Classic board games?

Monopoly took a damn long time to set up. Games last a while though, unless you played that you could build multiple hotels.

 

George: Yeah. What's that?
Jerry: Oh, it's Risk, it's a game of world domination being played by two guys who can barely run their own lives.

 

There was a football game I had where you had white offense cards and black defensive cards with transparent windows. You would place the defensive call over the offensive card and four windows would pop up. You would then flick a plastic ball on a metal pole right next to the cards and the ball would bounce up and down. The closest window was the play that happened.

There were about 60-70 different offensive plays, and they were the full plays with blocking schemes and everything. The defensive cards have the movement of the players so you could see how the plays compared to each other.

I tell you, I was such a dork playing that game, but before Atari, it was the sweetest thing ever.

Then once Atari hit, it was three on three football!!!

Tell me there are other 35-45s in here that had that game.

 

Don't remember that one, but I remember spending loads of time playing Paydirt, an NFL board game put out by SI.

 

What year? I'm thinking of 1978-1981.

 

Yeah, that works. I remember it being big in high school (79-83) among me and my NFL-mad buddies.

 

NANA IS A CHEATING WHORE!

 

I'll echo the Stratego comments ... though the electronic version is far superior.
Another that I love -- and can't find anywhere now other than on ebay for hundreds -- is Dark Tower. (Anyone else know of this one?)

 

Close. That has dice. Mine had a metal bar and a springs.

 

It was called NFL Strategy. There was a thread last week:

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/56050/

 

Anyone ever play Boobytrap? It had to be the most unsafe game for kids to play in the early 1990s. My grandparents had it and you have different-sized pieces in the middle of the board and they all push back a spring-loaded wood block. The object was to see whose fingers the block would break. It was a viscous game, but fun.

 

Had a football game with cards for offense and defense, but you rolled dice to determine which plays got selected.

Also had a baseball game (perhaps named Strat-o-matic?) where each player had a circular card that you slipped into a spot that had a spinner. Card was numbered from 1 - 15, where 1 was a home run, 10 and 13 were singles, 7 was a strikeout, 14 a flyout, etc. The size of each numbered section was based on the player; so, someone like Rod Carew had these huge 10 and 13 sections, Aaron would have one of the biggest 1 sections, and the 1 for a guy like Bert Campaneris would be the size of a sewing needle.