Classic board games?

[copperpot]

Just randomly trying to think of classic board games ... of course you've got your obvious ones like Life, Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, Candyland, Scrabble, Chutes and Ladders and Parcheesi. Other ones I remember:

Life
Careers
Bargain Hunter
Sorry
Clue

Others?

 

[imjustagirl]

Holy crap! Bargain Hunter! Where I learned how to use a charge card!!!

 

[tonysoprano]

Risk.

 

[bigpern23]

Risk.

It's bad ass, man. It's got all those little pieces. [/totally obscure inside joke that maybe one person on this board will get, but made me chuckle a bit, nonetheless.]

Great game.

 

[Huggy]

Anybody else remember this? We used to play it all the time as kids.

 

[imjustagirl]

Never seen that one, but I played Mouse Trap.

 

[Walter_Sobchak]

Operation.

 

[Barsuk]

Never seen that one, but I played Mouse Trap.

I had Mouse Trap, but we got it at the second-hand store, and it was missing a couple pieces, which rendered it virtually useless.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Stratego.

Is Battleship considered a board game?

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

Scabble, Monopoly, Life and Parcheesi were all mainstays at my house growing up. I still love Scrabble and have since turned Monopoly and Life into fun games as an adult.

 

[Huggy]

Stratego.

Is Battleship considered a board game?

Loved Stratego, haven't played it in years.

My mother got my son Battleship for Christmas two years ago. First time he played it he kicked my ass.

 

[mike311gd]

Never seen that one, but I played Mouse Trap.

I had Mouse Trap, but we got it at the second-hand store, and it was missing a couple pieces, which rendered it virtually useless.

Don't feel too bad about it. The rest of us played the game two or three times, then lost some pieces. It was the only game I've ever played that took longer to set up than play.

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

Never seen that one, but I played Mouse Trap.

I had Mouse Trap, but we got it at the second-hand store, and it was missing a couple pieces, which rendered it virtually useless.

Don't feel too bad about it. The rest of us played the game two or three times, then lost some pieces. It was the only game I've ever played that took longer to set up than play.

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

 

[mike311gd]

Risk.

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.

 

[93Devil]

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.

 

[Huggy]

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

 

[93Devil]

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.

 

[Huggy]

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.

 

[bigpern23]

Never seen that one, but I played Mouse Trap.

I had Mouse Trap, but we got it at the second-hand store, and it was missing a couple pieces, which rendered it virtually useless.

Don't feel too bad about it. The rest of us played the game two or three times, then lost some pieces. It was the only game I've ever played that took longer to set up than play.

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

NANA IS A CHEATING *****!

 

[jps]

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?)