Favorite: Parcheesi was my favorite game growing up as a kid. Still have a set now but rarely play it.
Least Favorite: Monopoly.
Favorite: Parcheesi was my favorite game growing up as a kid. Still have a set now but rarely play it.
Least Favorite: Monopoly.
Scrabble was my favorite; Life was least.
I don't remember much about it anymore and haven't played since I was 12 or 13, but the game of Go was kind of intriguing.
Played Monopoly and Risk the most, but as an adult don't really like either. Risk had some strategy of course, but the build up and endless tossing of dice can get tedious. Monopoly was just around the board and around. My older brother would intimidate us to get the properties he wanted so he always won. He became an alcoholic and manipulator. Go figure.
TBH, it depends on what my age was. I was born in 1966, and enjoyed Shoots and Ladders and Candy Land when I was really little, then got into Monopoly and Risk when I was like 9 or 10. Masterpiece was one I played some in H.S.
If I had to chose one, though, I'd have to say Monopoly. I even read a Monopoly book on how to creatively negotiate and play the "loopholes" to get ahead.
Clue and Life in early elementary school, then Stratego when I was about 10, then long Risk games in middle school.
I never enjoyed Monopoly.
I liked Risk, but yeah, it could take forever. Which is both bad and good. Risk taught me about Irkutsk, Yakutsk, and Kamchatka. I wonder if, other than in a board game, anyone ever invade Brazil from North Africa.
You Mensa nerds.
Far too advanced for me as a kid.
The best :
Uncle Wiggly
Sorry
Scavenger Hunt
Aggravation
Mastermind
Pay Day
Did anyone else play buckaroo?
Does anybody remember the "American Heritage" game series?
Battle Cry (Civil War)
Hit the Beach (WW2, the South Pacific)
Broadside (Napoleonic era naval battles)
Dogfight (WW1 aerial combat)
As a kid, I thought these were all really cool!
Mancala
Some lesser known games that we used to play and enjoy in the 70s:
NFL Strategy - I loved this game. There was a set of offensive play cards and defensive play cards. Each player would select a play, then insert the cards into a slot in the game. The defensive play cards had little windows that revealed the potential outcomes of the offensive/defensive play combos, taking into account where the ball was placed in the hashmarks. A spring loaded flicker ball would then be launched that would end up pointing to one of those windows, determining the play results. There was a mechanical clock that would advance when you pulled the play cards out after each play.
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Cadeco All-Star baseball - Each player had a disk that used that player's offensive stats to come up with outcome probabilities (Single, 2B, 3B, HR, K, Ground Out, Fly Out), and a spinner would be used to determine the outcome of that at bat.
Sinking of the Titanic - Sort of two games in one. During the first part, you would have to rescue passengers from their staterooms. Each turn, the ship listed higher in the water. Eventually, you would have to abandon the remaining passengers to their fate and head for the lifeboats or risk getting blocked in a passageway and losing all passengers. The second part was surviving at sea by finding crates of food and water, or if I recall, stealing them from opposing players. You had to stay alive long enough for the rescue ship to arrive.
Bermuda Triangle - Ship goods to the most lucrative ports, trying to avoid an ominous storm cloud spinning away in the Atlantic. If it went over your ship, little magnets on the underside of your cloud may pick up your ship and you would lose it.
Game I didn't like: Mousetrap. Too long to set up, boring gameplay, and the stupid trap would fail along the line in most cases.
Stratego!!
My favorite games were Risk and Scotland Yard. But there are so many better games now than then.
I'll defend Monopoly, in a conditional kind of way. Monopoly is a great game when played with exactly 2 players, following the exact rules (no free parking, bidding any time no one buys a property, end of game happens when a player can't pay up). The main issue with Monopoly is that it has an inflation problem--too much money in the system chasing properties whose retail prices are artificially set too low. But when total money in the system is kept tight, the bidding makes Monopoly quite strategic, and the most canny player almost always wins (not just the luckiest). Under these conditions, games take only 50-60 minutes.
Favs: Clue and Scrabble
Least Favs: Monopoly (too long, too boring); Mousetrap (sucker never worked and was always missing parts!)
moran alert wrote:
Monopoly book on how to play the "loopholes" to get ahead.
I had many battles with my siblings that usually came to blows.
If you can recall a "loophole" or two, please share. Thanks.
No love for Tornado Rex?!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky5reqgy1W0
Monopoly was doomed from the moment they spelled Marven Gardens wrong. And Parker Brothers never apologized to the neighborhood’s residents until the mid nineties. That is just something that is borderline unforgivable in my opinion.
Favorites- Scotland Yard, Sorry!, Pay Day. In fact, I still play Scotland Yard and Pay Day with the same boards I had as a kid with my kids. Loved Crossbow and Catapults too, but not sure if that qualifies as a board game.
Least Faves- Risk and Monopoly. The new version of Monopoly with the speed dice makes it much faster and thus more enjoyable. Wish they had that when I was a kid.
Favourite video games of my childhood
Ravenloft’s The Stone Prophet - DOS
Command & Conquer - Windows
Counter Strike 1.6 - Windows
Runescape - Windows (browser)
Lemmings - Mac
GTA San Andreas - both Windows and PS2
DBZ Budokai - PS2
I played in my first chess tournament in 1972, while I was eagerly following each game of the legendary world championship match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. I was living in a little town near Athens, Greece, and chess was front-page news every day. I really haven't paid much attention to other games since then, although I have great respect for go, the most elegant of all board games.
Before chess, it was Stratego, which I played with my father. Before that, checkers. Before that, Shoots and Ladders and (fondly now) Alvin and the Chipmunks, which I got when I was five years old and had my tonsils removed. The winner was the one who gathered the most acorns. Alvin was my childhood hero.
Board games at home - monopoly and scrabble
At friends place - risk or a card game called 31
at school - chess during lunch hour
computer games - lemmings on mac, air glider on mac, later it was half life and team fortress
on sega genesis it was Cool Spot, Baseball 92, Mortal Kombat 2, sonic 2, and a simpsons game
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