That surprises me, too.
I've been playing wargames with little cardboard squares and little metal miniatures since well before I built my first computer. I still like naval miniatures, and SF and fantasy games. Pretty much any rules are good by me, the company matters more than whose rules we play by (though I tend to favor fast-play rules over the really crunchy rules any more.)
My wife and I are planning to go to the boardgame and cards meeting tomorrow night in the Buena Vista rec center (at 6 or 6:30 as I recall.)
I'm hoping to dig up the "geek" underground here in TV.