Post by Sulla on Jun 25, 2019 23:22:00 GMT
I started with Risk and over the years moved up the ladder with more complex games. At the height I had 72 of them. I sold them in 1999, but I kept my 10 favorites. They were originally made in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Some of them are so complex that they're more of an exercise for study rather than a game. Their popularity declined with the rise of internet games.
About as complicated as I got with my friends in the '80s up to the early '00s was Axis and Allies. That's still one of my favorite games, especially with all 5 powers being played by individual players. Some others we enjoyed were Shogun and more Euro style games such as Mare Nostrum.
I had good intentions of trying to get some people together from my old gaming crowd and picked up some modern GMT brand games like Twilight Stuggle, Genesis, and the newer version of Axis and Allies that takes place during WW1, but no dice. They are sitting in my jacket closet gathering dust right now. About as complicated as I get now is Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders with my daughters. My wife will actually play a game of Stratego with me, I still have the old '80s version of the game with the old "general" looking at you on the box lid.
My man! I've played most of those you mentioned. It's strange that I'm unfamiliar with 1914. I may have just ignored it because WWI games are usually not all that interesting. It does look a bit complicated. Mare Nostrum looks good, though. I think A&A and Shogun were the last games where we could get a few players.
Yeah, the older I got, the harder it was to get other players involved. I imagine that's one of the reasons people switched to computer games. Sometimes I would set up a game and play both sides just as an exercise. I always liked the way these games also served as a learning tool before the internet. They usually included information about what happened historically. And now I can draw diagrams from memory of some battles, which is pretty much a useless talent. 