[Misc] Just finished playing junior Monopoly and just wondered..............

[Dave the OAP]

I'm a bit of a board game geek. I have plenty of new ones, but the old ones I have are:

Monoply
Careers
Buccaneer
Totopoly
Escape From Colditz
Business (aka Mine a Million)
Scoop
North Sea Oil
Game of Life
Formula One

Used also to have Swindle and Ratrace.

Loved Buccaneer and Formula 1

I have the original game of test match game. 1955



My dad was an engineer and made me a cricket game using a hexagonal iron bar, cut down and etched. Miss, 1,2,3,4,6 out, ….he also made 1 more with various ways how you were out when you rolled “ out” and it had “ not out” on one face. It was good fun for a young lad

 

[Igzilla]

Loved Buccaneer and Formula 1

I have the original game of test match game. 1955

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My dad was an engineer and made me a cricket game using a hexagonal iron bar, cut down and etched. Miss, 1,2,3,4,6 out, ….he also made 1 more with various ways how you were out when you rolled “ out” and it had “ not out” on one face. It was good fun for a young lad

I loved Test Match. The version I had was the 70's edition, where the bt looked like a giant vacuum cleaner. We used to play the rule that if the catcher fell over when the ball when into his foot pouch, it was dropped and you were not out.

 

[Albion my Albion]

We didn't and don't have Test Match in America.

But I could be proven wrong.

 

[drew]

I'm a bit of a board game geek. I have plenty of new ones, but the old ones I have are:

Monoply
Careers
Buccaneer
Totopoly
Escape From Colditz
Business (aka Mine a Million)
Scoop
North Sea Oil
Game of Life
Formula One

Used also to have Swindle and Ratrace.

Not a dissimilar list. Take out Buccaneer, Scoop, North Sea Oil and Game of Life and replace with Airline and Risk. Formula one I assume was the 'throw a 3 or 11 and spin out'.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I loved Test Match. The version I had was the 70's edition, where the bt looked like a giant vacuum cleaner. We used to play the rule that if the catcher fell over when the ball when into his foot pouch, it was dropped and you were not out.

It’s in the loft…I will dig it out…but basically you had two dials with a lever in each…..as the bowler, you had the first swish of the leaver which would finish on a window that said what sort of ball it was…..then as a batsman you would swish the lever and would reveal a window with how many you scored from the ball …or if you were out!

The scoreboard was part of the layout and you had discs with numbers for runs, individual runs and wickets etc….

Hours of fun.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Not a dissimilar list. Take out Buccaneer, Scoop, North Sea Oil and Game of Life and replace with Airline and Risk. Formula one I assume was the 'throw a 3 or 11 and spin out'.

Risk was A bit quicker game than campaign.

 

[Dave the OAP]

https://tomsk3000.com/product/1955-test-match-vintage-british-cricket-game-by-john-waddington-leeds/


That’s the one. Checkout the pictures

 

[Igzilla]

https://tomsk3000.com/product/1955-test-match-vintage-british-cricket-game-by-john-waddington-leeds/


That’s the one. Checkout the pictures

Yes, the one I was thinking of is this one: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4784/test-match

 

[Igzilla]

Not a dissimilar list. Take out Buccaneer, Scoop, North Sea Oil and Game of Life and replace with Airline and Risk. Formula one I assume was the 'throw a 3 or 11 and spin out'.

Exactly. Played it this Christmas with my 25-odd year old nephews and brother. It was a cutthroat game and the youngsters loved it!

 

[Igzilla]

Escape from Colditz! Now we played that for hours….one guy would always be the commandant and would keep calling a roll call….annoying ****.

What about Campaign. We would spend weeks playing that game……

We're now banned from playing this at family gatherings. The last time we tried (ooh, about 15 years ago or so), we were still there gone midnight and all the women of the family were getting quite sniffy about how long it was going on. I think we finally finished in a flurry of do or dies around 1am, some 5 or six hours after starting...