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kilted_cad_wizard@reddit

Some of my oldest games are Stock Market, Triominoes, Mille Bornes, Stay Alive and Quadrominoes. My ex has and still reguraly plays Rail Baron

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anx1etyhangover@reddit (OP)

Triominoes!!! Haven’t heard that in ages!!!

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snark_maiden@reddit

I wish I still had my old game of Life! Loved that thing.

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anx1etyhangover@reddit (OP)

I ended up buying it when my kids were younger. Wish I had my version from childhood so I could have compared them. I know the careers would have been different as we didn’t have Bloggers. =]

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snark_maiden@reddit

I always liked finding a classic painting in my attic 😄

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DirectorLanky466@reddit

I still have my monopoly 2000 I got for Xmas as a kid! I think I still have my old twister. I don't know if bop it counts but I still have that as well!

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roytheodd@reddit

I gave away my copy of Dungeon! just last year.

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Chad_Hooper@reddit

I still have that one, and Risk, Connect Four, Battleship, and Othello, as well as a nice chess set that I got for my fifteenth birthday. Folding wooden board that doubles as a case for the pieces.

Others have been acquired more recently, Triominoes and Quadominoes and Upwords. The latter hasn’t been played in our household yet.

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We don't have many old obscure games, we've donated or sold those through the years. But we still have Parcheesi (his Mom's), Sorry, Monopoly (his Mom's), Axis & Allies, Risk, Simpsons Clue, Simpsons Monopoly, Stratego, Battleship, Rook, Simpsons Uno (2 decks), 5+ decks of cards, a poker chip set, Skipbo (2 sets), Checkers (both the box game & the large carpet mat one), Chess, Backgammon, Scrabble, Jenga, ....

We have several newer games too, we enjoy board games and so try to keep games that we still enjoy or the ones that are really sentimental.

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therocketn00b@reddit

I still have Axis and Allies, that I played for hours with my childhood best friend. I don't know if I'd have the patience to play it now.

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Affectionate-Map2583@reddit

Hell, yeah! I liberated a bunch of them from my parents' basement and bought new ones over the years as well.

Some of the old ones I have are:

Mille bornes
Waterworks
Score Four
Probe

My son and I play games semi-regularly.

There's another one that's still at my mom's house where each player has a color, and adds pegs in a board and connects them with horizontal pieces, with the object being the first to connect all the way across without being blocked by the opponent. I can't think of the name - anyone have it?

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anx1etyhangover@reddit (OP)

Is mastermind the one where you put your coloured pegs in a certain order, hidden from the other player, and then they have a certain number of chances to guess that pattern? Your responses to their guesses are like (right colour wrong position, etc)?

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Affectionate-Map2583@reddit

That is correct.

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anx1etyhangover@reddit (OP)

Nice. Looks like my memory is still intact. =]

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CanadianExiled@reddit

My ex wife has all my stuff. I really wish I'd save my MAD Magazine board game, it's reverse Monopoly and first one to lose the money wins.

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anx1etyhangover@reddit (OP)

Bummer about losing your stuff. Never played the MAD Magazine game. Sounds fun.

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CanadianExiled@reddit

It was a blast, and worth a mint today since it never got a reissue.

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Acceptable_Mirror235@reddit

Yeah we have 5 or 6 different editions of Trivial Pursuit. We’ve also got Monopoly, Taboo ,Scatagories, Life, Risk , Battle Ship, Scrabble , and a few others I can’t think of right now.

We have a cabin that has no internet access and no tv. We play a lot of board games up there.

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anx1etyhangover@reddit (OP)

Nice!

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BacklogGamingJunkie@reddit

i still have a few of my original board games i bough with my allowance as a kid:

Stratego - Axis and Allies - Risk

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anx1etyhangover@reddit (OP)

Your Stratego cover is different than mine. Mine has an old dude on it.

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BacklogGamingJunkie@reddit

over the years there were different versions with box art released over the years. Sounds like you have a much older version than i have, the 1972 version box art had an older guy in uniform. possibly the depiction of a field marshal perhaps?

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anx1etyhangover@reddit (OP)

That’s the one.

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MrBrawn@reddit

Stratego was my jam.

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Aromatic_Revolution4@reddit

The only board game I still have from my childhood is this beauty:

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iwantagoatandakitten@reddit

I have many Hanna Barbera games and all of these

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iwantagoatandakitten@reddit

AND my husband didn’t play board games as a kid and doesn’t understand my love. So these will go unplayed

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Catfiche1970@reddit

My fiancé isn't much of a game player either. I want to play all your games!

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2centsdepartment@reddit

Oh my god….I completely forgot that Ziggy ever existed

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F-Cloud@reddit

We still have Monopoly, Scrabble, and Parcheesi from the 1970s. No one has played in decades but they're right there in the living room.

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Catfiche1970@reddit

Not the exact ones I had as a kid, but I have Payday. Sorry. Stratego. Life. Aggravation. Most are vintage.

I recently thrifted a new in box vintage travel Backgammon set that is almost identical to the one I had in the late 70s when I first learned to play. I nearly cried when I handed over that $3.

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anx1etyhangover@reddit (OP)

Choice find. Glad you were able to back those feelings at such a great price. =]

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Fistofpaper@reddit

I raise you my copy of The VCR Quarterback and Point of Law

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Lenn_Cicada@reddit

I bought Pandemic right before COVID hit, LoL! Never been played, always felt like it was “too soon”

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anx1etyhangover@reddit (OP)

The time has come. Break that bad boy open and have some fun.

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anx1etyhangover@reddit (OP)

My daughter got us into Pandemic. Very cool game. She also bought on called “Calico”! It’s a pattern strategy type game with a cat theme….that’s a really bad description and hardly does the game any justice…it’s way past my bed time so brain no worky too good.

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SarahJaneB17@reddit

I just remembered I have a kinda cool story about Masterpiece. Victoria Price, Vincent's daughter gave a talk at a con and she mentioned playing it with him but couldn't remember the name. The next day I brought mine to the con and solved the mystery. My husband thought I was kinda nuts for doing that, but she was delighted. She took some time out to check it out and I enjoyed helping her relive the memory.

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anx1etyhangover@reddit (OP)

Very cool.

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boybrian@reddit

I kept our Masterpiece game. And Billionaire.

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Wacko_Banana_Pants@reddit

Over the last year I purchased several board games off ebay. I wanted the versions I had as a child. My wife doesn't like the battleship game because the box shows a man and his son playing the game while the wife and daughter are doing the dishes in the kitchen.

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anx1etyhangover@reddit (OP)

Hahahahhahaaaaa!!! Classic!

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Motopsycho-007@reddit

Wife doesn't like it much, but yes. Board games along with afx slot car set, robotix, Tonka trucks, hot wheels, Lionel train set, Atari, sega, Xbox, pez, hockey cards.... the list goes on and on lol. Kept them all for my kids and ended up with girls with no interest in any of it. Now that they are early 20s, I ask myself if I should dump it all.

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anx1etyhangover@reddit (OP)

If it brings you joy to have them, and they aren’t causing crazy clutter that leads to arguments between you and your spouse then I say keep em. =]

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Driftingn00b@reddit

I have a portable chess set I bought in Leningrad in 1985. Does that count?

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anx1etyhangover@reddit (OP)

If you were a kid in 1985 then yes. =]

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Shen1076@reddit

Shoots n Ladders

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anx1etyhangover@reddit (OP)

Classically classic.

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NaturalForty@reddit

I have 3 Avalon Hill games I bought in 1988: Britannia, Kremlin, and Kingmaker. I took Britannia to a house I shared with 29 other people, and they asked me to leave it when I went to grad school in 1997. So I did. Then we lost touch. I went back to the house but it wasn't on the game shelf. Bummer.

Thanks to the Internet I reconnected with those old housemates. One of them brought me to a party another was hosting. The guy i hadn't seen in 20 years recognized me and said, "I have something got you!" Then he handed me my Britannia game. He took it with him and kept it... just in case. So it's very special to me.

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anx1etyhangover@reddit (OP)

Dang!!! That’s a crazy story. Very cool. Thanks for sharing that. Kudos to that dude that hung on to it….just in case. Solid person.

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phillymjs@reddit

I have a bunch of stuff in a large steel cabinet in my laundry room:

Travel Battleship
Bingo
Bowlo (card game, never played it, it was my parents')
Po-Ke-No (ditto)
Renaissance Chess Set
Scrabble (an ancient-looking edition that I trash picked from someone who lived a street over in grade school)
The Guinness Book of World Records Game (trash picked from the same place at the same time)
Monopoly
Wheel of Fortune (I used to have Tic Tac Dough also, but I think my mom gave that one away)
Payday
Hangman (the old one with Vincent Price on the box)
Go to the Head of the Class
Game of the States
Trivial Pursuit 1980's Edition

There's also an old puzzle of the U.S. map, another jigsaw puzzle that's a caricature-style map of Philadelphia that I won in 7th grade, and a mid-80s Crayola Designer Kit for vehicles.

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ThroatOne5167@reddit

Stratego! Loved that game so much.

Where is the Marshall???

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Uranus_Hz@reddit

Monopoly (with a battleship) risk, sorry, backgammon, chess, go, stratego, clue, and some other less common ones.

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LayerNo3634@reddit

I recently bought several to play with the grandkids.

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moccasinsfan@reddit

I have my old Star Wars board game and my old Battlestar Galactica board game.

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TripMaster478@reddit

Almost all of them. We've culled some along the way because they wore out or lost pieces but we still have most. Monopoly Canada and Risk as well. Payday (fave of the kids). Stop Thief. Life. Then a bunch of mid-age like Catan and Dominion and Ticket To Ride.

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SR70@reddit

Candyland from the early 70s and a crap ton of others from the late 1900’s. Damn that sounds long ago.

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whovianmomof2@reddit

I have Trivial Pursuit and the Sniglets board game. We accumulated more as adults, too.

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stunneddisbelief@reddit

I have a bunch of the original Schaper games - Ants in the Pants, Don’t Break the Ice, Don’t Cook Your Goose, London Bridge.

Also Payday. And I have Bonkers in the back of my car :)

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Lil_Afternoon_Delite@reddit

Loved Bonkers

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TreaclePerfect4328@reddit

Trivial Pursuit x 543

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Lenn_Cicada@reddit

I’ve still got my copies of Diplomacy and Statis Pro Baseball from 1992.

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natokills@reddit

No :(

But, I have great memories of Snit's Revenge, Awful Green Things, Dark Tower, Save the Whales, Scotland Yard, 221B Baker St.

Pre-computer game life, sheesh.

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jonny_mal@reddit

Have you seen the Dark Tower they released a few years ago?

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natokills@reddit

Return to Dark Tower!

No, I hadn't. Pretty friggin' cool. Thanks. I need some more disposable income to throw around to get me a set.

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jonny_mal@reddit

It’s good, and TOUGH. I’ve only played it three times and we failed each time

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limprichard@reddit

Still have Scotland Yard! Great game.

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natokills@reddit

I only got to play it with my parents, and they hated it. Yes, I really enjoyed it.

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Thoth-long-bill@reddit

Took them to the thrift shop.

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Tinsie167@reddit

I have the original/retro (1970’s) Titanic game.

I also have Stop Thief, anyone remember that game?

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stunneddisbelief@reddit

One of my friends had Stop, Thief. Loved it.

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Grafakos@reddit

Oh man, I forgot all about Titanic. That was the one where you rotated the ship every turn as it "sank"?

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Tinsie167@reddit

That’s the one! It also has the food and water tokens and interesting passenger cards.

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limprichard@reddit

I never played it back when, but my wife did. We found it in her aunt’s house and I finally got to play. Pretty good!

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inbookworm@reddit

I had a few, then most of them got lost in one of our moves. I bought a vintage copy of Facts in Five a few years ago, and bought a new copy of Rummikub. I did manage to keep my original Trivial Pursuit and Simpsons Life.

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Komaisnotsalty@reddit

Moolah

Sinking the Titanic

Waterworks

Monopoly

PIT

Mille Bornes

Crokinole

221B Baker Street

Clue

Probe

As well as playing cards and a marble board.

We play a LOT of games in our family and my oldest brother has a slew of them from when we were kids as well.

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inbookworm@reddit

I keep telling myself that I'm going to buy copies of Waterworks and Mille Borne, but just haven't gotten around to it yet.

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LilJourney@reddit

I've never stopped playing them, lol. Looking forward to seeing my fellow gamers at GenCon this summer. Board games for life!

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jonny_mal@reddit

I’ll be there!

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bigredthesnorer@reddit

My taped together Triple Yahtzee game is over 50 years old. Only new scorecards.

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jonny_mal@reddit

Yes and I’ve become quite the board gamer of late. Anyone coming to GenCon?

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Grafakos@reddit

I went a few times in the 80s, when it was still in Wisconsin (although in Milwaukee, not in its namesake Lake Geneva). What's it like these days?

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jonny_mal@reddit

Amazing. It’s so big that part of it takes up the Colts football field.

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Grafakos@reddit

Damn, google says 72,000 attendees. I'd say it was more like 5000 when I last went (1986 or so, iirc). Glad to see it's so successful!

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limprichard@reddit

The Muppet Show game! I don’t have it anymore but damn I loved it

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somePig_buckeye@reddit

Yes. Mad Magazine Game, Monopoly, Scrabble, Sorry, Candy Land

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limprichard@reddit

Holy shit, Mad Magazine! Great game. What was that ridiculous dollar bill it had? You had to lose all your money.

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somePig_buckeye@reddit

$1,329,063. If you landed on the spot and are named Alfred E. Neumann you win that money. You also had to roll with your left hand and go counter clockwise. My sister and I are left handed, so rolling with the left was easy. We could always get our brother with that rule.

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eihpets@reddit

Life, Monopoly, Sorry!, Parcheesi, The Cootie Game (only missing one antenna!), and the best one from my dad’s childhood Billionaire! I’ve got all of his marbles too, still in the canvas bag that he carried. I wish I still had the McDonalds game. Classic.

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skwigi@reddit

We still have a 1980's edition of trivial pursuit. Playing it is hilarious!

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MrBrawn@reddit

The Moops

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limprichard@reddit

All music answers are either The Beatles or The Dave Clarke Five. I have no idea who those fuckers even are.

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ColoradoPowMonster@reddit

OG Fireball Island baby!

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kermitsfrogbog@reddit

I think my parents still have my clue game, Yahtzee, battleship, and some others I can’t think of right now. They had a really old monopoly set that they tragically allowed the grandchildren to play with so the money has been scattered and is probably long gone by now.

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TheJokersChild@reddit

Yeah, but they're in storage. Lot of games you might consider rare but not valuable, a few as old as 1937, some modern ones that tend toward party, and lots of game-show home games, which I thank/curse Grammy for starting a collection of and igniting my habit.

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pasquamish@reddit

Found my Axis & Allies a few years ago tucked in the basement. Box was in perfect condition. Everything inside looked like an 8th grade science project on mold. I will admit I considered cleaning it all but smarter minds (wife) prevailed.

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KrofftSurvivor@reddit

So. Many.

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jaxbravesfan@reddit

We have a lot of board games, old and new. And they don’t just collect dust in a closet. We play fairly regularly. Sometimes it’s just me and my wife having a “game night” date night. Sometimes it is a big family game night with a bunch of us.

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mburke6@reddit

I have a Monopoly, Risk, and my favorite, Rail Baron

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CatRiot2020@reddit

Milles Borne! (Sp) played the heck out of it when I was a kid. Found it at a garage sale a few years ago and it still holds up. It’s a card game, though.

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OldSlug@reddit

I have our old Othello set, with “[OldSlug] is not allowed to play this anymore” scrawled across the top because I kept beating my brother and it mad him mad.

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LivingGhost371@reddit

It's just the two of us living here and we haven't had company over in probably 10 years, but the games are still down there.

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rsa8445@reddit

I still have my Monopoly and Scrabble. Friends and used to play Risk after school. Finally bought my own and taught my son how to play.

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SarahJaneB17@reddit

A few, Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit and Masterpiece. I've added to it with some I found at the thrift store. I may sell some of them soon, as they are cool, but I don't really play them and I need to downsize. I'm keeping the Kerplunk though.

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Yada-Yada-Yadda@reddit

Yup. I’ve still got them.

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zionzednem@reddit

Trivial Pursuit 80s edition

I covet my Nuclear War game. Skippy always wins

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anx1etyhangover@reddit (OP)

Classic game. Definitely a favourite

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sarcasmexorcism@reddit

we play trivial pursuit genus edition all the time.

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anx1etyhangover@reddit (OP)

I’ve only got the box of questions. =[ and I remember always thinking it was called Genius Edition. =]

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