Board Game T-Shirts
April 27, 2008
As summer slowly approaches you may find yourself wanting to expand your t-shirt collection. And being a board game type player you may also want to show your gaming cred. So where can we find some nice gaming t-shirts? Below are a few online sellers that have a decent selection of board game related t-shirts. I will focus more on board game type shirts rather than role playing games.
Game Ink
The Game Ink folks have some great graphic designs for their game related t-shirts. They also did the Gamer Dad design at the top of the post. Their t-shirts run the gamut of popular to obscure games. Just looking at the samples above you can see Werewolves, the old style Trouble bubble and even the board gamers’ rant of Monopoly taking too long. I just wish they had more designs, but a recent post says they are getting all creative with designs again and you can even vote on their new designs at that post.
Cafepress
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, Cafepress has a large assortment of board game related t-shirt designs. Doing a search on their site for board game related t-shirts gives about 1,200 designs. Granted, some are better than others and it doesn’t take too long to quickly look through them to pick out a few of the better designs and designers. A couple that caught my eye are above. The Werewolf one is perfect, Carcassonne shows a quality design and why not flaunt our inner geek and nerd with the Word Nerd for the Scrabble lovers out there. You can click on the text links to go to that particular t-shirt design. And if you wanted to be all creative you can design your own t-shirt to wear, just don’t forget about copyright infringements for images you may use.
A Cafepress store of note is The Board Game Gift Shop. There you will see quality designs based on Rio Grande Games and games like Carcassonne (like the design above), Lost Cities, Puerto Rico, etc.
Visit Cafepress’ board game area
Choice Shirts
I found only a few board game related t-shirts at Choice Shirts in their retro/vintage area. They appear to be more pop culture/mature related. They also have Lite-Brite t-shirts there 
You can also go to the board game companies that produce the games themselves as some of them also carry apparel and merchandise related to the games they design or produce. You may also have some luck searching for retro or vintage t-shirts in your favorite search engine.
If you know of another online board game t-shirt shop, feel free to leave a comment or email me.
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MAD | April 28, 2008 at 3:09 pm
I want the “Word Nerd” one!
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tim | April 29, 2008 at 10:40 am
Geeky is cool these days… gotta show the word nerd love
-Tim
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matthew.marquand | July 9, 2008 at 10:25 am
I run the CafePress Board Game Gift Shop you mention above. Thanks for mentioning my store. I also run a store that is a collaborative effort from many gamers at Uberbadger.com. We specializes in gaming gear with more “attitude” than the strictly artistic items in the gift shop.
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