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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Dec 30, 2018 16:14:04 GMT
Scrabble
Balderdash
Trivial Pursuit
Oh, and when I was a little kid, I loved to play Candy Land.
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Post by koskiewicz on Dec 30, 2018 16:39:20 GMT
In no certain order:
Lie, Cheat and Steal
Chess
Risk
Scrabble
Life
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Post by Lucy on Jun 21, 2019 18:01:22 GMT
As a kid, Sorry, Mancala, and I guess CandyLand.
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Jun 21, 2019 18:10:22 GMT
As a kid, Sorry, Mancala, and I guess CandyLand. CandyLand was my all-time childhood favorite! Edit:I remember my Dad and I playing Checkers. Nowadays? Scrabble.
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Post by ellynmacg on Jun 21, 2019 18:14:33 GMT
/pic849144.jpg) Also, in no particular order: Scrabble Clue Careers (although I do hope the later editions were less sexist than the original) |
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Post by lordquesterjones on Jun 21, 2019 18:19:14 GMT
Caesar at Alesia 52BC. Caesar defends his tactical donut around Alesia. One Gallic army (hidden off board) tries to break in and another tries to break out to allow Vercingetorix to escape off the board.
That looks great.
I love board games, but I haven't played any for years.
There should be more board game clubs!!
As for favourite?
Monopoly Cluedo Escape from Colditz.
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Post by lordquesterjones on Jun 21, 2019 18:20:02 GMT
Caesar at Alesia 52BC. Caesar defends his tactical donut around Alesia. One Gallic army (hidden off board) tries to break in and another tries to break out to allow Vercingetorix to escape off the board.
That looks great.
I love board games, but I haven't played any for years.
There should be more board game clubs!!
As for favourite?
Monopoly Cluedo Escape from Colditz.
And risk!
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Post by Sulla on Jun 21, 2019 20:29:38 GMT
That looks great.
I love board games, but I haven't played any for years.
There should be more board game clubs!!
As for favourite?
Monopoly Cluedo Escape from Colditz.
And risk!
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 They were originally made in the 60s, 70s and 80s.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.
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Jun 21, 2019 20:57:45 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.
Wow, Sulla, you are so smart! I couldn't even learn chess... my high school boyfriend could play chess and speak Latin. Back in the days of video games at the mall, my husband was an expert at 'Galaga'. I could sort of keep up with him, but it just wasn't my niche. Plus he sorta had an IQ of 165... way out of my league. But, I can draw in 3 point perspective, without a ruler! 
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Post by Sulla on Jun 21, 2019 21:07:31 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.
Wow, Sulla, you are so smart! I couldn't even learn chess... my high school boyfriend could play chess and speak Latin. Back in the days of video games at the mall, my husband was an expert at 'Galaga'. I could sort of keep up with him, but it just wasn't my niche. Plus he sorta had an IQ of 165... way out of my league. But, I can draw in 3 point perspective, without a ruler! I was a nerd in the chess club in high-school. Galaga sounds familiar, but I googled it and I don't recognize it. I don't think I ever played that one. Ahh, the days of video arcades. 
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jun 22, 2019 5:22:41 GMT
Well, it WAS Checkers until I learned I've been playing it wrong all these years. This forced jumped stuff is bogus. |
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Post by someguy on Jun 22, 2019 5:31:02 GMT
Monopoly.
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Post by lordquesterjones on Jun 22, 2019 20:36:16 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.
It's a shame their popularity declined.
I love complicated board games.
The more complicated the more fun they are.
Good for you for keeping some of them.
At the very least they may become collectors items.
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Post by teleadm on Jun 22, 2019 21:43:16 GMT
I used to like Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit, but it's been ages ago, when my parents were still alive.
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Post by mecano04 on Jun 22, 2019 21:55:50 GMT
Monopoly,Clue, Stratego, HeroQuest and Dark world.
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Post by maxwellperfect on Jun 25, 2019 2:38:48 GMT
Monopoly
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Post by vegalyra on Jun 25, 2019 21:09:34 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.
I stumbled on a few old Avalon Hill games cheap at a garage sale several years ago (D-Day, Panzer Blitz, Panzer Leader, and a few others). Most of them were from the 1960's and 1970's. I remember when I was a kid an older neighbor kid had several of these games that I guess he got from his Dad. We figured out some of the more simple ones, but I think one of them, 1914, was way over our heads... 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.
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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.
I stumbled on a few old Avalon Hill games cheap at a garage sale several years ago (D-Day, Panzer Blitz, Panzer Leader, and a few others). Most of them were from the 1960's and 1970's. I remember when I was a kid an older neighbor kid had several of these games that I guess he got from his Dad. We figured out some of the more simple ones, but I think one of them, 1914, was way over our heads... 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.
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Post by Morgana on Jun 26, 2019 9:01:54 GMT
Monopoly
Cluedo
Karom (if it's considered as being one)
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Post by pippinmaniac on Jun 27, 2019 14:47:57 GMT
Trivial Pursuit
Monopoly
Aggravation
Scrabble
Balderdash
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