabletop.social/tags/BoardGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGame</span></a> have a big impact on me? Hmm.</p><p>Partly because there just weren't many board games around, in my youth. Highly-produced board games were very sparse on the shelves, there certainly weren't board game sections in department stores.</p><p>So I think a big part of it might be: Unlike every other (again, not many) board games commercially produced and available to be discovered, in Australia at that time<br>this one was made in Australia, and made for Australians. I'd never seen anything like that before.</p><p>This was a new concept to me. <a href="https://tabletop.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> <a href="https://tabletop.social/tags/CulturalCringe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalCringe</span></a> is real: a huge proportion of "Australian culture" is imported wholesale from other countries and plonked in front of us to consume.</p><p>This was different, and even though I can't express why, it felt great.</p>