What were your favourite board games when you were a kid?

gmphmac · 22/12/10 - 18:57

I loved Bed Bugs, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Operation and Frustration - all of which made a lot of noise and used to drive my mum and dad crazy

Azagoth · 22/12/10 - 18:57

Battleships, Chess, Draughts and Mouse Trap.

[Deleted User] · 22/12/10 - 18:59

I loved Mouse Trap but never had my own, so I had to play it at a friends house which made it even more special.

Tom_Tit · 22/12/10 - 19:01

Not a board game but Super Cup Football was a classic piece of entertainment.

Buckaroo was fun but the pieces always went missing.

[Deleted User] · 22/12/10 - 19:01

Monpoly - Liked as a kid and still love playing it now

Although it's much more fun when there is 6 adults playing. Playing with 2 or 3 or with children isn't the same.

rick182 · 22/12/10 - 19:02

guess who

Tom_Tit · 22/12/10 - 19:04

Jumbo_Holden wrote: »

Monpoly - Liked as a kid and still love playing it now

Although it's much more fun when there is 6 adults playing. Playing with 2 or 3 or with children isn't the same.

Monopoly is great.
I bought the Simpsons Monopoly a couple of xmas's ago and it's hardly been out of the box. The orginal is far better as you know the streets etc.

Scrabble is good fun too. I'm far better now since i learnt lots of tricks by playing online.

koantemplation · 22/12/10 - 19:04

I'm trying to think of the names of 2 games I played as a kid in the 80s.

They weren't board games as such.

One was a helicopter type game where you had to drop parachutists in to holes on a spinning board?

The other one was a Harrier Jump jet game with the plane on a string and you had to land it using a yoke connected to the string?

Carlos_dfc · 22/12/10 - 19:06

Risk - Escape from Colditz - Mastermind - 'Tank Battle' which was loosely based on 'Battleships' - and Waddington's 'Formula 1', in which you decided how fast you'd go through each corner, and the dice were used to determine things like tyre-wear, rather than how many spaces you moved.
Oh and 'Escalado' Horse-Racing, which wasn't technically a 'board game' (no board)

RubusRoo · 22/12/10 - 19:07

Cluedo, Travel Go or Monopoly.

[Deleted User] · 22/12/10 - 19:07

Tom_Tit wrote: »

Monopoly is great.
I bought the Simpsons Monopoly a couple of xmas's ago and it's hardly been out of the box. The orginal is far better as you know the streets etc.

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I have

Monopoly (UK - classic)
Monopoly (US - Classic)
Simspons monopoly
Simpsons - treehouse of horror monopoly
monpoly revolution
monopoly city
spongebob monopoly
make-your-own-monopoly
monopoly - uk here and now
Disney pixar monopoly

My favourite, the top one by miles

iiHEARTy0u · 22/12/10 - 19:13

I love Monopoly.

nuttytigger · 22/12/10 - 19:13

Mousetrap, Screwball Scramble, Hungry Hippos, Bed Bugs, Monopoly, One that you wore a headband and caught flowers

BirthdayGirl · 22/12/10 - 19:16

Connect 4
Monopoly
Mouse Trap
Yahtzee
Mastermind
Operation
Cluedo
Frustration

[Deleted User] · 22/12/10 - 19:18

Monopoly was a favourite. I remember once beating my dad who threw the board in the air muttering something about "bloody teenagers and their new rules".

I was school champion at Connect 4 too.

:D

Radiomaniac · 22/12/10 - 19:19

Frustration, Mousie Mousie and Cluedo.

Deb Arkle · 22/12/10 - 19:19

Carlos_dfc wrote: »

Risk - Escape from Colditz - Mastermind - 'Tank Battle' which was loosely based on 'Battleships' - and Waddington's 'Formula 1', in which you decided how fast you'd go through each corner, and the dice were used to determine things like tyre-wear, rather than how many spaces you moved.
Oh and 'Escalado' Horse-Racing, which wasn't technically a 'board game' (no board)

I so wanted that game!

cosmo · 22/12/10 - 19:20

Monopoly
Cluedo
Chess
Draughts

Loved playing cards. We'd sit 'round the table as a family and play cards for hours. Very good for sharpening your brain. I did the same with my kids.

Tom_Tit · 22/12/10 - 19:20

Jumbo_Holden wrote: »

I have

Monopoly (UK - classic)
Monopoly (US - Classic)
Simspons monopoly
Simpsons - treehouse of horror monopoly
monpoly revolution
monopoly city
spongebob monopoly
make-your-own-monopoly
monopoly - uk here and now
Disney pixar monopoly

My favourite, the top one by miles

Wow that is an impressive collection. I need to get a new copy of the classic one though as mines falling apart.

I have simpsons cluedo which is good fun.

My kids love board games which is a really good thing.

Tom_Tit · 22/12/10 - 19:21

nuttytigger wrote: »

Mousetrap, Screwball Scramble, Hungry Hippos, Bed Bugs, Monopoly, One that you wore a headband and caught flowers

Was that busy busy bumblee bees?

cosmo · 22/12/10 - 19:22

Radiomaniac wrote: »

Frustration, Mousie Mousie and Cluedo.

Mousie mousie was good.

nuttytigger · 22/12/10 - 19:23

Tom_Tit wrote: »

Was that busy busy bumblee bees?

Thats the one! Couldn't remember the name!

Tom_Tit · 22/12/10 - 19:24

Can't believe Screwball Scramble hasn't had a mention yet.

Sod that just seen it mentioned above.

Still worthy of a mention again though.

Duke of Earl · 22/12/10 - 19:25

Monopoly, Risk, Cluedo

(BTW, hosting a Murder Mystery game on New Year's Eve!)

nuttytigger · 22/12/10 - 19:26

Tom_Tit wrote: »

Can't believe Screwball Scramble hasn't had a mention yet.

Sod that just seen it mentioned above.

Still worthy of a mention again though.

Was gonna say I mentioned it!

Sadeyed · 22/12/10 - 19:31

For some reason I never liked Monopoly.

Loved Cluedo and Scrabble and a game called Balderdash which was the same principle as TV's Call My Bluff.

As I got older all these were surpassed by Trivial Pursuit, still love playing that.

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