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17 years ago
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I just got done playing a game of Trivial Pursuit 90's edition. My team won ^_^
Playing reminded me that I love board games too and not just video game ones. I loved playing Life as a kid and my Pac Man board game, but my top favorite one was Clue. Man, I could play that for hours. One game that I never got to play was "Scotland Yard". I remember seeing commercials for it as a kid but never got it or even seen it in stores now that I think about it. Other that I owned was this collection of mini travel games called Flipsiders. They where awesome! I had a racing one, a rock tour one, a mall madness one, plus lots more. Ahhh, great memories with those ones. I still have them actually. I should break them out and play them with my daughter.
Do you have any favorite board games?
Playing reminded me that I love board games too and not just video game ones. I loved playing Life as a kid and my Pac Man board game, but my top favorite one was Clue. Man, I could play that for hours. One game that I never got to play was "Scotland Yard". I remember seeing commercials for it as a kid but never got it or even seen it in stores now that I think about it. Other that I owned was this collection of mini travel games called Flipsiders. They where awesome! I had a racing one, a rock tour one, a mall madness one, plus lots more. Ahhh, great memories with those ones. I still have them actually. I should break them out and play them with my daughter.
Do you have any favorite board games?
Monopoly
Yahtzee (does that count?)
As for my favorites, Cranium's a fun one, along with Munchkin, Monopoly, Battleship, Checkers, abd others whose names have currently escaped me.
HB
There's one my wife loved to play with me called Solar Quest. On the order of Monopoly, except the board is WAY different, and you're buying and selling planets and moons in our Solar System and building refueling bases instead of houses and hotels. AWESOME game!
I remember having the game "Blitzkrieg" but since my dad found it in the trash at his job it was missing the rule book. So I just made up my own rules and played till the board fell apart, in which I then duck taped it back together till it fell apart beyond repair.
It was fun, I had forgotten about it till just now.
"Blitzkrieg" the game
For a fluff game, I have a soft spot for Nuclear War.
There's Descent, a dungeon crawler game...
There's Twilight Imperium, galactic exploration, diplomacy and conquest...
There's Arkham Horror, a... well, it has Cthulhu, that describes it pretty well...
There's Doom, like Descent, but on Mars with imps and zombies all over...
...and now I'm working on a Warhammer 40k army.
I remember playing Scotland Yard a lot when I was younger (I always wanted to be Mr. X) and driving my parents crazy with it. It's a lot of fun.
And yes, Dark Tower - I wish I hadn't sold that one off all those years ago, but the going eBay price of ~$200 is a little much for me to pay for nostalgia. I do still have my old copy of Stop Thief, though.
I've got so many, even though circumstances mean I don't get to play very often at all, these days - lots of really fun, obscure games like Ronda Magica, Carolus Magnus, Reiner Knizia's Samurai, a Monopoly-like game set in Victorian England (complete with a Victorian English monetary system) called Catchpenny, Ubi (the direct sequel from the makers of Trivial Pursuit) ... to more common but still less-played games like Acquire, and on to old standards like Monopoly and Battleship.
As for my favorite - if there were any one game I would heartily recommend to anyone, the one board game I wouldn't want to be stranded on a desert island without, it would be Settlers of Catan. If you've never played it, you should give it a try.
Also, since you're a Clue fan, might I suggest looking into a game called Kill Doctor Lucky? It's made by Cheapass Games, and is basically Clue seen from the other side... instead of solving the murder, you're trying to commit it. =)