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Subject: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: warped on 09/05/12 at 2:26 pm
We were fortunate to have many board games which we played often. My favourites were Monopoly, The game of Life, Careers and Clue.
Later on (in my teens) I also liked Scrabble, Risk & played lots of Trivial Pursuit in University.
What were your favourite games?
Do you still play board games now, or is it all on the computer?
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: amjikloviet on 09/05/12 at 5:09 pm
I wasn't into playing board games much when I was growing up but there was this one board game I would play it was called Go for Broke. I remember it being similar to Monopoly. Go for Broke was a lot more fun though!
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: nally on 09/05/12 at 5:11 pm
Chutes & Ladders (loved that one when I was a kid)
Scrabble (which I still enjoy today)
UpWords (has a premise similar to scrabble, but you can actually stack the tiles to form new words, and scoring is optional since the tiles don't have numbers on them... I still have it)
Monopoly (to some extent)
Candyland (I actually never owned a copy of this one, but I have played it, at friends' houses and other places)
...and probably some of my past games which I will list later.
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 09/05/12 at 5:23 pm
Clue
Risk
Parcheesi
Scrabble
Trivial Pursuit
Monopoly
I generally won Trivial Pursuit and lost Clue. As for Risk and Monopoly, nobody wanted to stay up long enough to finish the game!
:D
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: whistledog on 09/05/12 at 6:37 pm
I was a BIG fan of the Pac-Man board game. It was always a pain setting up the board though (as you can see why)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E8UTVGOicDY/Si4C7UMxkPI/AAAAAAAABS0/d3E36G_BSds/s400/MBsPac-ManGame-full.JPG
I also enjoyed Mouse Trap, Snakes & Ladders, Monopoly and Scrabble
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: Howard on 09/05/12 at 7:32 pm
Scrabble
Life
Chutes And Ladders
Sorry
Monopoly
Trivial Pursuit
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: gibbo on 09/05/12 at 9:29 pm
When I was really young ... it was Sankes and Ladders, Mouse Trap and Monoploy.
Later on Trivial Pursuit, Cluedo, draughts and chess
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: Howard on 09/06/12 at 7:19 am
Operation! Who remembers this game?
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: warped on 09/06/12 at 6:25 pm
Operation! Who remembers this game?
(Raises hand like Arnold Horshack)
Me!
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: nally on 09/06/12 at 7:47 pm
Operation! Who remembers this game?
I remember it. I also have seen the "Family Game Night" version in which the competitors have to remove a piece carefully with tweezers and carefully carry it through an obstacle course and drop it on a small board.
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: loki 13 on 09/06/12 at 8:42 pm
Stratego
Life
Battleship
Parcheesi
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: Jessica on 09/06/12 at 9:10 pm
Battleship
My son is absolutely in love with this game.
We play board games with our kiddo. He started out with Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders, but we've moved on to Connect 4, Mouse Trap, Monopoly, Uno, Operation, and Sorry. Most of these games I played as a kid, but I do want to get him The Game of Life and Aggravation. I think he'd enjoy them. :)
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: Henk on 09/07/12 at 2:04 am
A lot (if not all) have been mentioned already... though we weren't playing much board games as a family. It would always end up in tears or havoc, and there would always be at least one person not wanting to play (anymore), with pieces flying all over the place. ;D
Yes, we played Monopoly (as a family) - although we generally bended the rules in our favor. ::)
We also played Scrabble. That was fun - until someone would come up with a word that wasn't accepted. Or someone would be left stuck with Q's and X's. Or someone played a word that made it impossible to play any further. Or...well, you get the picture. :D
I remember playing Stratego, Clue (or Cluedo as it's called over here), Scotland Yard, Risk and The Game of Life* with my brothers. Oh, and Trivial Pursuit of course. I would generally be winning, so my brothers weren't very keen on playing after a while. :P
* I'm not sure about the international version, but the Dutch version sucked because you HAD to get married, no matter what.
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: warped on 09/07/12 at 7:00 am
* I'm not sure about the international version, but the Dutch version sucked because you HAD to get married, no matter what.
Yes, you had to get married in the version here too.
Become a doctor, get married, have lots of kids, be happy, make lots of money, become a millionaire!!!
(Isn't everyone's life just like that?)
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: Henk on 09/07/12 at 7:46 am
Yes, you had to get married in the version here too.
Become a doctor, get married, have lots of kids, be happy, make lots of money, become a millionaire!!!
(Isn't everyone's life just like that?)
Mine is. :)
Well, except for the 'get married' part.
...And I'm not a doctor.
Wait - I've no kids either!
And where's my money gone?
But I'm happy.
Not. ;D
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: Howard on 09/07/12 at 3:39 pm
I remember it. I also have seen the "Family Game Night" version in which the competitors have to remove a piece carefully with tweezers and carefully carry it through an obstacle course and drop it on a small board.
That game was very hard you had to be careful not to tweeze or you'll get buzzed.
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: Howard on 09/07/12 at 3:40 pm
http://www.jeff-z.com/pinball/toys/ryr/bigbox-01.jpg
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: nally on 09/07/12 at 4:42 pm
That game was very hard you had to be careful not to tweeze or you'll get buzzed.
Yep, the same rule was in effect for the "Family Game Night" version; you had to be careful to not let the tweezers touch the inside of the hole which held the piece.
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: nally on 09/07/12 at 4:42 pm
http://www.jeff-z.com/pinball/toys/ryr/bigbox-01.jpg
Never seen that one, but it looks like fun.
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: belmont22 on 11/22/12 at 3:26 am
Chutes and Ladders and Candyland. 8)
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/22/12 at 11:54 am
Life
Battleship
Booby Trap
Does anyone remember Shenanigans?
http://gamekrib.com/file/pic/photo/2011/04/Brewing_Master-shenanigans.jpg
http://thmb.inkfrog.com/thumbn/hometowncomputers/strat_020_006.jpg=450
I loved the game but my sisters wouldn't let me play. :\'( :\'( :\'(
Cat
Subject: Re: What were your favourite board games when you were growing up?
Written By: warped on 11/22/12 at 12:17 pm
Does anyone remember Shenanigans?
Not me. The fact that we ae similar in age, I guess I should have seen it somewhere, but no.