Growing up I used to play a lot of board games.
Still like to play games. Now it's more Cards Against Humanity and things like that.
I still have some .
Clue, Stratego, Payday, Battleship etc...
Also a lot of games like
Hi Ho Cherry‑O, Trouble, Cooties, Don't Spill the Beans etc...
One of my favorites was called Gambler.
What were your favorites growing up ?
Dungeons and Dragons...lived for that game
Axis and Allies was a favorite as well
Chess and Feudal (very similar but Feudal had six armies and geography to deal with)
Darktower was brilliance! One of the early electric games...you can get them on EBay for about $700 now...jeez!
Electric/vibrating football was cool too
And yes...Stratego was quite enjoyable
Any wargame really
I was an enormous nerd😣
Loved that football game.
You could turn the dial to make them go different ways.
The little foam footballs.
Remember the basketball game with the ping pong ball.
You'd pull back the lever and try to make a basket?
Electric Football was a great game
Somehow my cousin kicked my ass everytime and it was really all just chance and luck
No i dont remember that one
But i had a funny game where you fired BB's to advance a 'puck' to the goal from a little plastic pistol
It was sort of like hockey but with much more shooting
I wanna say it was called 'skee' or something?
I was bad at all games to be honest
This was the basketball game
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The other game I think was this
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Ive never seen the first one but it looks cool
And holy crap Yes!
That was the very one
Goddam i loved that game
I used to beat my kid sister at it til she ran off upset every time
I may have been a jerkface back then...
Nice work godewey!
Cool for the 70's.
Crossfire was a great game.
Jerk face or not if she couldn't hang with big boys get out of the kitchen.
You did it for her own good. Trying to make her a better player.
She should have been paying you.
Ever play any of the Super Jock games?
'Crossfire!'
Nice recall GD!
Yeah she really owes me a 'thanks' for all of the tears 😁
Never heard of 'Super Jock Games' (unless thats one of those porn links i dont click..?)
I don't know much in my life but I know those games.
Super Jock game might be my favorites of all time.
So many hours playing those things.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0W8_8EdTSZo/UrBAQpq-0eI/AAAAAAAABJk/C1a7TnNFGBY/s1600/SuperJockAd02.jpg
Looks cool
I guess i missed out
A good one-on-one game of HORSE on the basketball court with a buddy wasn't only fun but also great practice to keep those athletic skills honed.
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We were always outside.
We used to play a game called One bounce and one called lightening.
I noticed the older I got the shorter amount of time I could play these games.
I think it had something to do with the newer basketballs. 😉
When I was a child, I guess about 6 (?) maybe, I once cut the electric cord off of one of those electric vibrating football games and then plugged the cut off cord into the wall to see what would happen. Learned a valuable lesson that day. Don't do that.
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My step mom tossed a busted blender and i salvaged it to make a BB machine gun with a length of pvc pipe and the motor...it made total sense when i was 12
It shorted out the whole house including the heat
Im lucky to be alive (pop dukes nearly killed me)
When I was a kid I made an arc welder out of a flower pot and some carbon rods salvaged from batteries. I had a cord hooked into the house power into a bucket of salt water. The other end of the bucket had the other end of the power line into the welder. I would add salt to the water to increase the current. My poor mom put up with all my tinkering. God rest her soul.
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shareI'm glad you guys enjoy me so much!
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Now I get your name.
Small world you'd have the same name as a game.
Yeah we sold an incomplete Darktower game for $200. Got the tower working so that makes the $$$ add up.
shareI still meet weekly with my four friends from high school. We have played a lot of games over the years. One of my favorites was a cheesy game called Heroscape, which was like one of those hexagon based video games, like Dark Wizard, or Panzer General, except, uh, not video. We called it "Nerdscape." We mostly just play hold'em nowadays though.
shareSo many of those games out there now.
We always have a great time getting together and playing games.
Alcohol of course helps.
We definitely played Battleship and Clue. Also Operation. I still remember the tv ad for it. “It takes a very steady hand...”
There was another game, the name of which escapes me, where you dropped a chip down a vertical chute and had to get a certain number of your color chips in a row. Simple but fun.
Uno is one card game I used to love.
I think it might be Connect Four.
I used to have a carrom board too. Kind of like a pool table but with plastic rings.
I just remembered I had the Mad Magazine Game. That game was a trip.
We played a lot of Parcheesi and Sorry. I remember playing Booby Trap and Chutes & Ladders, too. Crazy Eights and Old Maid. Can't forget Twister!
shareThose are great ones.
That reminded me of a game call Pit. A card game with a bell I think.
Mille Bornes was another one. Something about traveling.
Did you ever play Tripoley?
I forgot about Pit. I don't remember Tripoley.
Did you ever have a Carrom board? We did, but I think we played about three out of the 100 games you can play on it. Things always got rowdy after a couple of games, so my mom pretty much called a halt to the "festivities."
I just mentioned a carrom board. So much fun.
So basic but we spent hours playing it.
I may have gotten a few more than 3 but nowhere close to 100.
I remember one side had an indentation on it where the plastic piece would fit on one of the games.
Did you use the cue or did you flick it with your finger?
Oops, sorry - I missed your earlier carrom comment. We tried the cues but I seem to recall they didn't work all that well. Or maybe we were just lousy players. So yes, we ended up using our fingers.
shareNo need to apologize I'm glad somebody out there actually had one.
Yes, I agree fingers seemed to be the way to go.
Monopoly.
😎
Remember Kerplunk - it was so stupid. Still around apparently.
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