My Board Game Obsession

Alright, I guess it's fair to say I'm a bit obsessed with board games. It all started when I was a wee-lad, my aunt bought me my first board game - 'Mouse Trap!'
Since then, it's been a fun ride. Years spent playing Trivial Pursuit, Monopoly, Scattergories... it was a great time to be alive! 
Alright, I'll calm down. 
Soon, the board game obsession gave way to video games. Video games were faster and more challenging than any board game I could find. It was sad in a way. I missed the community feeling of playing a board game with friends and family.  Camping out around a table, drinks, chips, laughing, cheating, arguments. But it seemed board games would never adapt. Games like Monopoly, and the like, grew stale and static. I longed for something more...
One fateful day, I decided to search the internet for anything fresh. I searched 'challenging board games' - 'nerdy board games' - 'geeky board games' - anything to peek my interest. 
It seemed while I was busy playing video games, a whole world of board games arrived on the scene. Board games that not only catered to the nerd in me, but also were fun to play! I grabbed my card and ordered the first one that jumped out at me.
Carcassonne! This game was perfect for someone jumping into a new genre - simple rules, cool to look at, and the game play was fast. There was also many expansion packs to keep it fresh. But soon. my brain craved more strategy. Something to stir the pot a bit. 

Catan! This game... Catan is STILL a favorite of mine! Me and my friends will play for hours, 4 games a night if we get together early enough. Like Carcassonne, Catan's board changes every game, keeping things fresh. You have to think 3 to 4 steps ahead, make deals with people, and sometimes steal. And again, there are expansion packs to make the board more challenging. 
But again, the board game gods grow weary, even of their favorite games. You must keep feeding the beast! (Ok, too dramatic?)  
Then, one day while perusing the board game isle of my local store... I was feeling a bit nastalgic. That was when this caught my eye...

Triopoly!   This, my friends, was a three-tier Monopoly board. Yeah, you heard me! Three monopoly style boards stacked on top of each other, each smaller than the next. It was an amazing play on a classic game. And it was insane to play. It also took forever to finish. Remember how long Monopoly took, times that by three!
Then a distant friend, from far away lands, introduced us to...

Munchkin!   This card-based game was a fresh change for me. Technically not a board game, it changed my whole perspective. I never really understood or got into such games as a kid, but Munchkin consumed me and my friends like fire rushing through a rain craved forest. Munchkin has so many versions and expansions that it's almost hard to keep track. And bonus... most are playable together!
 This is me, trying to figure out something... real important.  The cards are fun and unique, the game play is long enough to make it worth it, and you can often squeeze in several games a night. And there's always room for more players, as long as you have enough cards!
As of present, me and my friends have been cycling back and forth between Catan and Munchkin (the Cthulhu version). Though, whispers in the dark seem to be leading us back to an old favorite...
Dude, you need to beef-up Iceland.