Popular board games from your childhood

[HardyGirl]

When I was a kid, I never had too many board games of my own. The family had a few: Monopoly, Bingo, Jeopardy, Scrabble, chess and checkers. But during the time my family used these games, I was too young to play them. I longed for some of my own. I had:

Candy Land
Booby Trap
Stay Alive
Perfection
Twister
Superstition
Operation
Magic Magic Magic!
(the last one came from my brother, and wasn't a whole lotta fun, except for the tricks it came with).

OK, maybe I did have quite a few.

Some of the more popular games that I constantly saw advertised, (but never owned as a child), were:

Battleship (plain and electronic)
Connect Four
PayDay
Life
Yahtzee
Hangman


What were some popular games of your youth?

[cjefferys]

We played a lot of Sorry!, Parcheesi (sp?), Battleship, Monopoly, Trouble, Trivial Pursuit, and yes, Mego's very own Obsession (from what I remember it was a really fun game. Several years back I was going to raid my parents' game cabinet to take that one and add it to my Mego collection, but apparently they sold it at a yard sale or something. D'oh!!)

[jwyblejr]

Toss Across is all I can think of at the moment. More than likely because my sister and I use to have bean bag fights.

[The Toyroom]

The obligatory Monopoly, Life, Clue, Connect Four...but then we also had The Happy Days Game, The Muppet Show, Family Feud, Jaws, Bermuda Triangle and a Charlie Brown/Peanuts game.

At my Gram's you could always count on Trouble when you were board (pun and spelling intended). At my aunt's it was Headache.

[Marvelmania]

Pretty much the same as most here. Life, Monoply, Connect Four, Rebound, Don't break the Ice, Sorry, Trouble, Battleship, Can't remember the name but some type of table tennis game, Fantastic Four game and Scrabble

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

Othello, Mastermind.

A couple of days ago, I pulled out the game Nightmare to play with my 8 year old nephew. He looked at it and said "Wow they used to make things much nicer in the Old Days". I have had that game for about 19 years, but his comment just made me chuckle to myself...my era is almost beyond counting in his mind.

[Adam West]

We had the usual growing up.

I always enjoyed playing my mom in checkers or chinese checkers. She played to win and would never cut me a break so it became very satisfying when I could finally beat her consistently.

Risk and Stratego were favorites of mine. When I got older I had the game Conquest of the Empire and those games are just crazy long. Sometimes we would play the game off and on for weeks.

My kids enjoy playing games like yahtzee, slamwich, chinese checkers, etc. when I pull them from the computer.

Every once in a while if there is a competition streak running through us, my wife and I will go head to head in Scrabble.

[toys2cool]

Mine were-Clue,Monopoly,Hungry Hippos,and operation

[z3zep]

I loved Mouse Trap & Operation & Manhunt. We also had the usuals Life, Sorry, Clue, Masterpiece,Payday, Trouble....

I got a lot of hand-me-down games from the 60s - Branded, Journey into the Unknown, Silly Safari, Blockhead, Go for Broke, Mystery Date

Fun stuff

[jayihdz]

Loteria!!! The mexican version of bingo with colorful pictures of a drunk and a mermaid with nice boobs and many others, it was fun. Also serpientes y escaleras another mexican version of shutes and ladders.....those were the days!!!! Now go back to Halo on X-box 360......

[Bill]

There were a few random games that I have great memories of playing; Green Ghost stuck in my mind for years until I actually found a used version of the game at a toy show years ago, pre-eBay. In the early 80's there were a few boardgames that you had to construct out of cardboard panels, I remember a Scooby-Doo version of the game.
My favorite, and an eBay find pretty early on was a 60's-ish game from Germany. A plastic base with a putt-putt course and there were a few loops and other obstacles that you had to put on the board. You would "play" by swiveling the body of a golfing figurine and hit a tiny ball around the course. A childhood favorite at my aunt's house that I stumbled across by searching wildly on eBay.

[slats7]

This is one of the photos we used in The Bionic Book (now on sale!). That little kid must have been the envy of his classmates.

[HardyGirl]

This is one of the photos we used in The Bionic Book (now on sale!). That little kid must have been the envy of his classmates.

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/6180/leezx8.jpg

WHOA! That is just too cool! What a privledge! And I have this game too!

[Sowth]

I loved Toltoy's "Haunted House" which was a local version of (I think) "Which Witch". Been wanting one for a while but they go for silly money in good nick.

Cheers,
Will

[EllaJames]

I grew up in the 80's, but I had the Barbie Dream Date game, and Trivial Pursuit was always popular (my Mum and I both love Trivia). We also played a lot of cards, I can remember playing poker for candy when I was younger.