Favourite games from your childhood

monkeyfudge

What board games did you waste hours and hours on as a kid?

I seemed to be lucky to have a bunch of pretty interesting ones in my house growing up.

For now let me tell you about Abandon Ship




It was broke into two sections. The first part was on board the sinking ship. Each player had certain passengers on the ship who they had to rescue. But each turn the board would pivot and more and more cabins would be lost under water.

Then you had to get to the lifeboats and sail around a bunch of islands looking for food and water to keep you going until rescue arrived.

More info on boardgamegeek.com

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2249/the-sinking-of-the-titanic

Gunmonkey

Hands down its HeroQuest http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/699/heroquest.

Used to play it constantly with my brothers and sister. If I could get a group of players together I would knock together a modern version with new minis and board, for funs

monkeyfudge

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Hands down its HeroQuest http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/699/heroquest.

Used to play it constantly with my brothers and sister. If I could get a group of players together I would knock together a modern version with new minis and board, for funs

Oh yes. Loved Hero Quest. Was great how the characters could be carried on from game to game.

Think Space Crusade was even better though. Loved the Dreadnaught.

batari

A boardgame called Labyrinth by Ravensburger. Great craic before computers/drink/wimmin came along and ruined everything.
Would love a game now, but could never find it anywhere since

monkeyfudge

Thunder Road was another great one.




Played just like Mad Max.

The board came in two segments so when one car got to the end of the track, the rear part of the board would be put on the front to continue the road and any cars on the rear board would be eliminated from play.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/804/thunder-road

Josey Wales

I had Space Crusade myself and my friend had Hero Quest. I think that Hero Quest was the better game.

Oink

What I'd give for a game of RISK.... Only ever played 2-3 times in my life.

One of these days I'm going to buy all these games again...:o

Earthhorse

Josey Wales wrote: »

I had Space Crusade myself and my friend had Hero Quest. I think that Hero Quest was the better game.

Yeah, I agree. Hero Quest was great fun. I bought a ton of expansions that I never got to play.

I also bought Advanced Hero Quest which had a solo play mode.

Space Crusade was way too easy for the marines.

r3nu4l

Where to start?

I also played HeroQuest, in fact that's what got me into Roleplaying AD&D, WHFRP and Call of Cthulhu! I lost countless hours on that but this isn't the Roleplaying forum so...I digress

A group of us used to meet to play Diplomacy and that was fantastic. We would spend ages making pacts with one another, carrying through and then eventually stabbing each other in the back


Without a doubt though, when I got older, Axis and Allies was my favourite! That game was brilliant, if long-winded...think of it like Risk...on steroids!

Apart from that, I wasted hours on Cluedo, Hotel, Monopoly, Guess who and Connect 4

Toto Wolfcastle

We used to play Mouse Trap all the time. I had such fond memories of it that I asked for it for Christmas a couple of years ago.

I sat down with my brother and sister to play it and we spent the next 2 hours laughing hysterically. It was nothing like I remembered and we couldn't figure out what the point of the little cheese things that were in the box.

oeb

r3nu4l wrote: »

A group of us used to meet to play Diplomacy and that was fantastic. We would spend ages making pacts with one another, carrying through and then eventually stabbing each other in the back

Diplomacy is easilly in my top 3 favorite games of all time. If I was to get a server set up and an online game running, do you think many here would be up for it?

monkeyfudge

janeybabe wrote: »

We used to play Mouse Trap all the time. I had such fond memories of it that I asked for it for Christmas a couple of years ago.

I sat down with my brother and sister to play it and we spent the next 2 hours laughing hysterically. It was nothing like I remembered and we couldn't figure out what the point of the little cheese things that were in the box.

I remember a few years ago I played a pocket version of Mouse Trap.

It was about 2" x 2" in size and you had to use a little tweezers to set up the parts. It was an absolute exercise in frustration.

Paddy Samurai

Risk and Escape from Colditz were the two I played the most.We used to play risk all through the night till the following morning. Castle Risk was the last risk game I played. Many a time the ship saved my ass ,as i snuck in behind enemy lines to beat my enemy ,who was on the verge of victory.:D
I loved these games big time.I still have the original games in the Attic.

Nowdays I play Dust and Conquest of empires for my Risk fix.

I hope to get a copy Conquest of Nerath soon , as another risk fix.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/92044/conquest-of-nerath

robman60

Cluedo. I used to try to convince all of my cousins and brothers to play, and eventually, they would, often reluctantly.

The excitement I felt when playing at age 9-12 is something I'll cherish forever.

The most embarrassing thing I remember about it is from one evening all six of us were playing. I had figured out the solution but I had to wait for my turn. The wait was agonising, I tried to seem casual, but the telltale signs were that I knew the solution. When my cousin announced that she was making a guess the excitemnt became too much. I let out a two-second rush of pee which I managed to conceal until the end of the game (which I won, my cousin was incorrect!).