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Post# 971333   12/3/2017 at 18:24 (2,332 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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I have been thinking recently of board games like Clue and Monopoly. When I was growing up, we had a good supply of games...and Christmas or birthdays often brought a new addition or two. One supposes games made an easy gift choice for relatives we had only occasional contact with. Also I'm thinking my mother might well have bought into an argument that games could improve my mind. (Obviously, that didn't happen...but one can't blame her for trying her very best. LOL) I can remember playing games with my family (mostly my father--my mother, herself, had very limited interest in board games). I can also remember the fun of visiting one set of grandparents and playing Monopoly. We had a set, of course, but their set was old enough to have wood houses and hotels, not the cheap plastic in our set.
In my life, games have fallen by the wayside. It's been at least 20 years since I regularly played anything. I just don't have anyone to play games with anymore...
Indeed, I wonder sometimes how about the popularity of games these days. There must be someone buying them--I noticed just the other day a selection at Target. But I get the feeling that they aren't the entertainment choice they once were for most people...
Even though my board game days are--at best--on hold, and maybe over, I've acquired a few over the years. All found used and cheap, and most of them are ones I remember from when I was young. Some photos:
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Post# 971336 , Reply# 1   12/3/2017 at 18:31 (2,332 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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I have a weakness for Clue sets. It was probably one of the most commonly played games in my family. It was around for many years--it was something I was able to play when fairly young, and that was tolerable for older people, too. It was also one of the few games my mother was reasonably willing to play. (She never had much interest in games--I think the only board game she really liked was Scrabble.)
I have one vintage set, but I can't get to it right now. This is a modern set with a modern board. It doesn't feel right having a Clue mansion with a living room instead of a lounge. Or a theater instead of a library... Skimming the rules, it looks like other changes were made...and one wonders if the game didn't suffer as a result...
I'm not sure about this, but I think this version replaced the classic version--but it appears the classic version may be back.
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Post# 971337 , Reply# 2   12/3/2017 at 18:33 (2,332 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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Finally, a game with no personal history. But I'm guessing it has history for the 1970s when it was apparently published:
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Post# 971342 , Reply# 3   12/3/2017 at 19:15 (2,332 days old) by cuffs054 (MONTICELLO, GA)   |   | |
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Sorry, but SORRY was the game to play! |
Post# 971345 , Reply# 5   12/3/2017 at 19:24 (2,332 days old) by cuffs054 (MONTICELLO, GA)   |   | |
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John, Spades is the reason my four year degree took five years! There was always a game going on in the student center. |
Post# 971346 , Reply# 6   12/3/2017 at 19:27 (2,332 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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I know we had a copy of Sorry and played it, but don't really have too many memories of it.
I remember Game of Life, but don't think I ever played it. But it was a title still semi-common when I was growing up in the 70s/80s.
As for card games, I remember my paternal grandmother often playing cribbage. I think she also played--or once played--bridge.
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Post# 971347 , Reply# 7   12/3/2017 at 19:39 (2,332 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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Spades is the reason my four year degree took five years!
There is a Stephen King story "Hearts in Atlantis" in his book Hearts in Atlantis. In this story, a Hearts craze hits a college dorm--and some students flunk out or barely survive the term... (IIRC, there is no supernatural elements, but other stories in the book are more typical Stephen King.) |
Post# 971357 , Reply# 8   12/3/2017 at 21:04 (2,332 days old) by johnrk (BP TX)   |   | |
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Lord Kenmore-have you ever played Clubs? Much less well known and actually I enjoy it more than Spades. |
Post# 971361 , Reply# 10   12/3/2017 at 21:39 (2,332 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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Post# 971368 , Reply# 12   12/3/2017 at 22:09 (2,332 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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Both of my parents liked Scrabble. I recall them playing it together when I was young. Later, we played it as a family game when I was a teenager. I can't say for sure, but I am thinking that it might have been quite frustrating, simply because the chances of me winning were about zero. (My father was almost certainly the winner. He was addicted to crossword puzzles, which undoubtedly helped.) Later on, though, I came to like it when it was just my mother and me. Strangely, we went through at least 3 of the standard sets--the first set was my father's, and he took it when he moved out. That was replaced with the second set (technically IIRC mine). The third set was acquired at a point near the end of my mother's life when set #2 was unavailable, and we really wanted to play Scrabble.
I'm thinking I may have one of the ones with a turntable base in storage. I certainly remember that style, which seemed like a nice idea. Although I like the old plain version out of sentiment.
I don't remember my grandfather's Scrabble set, unfortunately, but it's possible he had one sets made in the early years.
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Post# 971383 , Reply# 14   12/3/2017 at 23:37 (2,332 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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I know about Scrabble timers, but never used them. Indeed, I like a more leisurely pace with a chance to think. But, of course, if someone is too slow too much of the time, it's annoying for his or her opponents... (And if there are several players, and each takes too long, one may fall asleep before it's one's turn again. LOL) |
Post# 971385 , Reply# 15   12/3/2017 at 23:49 (2,332 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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Another memory is my chess phase. I got interested in the idea in sixth grade. My mother obliged with a learn chess book, and, IIRC, at some point a cheap chess set appeared. I don't really recall doing more than learning the basics of the game at that point. Then, the next Christmas, I got a small electronic chess game. I played with that a lot...but I pretty consistently lost (even though it was set to the lowest possible skill level for the computer opponent). The only time I remember winning was when I invoked the change side feature so that my hopeless position became the electronic game's hopeless position.
I played my father once. He had little background with chess--he only barely knew how to play IIRC. And yet he won. The only other time I recall playing with another person was with some guy I knew at college. Again, I lost.
For some reason, I lost interest in chess. May it have been my lousy ability?!? Although chess sets are interesting, and could be fun decoration... |
Post# 971386 , Reply# 16   12/3/2017 at 23:56 (2,332 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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Spades was big at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo when I lived in the dorms there. We'd play bridge too, but I'd just make my partners angry with dumb moves. Spades was a lot easier.
I remember games like Pit, which was based on being in the pit at the commodities exchange. Lots of yelling in that one. We also had a game called "Dig" where you had little mallets with sticky ends to pick up cards with letters on them (face down) and then try to use them to spell something. The mallets lost their tacky surfaces fairly quickly, and that was that. Another one I liked was "Across the Continent," which used small metal charms shaped like streamliner trains in various colors. Roll the dice and make your way from one end of the country to the other. It was a good geography lesson, and probably the first time I heard of many U.S. cities.
Our Scrabble game would probably be worth something today to a collector. The "X" tiles were double stamped. I don't know whatever happened to that set. I only know one or two people who would want to play Scrabble.
Backgammon was a big deal in the late '70s. You could find sets everywhere. I bought some kind of designer set at Marshall's, and also had a small travel set with magnetic pieces. I've forgotten how to play, but it's easy to pick it back up. I have friends who play, but in what they call the "acey ducey" version. I have no idea what that is.
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Post# 971536 , Reply# 19   12/4/2017 at 18:04 (2,331 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)   |   | |
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We had the following games: Life, Sorry, Clue, Bingo, Mouse Trap, Scrabble, Yahtzee, Parcheesi, Hungry, Hungry Hippos and a some others I can't recall the names. When I was at my sister's for Thanksgiving, She, my nephews kids, and I played Garfield Monopoly, Free Parking, and Hungry Hippos. |
Post# 971550 , Reply# 21   12/4/2017 at 19:07 (2,331 days old) by jakeseacrest (Massachusetts)   |   | |
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Post# 971560 , Reply# 22   12/4/2017 at 19:43 (2,331 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)   |   | |
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Post# 971569 , Reply# 23   12/4/2017 at 20:30 (2,331 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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LordKenmore: Another memory is my chess phase.I taught myself to play chess by reading the article in our Compton's Encyclopedia set. Got pretty good but haven't played in ages. Have several chess sets, including a Star Trek and Dragon's Realm from Franklin Mint, and a cheap 3-D set from a Sears Christmas catalog. Mom had a Wa Hoo board back in the day, don't know what happened to it. We had the ubiquitous Monopoly. Didn't otherwise much play board games.
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Post# 971595 , Reply# 26   12/4/2017 at 22:35 (2,331 days old) by johnrk (BP TX)   |   | |
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I'm surprised no one mentioned these two games; both were really popular with boys back in the 60's. |
Post# 971605 , Reply# 28   12/4/2017 at 23:09 (2,331 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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I forgot all about Spoons. I'll have to look that one up to remind myself how to play it. I think the grandkids, or at least the older one, would like it if she could get the hang of it. One Thanksgiving when we were away at a beach cabin we taught her Crazy Eights. She required a lot of repeat prompting and/or correcting. She might be old enough for Spoons now, but today's kids' minds don't work the same so we'll see. Right now she's into pig latin, which I'm having a fun time with.
I was never good at Chess. Just like Bridge, I couldn't think that far down the road and still can't.
We didn't have Battlefield or Stratego, but we did have one called "Conflict." I can't remember the premise, but the name of the game probably said it all. |
Post# 971615 , Reply# 30   12/5/2017 at 00:36 (2,331 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc)   |   | |
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I forgot Scrabble-My Grandmother liked this game.Played it at her house when we visited her for the summer.Sometimes a Scrabble game would go on for most of the night!She would put the game board on a lazy susan turntable to make it easier to use. |
Post# 971628 , Reply# 31   12/5/2017 at 01:53 (2,331 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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She would put the game board on a lazy susan turntable to make it easier to use.
There is--or at least once was--a version that board with built-in turntable IIRC.
Although I've sometimes thought that having a large Lazy Susan might be better, since it could also be used for other games (and other applications). |
Post# 971629 , Reply# 32   12/5/2017 at 02:04 (2,331 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Had quite a few board games as a kid. My friends and I would play for hours!
Never did learn how to play cards, though--with the exception of Crazy 8's and Old Maid. As Ralph mentioned upthread, I, too, was not great at strategizing and looking ahead. Have never played poker or bridge, etc. We played Yahtzee with close family friends almost weekly. The wife would always serve slices of round pinwheel bread smeared with cheese spread and dotted with sliced green olives. She also introduced me to Colby cheese. I loved both of those appetizers. Perhaps these games will trigger memories for those among us old enough to remember the Ed Sullivan Show, LOL. |
Post# 971633 , Reply# 34   12/5/2017 at 02:18 (2,331 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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I agree: Although kids have amazingly (frighteningly?) real-looking video games to play, they seem, for the most part, to be more isolated than we were. They don't play outside most of the day with the "gang from the block" the way we often did.
Of course, much of my childhood was spent in a town of about 2,000 with many other tail-end baby boomers. We'd head out in the morning on our bikes, have lunch at someone's house, then take off again for the rest of the day. All our parents required was a phone call to let them know our plans. It was time to head home when the street lights came on. |
Post# 971640 , Reply# 36   12/5/2017 at 03:43 (2,331 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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Well, it's not just the youth of today who are isolated... I was pretty isolated when I was growing up in the 70s/80s. I had a few "friends" here and there...but the relationships tended to be shallow and flawed. Most interaction was at school IIRC. When our paths diverged, most often that was that.
My experience was different from what kids might experience today, of course--we didn't have the video games that they have now. (And my exposure was very limited to video games. I only knew about Pac Man by reputation!)
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Post# 971649 , Reply# 37   12/5/2017 at 06:16 (2,331 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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Trivial Pursuit was my favorite.
Funny story about the Operation game that involves me. When I was little I was terrified of the dark and frequently had nightmares as well as sleep paralysis. I don't know why (to this day I can't sleep in a room with the closet door open even a crack, nor will I allow any body part to stick out from under the covers..childhood fears run deep). Well, my sister and I had an Operation game. It was under my bed, and the lid was off the box. Batteries were in the game. It was cold weather as I remember a blanket being on the bed and it hung down almost to the floor. I turned over in the bed and that game started buzzing. I screamed bloody murder thinking the Devil was coming up through the floor with a chainsaw! I laugh at myself now that I'm 46.5 years old, but back when I was 3 or 4, it was a traumatic experience! |
Post# 971666 , Reply# 39   12/5/2017 at 07:13 (2,331 days old) by johnrk (BP TX)   |   | |
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The Concentration board game was a take-off of the long-running TV quiz show of the same name. Go to YouTube and search 'Concentration'. It made a household name of Hugh Downs. |
Post# 971763 , Reply# 40   12/5/2017 at 16:49 (2,330 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)   |   | |
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There's a man who comes to this library several evenings a week to give chess lessons to children. I've noticed all his students are foreign, mainly from India, about equally split between boys and girls. Most are between ages 8 & 14. |
Post# 971828 , Reply# 42   12/6/2017 at 00:04 (2,330 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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Post# 971919 , Reply# 43   12/6/2017 at 10:38 (2,330 days old) by mrsalvo (New Braunfels Texas)   |   | |
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Have played many games of Sorry, Touring, and Backgammon growing up. At our house, dominoes is the game of choice these days, chicken scratch and Mexican. Lots of good times!! |
Post# 971936 , Reply# 44   12/6/2017 at 11:43 (2,330 days old) by kenwashesmonday (Carlstadt, NJ)   |   | |
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Anyone for Monotony?
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Post# 972010 , Reply# 46   12/6/2017 at 18:44 (2,329 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)   |   | |
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...but I guess Mr. Potato Head doesn't count as a board game, not even the one from my childhood that used a real potato.
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Post# 972019 , Reply# 47   12/6/2017 at 19:14 (2,329 days old) by johnrk (BP TX)   |   | |
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to remember when we had to use a real potato for those! Like the smell of Play-Doh, some memories are just etched on our hard drives forever... |
Post# 972027 , Reply# 48   12/6/2017 at 19:35 (2,329 days old) by cuffs054 (MONTICELLO, GA)   |   | |
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Washabear, I had forgotten about Park and Shop, I loved it. |
Post# 972058 , Reply# 50   12/6/2017 at 22:42 (2,329 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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Post# 972135 , Reply# 51   12/7/2017 at 11:51 (2,329 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Someone was anxious at ca$hing in the Hatchimals trend, to make a board game out of something that after the only fun of it is when (sometimes IF) it hatches, just to become an ordinary stuffed animal...
So, unlike that, this is something to endlessly play, but maybe, me, being several decades older than my daughter, just couldn't see any fun in this... I had found the directions misleading & after me being too withdrawn to figure out how to play this, she accordingly lost all interest, as well... (So, BORED game is what you call this!) Doesn't help that we lost the die, (which we found) and after the photo was taken, I found a couple more cards, and I believe we are now short a token... -- Dave
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Post# 972169 , Reply# 52   12/7/2017 at 15:39 (2,328 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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The Mr. Potato Head concept has met the digital age in KTuberling. Although I'm guessing most people here won't be able to run it, since KDE software is designed for "Unix family" computer operating systems. I've run it with Linux.
Still, some might enjoy seeing this page about it. Quote:
KTuberling is a game intended for small children. Of course, it may be suitable for adults who have remained young at heart.
It is a "potato editor". That means that you can drag and drop eyes, mouths, mustache, and other parts of face and goodies onto a potato-like guy. Similarly, you have other playgrounds with different themes.
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Post# 974085 , Reply# 53   12/16/2017 at 17:47 (2,319 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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I'd wrongly spoken too soon--my daughter has a friend here, who's sleeping over this whole weekend, so before & after a trip to the mall, the Hatchimals game has been going non-stop:
Regarding Monopoly: Wasn't it invented in a sort of Rockefeller-ian era? I don't believe there needs to be any criticism on the "game of chance nature" much as I can see the young man's point in his philosophy, after watching that video... A good perspective, but it can't be much of a game, if it isn't at least PLAYFULLY trading on Property Trading and turning what is only INCIDENTALLY under control or beyond control into something I always although LONG a board game that I'd thought was "soon much fun!"... -- Dave CLICK HERE TO GO TO DaveAMKrayoGuy's LINK
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