How much lazier do we have to get?

I remember when battleship was a game played on graph paper, but then they came out with a plastic version to save kids from having to draw x's, and then later came up with a talking one that saved kids from having to learn how to check coordinates.

I remember when Mr. Potato Head was a box of arms, legs, and facial features... and you had to provide your own potato. Then they provided a plastic potato with pre-made holes so that your options were drastically limited.

I remember when playing pick-up sticks required going out into the yard. Then they found some way to get people to pay for fake plastic sticks that don't even look like sticks.

And now, the classic "thinking outside the box" maneuver of winning a game by kicking over the board and insulting your opponent has also been turned into a manufactured product: the annihilator. What is even worse than shelling out good money on an unnecessary product like this is that it only works on chess. What is next - new destructive pieces that only work on Monopoly, Sorry, Life, etc.? Back in my day, kicking the board over worked equally well on all of these games!