A thread full of classic board games

[Theatre of Trees]

Complicated but fun, preferred being the guards particularly with a Shoot to Kill card up your sleeve.

 

[Titanic]

Has ANYONE EVER played this ??

 

[Rangdo]

 

[Starry]

Has ANYONE EVER played this ??

Yes. We are missing too many pieces to make playing worthwhile but it was a favourite here for a long time.

 

[Robbie G]

A classic board game?

 

[dougdeep]

A classic board game?

I used to play that for hours. Totopoly and Go were good too. It sure takes you back.

 

[The Great Cornholio]

A classic board game?

A classic maybe but it showed itself up in the NSC version with Rochdale winning - scoring 5 in every round.

I had a game as a kid that I'm sure was very rare - I can't find mention of it anywhere. It was a 3D plastic island with little holes marking out paths. In the centre of the volcano, little gold bricks were stored. You had to roll dice and move the pirates around the island to get to the top. They had little pegs on their backs which you could attach the gold to and they had to carry it back to their ship.

I've no idea where this went but my dad used to get odd things like that from people he did jobs for so it may have been a prototype. Probably worth a fortune now. He also got a game that was never released based on snooker. It come with a cue and a cue ball. There was a wooden sloping platform with one way rockers - like the hill on a rollercoaster. This meant that the cue ball could pass over it but wouldn't roll back. Each of the rockers had a colour and you played normal snooker rules. So you had to get the cue ball to land on a red rocker, then nominate a colour. It was all about pace and was quite hard. Cue 147 I think it was called.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

I had Totopoly too.

 

[Bluejuice]

Well in.

And the classic...

Did anyone actually play this as a game? As I remember it we'd just set up the trap and set it off as many times as we could until we got bored. I couldn't even tell you how the game is meant to be played.

And what about...

Absolutely blinding game. So great because it was a valid excuse to be shouting at your family. Properly frantic

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Did anyone get the old Mousetrap to work properly. It always worked fine down the stairs and round the guttering. After that, it always hit a snag. The trap always had to be knocked down by hand. Great game though!

 

[Minge]

A true summer sport, problem was, Subbuteo Cricket took longer to set up than a test match

 

[The Great Cornholio]

A true summer sport, problem was, Subbuteo Cricket took longer to set up than a test match

Bah! Test Match was 1 squillion times better. Apart from the bowlers with string who broke. They did send me a shiny new one though! And that tournament they had at Hove with Birmingham, London etc stole the idea of certain parts of the boundary being worth more!

 

[bhaexpress]

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned this

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[Theatre of Trees]

 

[Screaming J]

And what about...

Absolutely blinding game. So great because it was a valid excuse to be shouting at your family. Properly frantic

Crikey, that brings back memories. 3 generations of the Screaming J family in the early 60s all shouting (and screaming?)at each other in my Grandpa's front room in Plumpton. Cannot remember how you played it but it was a great laugh. Something to do with the Stock Exchange wasn't it?

 

[Bluejuice]

Yeah it was trading commodities as I recall.

Can't quite remember the ins and outs of it but it involved frantic shouting in order to collect a set of something or other.

Very addictive it was too

 

[pasty]

Anyone remember this? One of my favourites when I was a kid.

 

[bhaexpress]

Yes I remember that, quite rare.

 

[Beach Hut]

Here's one for the capitalists:

 

[Bwian]

And why should the kids have all the fun?

I played this once and as a forfeit had to snog my mother-in-law